Well, Jamie Oliver may have been banned from filming in any schools in LA, but that’s not something that’s happening to him over here. He’s about – as in March time – going to launch a new Channel 4 series called Jamie’s Dream School, in which he gets a bunch of famous people to teach subjects to kids who are a bit bored or something.
Among the teachers are Daley Thompson, Simon Callow, Ellen MacArthur, David Starkey, Alastair Campbell, Robert Winston, Alvin Hall, Tinchy Stryder, Dominic West, Mary Beard, Jazzie B, Rankin, Nora Sands, Cherie Blair, Rolf Harris, Andrew Motion and David Hempleman-Adams. That actually sounds quite fun.
Anyway, here’s the trailer, with music composed especially by Orbital.
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.
