Month: February 2008

Monday’s Oscar-winning news

25 February 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Doctor Who

Film

Comics

British TV

US TV

Friday’s dead TV shows news

22 February 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

US TV

The Wireless Theatre Company

21 February 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

A nice lady has just emailed me to ask if I can mention her company on this here blog. Given their stuff is free and it sounds moderately interesting, I don’t see why not. Over to her:

I would very much like to introduce The Wireless Theatre Company, a  completely new type of online theatre company, from the UK, who produce plays and audio entertainment for publication the internet.

On our website www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk listeners can preview, and then download any play they choose from our catalogue to their iPod, MP3 player, mobile phone or computer desktop, for free!

We produce, cast, edit and upload all the plays ourselves and are  hugely passionate about new writing, and giving opportunities to new acting talent.

The Wireless Theatre Company is up and running and you can visit now  and download an MP3 of our productions to see how it works. I have been overwhelmed by the ‘buzz’ the site has created, with over 400,000 hits since we launched in may and people downloading our plays from all over the world. Our listener’s feedback page has grown impressively and we now have over 20 productions on the site.

Our next planned project is to record a season of Shakespeare’s plays to act as a study aid for teachers. We believe it will be an invaluable  tool in engaging pupils studying the classics, by encouraging pupils to listen to audio plays, as well as music, on their iPods.

UK TV

Review: Torchwood 2×6 – Reset

21 February 2008 Rob Buckley 13 Comments



Way back when the writers and cast for this series of Torchwood were announced, people geeked out about a number of things and rightly so: James Marsters (woo hoo!) and PJ Hammond (woo hoo, but as if said by a ghost chasing after your very soul) are well worth the entrance fee, as they say.

I was probably the only person geeking out over the fact JC Wilsher was going to be writing for the show. Although he’s been confined to more mundane cop shows like Dalziel and Pascoe and The Bill for the best part of 15 years, he’s also the creator of the far better Between the Lines (What? You didn’t know I was one of the contributors to the standard Between The Lines faq?), which was one of the best cop shows of the 90s, despite an awful third series.

So I wasn’t particularly surprised that after a reasonably good episode last week, this week’s, which also took the trouble to introduce Doctor Who companion Martha Jones to the world of Torchwood and do something else that I won’t mention just yet, was actually pretty well written.

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