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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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Naomi Wolf, Michael Palin and Louis Theroux talk about making documentaries

10 December 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Naomi Wolf talking to C21

C21Media (disclosure: currently edited by an old work colleague of mine, Ed Waller) has a nifty 30 minute documentary interviewing Michael Palin, Louis Theroux and Naomi Wolf about the art of documentary-making. I’d embed it if I could, and it doesn’t yet appear to have leapt into the site’s podcast feed at iTunes, so pop over to the site to watch it if you’re interested.

Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennants (from Rosby and Rullsenberg)

10 December 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Young Tennant

Simon Pegg and David Tennant

Catherine Tate and David Tennant

It seems the new layout for Sitting Tennant was a good move, since suddenly we have a veritable onslaught of Tennants in a sitting position. Today, we have three: one from young Rosby (who clearly likes her Tennnants young and windswept) and thought that that was going to be enough to hold on to her lead; but two from Ms Rullsenberg who is therefore declared the new leader. Told you you’d be caught napping, Rossers.

The Sitting Tennant picture competition table now stands as follows:

  • Rullsenberg: 8.5
  • Rosby: 8
  • Persephone: 6.5
  • Toby: 5
  • Poly, Scott: 3.5
  • Jane: 2.5
  • Anna, Electric Dragon: 1.5
  • Marie: 1

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table now sees Marie within striking distance of Toby thanks to some extreme wittiness (and topicality) on her part from her sick bed, while the middle of the board continues to see neck and neck excitement – like an Algonquin Roundtable version of Super Mario Kart:

  • Toby: 21
  • Marie: 19.5
  • Jane Henry: 13.5
  • Persephone: 12
  • Rullsenberg: 10.5
  • Rev, Electric Dragon: 5
  • Stu_N: 2
  • Poly, Andrea: 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 getting extra marks – as do pictures of David Tennant in current productions.  

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.

Fringe: tracking the Observer

10 December 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Still watching Fringe? Blimey, you’ve got stamina. Even I petered out around about episode six or seven. I want to like it, I really do, it’s just really boring.

There are some glimmers of light in it, though. One’s John Noble as the truly mad scientist Dr Bishop. If the show was purely about him, I’d watch it.

The other glimmer of hope is The Observer. Much like Lazar in Witchblade, he pops up in more or less every episode, but you have to be very observant to spot him – although the fourth episode in which he’s the focus was pretty much the only good episode since the pilot (as far as I’m aware).

To save you time – and to avoid watching Fringe – you can see all his appearances in this video someone’s mashed up for your delight