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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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Monday’s Emmy-winning news

21 September 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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Sitting Tennant

Friday’s Sitting Tennant (from Sister Chastity): The Christian O’Connell Show

18 September 2009 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Prepare once more to enter the happy, slightly lower down world of Sitting Tennant, in which a Scottish actor mesmerises the world by not standing up very much.

This week’s nailbiting competition sees Sister Chastity catching up to Ms Rullsenberg again as she sends in this picture from the Christian O’Connell show. What could be causing that grin?

  1. Rullsenberg, Sister Chastity: 55.5
  2. Jaradel: 35.5
  3. Toby: 5
  4. Amy, Lauren: 4
  5. Rosby: 2.5
  6. Persephone, Sabine: 1

But in captions, despite an ambitious attempt by Toby and a subtly rude attempt by Marie, it’s Rullsenberg’s caption that wins through this week. Best of luck for next week, everyone!

PS Sudden new thought, since captioning’s gotten very quiet of late: five points for everyone who submits a caption?

  1. Marie: 152.5
  2. Toby: 151.5
  3. Rullsenberg: 112
  4. Jane Henry: 70.5
  5. Electric Dragon: 51
  6. Persephone: 45.5
  7. Jaradel: 38.5
  8. Rev/Views: 25
  9. Scott 2: 14
  10. Joe, Sister Chastity: 10
  11. Scott: 3
  12. Aaron: 2
  13. almostwitty.com: 1
  14. Stu_N: 1

Remember, you can submit as many captions as you like for today’s picture, with the wittiest getting 10 points next Friday.

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.

What have you been watching this week? (w/e September 18)

18 September 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Thank God for September. The schedules are starting to fill up again and there’ll be more for everyone to watch from now. Merlin‘s on tomorrow I think, but I’m not sure I’ll be tuning in. You?

Episode three of The Fixer was a bit of a letdown, with nice Kudos cinematography covering up for Spooks-style silliness and character weirdness, but still not bad. The Daily Show‘s back – yey! Mad Men continues from strength to strength. Vampire Diaries doesn’t, and I’m watching the second ep of Supernatural later.

Dragons’ Den online edition has now arrived on BBC2 and is a more sedate affair. Liking them online dragons a lot, especially Julie Meyer who’s quite inspiring in her way. Everything else I watched I think I’ve reviewed now.

As always, no spoilers unless you’re going to use the <spoiler> </spoiler> tags, please

Film

Help for Heroes needs your help

18 September 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Help for HeroesHelp for Heroes needs your help. In case you don’t know, it’s a charity that works with war veterans who are wounded mentally or physically. It’s trying to build some new Army Recovery Centres, which will provide care for seriously wounded or long term sick soldiers, and it’ll need £1 million, which it hopes to get through selling a DVD.

The DVD is going to be a compilation of all the best scenes from the best war movies ever made, and the charity wants YOU to help decide the scenes that are going to be on it. So nip on over to the web site to find out more about it and nominate your favourite scenes. The DVD will be available from November 23rd, priced £9, so everyone should be able to afford it.