The Hoff was all up for it. He wanted to do panto this Christmas. He was all set to be Captain Hook until the unpatriotic Simon Cowell stole him away from us.
Now we have the news that Patrick Duffy – Bobby from Dallas or the eponymous Man from Atlantis if you prefer – is to appear as Buttons in Cinderella in Woking.
What is this strange allure that panto holds for these all-star, all-American actors?
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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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