Patrick Mulkern

Interesting. This touches on something I was writing very recently.

Defo. Also Julia Smith.

Luckily I know when to stop. In this case I shouldn’t have started.

Dear God alive!

#Amadeus My recommendation @RadioTimes for Christmas week. Sky's excellent new five-part adaptation of Peter Shaffer's classic play with Will Sharpe, Paul Bettany, Gabrielle Creevy and Rory Kinnear. The whole series is available to watch from today on Now

You were right first time, Paul. Even for Xmas pop, it’s utter pap. Even all that production and fandango on Strictly last weekend couldn’t disguise its blandness.

Cinema heaven @BFI today.
#SunsetBlvd definitely in my all-time Top Ten.

Just arrived in the post. More excellence from Richard Marson. Fortunately I’ve already read it. @tenacrebooks.bsky.social
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I’ve loved this story since 1970. Outstanding.

Cover design for Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...

Vintage Z Cars from 1962 starts tonight on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social #ZCars
Here's a @radiotimes.bsky.social preview.

Ahead of tomorrow's long-awaited rerun of BBC hit #ZCars on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social (the first time many of these episodes from 1962 have ever been repeated), here's @radiotimes.bsky.social coverage from 63 yrs ago – and a recent feature. (Thanks @davidbrunt.bsky.social for some detail)

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The Beeb has been pusillanimous and self-flagellating for decades now.

It’s taken Noel years, but he has finally done it! We’re thrilled to announce that Noel has acquired the very early Z-Cars episodes to share with you! Starting on Friday (14th Nov) at 8pm, we’re rewinding back to 1962 for THE VERY FIRST EPISODE of this groundbreaking series. In Four of A Kind, we're introduced to Detectives Barlow and Watt and meet the incomparable Brian Blessed as PC Fancy Smith alongside James Ellis as PC Lynch. Fans will know that Ellis went on to appear in over 600 episodes, earning some well-deserved promotions along the way. Do remember not every episode has survived sadly but we are busy restoring and subtitling as many as we can.! Be sure to tune in every Friday at 8pm – you won’t be disappointed!

The Boys Are Back In Town!
Fridays, 8pm *cue side drum*
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

NEW EP OUT WEDS 12 NOV! Featuring TV director, producer and former Blue Peter editor Richard Marson discussing the last-ever Rentaghost with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social, and his ace new book from @tenacrebooks.bsky.social, Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television

I’m amazed at the number and quality of folk who contributed to this podcast (a Doctor! 3 companions! Writers! Actors! Lost Episode Finders! Fans of Yore!)
It’s just a bit of fun: a countdown of the most desired missing episodes of Doctor Who. Plus much arcana, natch:
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🚨 Starting on Friday 14th November at 8pm on #TalkingPicturesTV
🚓 Z-CARS 🚓 #TPTVsubtitles New original early black and white episodes!

Back to the Edge: The inside story, with rare RT photos, of one of the greatest TV dramas of them all Actor Ian McNeice digs deep into Edge of Darkness – 40 years old but still hailed by critics and viewers as a masterpiece – and Radio Times celebrates by mining its picture archive.

Back to the brink... @radiotimes.bsky.social digs deep into the TV masterpiece that is Edge of Darkness, on its 40th anniversary, with rare photos and a special interview with actor Ian McNeice... www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/edg...

It’s still one of the most memorable and rewarding 80s stories for me.

Sold!

YouTube video by BFI Love, Sex, Religion, Death: The Complete Films of Terence Davies | BFI trailer

I love this @BFI trailer
Love, Sex, Religion, Death: The Complete Films of #TerenceDavies
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The Doctor Goes to the Salon Trilogy

Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television 1967-1997 cover design.

Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television 1967-1997 limited edition hardback cover design illustrated by Paul Cemmick.

We’re pleased to announce that Richard Marson’s long-awaited history of BBC Children’s TV will be published on November 17 in trade paperback and a collector’s hardback, limited to 300 copies.

Order Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children’s Television now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

Excellent news. Have read the book and it’s another masterpiece. Great covers. Hardback ordered.

The bloke larking about was my ex, Gary Sellars.

Ralph Wilton was the life and soul. He will be missed. Here he is in 2016, savouring a moment, at the DWM 500th party with his dear pal June Hudson and Richard Marson.

Well done. Can’t wait to read more.