If you like TV classics, they don’t get much more classic than I, Claudius. BBC Four is going to be airing the entire series, starting at 9pm on Saturday 5 August and broadcasting pretty much an episode a night until 17 August.
Don’t miss it: whenever anyone talks about declining standards and how TV just ain’t what it used to be, this is the kind of show they have in mind. You can view a trailer and find out more from BBC Four’s web page.
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.
