From today’s Times (and other papers):
Poles apart
The BBC has scrapped plans for a celebrity pole dancing show after protests from women’s groups. Zoë Ball, Natasha Kaplinsky and Fiona Phillips had been linked with the one-off programme for Sport Relief. The Poppy Project, a women’s support group, said that pole dancing exploited women.
Nothing like pole dancing for charity, is there? Insert punchline as to what next year’s “but it’s all in a good cause” idea will be…
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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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