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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Wednesday’s Bad Nemo news

14 January 2009 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Doctor Who

Film

Radio

Theatre

British TV

US TV

Things I learned surfing the Internet this evening

13 January 2009 Rob Buckley 11 Comments
  1. Mark Lamarr has not disappeared from the world altogether, but currently hosts a Radio 2 music show on Thursdays.
  2. In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran a feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV. that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection, and went on to state that "most heterosexuals are not at risk" and that it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.
  3. Safety Catch is being turned into a TV show

Tuesday’s reuniting Moonlighting news

13 January 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Doctor Who

Film

British TV

  • Flight of the Conchords‘s Kristen Schaal’s Penelope: Princess of Pets to be turned into Channel 4 pilot
  • BBC1 director urges Channel 4 and Five to merge

US TV

Blog update

12 January 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

I’ve been tinkering with a new plug-in for the blog, as well as messing with the templates a bit, so fingers-crossed the blog should give you the following new fun things:

  1. Tabbed comments, so you don’t have to go down an extremely long list every time you want to see the latest comment.
  2. Comments RSS feeds for every entry
  3. Now you only have to put <spoiler>round your spoiler text</spoiler> that you want to hide from innocent eyes
  4. Automatic quoting: click on the "reply" link next to a comment and you should find the text of the comment you’re replying to quoted in the Comment text area, ready for you to add your own reply.
  5. A Canadian TV category

The promised upgrade to the blog software isn’t here yet, so no Blogger log in yet, and FaceBook Connect is turning out to be an arse. But I’m working on it.

If something doesn’t work, you can email me. And leave a comment below if you have an opinion on any of these exciting developments, either pro or against. Ta!

UK TV

Review: Myths 1×1

12 January 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

In the UK: Saturdays, 12.45pm, BBC2

Once the Beeb gets an idea into its head, it’s very hard to shift it. Case in point: ever since Canterbury Tales, it’s been impossible for the Beeb to dramatise any pre-17th Century piece of literature as anything other than a modernisation, with characters in equivalent 21st century roles rather than in the roles as written.

We’ve seen it have a go at Shakespeare, the Brothers Grim’s fairy tales* and now Ridley Scott’s production company is trying to introduce modern youth to classic Greek myths in handy five-minute nuggets. Suffice it to say, although Myths is fun, a little is lost in the translation…

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