Because TV is complicated, for various long and detailed reasons you can find over here, on Sunday night in the US, FXX aired a pilot for Winter Dragon, an adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fantasy series Wheel of Time. It’s a prologue to a planned bigger series for the the whole of Wheel of Time that basically needed to air on TV before Wednesday if the current owners were to keep the rights.
So if you want to know what a contractually obligated TV show looks like, have a gander – it’s on YouTube now. What do you think?
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.
