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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Thursday’s paradoxical news

21 May 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

  • Rusty off to the US to make Doctor Who movie?

Film

  • Ghostbusters 3 to feature female ghostbusters including Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku?
  • Robert Evans to produce big screen version of Gerry Anderson’s UFO
  • Zach Braff to re-write, direct and co-star with Cameron Diaz in Swingles  

British TV

US TV

Meme of the week: your favourite romantic TV couple?

20 May 2009 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

After last week’s thought-provoking, tear-inducing meme, time I think for a thought-provoking, tear-inducing meme:

Who’s your favourite romantic TV couple?

A lot to choose from here: the Doctor and Rose? Jack and Ianto? Spike and Lynda? Maddie and David? Serena and Dan? Carrie and Big? Vince and Penny? Dempsey and Makepeace? CJ and Danny? Adama and Laura? Steed and Mrs Peel?

So many and I’ve barely scratched the surface. But who are your favourites?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.

Promo for HBO’s Hung

20 May 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Work calls today, so I’ll be doing a full rundown of ABC’s new shows tomorrow (complete with vids, as usual). But HBO doesn’t submit itself to this upfronts thing (not having advertisers to worry about) so I can do its shows piecemeal.

This one’s called Hung and it’s about a guy with… Well, you can guess. A bit hard-up on his luck, he decides to use his amazing dimensions to make money as a male escort.

Years ago in high school, Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane) was athletic, popular and destined for success. Now, as a high-school teacher and basketball coach, he’s underpaid, uninsured, and embittered that his wife of 20 years (Anne Heche) has left him for her dermatologist. After a fire damages the rundown Detroit home he inherited from his parents, Ray’s fortunes reach an all-time low when his twin children, who had been living with him, move in with their mom and her clean-freak hubby. Lonely, run-down and at wit’s end, Ray attends a local self-help class whose mantra is to identify a personal “winning tool” to market for financial success. After a not-so-fulfilling encounter with a fellow attendee – an ex-flame and would-be poet named Tanya (Jane Adams) – Ray has a “eureka” moment. With the help of Tanya, Ray resolves to take advantage of his greatest asset, in hopes of changing his fortunes in a big way.