We hold certain truths to be self-evident: Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox must never host another Brits; Kelly Brook must never be asked to read an autocue again; and the one thing you should never ever do is remake the Pink Panther. We do so because we know, with every fibre of our being, exactly how’s it going to turn out before it’s even started in each of these scenarios. Look what happened when Steve Martin did the unthinkable? He remade the Pink Panther and it was rubbish. We knew it would be from the first moment we heard about it.
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.
We hold certain truths to be self-evident: Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox must never host another Brits; Kelly Brook must never be asked to read an autocue again; and the one thing you should never ever do is remake the Pink Panther. We do so because we know, with every fibre of our being, exactly how’s it going to turn out before it’s even started in each of these scenarios. Look what happened when Steve Martin did the unthinkable? He remade the Pink Panther and it was rubbish. We knew it would be from the first moment we heard about it.
