Eddie Izzard leaves 24

2 November 2006 Rob Buckley News, US TV Post a comment

Eddie Izzard has managed to last only one day of torture at 24. He was supposed to be playing a baddie, but now he’s not and the part is going to David Hunt, another English actor. Depending on whom you talk to, Eddie was either a bit of a diva and got given a push or he couldn’t juggle 24‘s filming requirements with those of his own show, Riches.

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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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