ABC’s big new show for the Fall is Flash Forward, in which everybody in the world blacks out for two minutes and 17 seconds and has visions of what their life will be like in six months’ time. Hmm.
It stars so many Brits it’s daft (Joseph Fiennes, Sonya Walger, Jack Davenport) as well as the likes of John Cho and Courtney B Vance, though, so maybe it’ll be worth a look in. It’s also written by David Goyer (The Dark Knight) and Brannon Braga (almost every bad Star Trek episode ever written, and all the ones about time travel) so again, a difficult choice.
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.
