So, sometimes PR people send you things or give you things in an effort to make you like them, their products, etc. Usually, this amounts to a free T-shirt, a mouse or a pen with the company’s name on it. In other words, a piece of environmentally unfriendly rubbish that ends up in the bin. However, Sky Atlantic’s PR has gone overboard and actually come up with some really, really nice – an old movie magazine from the 1920s to celebrate Boardwalk Empire with Steve Buscemi. Look: isn’t it beautiful?
So can I just say – everyone go and watch Sky Atlantic when it comes on.
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.
