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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Wednesday’s spiffing termination news

10 June 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in Iron Man 2

Film

British TV

Canadian TV

US TV

Weird old titles: Rupert the Bear

9 June 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Time for another weird old title sequence. Rupert Bear has been one of British culture’s most enduring characters. Originally a cartoon in the Daily Express, the little bear and his weird array of friends have gone on to have many LSD-soaked adventures in other media, especially TV.

For pure scariness, you can’t beat the 70s version of The Adventures of Rupert Bear, which terrified many a child, and now can terrify you, too. What a scary little bear.

Tuesday’s “You’re both hired!” news

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Awards

Film

East European TV

  • In Treatment to be remade in Romanian, Hungarian, Czech and Polish

British TV

Canadian/German TV

  • Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane and Donald Sutherland to star in Pillars of the Earth

US TV

Sitting Tennant

Monday’s Sitting Tennant: QI and some other stuff

8 June 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Sister Chastity's Sitting Tennant

Jaradel's Sitting Tennant

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.

It’s Monday, so under the new Sitting Tennant regime, that means it must be the "sit and gawk" pictures-only selection of the Sitting Tennant gallery. We have pictures today from Ms Rullsenberg, Sister Chastity and Ms Jaradel from a variety of sources, but Sister Chastity gets a bonus point for getting a picture of DT from a recent recording of QI featuring our David.

That gives us the following leaderboard:

  1. Rullsenberg: 27.5
  2. Sister Chastity: 22.5
  3. Jaradel: 20.5
  4. Rosby: 2.5
  5. Persephone: 1

Keep sending those lovely piccies!

Monday’s split Time Lord news

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Doctor Who

Film

Theatre

US TV