As you may recall, Sky can produce quite lovely PR gifts in an effort to get me to write about their programmes. However, this week, they’ve gone in exactly the opposite direction. To promote their new comedy, Trollied, which stars Jane Horrocks, they’ve sent me these:
Utterly useless and a waste of money. What am I going to do with them except put them in the bin? Although maybe I should lay them down for an eBay auction should the show get popular. Judging by this trailer, though, it won’t, even though Ash Atalla is behind it. It starts August 8 on Sky 1 HD, by the way.
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.
