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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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March at the BFI

26 January 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Time for our regular round-up of tele events at the BFI. Compared to February’s extravaganza, March is looking a bit anaemic for tele fans, with just a couple of events that are really geared up for Christie-lovers:

  • 8th: Preview: Agatha Christie’s Poirot – Appointment with Death
  • 8th: Preview: Agatha Christie’s Marple

With luck, there should also be a Q&A with David Suchet and Julia McKenzie to accompany the previews.

Torchwood lovers should also note that as part of the 23rd London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Captain Jack’s romantic escapades in season one will be shown at the Mediatheque at 1pm every Saturday and Sunday throughout March up until the 22nd (when the showing will be at 1.10pm).There’ll be clips from other shows, too, and the total runtime will be 45 minutes, with three playings per performanace. It’s free, too.

Lastly, as mentioned previously, for movie buffs, there’s a couple of Blade Runner showings, including a Q&A with Rutger Hauer. There are also ‘Femme Fatale’ and ‘The Vamp’ seasons, including Rita Hayworth in Gilda, Ava Gardner in The Killers, Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, Kim Novak in Vertigo, Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction and Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box (aka Die Büchse der Pandora).

In a change of policy this month, members’ priority postal, online and phone booking will all open at the same time: 11.30am on 2 February
Public booking opens 11:30am on 9 February

As always, visit the BFI web site for more details

Dick Heads

Dick Heads (from DMW): North and South

26 January 2009 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

Richard Armitage in North and South Richard Armitage in North and South but wearing a hat

Today’s Dick Heads are both from DMW (a big hello to DMW please!) and both are from North and South. As DMW points out herself, she doesn’t get extra kudos for the first pic, since it’s not Richard Armitage wearing the hat in that one, but well done on both of them.

Marie has already stunned the crowds with a haiku captioning each frame from last week’s Dick Head triptych. Can it be bested this time? Let’s see what happens. Captions, love poems, sonnets, etc, in the comments section below, please.

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: Subversive

26 January 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Ali Larter pretending to be Allegra Coleman

Today, in our first reader-submitted Random Act of Ali Larter (thanks Stu!), Ali Larter is being subversive. Is it because being a “straight from the hip” kind of gal, there’s probably a few things she’d like to say about the producers of Heroes right now but can’t?

Maybe.

Is it because, while still a jobbing stage actress, she colluded with one of the writers of Esquire to satirise the reporting of celebrities – by pretending to be rising starlet and alleged girlfriend of David Schwimmer, Allegra Coleman, something only revealed to be a hoax by a later press release from the magazine? And despite that all being a hoax, it launched her career, inspired a book and even got a mention in Hitch?

I don’t think so. That was a while ago.

Or is it because she’s secretly siding with the Republicans who want to vote against Obama’s $825bn economic stimulus plan and destroy the world economy from within?

No. Actually, the first one seems more likely, so let’s go with that. What do you think?

Moving locations

26 January 2009 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The observant may have noticed that I’ve finally bitten the bullet and moved the blog over to www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com from its old address – we’ve even got a shiny new favicon to celebrate. Fingers crossed, everything’s still working, but what probably won’t be working is that if you used “Remember personal information” , you’ll have to re-enter your name, etc, again. Sorry about that, but that’s cookies for you, but you should only need to enter the information once.

Let me know (by email if necessary) if anything more serious occurs. You might need to press refresh once as well, just to make sure everything’s updated. Sorry again, for that.

PS Links to the old URLs will still work, but if you want to update your links, that would be spiffy. Thanks!

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Monday’s bionic bus news

26 January 2009 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

David Tennant and Michelle Ryan on a bus

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