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.
News: C4 Philip K Dick series; Lethal Weapon and Exorcist TV series; BBC4 acquires Disparue; + more
Question of the week: can you name a trilogy that improved with each entry?
This week's Containment moment: George Gordon Byron's 'When We Two Parted'
News: E4 comedy horror; BBC+ app; new Locke & Key TV show; + more
What have you been watching? Including Marseille, Captain America: Civil War and The Americans
William Shatner reacts in precisely the right way to Sadiq Khan's election as Mayor of London
News: Criminal Minds renewed; Line of Duty changes channel; House of Bond cast; + more
There's a lot of West Wing happening this week
News: young Han Solo cast; big screen Jekyll; Dear White People series; + more
News: The Mindy Project, The Path renewed; Seth MacFarlane's space dramedy; + more
