David Tennant or Boris Johnson?

18 March 2008 Rob Buckley News, UK TV 3 Comments

At a Labour party fundraiser last night, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, having been introduced by David Tennant, said,

"When I heard I was going to be introduced by someone who was eccentric and from another planet, I thought I was going to be introduced by Boris Johnson."

True story. Honest. Not sure how interesting it is, though.

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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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