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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28 October 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

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Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Rosby): Jonathan Ross

24 October 2008 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

David Tennant on Jonathan Ross

She’s back! You can’t keep a good David Tennant fan down. Rosby’s back in action with a picture of David Tennant from an appearance on Jonathan Ross’s chat show in 2005. I’m assuming he’s sitting down, anyway, rather than simply adopting a very deep horse stance.

That means the current Sitting Tennant league tables are as follows. For pictures, Rosby’s extended her lead so she’s now on seven entries. Toby has five, and Persephone’s on four. Poly and Scott both have three and a half points each, Anna and Jane have one and a half, while Marie and Rullsenberg are trailing with just one each.

The Witty And Amusing Captions league table has changed a bit, too. Toby is still tops with 14 captions, while Persephone has edged into second place ahead of Marie with nine captions to Marie’s eight, and Rullsenberg has five, But Jane Henry is speeding along and now ties with Electric Dragon on four entries, while Rev has two entries and Poly and Stu_N have one each.

Feel free to leave captions below for this entry, too, and keep those eyes peeled for any new pictures of David Tennant sitting down that you can find. Bonus points for Love’s Labour’s Lost pictures if you can find them.

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.

US TV

Watch the first episode of Touching Evil (US)

24 October 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Touching Evil

Every so often, people ask me what TV shows I’d recommend watching. I mean not just watching, but hunting out then watching, because obviously this blog gives you some big clues as to what to watch as it is – it’s the rarer stuff that’s not on tele at the moment that are the bigger concerns.

The US remake of Touching Evil, starring Burn Notice‘s Jeffrey Donovan (he’s also in Clint Eastwood’s The Changeling soon), has been coming up a lot of late and people are finding out (or should be, if they follow my advice) that

  1. It was brilliant, although as the title suggests, it’s not going to take you to a happy place
  2. It was a whole lot better than the UK version
  3. Even if you don’t like the series itself, the music was brilliant
  4. The USA Network was nuts to cancel it

I won’t go into long drawn out discussions about its merits here – I’ve already done that on several occasions – so instead, I merely offer you, thanks to the joys of YouTube, the full first episode of the series. You can watch the whole 13 on there as well, but I draw the line at setting up playlists for those, too. It’s not out on DVD yet and has only once been shown in the UK so let’s start a petition, hey?

Today's Joanna Page

Today’s Joanna Page: Christmas

24 October 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

There’s a question that is no doubt on everyone’s mind right now: “Where can I see Joanna Page this Christmas?” Fortunately, there’s an answer.

If you’re content to watch tele, she’s on the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special as Stacey (of course), which is currently filming in Barry. Here she is with Matthew Horne, filming a scene.

Gavin & Stacey Christmas special

But, you can see her in panto at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre as well. She’ll be playing Cinderella opposite Gareth Gates; Alistair McGowan’s in it, too.

Joanna Page and Gareth Gates in Cinderella

Who’s going?

Ron Howard becomes Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham again

24 October 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

It seems these days that everyone in Hollywood wants you to vote for Barack Obama in the Presidential elections*. Now director Ron Howard has joined the campaign with this video, in which he returns to his acting roots and recreates some of his most famous characters – as do his even more famous acting friends.

Howard and Andy Griffith play Opie and Andy Taylor from The Andy Griffith Show in the first half of the vid then he and Henry Winkler recreate Richie Cunningham and the Fonz from Happy Days in the second half. Enjoy!

* But only if you’re eligible to vote, otherwise it’s fraud