UK shows but only on DVD in the US

6 December 2005 Rob Buckley UK TV 1 Comment

There are a load of shows that those of us of a certain age and a certain degree of taste remember well. These include
The Sandbaggers and Codename: Icarus. Yet for some reason, the powers that be choose only to release them in the US, not in the UK. Even stranger, these are UK shows getting this treatment, not US networks ignoring the rest of the world. What gives? Why are we not allowed access to our own TV heritage?

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; 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. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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