£2 million ain’t bad. Oops. Bad Rob. Bad use of English. For Axon, a new £2 million sci-fi mystery for kids, is being commissioned for the BBC’s online education service, BBC Jam. It’s going to combine “linear drama, interactive documentary, games and activities as well as streamed video from archives” and, in the grand tradition of all British sci-fi, is going to be filmed in Wales (probably in a gravel pit).
Since it is a BBC education production, the groovy bit is that it’s going to be produced in four different languages: English and Welsh, with Irish and Scottish Gaelic to follow in 2007. First episodes are due to appear in January.
Axon, huh? As in brain fibre or campy Jon Pertwee Doctor Who monster (above right)?
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.
£2 million ain’t bad. Oops. Bad Rob. Bad use of English. For Axon, a new £2 million sci-fi mystery for kids, is being commissioned for the BBC’s online education service, BBC Jam. It’s going to combine “linear drama, interactive documentary, games and activities as well as streamed video from archives” and, in the grand tradition of all British sci-fi, is going to be filmed in Wales (probably in a gravel pit).
