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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Torchwood 2×8 – A Day in the Death

6 March 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

 

It’s odd the way a writer’s career can leave a permanent imprint on their style. Take Russell T Davies. Not a trace of soap opera in his style, is there?

Oh wait…

Joseph Lidster is already quite a well known Who writer. He’s done a number of Big Finish plays, as well as Torchwood fan fics original licensed novels. 

Take a look at the average Big Finish play – Doctor or assistant bumps into random mortal at some point and starts blurbing their life story and deepest feelings to them.

Lo-and-behold, Joe Lidster’s first Torchwood episode turned out to be pretty much a Big Finish play in disguise.

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Thursday’s bite and pillage news

6 March 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

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  • Eidos to release Doctor Who game for PS2, DS
  • Who’s in the Dalek casing? (spoiler alert)

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Season finale: Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles

5 March 2008 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

 

The thing about the writers’ strike is that shows are ending before their naturally allotted time.

Sometimes, the show runners prepared for it and the series ended on a relative high (for example, Heroes).

Sometimes, the show runners were unprepared for it and the series just stopped (for example, Las Vegas, Bionic Woman), although that usually coincided with the series being cancelled (cf Las Vegas, Bionic Woman).

And sometimes the show runners were prepared for it and the show tried to go out on a high, but failed. I’m thinking of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles here.

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Wednesday’s question-answering news

5 March 2008 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

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Review: Doctor Who – Max Warp

4 March 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Max Warp It’s a cracking show, looking at the latest, fastest, sleekest models. There’s three guys who present it: an old, politically incorrect guy who’s well known for his outspoken nature and his support of the armed forces; there’s the younger, cooler one, named after a a furry rodent; and there’s the older, duller mechanical spod who likes talking about mechanics.

It’s all going so well right up until that young cool one goes and crashes an experimental vehicle and dies.

Hang on. Dies? That can’t be right.

Did you think I was talking about Top Gear?

No, of course you didn’t. I wrote Doctor Who at the top for one thing. No, this is the spaceship show ‘Max Warp’, starring the vocal talents of Graeme Garden, James Fleet and Duncan James (who used to be a pop star or something). And you can hear it in the latest, and possibly the most tasteless Big Finish Doctor Who play so far.

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