Gemma Arrowsmith

Thank you for spending your year with Wikipedia. We look forward to next year! #Wikipedia YearInReview Articles I read the most 1. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2. Star Trek: Voyager 3. List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes Minutes read: 252

Why would Wikipedia show this to me? I know what I’m like. I don’t need reminding.

Woo! That’s some excellent podcast company we’re keeping. Thanks for listening, Christopher!

Ooh! A lovely pin badge treat from Etsy made by @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social just arrived!

It’s Mari Lwyd season!

He, Tom Crowley, models the new and improved Maximum Elite T-Shirt and the Sumptuoso Sweatshirt, both official Crowley Time products.

Order soon if you want some Crowley Time swag for Christmas! Both the Sumptuoso Sweatshirt and the NEW AND IMPROVED Maximum Elite T-Shirt must be ordered by the 16th Dec in the UK and the 7th Dec in the rest of the world if Mister Christmas is to get them to you for the big day! crowleytime.com

Two panel image. Top panel: Peter Capaldi’s Doctor in Heaven Sent trying to break down the wall. Text reads “me trying to get a show commissioned” Bottom panel: capaldi getting caught by the Veil. Text reads “the producer I was speaking to leaves the company”

Interesting thread 👇

There are also the weeks/months of UNPAID development to get the option or commission in the first place.

And sometimes your main point of contact suddenly leaves the company, you get a bounceback email & you have to slowly accept your project is no longer going anywhere.

Multicoloured front cover of a book. Title: the Box of Delights: the Story of BBC Children’s Television 1967-1997

Eep! This gorgeous tome from @tenacrebooks.bsky.social arrived! Yum yum yum. 😋 📺

So it’s just Black Friday forever now, right? Eternal pretend sales until the heat death of the universe.

This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely

Image of Ian Chesterton. Text reads: Let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?

We’ll be back in that blue box in no time. Happy #DoctorWhoDay

Pretty soon the prize for the Edinburgh Comedy Award will just be a role in a supermarket Christmas advert. Cut out the middle man.

I loved how the Fast Show was performed on a bare stage with just a rack of costumes & a few chairs to conjure with. Felt like a small EdFringe show but instead of being in a portakabin or a tiny dripping cave it was at the London Palladium.

The stage set for Biscuity Boyle. An image of the character on a screen and in the foreground lots of people’s heads. Text on screen reads THE HOOSE RULES Nae talking during the show Nae flash photography Definitely nae videos Bar closed during the show. Get them in before we begin Need the lavvy? Try go before the show starts to keep disruption minimal THIS IS A SOLD OUT SHOW, SO GETCOSY ALL SEASTS ARE TAKIN SO PLEASE DONT LEAVE SPACES REGARDS BURNISTOUN'S FAVORITE SON Biscuity Boyle

Stage set for An Evening with the Fast Show. Screen onstage with the title and the beautiful Palladium auditorium.

It’s been a fun week for seeing live sketch comedy.

Burnistoun’s Favourite Son was getting himself in the ground in The Death of Biscuity Boyle at BAaD in Glasgow.

And then the Fast Show gang were reunited at the bloody London Palladium!

Both shows an absolute treat. Massive audiences! 💫

Cover of ‘Beaton but Unbowed’ an autobiography, by Norman Beaton. Beaton depicted on the cover with a hand on his shoulder.

It arrived! 🎉

This one time I saw an actor in TV show who wasn’t already a really famous star so naturally I turned it off in disgust.

PAUL F TOMPKINS ON CROWLEY TIME! 🎉

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I'll pass you along to more detailed & expert commentators than me:

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ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky
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MY SCRIPT FOR NEXT JAMES BOND
GROUCHO: (Enters wearing bow tie and fez) Greetings, Russkies. I’m Bond James Bond, my Dad had a stutter. Put your guns down! Now put your hands up! Now put your feet up! It gets tiring, this espionage game. Allow me to introduce my associate, Voluptua Gazungas.

Daniel Craig as Bond, poisoned and blown to smithereens, regenerates into Billie Piper. Problem solved. ✅

Jesus, if we were to lose the BBC and ITV’s Media & Entertainment division is bought by Comcast we’ll see the complete Americanisation of UK television. The US obviously makes loads of wonderful television. But I like to think the weird Britishness of stuff we make over here has value too.

The Day Today’s legacy is a whole generation of people who say “proof, if proof be need be” and can’t quite remember the real phrase.

Floella Benjamin for DG.

Ahahahahaha!

OK FINE! I’ll be the next BBC Director General.

Day 1: funnel the budgets into a load of new comedies, dramas & documentaries. New Play for Today / Screen One type strand, new Comedy Playhouse pilots series once or twice a year.

Day 2: resign

Ah, there’s nothing I like better than to gather the family around me and watch my phone footage of fireworks displays from years gone by.

YouTube video by Saturday Mornings Live & Kicking - 8 November 1997

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90 seconds in and we've already got Mr Blobby doing Riverdance. What a immense explosion of fun for a Saturday morning. 🤩

CD boxset of Missy series 2. Image of MICHELLE GOMEZ. RUFUS HOUND GINA MCKEE & DAN STARKEY

Remember, remember… that I wrote an episode of Missy in which she makes sure the gunpowder plot *works* this time so she can install herself as Queen👑
(It was fun to write, this one.)
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