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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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Superbowl trailers galore, Jesse Eisenberg is Lex Luthor and Back To The Future: The Musical

3 February 2014 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Film casting

Trailers

Theatre

UK TV

New UK TV shows

  • BBC4 green lights: Detectorists with Mackenzie Crook and The Walshes co-written by Graham Linehan and Diet of Worms

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV show casting

  • David Schwimmer to star in ABC’s remake of Israel’s Bilti Hafich, Irreversible
  • Grace Gummer joins CBS’s Extant
  • Christina Cole and Carole Bouquet joins NBC’s Rosemary’s Baby mini-series
  • Tony Hale to guest on NBC’s About A Boy adaptation
  • Matt McGorry joins ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, Mike Colter joins TNT’s Agent X
  • Penny Marshall and Lorraine Bracco to guest on Fox’s Mulaney
Weekly Wonder Woman

Weekly Wonder Woman: World’s Finest Annual #1 and Forever Evil: ARGUS #4

31 January 2014 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

World's Finest Annual #1

There’s not much in the printed medium out this week Wonder Womany. Despite the cover, over on Earth 2, World’s Finest Annual #1 largely involves a chase after alternative Wonder Woman’s daughter, Fury. Alternative Wondy shows up for a couple of pages towards the end, but it’s more of a cameo than a real appearance.

Alternative Wonder Woman shows up

Alternative Wonder Woman cries about Fury

Meanwhile, over in Forever Evil: ARGUS, again, despite the cover, it’s more of a cameo for Wonder Woman as the assembled heroes and villains realises that arch-Wondy enemy (literally) holds the key to rescuing the Justice League.

Forever Evil: Argus

We also get a little bit of insight into Steve Trevor’s mind, which is largely full of Wonder Woman, apparently.

Steve Trevor's mind is full of Wonder Woman

Lastly, it’s worth noting that over in this week’s Superman, Lois Lane official title of ‘Superman’s best friend’, a title held, pre nu-52, by either Batman or Wonder Woman, depending on the situation. Interesting flip around that.

Oh, and Lois has forgotten Clark and Superman are the same person. How many times did that happen pre-nu52? Lots, anyway, nostalgia fans.

Lois is Clark's best friend

News

More Banshee, more Still Open All Hours and more Rob Schneider

31 January 2014 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Scarlett Johansson is Black Widow in Captain America: Winter Soldier

UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

ITV to launch a pay TV channel, more Inside No 9, and a Supernatural spin-off

30 January 2014 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Film casting

UK TV

  • ITV to launch pay TV drama channel on Sky
  • iPlayer requests up by a third in 2013
  • BBC2 renews: Inside No 9
  • ITV cancels: Breathless
  • UKTV adds Watch, Gold, Dave and Alibi to Sky’s On Demand

New UK TV shows

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting