Today, the Beeb launched a series of online shorts starring Brian Blessed as a technologically advanced Henry VIII. Now, he’s living his life online – “insulting the King of France on Facebook, surfing for honeys, and blocking the Pope on Twitter.”
Here’s the first one with more to come. Incidentally, I notice that Morwenna Banks has a series online, too. I love Morwenna Banks. She’s great.
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.
