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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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Peter Serafinowicz is all over the place

3 July 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Peter Serafinowicz seems to be all over the place, these days. He’s on tele, he’s on the Internet, he’s in the movies. What a busy chap.

Here are some recent and forthcoming highlights for your enjoyment. In the first, he’s out with Sarah Alexander when he bumps into Will Arnett and Amy Poehler.

He’s also starring with Jon Favreau, Kristen Bell, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis, Malin Akerman, Kali Hawk, Faizon Love and Jean Reno in Couples Retreat:

And to prove he’s not gone all big time, he’s still working with Look Around You partner Robert Popper on Radio Spiritworld, the only radio station to broadcast from the after-life. You can subscribe to it in iTunes.

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Rupert Penry-Jones on (not being in) The Forgotten

3 July 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

Rupert Penry-Jones in The Forgotten

The Forgotten, a Jerry Bruckheimer show set to appear on ABC in the Fall, was going to be Rupert Penry-Jones’ stab at US stardom – sort of. He was to play the part of Alex, a former cop whose daughter was kidnapped and never found, and who now runs a network for identifying dead bodies. You can read all about it in my ABC fall preview.

However, Penry-Jones – and just about every foreign actor in every pilot – was dropped from the show, along with former 24-star Reiko Aylesworth. No reason’s been given but the general assumption is that to save cash, the networks hired cheaper actors from outside the US for the pilots, with the intent of dropping them in favour of bigger, more expensive names once the pilots had gone to series.

Anyway, our Rupe has been talking to Simon Mayo about being dropped from an unnamed US pilot (ie The Forgotten) and what he thought of it.

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Friday’s “bye bye hoodie” news

3 July 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Happy fourth of July weekend!

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Commercials

Theatre

British TV

Canadian TV

  • HBO launches on iTunes

US TV

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker

2 July 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

I often wonder what happened to Kathryn Bigelow’s career. She’s arguably one of the best directors in Hollywood, directing movies like Point Break, Blue Steel and K-19. But she’s not had the stratospheric adulation that ex-hubby James Cameron’s had. In a world where McG and Brett Ratner get to make movies, this seems appalling, and I’m just going to accuse Hollywood of rampant sexism here.

Okay, Strange Days might have been to blame for her career decline, but she has been responsible for some really fantastically directed scenes:

Her latest movie, about a US bomb squad in Baghdad, is on limited release in the US. I’m not going to say anything about the writing, but take a look at how well The Hurt Locker is directed.