The forthcoming Swap Shop special has apparently caused ITV to have a think about what it can do to copy the Beeb – as per usual. The result is a TISWAS special, according to The Sun, that will feature Chris Tarrant, Sally James, Lenny Henry and Bob Carolgees, as well as Sir Trevor MacDonald, Status Quo, Madness and Sir Paul McCartney.
So which were you? Swap Shop or TISWAS? Or maybe you were capricious and swapped between them like me?
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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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