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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.

The Old Spice guy is back, this time in the UK

12 December 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Blimey. How time has flown. Isaiah Mustafa – aka The Old Spice Guy – first burst onto our screens in February 2010. He disappeared a couple of Christmases ago, though, but praise the Lord, he’s returned. This time, though he’s searching the UK for the much-rumoured, lesser spotted English gentleman. Can anyone help him in his quest?

Gandalf meets Gandalf

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Sir Ian McKellen teaches the puppets of Sesame Street (or one of them, at least) the value of the word ‘please’. There’ll be more of that on today’s show, apparently.

Gandalf meets Gandalf

12 December 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Sir Ian McKellen teaches the puppets of Sesame Street (or one of them, at least) the value of the word ‘please’. There’ll be more of that on today’s show, apparently.

Guy Pearce to romance Sean Hayes, Timothy West joins EastEnders and BBC4’s latest foreign acquisitions

12 December 2013 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Film casting

Simon Pegg joins Monty Python in Absolutely Anything

Trailers

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UK TV

BBC4 acquires: Sweden’s Crimes of Passion, Israel’s Hostages and Denmark’s 1864
Ripper Street could return on LoveFilm

UK TV casting

Timothy West joins EastEnders

US TV

US TV casting

Emily Rios and Matthew Lillard promoted to regulars in The Bridge (US)
Robert Knepper to play the Clock King on Arrow
Guy Pearce to guest on Sean Saves The World

New US TV shows

FX green lights: Howard Gordon’s Tyrant

Guy Pearce to romance Sean Hayes, Timothy West joins EastEnders and BBC4’s latest foreign acquisitions

12 December 2013 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Film casting

Simon Pegg joins Monty Python in Absolutely Anything

Trailers

Trailer for Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise

UK TV

BBC4 acquires: Sweden’s Crimes of Passion, Israel’s Hostages and Denmark’s 1864
Ripper Street could return on LoveFilm

UK TV casting

Timothy West joins EastEnders

US TV

US TV casting

Emily Rios and Matthew Lillard promoted to regulars in The Bridge (US)
Robert Knepper to play the Clock King on Arrow
Guy Pearce to guest on Sean Saves The World

New US TV shows

FX green lights: Howard Gordon’s Tyrant

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Articles by Rob Buckley

The Old Spice guy is back, this time in the UK

Gandalf meets Gandalf

Gandalf meets Gandalf

Guy Pearce to romance Sean Hayes, Timothy West joins EastEnders and BBC4’s latest foreign acquisitions

Guy Pearce to romance Sean Hayes, Timothy West joins EastEnders and BBC4’s latest foreign acquisitions

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