Moonlight: my powers are strong, but not that strong

3 July 2008 Rob Buckley TMINE 4 Comments

I got this email yesterday from someone who read my season finale review of Moonlight:

I would just like to say that i think you should make more programs of moonlight because the program was such a big hit and it was such a thrill to watch.I am disappiont that you have ended the program and you should consider making a lot more.

yoursfaithfully

xxx (name removed to protect the innocent)

I’m not exactly sure how this (probably quite young) person got the idea from my review that I’d decided to cancel Moonlight, using my vast, vast powers, or that I made it. Was it my sentence structure?

But for them and anyone else who gets the impression from my TV reviews that I actually make the programmes I’m reviewing, I’d just like to point out that I don’t. I don’t cancel them either. I certainly didn’t cancel Moonlight: that was CBS.

And really, if anyone’s going to bring Moonlight or any other cancelled TV show back, I’m probably not the right person to do it. I’m gratified that people might think from my reviews that I’d make really great TV programmes, but I suspect I wouldn’t. At least, not with my current budgets.

Let that be an end to the matter.

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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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