Like AMC before it, WGN America might be starting to produce original content, with the likes of Salem and Manhattan, but it’s still largely a network dedicated to showing other networks’ content. Its latest acquisitions are CBS’s Elementary and Person of Interest and to publicise the news, it’s got the characters of each show to face off against one another.
It’s both funny… and awkward. Who do you think will win?
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.
