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Four decades after we wrote Yes Minister, politics is still reduced to the pleasure of power | Jonathan Lynn Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on – as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed

Four decades after we wrote Yes Minister, politics is still reduced to the pleasure of power | Jonathan Lynn

#Coffee

Bolan’s Shoes, starring Timothy Spall, is now available to watch on Channel 101 via Prime Video.
A tender journey of music, memory, and finding your way home. 🎶👞
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I feel it is my duty to inform people that the brilliant ‘Top Secret!’ is on UK #Netflix.

Paddington in Star Trek Again

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1785

Text reads ‘25/26 Northern Directors. A shadowing and mentoring programme for new directors in the North’. Text sits on background of colourful stripes.

Our next Northern Directors opportunity has landed! We’ve teamed up with the BBC and Clerkenwell Films to give two emerging short-form directors a paid shadowing and mentoring placement on a TV production. Apply by Friday 27 February: bit.ly/fhn-nd 🤩📣
#NorthernDirectors #DirectorsWanted

A man listens to a large pair of headphones, with a concerned look on his face. The film poster for Bryn Chainey’s ‘Rabbit Trap’, starring Dev Patel, Rosy McEwan and Jade Croot.

A year after premiering at Sundance, Rabbit Trap is on cinema release from January 30th!
Proud to have assisted the edit.
#ShotOnFilm #Techniscope #2Perf
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Insulate is screening at Manchester Film Festival, part of North West Shorts 2.
Wednesday 25th March, 6pm.

Really enjoyed ‘See You in Hell’.
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@garywhitta.bsky.social

Really enjoyed The Rip on #Netflix.

A Hario V60 coffee brewer, broken in two. Cut down in the prime of its life. A nation mourns.

My Hario V60 is no more. It has ceased to be. Bereft of life, it rests in pieces.

#coffee

Behold KING KONG on a flatbed truck. Director Merian C. Cooper and animator Willis O'Brien stand in front.

3 Screenshots from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968): First, a close-up of a man in a spacesuit helmet with a red background, looking intently to the side. The caption reads, "I am a HAL 9000 computer." Second, a close-up of the same man as the red light intensifies, with the caption "I became operational...". Third, a set of illuminated rectangular data modules with numerical labels against a red background, with the caption continuing, "...on the 12th of January, 1992."

Jan 12th 1992 - "I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you"

📽️📅 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

+ SCHOOLS IDENT CLOCK // RABIES SIGN +

Made these in Dec as Xmas gifts for a couple of good friends. Both were very pleasing to make so I've popped a small batch in the shop, available to pre-order for shipping in Feb. Short run and only available for a limited period.

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a man in a trench coat and tie is standing in a dark room Alt: A man in a trench coat and tie closes a coffin in a mausoleum, the caption says ‘Scooby Dooby Doo’.

Really enjoyed ‘Wake Up Dead Man’.
#Netflix

A snow-covered garden, with an Alpkit Brukit camping stove and Hario V60 coffee dripper in the foreground.

Tested an #Alpkit Brukit for my coffee this morning.
#V60

A black and white photo of a journalist leaning back at his desk, on the phone. The poster for the Netflix film ‘Cover-Up’.

Caught a great journalism doc on #Netflix, ‘Cover-Up’.

Split diopter shot in Home Alone. Thanks to @vashi.bsky.social these are always fun to spot.

‘Nostalgic and calming’: lava lamps are groovy again as sales glow The British-made lamps have surged in popularity as younger audiences seek to recapture magic of the 1960s

‘Nostalgic and calming’: lava lamps are groovy again as sales glow

4 Screenshots from the movie "Die Hard" (1988): First, a man leaps off a rooftop with an explosion and sparks behind him, holding onto a fire hose for safety. Second, a shadowy figure stands in a dramatic pose near sparking metal, illuminated by bright light and surrounded by smoke. Third, a tense hostage situation, with a man holding a gun to a woman's head, both displaying fear and intensity. Fourth, a man in a dirty white tank top crawls through a narrow air duct, holding a lighter to light his path, his face showing determination and fatigue.

Dec 24th - John McClane prevents Hans Gruber from stealing $640 million in untraceable bearer bonds from the vault in Nakatomi Plaza.

📽️📅 Die Hard (1988)

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.

A very VERY old version of the Netflix app on a TV, from a Samsung blu-ray player. Last opened along with the Ark of the Covenant.

Yes, turning off motion smoothing is all well and good but there are bigger problems at the in-laws

A still from ‘The Hunt for Red October’. Jack Ryan asks ‘Is today the 23rd?’ His boss Jim Greer replies ‘Yeah.’

#ChristmasEveEve

A man sitting in a Boeing 747 flight simulator, increasing the engine throttle as he takes off.

A man sitting in a Boeing 747 flight simulator, making a right turn.

A man sitting in a Boeing 747 flight simulator, San Francisco Bay in the distance.

The complete top deck of a British Airways Boeing 747-436, with the flight simulator.

Visited The Deck 747 at Barton Aerodrome, and took a 747 for a spin. Ridiculously good fun.

Posters and photos of film & TV projects, clockwise from top left: Jeremy Piven in the feature film 'Past Life', the cast of CBBC's 'Odd Squad UK', Ashley Walters & Joseph Obasohan in the short film 'Softy', and the cast of the CBeebies series 'Football Fantastics'.

Hi everyone. Offline/Assistant Editor here, available from January 2026!
Experienced in broadcast, features, shorts, corporates and lots in between, recent edits include 'Past Life, 'Odd Squad UK', 'Football Fantastics' and 'Softy'.
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#postchat #postsky

Boris Karloff as Byron Orlock, in the finale of Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘Targets’.

‘Targets’ was brilliant, and absolutely terrifying.
#BFI #blu-ray

SilverCrest Raclette Grill at Lidl.

I feel it is my duty to inform people that #Lidl are selling #raclette grills.
Utter filth.

Signage for Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham.

Filming in England Creative Mixer at Digbeth Loc. Studios, Birmingham.

Peaky Blinders Tommy Shelby mural outside Digbeth Loc. Studios, Birmingham.

Excellent night visiting Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham for the @filminengland.bsky.social Industry Mixer.

Gary Numan on stage at the O2 Apollo, Manchester.

Excellent #GaryNuman gig in Manchester last night, touring ‘Telekon’ for its 45th anniversary.

Paging Dr @jameshoffmann.bsky.social…

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