A lot of the plays that have appeared in ‘The Wednesday Play’ have been serious and for adults. Yet, plays are for everyone and needn’t always be so ‘challenging’. We’ve already had one entry from ITV’s Dramarama series, but I think it’s about time we had a look at The Come-uppance of Captain Katt, the opener to the fourth season of the series starring Alfred Marks and written by Peter Grimwade. If that latter name is familiar, it’s probably because you’re a Doctor Who fan and while I’m not saying that this play about the making of a long-running science-fiction TV series and the politics involved has anything to do with Grimwade’s experiences of working on said show, you would be forgiven for thinking that perhaps it has…
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.
