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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.
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Dick Heads (from Peggy): Ultimate Force and, erm, something else

9 February 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

Richard Armitage in a Johnny Depp hat

Today’s Dick Heads come from Peggy (a big hello to Peggy, please: hello, Peggy!) and both feature Richard Armitage wearing a hat, so double kudos on that. In fact, triple kudos since they’re not from North and South and quadruple kudos since one of them has him wearing an SAS beret. Yes, he was in Ultimate Force, although I hadn’t realised it was him playing the uptight Rupert. How amazing.

As for the second one, he’s clearly in some kind of Johnny Depp/Mark Owen homage. I have no idea what it is though. Anyone?

Captions and haikus, please. Incidentally, Richard Armitage has just been declared the sexiest thing on two legs by the Romantic Novelists’ Association. Thought y’all would like to know that.

Got a picture of Richard Armitage’s head, preferably wearing a hat? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Dick Heads” gallery.

 

Monday’s gossiping cavegirl news

9 February 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

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Review: The League of Gentlemen in Conversation

6 February 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

League of Gentlemen

Well, you asked for it, so here it is: it’s a write-up/review of the League of Gentlemen in conversation at the NFT/BFI last month. Sorry it’s taken a while, but I’m all busy moving flat, getting snowed in, working, etc.

All the League were there on stage, including Jeremy Dyson, all in a row. For some weird reason, Dick Fiddy who was hosting the event decided to sit Reece Sheersmith on his left and everyone else on his right, resulting in a decidedly hacked-off looking Sheersmith moping behind Fiddy for most of the evening.

Anyway, since I can’t be arsed to construct even a halfway decent narrative for this, I’m probably just going to dump my copious notes down after the jump.

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