I just don’t see the link

14 June 2006 Rob Buckley US TV Post a comment

I got an odd email this morning.

Hey,

I just found your blog entry: http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2006/06/the_end_of_the_finale_guides.php and I think you may be of some help to me. I’m contacting you on behalf of M80 & Fox Home Entertainment regarding tthe DVD release of The Pretender Season 4.

Since you mentioned Medium in your blog entry, I thought that you may be interested in helping to promote this release.

The Pretender Season 4 is being released to DVD on July 18th.

If you are interested, please email me back and I’ll get you the details.

Best,

Jacqueline

a US releaseSo what, exactly, is the link between The Pretender (fine series though it was, til the silly fourth season) and Medium. They’re both NBC shows I guess, but is there much of a demographic overlap between a 1996 show about a genius who could pretend to be anyone he wanted, running away from an evil organisation called The Centre, and a 2005 show about a woman who helps a US district attorney by talking to dead people?

More worryingly, what exactly does Jacqueline want me to do to promote it, I wonder? It’s a US release, after all. Was my printing this letter the plan? I’m not sure I want to know, lest my editorial independence be compromised.

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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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