Area Man

‘The sword swung so close to her head!’ What it’s like to commit one of TV’s most unforgivable murders From Claire Foy’s Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall to Adriana in The Sopranos, we meet the actors who had to bump off TV legends … and then face the wrath of the public

Fantastic bit from Philippe Spall on his role as Anne Boleyn’s executioner in Wolf Hall in this www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Picturing a whiteboard at Domino’s head office with “chicken” crossed out.

I remember my Dad and I pausing on this image and laughing out arses off for a good five minutes every time as my bemused Mum looked on. It's the little things you miss.

@whenisbirths.bsky.social and I were similarly obsessed when we first saw it during our student house years. He later discovered it was first transmitted on the day I was born

Nicked from FB

On the 30th Anniversary of Its Release, It’s Time ‘Casino’ Took Its Rightful Place as a Scorsese Classic Maybe now, on its 30th anniversary, Scorsese's daunting Vegas Mob drama can finally come out from behind the shadow of "GoodFellas."

Casino is one of those films I periodically rewatch and always find rewarding, this is a pretty good explanation of why variety.com/2025/film/co...

Looks like some Doctor Who filming going on down the road from me. Glad to see the cancellation of the Disney deal hasn’t led to budgetary constraints

Finally, a legitimate example of “no true Scotsman”

As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller

Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025

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It's Christmas Eve in one month. Why not solve at least one of your Christmas present headaches with this fascinating book of mine about 80s pop history?
#IntoTheGroove

Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC

And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

HERE WE GO, LADS!

The Terrance Dicks Archive. Oh so many stories to tell! What a pleasure! What an honour!

HAPPY #DoctorWhoDay TO ALL OF YOU AT HOME!

#doctorwho #doctorwhoday #drwho

Not in this house

FLA 33: Mark Watson (16/11/2025) For over twenty years now, the writer-performer Mark Watson has sustained two parallel careers. In one of them, he has pursued stand-up comedy to great acclaim, both in live settings and via broadc…

NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...

You also cannot get to level 8 on Jet Set Fucking Willy

YouTube video by gimpymoo Micro Men - 720p (2009)

Delighted to see the BBC’s Micro Men, a dramatic adaptation and potted history of the home computer boom of the early 80s, through the lens of Sinclair Research and Acorn Computers - would have loved it to be longer but a treat all the same youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM?...

Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know

It’s preposterous

070 - Coldcut ‎'70 Minutes Of Madness – Journeys By DJ (1995) Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/theclassicmixcdseries Buy it here: www.discogs.com/marketplace?master_id=21043&ev=mb

Last month marked the 30th anniversary of Coldcut’s Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness, probably the greatest mix CD ever released. Am listening again and it’s an incredible piece of work and is still astonishingly contemporary 30 years later on.soundcloud.com/ps4Tq5I0Ji2Q...

Wot no moose

Post an image that will always make you laugh

I see Simon Jenkins has written a history of the USA - can’t we just put it in the pulping machine and cut out the middleman

The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.

“Now. Let’s find out. Whose slipper. It is”

Haha, yes I feel much the same

My general feeling is - and that’s all this is - is that nothing in politics lasts forever. I don’t know what the trigger point is here, and it might simply be something we haven’t anticipated, but I suspect strongly it will come

Yes possibly. But I guess the key difference here is politics and whether those around him see value at a certain point of stabbing him in the back