Random thoughts for the day

  • Are the bore weevils (as in “No! Not the bore weevils!” from Flash Gordon) preferable to listening to Scott Mills in the morning?
  • Also, when did he “in” himself? He outed himself years ago, but now he appears to be trying to be straight again. What’s up there?
  • How badly do you have to screw up a property development that you don’t want to be interviewed by Sarah Beeny any more? Last night’s episode had a property that started development two years ago and still isn’t done. The Beeny was pregnant when they started! But it’s still not done, and the developers wouldn’t turn up to explain why. That’s bad.
  • On The Apprentice, what’s with all the John Carpenter music? I spotted the theme to The Thing last night, and I’m pretty sure They Live was in there, too.
  • Also, on the subject of The Apprentice, do you think it’s so successful because the guy doing it normally narrates documentaries, etc, so it seems like something other than a reality TV show?

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  • Rob Buckley

    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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