Q: I tuned in at 11:00 p.m. and the show wasn't on, what’s the deal.

A: Episodes of BSOH are started manually by a station operator at Sunflower, most cable stations are operated automatically now so they don't have this type of problem. The late evening Sunflower operators, at times, can be very inconsistent at starting the programs on time, sometimes they've even started the show as much as 10 minutes late.

Q: Why is the time between new episodes so long?

A: The entire production is run by a single person, who works two jobs and works on BSOH episodes in his free time, which can be limited.

Q: Where do you get your films from?

A: The bulk of the films are downloaded as video files from the web site Archive.org, which also lists the individual rights for each film. All films used in the show are public domain, whether they are downloaded from Archive.org, come from other sources or are from my collection.

Q: What do the episode numbers mean, are there really over one hundred episodes?

A: I started out using the numbering scheme that television networks normally use, which is that season one is listed as one hundred and each episode is a number added. So, episode one of season one would be listed as 101. Then they added the next level of hundreds for the next season and so on. Season there have been difficulties producing shows consist programming, due to lack of staff and money, the show numberings have just continued on in the one hundreds.

Q: The release of episodes doesn't appear to have any true schedule, since the episodes are listed by season are they released seasonally?

A: New episodes are released as they are completed, so they can turn up any time of the year as they are only finalized when I have enough time to work on them.

Q: Why isn't BSOH on Sunflower On Demand?

A: I sent a request asking to be placed on Sunflower On Demand in the first year the show was on the air and after three months of waiting without an answer, I gave up. Later, I was told that BSOH had been running on On Demand for quite sometime and I asked what was going on. They said that they had "Decided not to tell anyone that public access was on OnDemand", including me. Update: As of the end of January 2008, the show hasn't been on OnDemand for the past three months. I've email them several times and they haven't responded to my questions, so I don't really count on them posting anymore programs.

Q: How big is the crew or staff of BSOH?

A: The entire production is produced by Joel Sanderson with the frequent help of a cameraman and with occasional help writing from friends.

Q: Are the shows scripted?

A: All of the dialogue in the shows is improvised in front of the camera as the segments are shot; the only script is a rough shot list with basic topics to be covered for each segment.

Q: Where do you get funding for the show?

A: The answer is that there is no funding, the entire show is an experiment in producing as much as possible with as little as possible. The average expenditure for each episode is around $20, mainly for materials.

Q: Why isn't the show still on Wichita cable?

A: BSOH was originally designed and created for the Wichita viewing audience, after the run of the previous version of the show "M.T. Pockets Budget Film Fest" ended it's six year run in Wichita, audiences kept asking when the show would return. There are many reasons including the fact that our main contact at the Wichita Center for the Arts no longer worked at the Center, so creating BSOH was a solution to bring the show back to Wichita.

The opening sequence of BSOH is actually a parody of the old "Host and Rodney" horror host program intro, that aired in Wichita from the late 1950's to the 80's. In the intro segment of "The Host & Rodney" there was an old house on on a hill surrounded by lightning, the camera slowing zooms into the lone window in the house with a light on, eventually zooming into the window and cross fading to the shows set. Since I grew up in ranch style homes and currently live in one, it was humorous to me to change the old creepy house to a ranch style home.

The show was picked up as an experiment on Wichita cable channel 7, which is a channel for Wichita city government. Since the channel wasn't being fully utilized, Wichita's community arts facility "City Arts" assumed leadership of the channel. BSOH was one of the first programs to run on the updated version of the channel and had a run of six months. Wichita City government made a decision to return the channel to city only programming, so BSOH was dropped.