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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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Weekly Wonder Woman

Weekly Wonder Woman: Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Four #1, Sensation Comics #33, FCBD #1

11 May 2015 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Injustice: Gods Among Us - Year 4 #1

Last week, I left you with a conundrum:

Year Three of slugfest Injustice: Gods Among Us has just finished and Year Four begins later today. What’s that going to be about, after we’ve escalated from Superman v Batman and regular superheroes in Year One, to Superman v intergalactic superheroes in Year Two to Superman v magical heroes in Year Three?

I also left you with the clue that it was going to be a Wonder Woman-centric Year. So, did you guess correctly, oh wise one, because Year Four of Injustice: Gods Among Us is going to be all about the Greek gods and how they’re taking Superman’s new regime. Let’s see who they bring into the war (there’s a clue there)…

Also out last week was the first of a three-part story in Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, in which diplomat Wonder Woman tries to broker peace in Africa, something in which at least one god also has an interest.

And as it was Free Comics Book Day last week, we also got a preview of Justice League #41, which shows us hints of what’s to come this month in the Darkseid War. Turns out Wondy might have a very similar new enemy to fight, one with an odd taste in clothes – and that this might turn out to be one of the most important issues for Wonder Woman continuity since the nu52 began…

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Watch trailers for NBC’s new shows Blindspot, Heartbreaker, The Player and People Are Talking

11 May 2015 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

NBC, as usual, are pretty good with posting trailers for their new shows, as soon as they’re announced. Okay, the new shows are usually pretty poor and only last a season, but at least you can spot that sooner, rather than later.

So here’s a whole bunch of trailers for:

Blindspot
Jaimie Alexander (Sif in Thor) wakes up naked in New York covered in tattoos but without her memory. Ooh, can anyone say Jane Doe? Or for that matter Jessi XX (I’m not even joking)? Or even The Blacklist, given all those tattoos are clues to crimes and criminals. Also features Sullivan Stapleton from Strike Back

Heartbreaker
Based on the story of a real-life heart transplant surgeon (I imagine quite loosely…), this medical procedural stars that Melissa George (Hunted, The Slap). NBC is also going with Chicago Med this season, so I imagine this’ll be cancelled pretty soon. Which is a shame because if you look carefully, George’s fellow Aussie, the rather good Don Hany from Serangoon Road, is in the cast, although neither he nor she get to sound Australian. All the same, at least he’s got his foot in the door this time.

People Are Talking
NBC has another stab at diversity again, with this multi-cam comedy about two couples who are neighbours and best friends. On the plus side, it’s got Meaghan Rath from Being Human (US); on the minus side, it’s got Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Franklin and Bash), and Rath is in the running to star in another series whose pilot has also been picked up (Fox’s The Guide To Surviving Life) – given that NBC haven’t even put her bio up on the programme’s web site, I’m pretty sure she’s not going to be in it…

The Player
Wesley Snipes returns to the limelight after a spell in the nick (and The Expendables 3). Here he’s partnered with Sullivan Stapleton (see Blindspot above)’s current Strike Back co-star, Philip Winchester, in this Las Vegas-set thriller about a former military operative turned security expert. Stapleton gets to use his American accent again, which must be a relief, while Snipes just largely seems to glower as the mysterious boss who hires Stapleton, rather than joining in with the action. Still, always bet on black – you knew I was going to say that, didn’t you?

News: more US cancellations and new shows, a returning Doctor Who character + more

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What have you been watching? Including Wayward Pines, Community, Forever and American Odyssey

8 May 2015 Rob Buckley 26 Comments

It’s “What have you been watching?”, my chance to tell you what movies and TV I’ve been watching recently that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I’ve missed them.

The usual “TMINE recommends” page features links to reviews of all the shows I’ve ever recommended, and there’s also the Reviews A-Z, for when you want to check more or less anything I’ve reviewed ever. And if you want to know when any of these shows are on in your area, there’s Locate TV – they’ll even email you a weekly schedule.

Summer’s approaching fast now – although judging by the weather, not in the UK – but it’s not here yet, which means the only new show I’ve had the option of reviewing has been Your Family Or Mine. I might have to start watching some UK TV again. Oh dear.

It also means that after the jump, I’ll be looking at another season finale, as well as the last few remaining episodes of a whole bunch of shows. So brace yourself for my thoughts on the latest instalments of American Crime, American Odyssey, Arrow, The Blacklist, Community, The Flash, Forever, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD and Silicon Valley. One of those is for the chop from my viewing list, one of those has had the chop from its network’s viewing list, one of them’s still on the bubble and the rest look set to return for another season at least. I’ll leave you to work out which is which.

But I’ll also have a look over another episode of Wayward Pines. I know you’re looking forward to that, too.

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