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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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The Nine dropped

27 November 2006 Rob Buckley Post a comment

It’s a pile of old rubbish that managed to get good reviews somehow, yet The Nine has just been pulled from the schedules. Looks like it’s doomed, then. Oh dear.

Digital Spy, incidentally, now has a handy guide to the current US schedules that shows UK viewers exactly which channels will be showing the current crop of shows come January. One I didn’t know about: What About Brian, now on its second season, has been picked up by Channel 4 (I’ve heard it’s dull – anyone want to comment?). And Trouble seems to have picked up everything The CW couldn’t persuade bigger networks to buy.

Interview with a Big Finish writer

24 November 2006 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Cumberland News, always on my daily reading list, has an interview with Michael Spencer, one of the writers of the new BBC7 Doctor Who radio plays. He also has a script lined up for Colin Baker in the regular Big Finish run.

I did like this quote: “On a typical day Michael gets up at 9am and works for two to three hours after breakfast, before succumbing to ‘the writer’s worst enemy’ – the internet.”

I know what that’s like…

Heroes coming to BBC2

23 November 2006 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Good news for UK readers who have been sitting through my Heroes coverage, wondering

a) if they’re going to have to stump up the cash to watch it on Sky

b) if I’ll ever shut up about it.

The BBC has just announced it’ll be airing Heroes next year on BBC2, presumably after SciFi has finished showing it or even some time during the run. Can’t help you with the second bit, though guys, cos it really is quite good.

UPDATE: Digital Spy says that SciFi will air Heroes in January, with BBC2 airing the show after that run finishes.