NBC (US)’s Powerless wasn’t my favourite show, I guess, but after a weak opening episode caused by a last-minute format change, it did go on to become quite funny at times. Not enough to save it from cancellation, though.
However, the sad death of Adam West (Batman), who was the show’s narrator, has led to DC releasing the unaired episode in which West put in his first on-screen appearance.
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.
