Tara Conlan

Trump’s exclusive post is also (shock!) monetised by Truth Social with (if you decline cookies & don’t have an account so its algo doesn’t know you) ads about (funnily enough) snoring, enlarged prostrate cures & erectile dysfunction pills.
Getting ‘if Reach did geopolitical regime change’ vibes

Inevitable but potentially huge move by the Premier League as more rights holders go direct to consumer via their own platforms. Expect PremFlix to lead to more media owners buying stakes in sports teams for a seat at the rights table

Netflix to release four-part series about Rupert Murdoch’s family drama ‘Dynasty: The Murdochs’ will debut on the streamer on 13 March

The timing of this commission as a new media dynasty left in pole position for WBD following the decision by Netflix to step away from the bidding process is probably coincidental but interesting www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Succession the movie just got its plot.
So many Qs: what might Netflix (unsurprisingly its shares are up) buy instead, how much of media will the Ellisons then control & what would media monolith Paramount Skydance Warner Discovery actually be called? PSWD sounds too much like an illness

Netflix statement on stepping off the WBD bid escalator: “We’ve always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance’s latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive, so we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid.”

A SOTU response that will have many who don’t know her doing deep dives on Abigail Spanberger this morning

Envisaging a distant future where the behind-the-scenes TV drama about this bid battle is the subject of a bidding war between AppleWarnerDance and AmazonBanaNet

Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

I of course meant Keir Starmer - dangers of posting whilst on the go! 🤦‍♀️

Against Sewage @sascampaigns.bsky.social

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

The power of great TV: with the airing of Channel 4‘s water pollution drama Dirty Business, in just a day over 26,000 people have signed a petition calling on Kaya Starmer to end the sewage pollution scandal 👏 Channel 4 @iankatz1000.bsky.social and Surfers… you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will Based on the true story of amateur sleuths appalled at the dumping of sewage in our rivers, this drama starring David Thewlis is a blast of controlled fury – and could become the next Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will

Nothing to see here; just AI encouraging children to contract out using their brains/cheat but I’m sure it’ll all be fine & doesn’t require any kind of intervention at all

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

Is this bad

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

instead of having their brain just zapped all day?”
Watch on Sky/Now Feb 24 & book a trip to the Isle of Sheppey now before the TV tourists do!
New national treasure Danny also told me he’s writing a play about his friendship with Harold Pinter called When Harry Met Danny & he’d like to play Harold

sense of community, which I think in today’s world is severely lacking. I do think on a caravan site the kids [are] just playing, laughing on bikes..fresh air in their lungs. [It’s] such a beautiful thing to watch..can we bring that back? Can we get kids out all day, getting naturally tired..

‘I love being around other peasants like me!’ … Dani and Danny Dyer’s battle to save British seaside holidays Mopping floors, dressing up as kids’ entertainers and fishing unmentionable things from swimming pools: the Dyers’ new TV show sees them investing in a caravan park. Can they revive the UK’s love of t...

If you loved Clarkson’s Farm & Rivals then watch Danny Dyer & daughter Dani run a caravan park they’ve invested in for The Dyers’ Caravan Park. The pair attempt to make the seaside holidays Danny remembers from his childhood cool again.He says there, “was a real..
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“She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to #America: “Don’t go – not with #Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They [ #ICE] don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.”

…be quick & don’t complain if they’re gone; journalists need wages too!

If you read just one thing today, make it this.
Shocking.
Journalists are dismissed as “mainstream media” by those who don’t want truth spoken to power; yet without them who would expose how big tech is monetising abuse & misogyny & highlight why regulation is needed?
🙌 Janine.
Ltd free links so..

BBC director general, Tim Davie said in Jan BBC staying on X to stem global misinformation but agree (although it’s an additional resource) BBC should be on Bluesky too & have asked them about it previously

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Thank you! Hoping mine less arresty 🚓

What a gift; thank you!

Very much a sidebar fact but it’s also Andrew’s birthday today*

*only know this as a teacher told me when young it was cool my birthday same day as his…not any more

It’s so enchanting and esoteric! Homunculi are the new Labubu

I’m launching a new podcast with Maisie Adam on Sunday, interviewing people who were instantly famous in the 90s and 00s.

Remember Me? starts on Sunday. On YouTube and your podcast places.

fucking stupid, and I have to apologise to the nation.”Is that likely? “Erm, it’s possible. It has been known.”