From Battlestar Galactica to Beverly Hills 90210 to the BBC, Pop Vultures covers TV with a careful blend of snark and love, providing analysis, reviews and recaps of a wide range of television programs.
Who are the Vultures?
Marcia started this blog when her job as a Media Studies teacher did not allow her to swear as often as she would like. Since her job already requires her to watch more television than is possibly healthy, she decided to justify her couch potato ways by lengthy and occasionally self-indulgent writings on the subject. She is an American living and working outside London and is very grateful for the iTunes account that feeds her addiction and saves her from endless episodes of EastEnders or Property Ladder. Marcia likes kittens, sunsets, red wine and peaceful mountain streams.
Feel free to email her at marcia @ popvultures.com with any comments, questions, press releases, links or predictions for winning lottery numbers.
If you want more, start with the first post ever.
Regular Contributors
Anna Carey is a journalist who lives with her boyfriend and their bear-eared cat in Dublin. She pretends that she doesn’t watch much television but does really. Her favourite programmes ever include Buffy, The Mighty Boosh, Doctor Who and Freaks and Geeks, and she is a staunch defender of the true genius of Coronation Street.
Fergus is a television scriptwriter based in Glasgow, where he works on BBC Scotland’s twice-weekly drama series (NOT soap, apparently) River City. He once appeared in the show as a priest, and shared a scene with Neighbours star Stefan Dennis. Stefan enjoys telling that story too, from his own perspective.
Jess is a writer, researcher and policy wonk who loves travel, books and reality TV. In addition to her weakness for reality television, Jess loves British comedy, teen soaps, and everything that Aaron Spelling has ever touched. She keeps a travel blog and is an occasional freelance travel writer; she also wrote this novel, which has been described as “Beverly Hills 90210 transplanted to early 20th Century rural Hungary”*.
*This is a lie.
Plattie is Pop Vultures’ London-based BBC correspondent. She has a deep and abiding respect for the Beeb, based on a childhood in which her mum wouldn’t let her watch any of the other channels because they ‘weren’t educational’. Now, Plattie has seen Strictly Come Dancing, so she questions the idea that everything the BBC produces can be described as ‘educational’, but she does know that most of it is good, a lot of it is great, and some of it is so terrible that it has a genius all its own.
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