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Watching The Gogglebox on a Desert Island

My Eight Television Picks To Help Me Survive Alone on an Island

Mark Holburn
8 min readAug 9, 2024
Credit: Image by Mollyroselee from Pixabay

After reading some excellent articles from Paul Combs and Alex Markham on chosen book-to-film adaptions, I set myself a task this week to deliberate on my list. It got me terribly vexed, but I was getting there until that devious Medium legend Buddy Gott dropped another writing prompt grenade write into my lap and I lost complete sense and started mixing the two which was never going to work!

Buddy took the lead from Candace Estelle who started it all off by her great article listing her chosen television shows she would take to a desert island.

As much as I was trying to get my book-to-film adaption sorted, loads of television shows kept popping into my head and I couldn’t stop them coming in. My brain gets confused very quickly and went into overload.

Therefore, I gave up and decided to get on with the television task first so I could turn my weary brain back to the other prompt.

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Mark Holburn
Mark Holburn

Written by Mark Holburn

Lover of music, sport, animals, humour, movies and decency. A Level in Film Studies.

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