Just got through my review copy of The Sandbaggers, series three. What do you reckon the best special feature would be, bearing in mind it’s a classic early 80s British spy show, starring Roy Marsden?
Some sort of interview with Roy Marsden?
A director’s commentary, perhaps?
The scripts as a DVD ROM?
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
The actual special feature is a three-part story from Crown Court that features Roy Marsden.
Much as I loved – and it turns out love – Crown Court, the painstakingly, laboriously authentic dramatisation of typical English Crown Court trials of the 70s and 80s (this week, for three episodes, a woman accused of shoplifting), I’m not sure it’s quite right for the DVDs. Do you?
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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