Cliff Chapman VO

This is excellent news, although following on from both Mary Berry and Prue Leith, she has some pretty big Chouxs to fill.

5 underrated

The Web Planet
The Wheel in Space
The Mutants
Mawdryn Undead
Battlefield

5 overrated

The Celestial Toymaker
The Tenth Planet
The Claws of Axos
The Stones of Blood
Vengeance on Varos

It's only here to stay if everyone capitulates instead of laughing it out of the room like we did with NFTs. It's not good.

Happy 100 Years, telly.

Some of it was good. Only some of it, mind.

Hehe, Gurth

Big Finish: Leviathan is fun, although a character called Gurth is making me chuckle a lot

I have started my Moho course with Adam's Animation Academy and really like it! Finally stuff broken down I can *actually* process. And what's more I met a really, really lovely chap from the Arts Council and we had a really, really good chat. I am very excited.

Horrific.

By the way the "famously reserved" thing is way out of date. You should see some of us in Ibiza or Amsterdam. We're devolved primates, banging rocks together, as much as the ruddy American Chappies with their stockings and chocolate, we just export and market the Royal Family well.

I don't think I saw many, but I feel like his stuff came up in my YouTube algorithm a bit. Horrific.

Good meeting actually. Not actually in space at any point. ;)

Oh good! Ta.

The sitcom that may come out of this meeting will write itself

Dealing with nerves - GOOD
Liable to make me compose songs with, or detail my dreams or sexual fantasies to complete strangers - NOT GOOD

I hope my brain responds well to this, come on brain, don't let me down in the way you traditionally let me down

Just bought a fruity fizzy drink in a cafe. It has 15% CBD in it. Erm, what? Legal now apparently. But what will it do to me? (Will it do nice things to me?) (Will it do surreal things to me?) I've got an important meeting in an hour.

If anyone wants to buy me the new online exclusive Tegan and Destroyed Dalek model I will bow to your erotic perversities. A bit. Maybe.

a dalek from doctor who is standing in a dark room and says `` externi '' . ALT: a dalek from doctor who is standing in a dark room and says `` externi '' .

Babybel? BABYBEL!? What tricksy madness is this?I refer the honourable gentlemen to the TEXT OF MY POST IT IS NOT POUTINE THAT IS WRONG, AN IMPURE ABOMINATION, AND IT MUST BE EXTERMINATED! ;)

Have No Fear…Chips, Cheese & Gravy Day Is Here! Chips, Cheese and Gravy Day – dreamt up by Gef the Mongoose back in 2018 – has gone from a daft winter idea to a full-blown Manx institution. Today is the day and Gef knows where he will be getting hi...

Today is National Chips, Cheese and Gravy day (no it is not poutine, every element of the Canadian version is different. Your chips, cheese and gravy will all vary.) I've not had it since back because I've been mostly sober. But perhaps, today is the day.

gef.im/news/have-no...

Catching up with Alan Partridge, discussing mental health, surely the best way of dealing with mental health, as I'm sure you'll agree.

Nice little tribute thread to a friendly supporting artiste on the other place full of kind comments and consistent memories of him being a nice guy... and one smug, self satisfied writer prick being an arse. Think he's blocked me now, but quite happy to never see him again.

My favourite animation, and a story I love more and more with each viewing. Gloriously entertaining.

I’ve been watching Doctor Who again from the beginning. No 36 “Evil of the Daleks” May-Jul ‘67. I’ve read both of the novelisations, listened to Tom’s
narrated audio, watched the recon, the animation, Nick Scovell’s stage play and saw it on TV as a child.
It is simply superb. Just wonderful.

Stephanie Bidmead as Maaga in Doctor Who - "Galaxy 4" (1965). A commanding alien woman looks to the camera.

If you've got a spare 25 minutes, watch "Airlock" on iPlayer. Just dive in and let the scenes aboard the Drahvin ship bathe you in dramatically powerful world building. Maaga's character and Stephanie Bidmead's performance feel like my highlight of B&W Doctor Who. It's scary and weird.

Never bothered me as a child, never bothered me as an adult. The story and performances are so compelling it doesn't matter - shouldn't matter. Some of it's closer to theatre than Hollywood, but I've seen rancid and unconvincing CGI that cost millions much later too.

You don't need to use AI "enhancement" (not enhancement) to present pictures from it. Both films have 4k remasters that look absolutely superb, grabs from that are more than sufficient.

Wasn't crazy about it - didn't dislike it that much but I see your point I suppose. I do think it was weird that as well as the books and audios loving to torture McGann's Doctor, Lucie didn't remotely deserve so much misery either. Sheridan Smith is terrific and deserves a nice time.

Organize, comrades! Shout our plans from the rooftops! They'll never know what's coming till it's hit them!

But Comrade... We've just shouted our plans from the rooftops and I'm fairly sure they heard them!

That's ok, like us, it will take them months to discuss and agree to enact a response!

Er

All the Left has to do is be cleverer than the right. It should be the easiest thing in the world because the Right Wing are as thick as shit. And yet... It's just embarrassing.

I despise the Right Wing (in general, sometimes I wonder if the Hard Left only despises the right wing of the Labour party and doesn't really mind the rest because it's easier to scold and shout at people than actually *DO* anything clever or useful).

If you spend a lot of time saying that you will get Andy Burnham in to kick out Starmer or force him to change then shock horror shit the bed they won't let you. It's not rocket science.

Because they can't fucking do politics or really understand what it is. They can't scheme. They can't manipulate. Which is not a nice or good thing to do in relationships, sure, but it IS how politics works, and they're always too fucking stupid to realise this. They're shit at it.