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.
Quite an easy meme after last week’s brain-twister, I hope:
What book would you like to see adapted into a TV series or movie?
TV series is obviously harder, since it needs to be ongoing, rather than simply a straight adaption of the book. But I’m sure you guys are up to it. You can also include books that have already been adapted, but whose adaptation was rubbish.
Do I need to add that authors can’t recommend their own books? Without making a generous donation to the blog first, anyway?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
Look at the size of that helmet. May Calliope, Erato and Thalia help you with your haiku.
Got a picture of Richard Armitage’s head, preferably wearing a hat? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Dick Heads” gallery.
When Heroesfirst came out, I did the usual thing of checking the cast list to see if there was anyone I knew whom I liked on the list. “Masi Oka? Okay, he’s in Scrubs. Ali Larter? Ooh, I liked her in Legally Blonde. She’s really hot, too. Greg Grunberg? That’s that pal of JJ Abrams who’s on Alias and everything else JJ Abrams has ever done, isn’t it? Adrian Pasdar? Profit!”
However, I was probably the only person to go: “Oh my God. It’s Ashley Crow! Mickey from Probe!”
Ashley Crow? She plays Claire’s mum Sandra on Heroes. And here she is on Probe:
Probe was one of those shows back in the 90s when the UK SciFi Channel started up that got repeated over and over again because they didn’t have the rights to anything else. So I got to watch a lot of it. It’s one of Isaac Asimov’s few interactions with television and bears all his hallmarks: reclusive scientific genius with few social skills investigates technology-related crimes with the assistance of his secretary Mickey, who brings him out of his shell. It’s basically Murder He Calculated, with a very small amount of Moonlighting thrown in.
It wasn’t a great show, but it was fun. And I liked Ashley Crow in it, even if she did have a thankless role. Below, you can watch all of the first episode on YouTube and there’s a fan site over here if you want more information. I just like the fact that the hot sidekicks of yesteryear still get to work in the 21st century. All that stuff with Sandra telling Claire about when she was a kid and doing what Claire was doing – it almost felt like a nod to Probe.
When Heroesfirst came out, I did the usual thing of checking the cast list to see if there was anyone I knew whom I liked on the list. “Masi Oka? Okay, he’s in Scrubs. Ali Larter? Ooh, I liked her in Legally Blonde. She’s really hot, too. Greg Grunberg? That’s that pal of JJ Abrams who’s on Alias and everything else JJ Abrams has ever done, isn’t it? Adrian Pasdar? Profit!”
However, I was probably the only person to go: “Oh my God. It’s Ashley Crow! Mickey from Probe!”
Ashley Crow? She plays Claire’s mum Sandra on Heroes. And here she is on Probe:
Probe was one of those shows back in the 90s when the UK SciFi Channel started up that got repeated over and over again because they didn’t have the rights to anything else. So I got to watch a lot of it. It’s one of Isaac Asimov’s few interactions with television and bears all his hallmarks: reclusive scientific genius with few social skills investigates technology-related crimes with the assistance of his secretary Mickey, who brings him out of his shell. It’s basically Murder He Calculated, with a very small amount of Moonlighting thrown in.
It wasn’t a great show, but it was fun. And I liked Ashley Crow in it, even if she did have a thankless role. Below, you can watch all of the first episode on YouTube and there’s a fan site over here if you want more information. I just like the fact that the hot sidekicks of yesteryear still get to work in the 21st century. All that stuff with Sandra telling Claire about when she was a kid and doing what Claire was doing – it almost felt like a nod to Probe.
