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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: Three Moons Over Milford

9 August 2006 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Three Moons Over Milford

In the US: Sundays, ABC Family, 8pm

In the UK: Not yet acquired

What would you do if you knew the world was going to end? Maybe not today. But maybe some time next week if the Nigerians are to be believed. Or in six weeks if the Germans are right. But some time soon and with absolute certainty, anyway.

Would you give up your life and go on a round the world trek? Would you throw your inhibitions to the wind? Track down that lost love and make a go of it? Or would you just get on with your life and hope for the best?

Three Moons Over Milford tries to answer this question by dwelling on the inhabitants of Milford, a small town in Vermont.

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Yet another Dune cash-in book arrives

9 August 2006 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Brian “Son of Frank” Herbert and Kevin J Anderson are putting the finishing touches to “Dune 7”, aka the latest cash-in book in the Dune series. I’m really getting sick of these.

The ostensible explanation for these books is that Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, had huge numbers of notes for his books sitting around in safety deposit boxes. Herbert Jr and Anderson found them and together, have been putting flesh on them to create new novels that fill in the gaps that Herbert was probably going to fill himself.

Now, fair-dues, the last three books of the original series weren’t great and even the second and third lacked the spark of Dune itself, but with each new book these two produce, the quality average keeps going down. So far, they’ve written a series of prequels set in the early origins of the Dune universe, a series of prequels set just before the original series of books and a collection of Dune short stories.

But what’s noticeable is just how bad these books are.

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Philip K Dick biopic planned by Paul Giamatti

8 August 2006 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The new darling of sci-fi circles, Paul Giamatti, has just launched his own production company. Its first project, according to Variety, is likely to be a biopic of author Philip K Dick. Apparently, “The nontraditional biopic will interweave the prolific author’s life with his fictionand incorporate elements of his last unfinished novel, ‘The Owl in Daylight.'”

To find out more about Dick and to view 24 minutes of A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Dick’s Through A Scanner Darkly, visit this old entry.