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 tiny dictator news

9 April 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

The Daily News will return on Tuesday 14th April.

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C4 apologises to Mac users over 4oD

8 April 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Got a Mac? Been cursing Channel 4’s name for ages since you couldn’t use its 4oD video-on-demand service because it was Windows-only?

Channel 4 would like to apologise to you then, and point out it’s made 4oD available to us as well now.

No really.

It’s even made an advert about it.

Meme of the week: Favourite actor or actress

8 April 2009 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

It’s Wednesday, so it must (?) be time for ‘Meme of the Week’. Because it’s nearly holiday time, I’ll leave you an easy one to deal with.

Who’s your favourite actor or actress and why?

Try to answer without using the words ‘David’ and ‘Tennant’ if you can. Anagrams, rebuses and riddles are allowed.

Advanced students might want to consider this vaguely Easter-themed variant:

Which actor or actress, who you haven’t seen much of recently, would you like to see have their career brought back from the dead?

A new one next Wednesday.

Wednesday’s mad video game news

8 April 2009 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Doctor Who

  • Second special to air ‘Novemberish’ as well as the companion for the finale [great big spoiler]
  • Doctor Who to move to SPACE in Canada  

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