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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.

Thursday’s virtual den news

19 March 2009 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Doctor Who

Billie explains “Ten Inch”
Catherine Tate to play queen of Lilliput in new Jack Black movie Gulliver’s Travels

Film

Movie version of Rome might be happening
Film 4 in danger

British TV

The two online dragons for Dragons’ Den are announced
Being Human to continue online between series, have a behind-the-scenes documentary on 28th March
Living acquires Eleventh Hour
BBC3 acquires the forthcoming Harper’s Island

US TV

Freddie Prinze Jr to star in No Heroics
Kanye West to provide voice for Cleveland Family Guy spin-off
Robert Carlyle talks Stargate: Universe [spoilers]
Whither Trust Me? Eric McCormack to star in comedy pilot
Watch the first episode of the third season of The Tudors [US only]

Gary Barlow sings a birthday song for Chris Moyles

18 March 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

I’m not really a big fan of Chris Moyles (translation: I find him irritating), but Gary Barlow recently did a birthday song for him, based on a famous Take That hit, that’s quite funny and has a nice video to go with it. So here it is.

[via lovely wife]

Review: The Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle 1×1

18 March 2009 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

In the UK: Mondays, 10pm, BBC2

Some say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Oh, like they’d know.

They’re wrong of course: the lowest form of wit is punning, and if they’d watched Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle on Monday they’d have realised they’re wrong, too. Because Stewart Lee has perfected sarcasm.

Continue reading “Review: The Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle 1×1”

Meme of the week: Favourite Doctor Who companion

18 March 2009 Rob Buckley 21 Comments

It may be dumb to give meme of the week a regular weekly slot on a Wednesday, but dumb’s my middle name and we can always argue that we’re trying to break down conventional definitions and concepts like ‘week’.

So to launch it in a blaze of glory/polite indifference (I’ll delete as applicable next week when we find out the state of play), since just about everyone here watches Doctor Who:

Who’s your favourite Doctor Who companion and why? And for the adventurous, who’s your least favourite/most hated?

Answers in the comments below or back at your own blog if you leave a link.

Wednesday’s US Have I Got news

18 March 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Doctor Who

Tenth Doctor to fight aliens from… in final specials [spoiler?]

Film

Salma Hayek joins Adam Sandler’s latest comedy

Books

Macmillan to publish ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’ series written by Who/Torchwood novelist Andrew Lane

Theatre

Johnathan Pryce to star in The Caretaker

British TV

The Apprentice candidates revealed
Stewart Lee gets fewer than £1 million viewers
Trouble to be replaced with another version of Living (to be rebanded later in the year)
Sir Alan working on ‘Junior Apprentice‘

US TV

Moonlight‘s Alex O’Loughlin to star in Three Rivers
Lots of pilot casting
NBC adapting Have I Got News For You?

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Articles by Rob Buckley

Thursday’s virtual den news

Gary Barlow sings a birthday song for Chris Moyles

Review: The Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle 1×1

Meme of the week: Favourite Doctor Who companion

Wednesday’s US Have I Got news

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

Please watch I Walk Through Moscow – and I’m quoted!

Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

Life and Beth and Night Sky

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