Stayed up last night to watch the More4 documentary celebrating 25 years of Channel 4. It was a bit patchy, and surprisingly didn’t really cover why Channel 4 was set up in the first place – or how – but it wasn’t bad.
But due to the pressing need for sleep and since Bastard was busily recording House of Flying Daggers on Film4, I didn’t see the last half hour. Did anyone else? And was it in any way uncomplimentary to the current bosses about Celebrity Big Brother, complete lack of anything halfway decent on in terms of drama, documentaries, etc?
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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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