Although I might come across as a lovely fellow online – fingers crossed – I have, occasionally, done very bad things. One of these was to take my lovely wife to see Simon Munnery as The League Against Tedium (described by blog god Stewart Lee as occupying the wasteland where comedy meets art since no one else wants to) when we were first dating. Quite why she stuck with me after that, I don’t know.
Munnery went on to have two TV shows – Either/Or, a game show which I was on briefly and ended up losing/winning; and a BBC2 show Attention Scum. Just to give you the full flavour of what I put her through, here’s a clip.
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.
