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.
Third-episode verdict: Containment (US: The CW; UK: E4)
This week's Containment moment: Robinson Jeffers' Be Angry At The Sun
News: The Doctor Blake Mysteries renewed; Syfy acquires Bitten; #Cartel; + more
What TV's on at the BFI in June? Including TV preview: The Living and the Dead, architecture on TV, and women and sound day
CJ Cregg returns to the White House
News: Netflix's Punisher spin-off; Hulu's Handmaid's Tale; John Krasinski is Jack Ryan; + more
News: an Omen prequel; Sylvester Stallone's first TV series; + more
Third-episode verdict: Game of Silence (US: NBC)
News: new 24 series; ITV's Courtney Cox comedy; The Windsors trailer; Brits join Wolverine 3; + more
The Wednesday Play/Kneale Before Nigel: Murrain (1975)
