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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.

Merry Christmas from Community with a Miracle on Jeff’s Street

20 December 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

What would Christmas TV be without an animated Christmas special? Here’s one from Community…

David Mamet’s 7 Deadly Sins, Cybill Shepherd to play Trophy Wife Sr and How To Get Away With Murder

20 December 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will return on Monday 6th January 2014. Happy holidays, news readers!

Film casting

Ali Larter to star in The Diabolical

Trailers

Trailer for Wally Pfister’s Transcendence with Morgan Freeman, Johnny Depp et al
Trailer for The Other Woman with Cameron Diaz et al
Teaser trailer for The Expendables 3

UK TV

Trailer for season 2 of Mr Selfridge

US TV

Wednesday ratings

New US TV shows

Fox developing: David Mamet’s Seven Deadly Sins
Teaser trailer for WGN America’s Salem
ABC green lights: pilots of Sea of Fire and How To Get Away With Murder

New US TV show casting

Michael Peña joins Fox’s Gracepoint
Cybill Shepherd to play Malin Akerman’s mother on Trophy Wife
Judy Davis joins 24: Live Another Day
Eric Ladin joins HBO’s The Brink

The Fonz gives his views on Heathrow runway expansion

19 December 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

You’re a BBC reporter. You’re stopping people in the street, asking them for their opinions on the topic of the day. Of course you weren’t expecting Henry Winkler to be one of those people…

An extended Doctor Who Christmas special trailer

19 December 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Those nice people at BBC America have put together a much longer trailer for Time of the Doctor, which charitably they’ve made accessible to viewers around the world and which charitably I’ve embedded below. What do you think? Not sure we’ve yet seen anything ‘killer’ about the episode, but spoilers, sweetie, and all that.

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Josh Gad’s Gilligan’s Island, a new Miranda Hart comedy drama and Sundance joins the NRA

19 December 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film

Josh Gad to co-write and star in Gilligan’s Island remake

Film casting

Paul Rudd to play Ant-Man?
Daniel Wu and Clancy Brown join Warcraft
Ricky Gervais to return for Night at the Museum 3

Trailers

Trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

UK TV

Hinterland/Y Gwyll to air on BBC Wales in both Welsh and English

New UK TV show casting

Miranda Hart to star in adaptation of Kathy Lette’s To Love, Honour and Betray
Hermione Norris et al join BBC1’s In The Club

US TV

Tuesday ratings

US TV show casting

Fred Armisen to return to Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Paul Sorvino to guest on Elementary

New US TV shows

TBS green lights: Jake & Amir
Sundance developing: NRA drama Cold Dead Hands

New US TV show casting

Marcia Cross to star in Fox’s Fatrick
Michael Rapaport to co-star in TNT’s Public Morals

About TMINE

The Medium is Not Enough is dedicated to finding the best and worst TV and movies from around the world, with daily news, views and exclusive reviews. There’s a bit of a bias towards the latest and greatest US TV, but we also cover Canadian, Australia, New Zealand, European, Scandinavian, Israeli, and modern and classic UK TV, ranging from new Doctor Who to old Z Cars, and BBC Four to S4C. We also cover TV events run by the BFI, BAFTA and Institut français du Royaume-Uni. Add in competitions and an archive of reviews stretching back 16 years and you’ve one of the best sites on the web for media lovers.

Mark Carroll My goodness, I'm so sorry to learn of your loss, from what you share above it's clear that you were very lucky to have found each other. I liked learning over the years a little of what...
RIP Lovely wife · 2 years ago
TMINE Thank you It’s been a devastating time for all of us but it’s been amazing how much love and support have been sent our way by people who knew Sarah as well as those who didn’t. I’m very...
RIP Lovely wife · 2 years ago
JustStark Oh no. I’m so so sorry. What a wonderful person and you were so lucky to find each other. How cruel this world can be. Please accept condolences beyond my mere words.
RIP Lovely wife · 2 years ago
Pinky's Mom I watched this show first run back in the 80s. Surprisingly arch and intelligent, it held me with its graphic-novel style storytelling. Little on TV appealed to me back then, and that fact hasn't...
Lost Gems: Max Headroom (1985-1988) · 2 years ago
TMINE Agreed re: Three Body Problem. Reading ahead in the Wikipedia rundown for the novels, it does feel there are more exciting things ahead in the next season than there were in this season. Let's...
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
Mark Carroll Goodness, I didn't even recognize Keiko. We watched and enjoyed it but for me it very much had the sense that it's promising more than we've yet seen, where I'd be a lot more...
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
TMINE Managed to watch some more TV! Apple TV+: Lessons in Chemistry. Adaptation of the bestseller about a discriminated against, possibly autistic chemist in the US in the 50s who ends up being a TV chef...
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
TMINE Watching Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen TV series on Netflix. It's actually not bad. Nothing extraordinary and not as good as his movie of the same name, but a pretty decent cast and some actual nuance...
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
TMINE The Richard Chamberlain version loomed large in my teenage years. Almost life-changing. Although the difference between that version and this version is a bit like the difference between the...
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago
TMINE Yep, Andor is great. A little slow at first but after about episode 3, it's absolutely blinding
What have you been watching? Including The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List · 2 years ago

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Articles by Rob Buckley

Merry Christmas from Community with a Miracle on Jeff’s Street

David Mamet’s 7 Deadly Sins, Cybill Shepherd to play Trophy Wife Sr and How To Get Away With Murder

The Fonz gives his views on Heathrow runway expansion

An extended Doctor Who Christmas special trailer

Josh Gad’s Gilligan’s Island, a new Miranda Hart comedy drama and Sundance joins the NRA

The Umbrella Academy and The Terminal List

Please watch I Walk Through Moscow – and I’m quoted!

Ms Marvel, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Old Man

Life and Beth and Night Sky

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and The Essex Serpent