I love old 60s TV show The Champions – I wrote a big long essay on why I love it about five years ago. Who knew that it was so popular in France that someone would actually do a spoof, though? Okay, it's French TV so it's terrifyingly unfunny, but they still put a lot of effort into it
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- What did you watch this week? Including The Fall, Up The Women, Family Tree, Game of Thrones, Wreck-it Ralph and The Iceman
- Time to correct the glaring lack of Rainbow actors in major movies
- Review: King & Maxwell 1x1 (TNT)
- This is Radio 4…
- Friday's "Arnie will be back as the Terminator, Stellan Skarsgård joins Quarry and a trailer for Salinger" news
- Nostalgia corner: TV Nation (1994-1995)/The Awful Truth (1999-2000)
- Fancy an exclusive trailer for the Alan Partridge movie Alpha Papa?
- Thursday's "Jo cancelled, a new Ghost Story for Christmas from Mark Gatiss and more Portlandia" news
- Wednesday's "Rogue renewed, Linus Roache is king and a trailer for Smaug" news
- Review: Hammer Chillers - The Box
- No more Wonder Woman reviews… for now
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- Thierry Attard's Double Feature
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About the blog
This is a UK media blog with daily news, views, exclusive reviews and good conversation. There's a bit of a bias towards the latest and greatest US TV, but we also cover UK TV ranging from new Doctor Who to old Z Cars, and BBC4 to S4C.
Add in film, theatre, art, books, events and competitions and you've (hopefully) got officially the fourth best blog on the web for media lovers. Oh yes, and there's The Carusometer, the ultimate guide to quality TV.
Praise for the blog
Cision: fourth most important UK TV blog
Blogging Edge: Blogger running Britain 2013
"For most of us watching the telly of an evening is a way to wind down and relax, but for Rob Buckley it’s his blogging bread and butter. With reviews of cult classics and up and coming US and Brit television shows, The Medium is Not Enough is fast becoming essential reading for TV buffs, with over 50,000 hits a month."
Social Media Library: Blogging the UK: The Top UK TV blogs
"The Medium Is Not Enough is a light-hearted look at TV, often from the US, but also from the UK. With varied, well-written content, the blog features healthy engagement and features well in search engines."
Blogs.com: 10 Best Independent Blogs About TV
"I trust Rob Buckley's taste. And if I know more about how television works in the UK it's because of Rob and his outstanding blog. And did I mention his good taste?"
The Guardian: Internet picks of the week
"Billing itself as 'officially the fourth most popular UK TV blog', there are several whimsical regulars here that could help it climb as high as number three…"
About me
I'm Rob Buckley, a freelance journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of, although you might have heard me on Radio 5 Live's Saturday Edition. I've edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for trade magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider and the equally short-lived Death Ray and Filmstar magazines; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it "web site for urban hedonists" The Tribe. I'm freelance now and have contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network and TV Scoop.
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