Blog recommendation of the day: Thierry Attard’s Double Feature

23 November 2011 Rob Buckley European TV, French TV, German TV Post a comment

Now, I try to stay abreast of world TV. True, my first love is US TV and when I’m not watching that, I’m usually watching British TV. But I do try to sample the wares of other countries when I can, including Canada, France and very, very briefly Australia. I’ve even been known to watch German TV. 

But it’s not exactly my speciality. So let me introduce to you Thierry Attard, who seems to me to be a lot better at looking at continental European TV than I am, with French TV being one of his specialities. Want to know how the French and Greek remakes of ITV’s Doc Martin are going? He’s your man. Want to know TF1’s format-acquisition strategy for drama? Look no further. 

And he writes in English, which is helpful. So add him to your bookmarks, RSS feed, smoke-signal generator or whatever it is you use to read t’Internet forthwith.

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  • Rob Buckley

    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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