Okay. We can talk about this without worrying about spoilers now. Obviously, in a very recent Torchwood, Ianto Jones popped his clogs, adding to the show’s already high body count. I imagine the effect on teenage girls must have been greater than with adults, but you never know. However, we all remember our first, so the question of the week is:
Whose death on TV was the first to upset you?
It can be a real person or a fictional person – it’s up to you. Personally, Soolin getting shot at the end of Blake’s 7 was my first TV trauma; and Peri’s getting shot in Doctor Who had me upset for quite some time. But how about you?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
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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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