Articles by Rob Buckley

About Rob Buckley
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.
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Tuesday’s desperate ratings news

29 September 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

David Tennant in The Sarah Jane Adventures

Film

  • Olivia Wilde and Jonathan Tucker join the cast of Paul Haggis’ The Next Three Days

British TV

US TV

  • Dead Zone writers developing series based on Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid
  • ABC making a comedy about a mother who becomes a superhero thanks to a special suit
  • Omar Miller to become a series regular on CSI: Miami
  • Craig Wright and Mark Burnett team up for drama project
  • The Cleveland Show gets big ratings, while Desperate Housewives doesn’t
Sitting Tennant

Monday’s Sitting Tennants: Being king of the wood elves and yodelling

28 September 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

David Tennant yodelling

Today’s Sitting Tennants come from the redoubtable Sister Chastity and Ms Rullsenberg, as per usual. Where would we be without them?

  1. Sister Chastity: 60.5
  2. Rullsenberg: 57.5
  3. Jaradel: 35.5
  4. Toby: 5
  5. Amy, Lauren: 4
  6. Rosby: 2.5
  7. Persephone, Sabine: 1

Don’t forget to think of a caption for Friday’s picture, too (although try to make sure it’s not mine). 

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery.

Every photo displayed on Monday (one per person who sends one in) gets a point, with a bonus point if it’s from the latest DT production; the best pic in the stash each week will appear on Friday and get three points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Friday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points.

The US version of Fawlty Towers: Payne

28 September 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Don’t you just love remakes? Well, usually, no. Sometimes, they’re good; more often, they’re not.

Fawlty Towers is a show that’s been remade on numerous occasions by US companies, and the remakes have always been crashing failures. This version is called Payne. See if you can see what the problems with it were, despite using most of the Fawlty Towers scripts.

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All 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone in 10 minutes

28 September 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Would you like to get the gist/twist of every single The Twilight Zone episode, but don’t have the time? Well, today’s your lucky day. Someone has thoughtfully cobbled together clips from all the episodes, so you can understand why it’s possibly the greatest anthology show ever made (although I preferred the bleaker first season of the original The Outer Limits myself).

Just remember guys: it’s a cook book.

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