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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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Preview: Being Human

19 January 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

In the UK: Sundays, 9pm, BBC3. Starts January 25th
In the US: BBC America (it’s a co-prod). No airdate yet

Firstly, this ain’t the usual kind of preview since it also includes a rundown of a Q&A with the show’s producers and one of its stars, Russell Tovey.

Secondly, I’d like to announce that I’m a cretin (although you’d probably realised that for yourselves). There I was last Friday, feeling all pleased with myself that for once, I’d not had to run for trains, sprint across Hungerford Bridge, etc, to get to a screening on time, because I’d given myself plenty of time to get there. So what should happen when I got there? Why, I discovered I’d got the start time wrong and the screening had begun half an hour earlier. Oops.

So that minor act of spasness aside, let’s get on with a preview not just of the first episode (or at least the second half of the first episode) of Being Human, BBC3’s forthcoming drama about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost, but of the rest of the series, too, as well as that wee chat with the producers.

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rullsenberg): The Next Doctor

19 January 2009 Rob Buckley 14 Comments

Today’s bonus Sitting Tennant is from Ms Rullsenberg, whose picture of a sedentary David Tennant I so cruelly left at home last week. It’s from The Next Doctor, I think, although to be honest I have absolutely no idea. Clearly though, it’s an imitation of the famous cantina scene from Star Wars, although from where the Doctor’s going to produce his gun, I wouldn’t like to say.

That gives us the following leader board for the picture competition:

  1. Jaradel, Rullsenberg: 1

Ooh, exciting. You wait ’til it hots up like the caption competition because it’s all go there. Marie, taking to heart the ruling that back-related captions are no longer topical, went for a Hudson river comment, earning herself a bonus half mark. But it was Rev/Views’ venture in surrealism that earned him the title of wittiest caption composer this time round, with the associated double points prize, taking him into joint second place.

That means the scoreboard now stands as follows:

  1. Marie: 4.5
  2. Jane Henry, Toby, Rev/Views: 3
  3. Aaron, Persephone, Rullsenberg: 2
  4. Jaradel: 1

As always, captions and new submissions for the gallery, please. Remember, you can submit as many (witty) captions as you like for each and every picture, with topical captions (and pictures of David Tennant in current productions) getting extra marks. The wittiest caption for each picture will get double points.

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. You can also enter the witting and amusing captions league table by commenting on existing photos in the gallery.

Dick Heads

Dick Heads (from Jane Henry): the Vicar of Dibley

19 January 2009 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

This week’s Dick Head comes from Jane Henry and features Richard Armitage in The Vicar of Dibley. He appears to be doing an impression of Atlas, holding the weight of the heavens on his shoulders – or his head, at least. No hat, I’m afraid, so no bonuses, but I’m sure the haiku and captions will be forthcoming all the same.

We have another two people’s Dick Heads in the queue, but if you want to submit your own pic, leave a URL below or email me. Remember, extra credit if you have a picture of Richard Armitage in a hat.