Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
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Charlie Kirk should not have been shot. Charlie Kirk was a far right racist, transphobe, misogynist, and spreader of hate. These two things are true. He was not, as the BBC seems intent on misleading us, some sort of hero who was widely loved and adored by all who met him. #Newsnight
You are an awful person.
I think it loses its way with the divergent universe stuff but gets it back when they ditch it. All the radio stuff with Lucie and the box sets are great.
FUCK OFF TOM! 🤣
I love this series but it has the most inappropriate music. All 20s glam which has little to do with what’s on screen.
Always happy to help out!
If you’ve been in LFF ticket hell today consider befriending a passing BFI patron who can save you all this misery.
Don’t laugh at my misfortune like that.
I won’t see Stephen Graham tweets. He blocked me centuries again.
YOU’RE THE SECOND ONE TO MAKE THAT JOKE.
Oh shit.
And here come all the tedious fucking “clit” jokes.
COR
The Target event ran it close.
Cheers boss.
Two years ago. I remember passing all previously known levels of stress and thinking that, after standing under a spotlight for four hours in sweltering heat, surely nothing was worth all this. Then the roar of the crowd hit. Bloody hell, you can see why actors are all mad, there's nothing like it.
No one loses 3-0 at home to West Ham and lives.
Thanks!
Well that’s all right then.
Solidarity. X
“Isn’t it terrible about Richard Briers?” After he finds out what’s happened, Barry Cryer gets home to phone Briers and let him know. “I’VE HEARD” says a pissed off RB.
I heard it from @cheeseford.bsky.social, apologies if I’ve misremembered anything: Cryer at a party talking about working with Richard Pryor in the US. Said it was exhausting because Richard was destroying himself with prostitues and crack cocaine. An eavesdropping Nicholas Parsons mishears…(1/2)
You know that Barry Crier story about Nicholas Parsons getting Briers mixed up with Richard Pryor?
Early 80s. Superb series.
Terrifying. Could now be a horror film poster.
Yet again, incredibly interesting stuff from John.
Magnificent series.
See you then.
Not talking to you Tim.
lol
But you are though, you fucking racist.
Just a prick with no personality.
Good job I didn’t say hello then!
Superb day celebrating both the wonderful that is Penda’s Fen and @greavesian.bsky.social’s peerless tome on the production. Available here: tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pend...
Did I see you today?
And yet you respond. And use words like “twatsocket”. You’ve had a bad day on here mate. And need to resort to dull and pointless insults. Bet you’re a great dad.
Typically pathetic British attitude of you Tim.
Good lord!
This looks excellent.
Many happy returns Frank.
You can protest genocide and not be a racist cunt. That is possible.
You insufferable prick.
Thanks racist.
Yeah the US is absolutely something to aspire to, Tim.
The real canon in D I want answers to is why the TARDIS runs out of water so quickly.
Goodness I’m so sorry.
There was a nice little moment in the Q&A where Tennant described how discombobulated he felt when “ACTION” was called and Hunt switched from himself into character. As a non-actor Neil had no social frame of reference for this type of interaction.
It Couldn’t Happen Here was good, bonkers fun. It’s probably Gareth Hunt’s best performance(s). Never been much of a fun but he absolutely nails what’s required of him here. Pleased to have spotted Sharaz Jek as a dancer but @greavesian.bsky.social had to point out a Silver Nemesis skinhead.
YANA
You feel safe with him. And he had balls the size of Jupiter.
The Barbican Centre has never to my knowledge hosted a screening of Penda's Fen, but that changes today. It's sold out, I'm happy to say, but I expect there will be a small number of tix at the box office if you want to queue early. And do say hello! (Find me in the Two Brewers after, probably.)
Yeah, peasants. I’d round them all up, cover them with canvas and have them shot.
Uh, yeah.
Only there for PSB
SHOOT THEM!
“Can you sign my-“ “NO!”
About a third of the audience left before Battleship Potemkin. I hate them all.
The actual best bit was Neil shutting down the first, very self indulgent question.
Best bit of the Neil Tennant Q&A? “The lady there.” “Which one?” “The one with her hand up.” “…”
No.
Yeah, that’s why you left school, Aidan. That and getting the shit kicked out of you every day.
So…whales online then.
You’re going to hell.
Just listened to this lovely interview. Thoroughly enjoyed it, particularly John's thoughts on Hammer's modern Draculas. What a loss. @househammerpod.bsky.social @cevni.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
OH M8
Will definitely have a look.
CRUCIFY THIS!
Only longlisting 13 films at LFF is perhaps a sign I am becoming very jaded.
Literally a Family Guy skit.
With the Eye of Orion and the Death Zone a short drive away.
Oooh, where does the VHS with the blue spine cover come from?
I mean I do love it but it’s clear that neither Marks nor Holmes know how to finish it.
Superb.
Good call.
It’s hardly the worst thing he’s done.
God that Sky News video has upset me. We’re still apologising for chucking paint at PE’s headquarters though, right?
I’m So sorry.
So upsetting.
For me this one’s true.
Shrinkflation even effecting the LFF programme.
Yeah I know, it was largely for humour’s purposes.
Without a broadcast this just makes it feel like a Keith Barnfather special.
My colleague @illuminations.bsky.social has been speaking to Roger Bolton of @beebwatch.bsky.social about the concerns of well over 400 historians, writers and researchers about access changes at the BBC Written Archives Centre. Listen here podfollow.com/beebwatch/ep...
The Marshall Plan.
I’ve only got one of these on Blu Ray.
Today is the anniversary of both World War II and 2 Point 4 Children. Makes you think.
The H word is used.
It’s set in the 1920s. Virtually everyone in it is a WWI veteran.
I mean the character of the German doctor as played by Kenneth Conner, not the actor’s actual physician.
There is only one German character in the series (Kenneth Conner’s doctor). It is…not good.
Three and four are the wrong way round and that is upsetting.
A unique amalgamation of schoolhood trauma right there.
The theme tune to You Rang M’Lord (1988-1993) refers to “Natty chappies”.
Jon Dears?
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
The class anxieties it threw up. The security. People weren’t used to a complete stranger walking purposefully towards you unless it was about to kick off.
This is the face of a cartoon cat who is being confronted by its human owner when it still has the live goldfish swimming around in its mouth