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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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Review: The Vengeance of Morbius

1 September 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment
The Vengeance of Morbius

It’s not often that the biggest fault with a Big Finish play is that it’s not long enough. Quite often, you just sit there, watching the tumbleweed go by and glaciers nip past you as you wait for the play to come to its inevitable conclusion.

But for the first time in quite a while, I came to the end of a play and found myself wishing that they’d spent a whole lot more time on it. I’m not saying that it was brilliant, it’s just when you have a character who has the potential to be one of the most interesting Doctor Who villains around, an hour doesn’t seem like quite enough to explore the character properly, does it?

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Today's Joanna Page

Today’s Joanna Page: Fat Pig

1 September 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Kevin Bishop and Joanna Page in Fat Pig

Today’s Joanna Page is Fat Pig, Neil LaBute’s size-related comedy play, which has been running in London for a good few months now. In fact, I’ve already reviewed it – twice.

However, from the 11th September, it’s going to be moving away from the Trafalgar Studios to the Comedy Theatre and Rob Webb and Kris Marshall are going to be replaced by Nick Burns and Kevin Bishop respectively. Then from October, Joanna Page is going to be off filming the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special and is going to be replaced by Kelly Brook. No word on what’s happening with Ella Smith, yet.

So here’s a publicity shot of our Joanna with Kevin Bishop (photo by Simon Turtle). And this is her (with Matthew Horne) in Gavin & Stacey:

Matthew Horne and Joanna Page in Gavin & Stacey

What a chameleon. How’s she do that?

PS There’s a video on the Fat Pig web site in which Neil LaBute interviews the current cast. In it, Rob Webb admits there was an evening where he chose to play Tom as “a complete spoon” then changed his mind and went back to playing it the original way. Any want to bet he did it on the night that I first went to see it, thus explaining the change in performance by the time I went back to see it again?

September starts here

1 September 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Hooray! September’s here, and British summertime has arrived*. Hopefully, you all had nice holidays and are feeling rested – and only slightly bitter that you’ve got to go back to work.

As a result, at The Medium Is Not Enough, service is going to start up again properly, with news, reviews, the regular features, etc, delighting and probably slightly irritating you in equal measure from now on. But due to a minor miracle of planning, etc, I’m going to be working from home three days a week (Monday, Thursday and Friday) for the foreseeable future, so you can probably expect ‘heightened’ services on these days. Which is handy, because all the new TV seasons are starting on the UK and the US this month.

As some point, there might be a minor upgrade to the blogging software I use, which might provide some new shiny features, too. Or it might just obliterate the whole thing and give me extreme stress. We’ll have to see on that one.

Look forward to chatting with you!

* Note for Americans and other aliens: if you’re coming to Britain for your vacation, try to book your break for September or else you’ll be condemned to rain and extreme humidity your entire stay. September is when it starts to get sunny these days.

Monday’s Labor Day news

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