You know how sometimes you know exactly how an article is going to turn out? I often get that feeling with The Guardian articles: sometimes they’re the kind of glib shallowness that you can string together with no understanding of the knowledge or issues in an attempt to get a laugh in place of informing people. But sometimes your expectations are confounded.
Take this article from The Guardian‘s Guide on why familiar faces from the 80s are back on our screens again. I expected something pretty rubbish. Instead I got something celebrating competence. How refreshing.
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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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