It’s been on my blogroll for a little while, but in case you haven’t caught it, I do recommend “Secret Blog of a TV Controller (aged 33 and 3/4)” as a source of amusement. It purports to be by the controller of BBC3 – but clearly isn’t, unless it’s an elaborate double-bluff – and takes the mick out of the industry.
If you know the names or the people mentioned, it’s even funnier, but it’s a self-contained piece of satire that’s funny no matter what degree of British TV industry insiderness you possess.
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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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