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 Wednesday Play: Contact (1984), Elephant (1989)
Review: Family Tree 1x1 (HBO/BBC2)
ABC's upfronts 2013-4 – a rundown and clips from the new shows
What not to say to someone whose show has just been cancelled: congratulations
A proper trailer for FX's remake of The Bridge
Wednesday's "Paul Abbott's Victorian cop show, HBO's gay friends dramedy and a Stanislaw Lem adaptation" news
Charley says: beware of old fridges
Fox's upfronts 2013-4 – a rundown and clips from the new shows
Tuesday's "The return of 24, BBC3 acquires Orphan Black and Michelle Ryan joins the CIA" news
NBC's upfronts 2013-4 - a rundown and clips from the new shows
