If you don’t watch TV live or go to the movies in the UK, you might not be aware that Kevin Bacon is currently doing an ad campaign for EE, the 4G mobile phone provider formed by the merger of T-Mobile and Orange. The campaign has been based around a certain well known game but has largely been disappointing because it reveals that Kevin Bacon is probably the only person in the world who doesn’t know how Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is played:
However, the latest one, currently airing in cinemas, is actually quite funny, mainly because it doesn’t even invoke the game but focuses on Kevin Bacon’s movies:
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.
