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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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Thursdays “Archer’s 5th season, Sinbad cancelled and Anthony LaPaglia’s Boomerang” news

28 February 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Film casting

  • Chris Cooper to play Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2

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UK TV

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV show casting

Wednesday’s “Ben Stiller’s Arrested Development, Kathy Bates joins American Horror Story and dancing with Starz” news

27 February 2013 Rob Buckley Post a comment

UK TV

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

  • Michael Stahl-David and Patrick Heusinger to star in Fox’s Boomerang
  • Brittany Snow to star in Fox’s To My Future Assistant, Troy Gentle joins ABC’s How The Hell Am I Normal
  • Stephen Root to star in Fox’s To My Future Assistant, Delory Lindo joins NBC’s Believe
  • Patrick Flueger to star in NBC’s Hatfields & McCoys, Pablo Schreiber to co-star in NBC’s Ironside
  • Stephen Louis Grush joins ABC’s The Syndicate remake Lucky 7, Johnny Simmons joins The CW’s Blink
  • Toby Regbo to star in The CW’s Reign + other pilot casting
  • Patrick Fugit to star in ABC’s Reckless + other pilot casting
  • Jay Hernandez joins Fox’s Gang Related, Ana De La Reguera joins ABC’s Big Thunder
  • Casting on NBC’s Rand Ravich pilot
  • Lee Pace to star in AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire
  • Cam Giganet to star in CBS’s Reckless. Yes, there are two Recklesses
  • Lindsay Sloane to co-star in NBC’s Sean Hayes comedy, Colin Salmon and Robbie Kay to star in Bravo’s Rita
  • Tom Mison to star as Ichabod Crane in Fox’s Sleepy Hollow

Tuesday’s “Sky Living acquires Hannibal, Peter Capaldi to star in BBC1’s The Three Musketeers and Lindsay Lohan’s Anger Management” news

26 February 2013 Rob Buckley 9 Comments

Happy Birthday, Lovely Wife!

UK TV

  • Peter Capaldi to star in BBC1’s The Three Musketeers. No sign of Grégory Fitoussi, malheureusement
  • Sky Living acquires Hannibal
  • Trailer for BBC3’s zombie show In The Flesh

US TV

US TV casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

French TV

Review: Engrenages (Spiral) 4×5-4×6 (France: Canal+; UK: BBC Four)

25 February 2013 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

In France: Last autumn
In the UK: Saturday 23 February, 9pm, BBC Four

Well, we’re halfway throughout season 4 already. How distressing is that? Bloody BBC, burning through these things as if there’s an unlimited supply. This is France’s answer to The Wire, we’re talking about, and there’s not a lot on TV to rival it.

A more even affair this, following last week’s mix of not-so-cracking and cracking, with shocks aplenty. And for those who think I’m kidding about that comparison with The Wire, this week, on top of the usual less-than-complimentary look at French society, we had a police officer’s gun stolen and him going all out to get it back, a bunch of high-up police officers more concerned with the stats than getting to the root cause of crime, and a mysterious Greek with criminal connections turned up.

One unshocking thing we learnt this week, too: Ms Rullsenberg should be writing these reviews…

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