Charlie Brooker’s You Have Been Watching started on Channel 4 last night. I won’t bother with a review: it was pretty good, I thought, but I think we’re getting a bit meta when we start reviewing shows that review shows.
But it was gratifying to see that he picked up on, Deadliest Warrior, which I nominated at the start of last month for the title of the stupidest TV programme ever. There weren’t any clips available on YouTube at the time, but there are now, since in case you missed it – and it’s still on 4oD if you want to give it a whirl – here’s the match you’ve all been waiting for: the IRA vs the Taliban, handled as tastefully as you’d expect from Spike TV.
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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Set the PVR for either 10.30pm or 12.40am. Author Rob Buckley 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 […]