If you worked for a US network and you wanted to remake a sitcom set in a home for the disabled, who would you get? The Farrelly Brothers, of course. So naturally, that’s whom NBC has hired to retool BBC3’s I’m With Stupid.
That’s quite handy since both 30 Rock (which is very good) and 20 Good Years (the second episode of which I only got halfway through, it was so bad) are not doing at all well in the ratings. Perhaps NBC was right to talk about cutting back on its scripted comedy.
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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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