Chris Chibnall

I do not write much but there is not a day goes by that I do not think of you.

Brilliant film, David. First profile and interview I’ve ever seen with him. Thanks for posting it.

The Netflix UK page for Broadchurch, featuring the cast of season 1 standing on a beach with a crime scene incident tent lit up behind them.

All three seasons of #Broadchurch are coming to Netflix UK from Tuesday 18 November.

Exactly how I felt being at the birth of our son.

BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club - Available now Available episodes of The Big Scottish Book Club

I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

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This piece, as cited by @emilybell.bsky.social & @taraconlan.bsky.social, is the big picture of what’s going on. The playbook successfully deployed in the US is happening here.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-20-maga-aligned-influencers-media-emerge-new-mainstream-2025-11-08/

Superb, old school, independent local journalism, in a new model of collaboration and funding. Not seen the conclusions of this reporting picked up/acknowledged yet by other outlets. This is the sort of reporting they used to do.

https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-raised-the-flags/

Been enjoying watching videos of Radiohead’s return to the stage last night. What a setlist! Anyway, seemed like a good excuse to repost this old favourite I drew a few years back.

Agatha Christie invites you to a Netflix mystery…

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials debuts 15 January on Netflix, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman.

Coming in 2026 📚💙

Congratulations Martin!

How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

Dad's Army - Getting The Bird (27th October 1972). A moment of Croft/Perry pathos.

The cover art for the Japanese edition of Death at the White Hart - the winding street of a Dorsetvillage at night with the coast on the distance. A white silhouette of a deer peeps out from between the thatched houses.

Love the cover art for the Japanese edition.

News on that soon!

Tomorrow: Dorchester!
Friday: Yeovil!
Last Death at the White Hart events.

Thanks so much! Thrilled you liked it. News on next book coming soon!

a man is sitting on a couch with the words it 's really really good behind him ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with the words it 's really really good behind him

Also: The Chair Company.

How Many Comedians Does It Take to Change a Country? What it’s like to watch Louis C.K. do stand-up in Saudi Arabia

Why, yes, @helenlewis.bsky.social did go to the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Was simultaneously thrilled and slightly terrified to be subjected to The Shoot Treatment by the brilliant @4hundredblows.bsky.social for @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
This show - and Martin himself - always manages to provoke conversations few other interviews get to.

Chris Chibnall – Death at the White Hart | Dorchester Literary Festival The villagers of Fleetcombe like to think of it as one of the most picturesque spots in Dorset: two pubs, a small playground, enough gorgeous cottages to keep a thatcher ... Chris Chibnall – Death at ...

Final Death at the White Hart events next week, back in the South West. Dorchester next Thurs (23rd) and Yeovil on Fri (24th)
https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/chris-chibnall-death-at-the-white-hart/
https://www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/chris-chibnall/10069

Thanks Martin!

#DoctorWho Postcards are now available to buy! 15 Doctors. 15 debut stories. Published by Penguin Books in another universe, in a different time. Get them here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

Hope Bert enjoys it!

Congratulations to @johnrivers.bsky.social, @aquatics64.bsky.social, @gasbirder.bsky.social who each win a pack of my TV Crime Penguin Book postcards. Nobody guessed all 15, but I think the first was pretty hard to "crack". Here they all are, and now available to buy: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

The Sunday Times Bestseller list for paperbacks, from 12 October 2025, with Death at the White Hart at number 2.

🤯Death at the White Hart is Number 2 in the Sunday Times Bestseller list!

Thanks so much if you’ve bought it. The support from everyone - booksellers, readers, events, podcasters, media - has been immense. And the team @michaeljbooks.bsky.social have been incredible. 📚💙

Get your guesses in today. You may not have to know all of them to win — the three people with the most correct get a pack!

Nicky Horne on Lennon - Boom Rock On what would have been John's 85th birthday, Nicky opens up about his 1975 New York encounter with him and plays part of the interview.

This is a lovely hour’s listening. Not just the unheard-since-1975 audio with Lennon, but Nicky Horne recounting the experience of travelling to New York as a 24 year old and interviewing his musical hero at the Dakota.

www.boomradiouk.com/player/boom-...

Really loved those diaries. Generous, insightful and a great record of what it was like to work with Mike Nichols.