Viceland hasn’t yet done much by the way of scripted content so far, just acquiring other people’s programmes, but coming in August in the US, later this year in the UK, is What Would Diplo Do?.
Louie meets WorldStar HipHop crossed with This Is Spinal Tap, James Van Der Beek plays a fictional version of DJ superstar Diplo in a collection of parables about life as told through the eyes of guy who can bring 60,000 people to their feet… but kind of sucks one-on-one.
Van Der Beek not only stars as the eponymous DJ, he writes and show-runs What Would Diplo Do?, so this should be something for Van Der Beek fans for sure. And if you’re not, you should probably have watched Don’t Trust The B—-
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.
