John Ellis

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Calling anyone who has ever studied TV and the family… the online-only VIEW’s latest call for papers. A rare opportunity to include video/sound etc in your article!

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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Unexpected treat on UK’s @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social catch up service: Raoul Walsh’s 1930 western The Big Trail, a confident early sound movie shot in 70mm. A beautiful crisp b&w print for a change. A real revelation… and a young John Wayne too.

Trailers were made exclusively for cinema in the 1950s. In U.K. anyway there was no commercial TV until 1955. Trailers also had to be submitted to the BBFC film censors for certification

Unexpected dinner guest in our London back garden this evening… but at least they brought their own food #birds

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.

This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Amazed to be one of the 99 asked to comment on David Attenborough’s 99th birthday. There’s simply no one else like him! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A sinister pattern is emerging. Liz Truss meets Queen Elizabeth. Soon after, she dies. JD Vance meets Pope Francis, the very next day, he dies. World leaders clearly should avoid extreme right wingnuts.

Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.

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Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

Thanks to @theatlantic.com I know that all my 6 books, including some translations (but only a random 4 of my academic articles) have been used to train AI. If you, like me, object to this, then sign the UK petition chng.it/WpMt8sDztF

In 1720 the nuns of the Convent of St Paul in Tavira Portugal commissioned an altarpiece showing the Last Judgement. Their choice for eternal damnation: priests, a bishop, a bureaucrat and a king…#womensart

How can audiovisual archives respond to the new forms of content discovery that have developed from googling and streaming? VIEW’s new edition explores through interviews with archivists, fresh research and reconceptualisation. viewjournal.eu/30/volume/13...

Glad we bought a BW iD3 and not a Tesla a couple of months ago. Thought Teslas might get vandalised (or directed to do weird stuff by Musk) if he got any worse… and he certainly has!

Trump refuses to rule out using military to take Panama Canal and Greenland Remarks likely to set off alarm bells around the world as Trump prepares to return to the White House this month

Trump wants Panama back? Any day now Putin will reclaim Alaska, sold by Russia’s czar at a knockdown price after the Crimean war. No doubt China’s Xi has told him that was an “unfair” deal, like when China had to sell Hong Kong. We know how that ended. @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

For some of our neighbours, Christmas seems to be over already. To everyone else, have a good one!

@illuminations.bsky.social Tomorrow, 9pm: an extraordinary use of split screen in Twilight’s Last Gleaming! Saw this on initial release at the Clapham Grand, and it’s been almost impossible to see since. How prescient will it seem almost 50 years later?

@illuminations.bsky.social see you there?

Blimey. One for fans of Network Distributing.

@nilspratley.bsky.social Still waiting for your analysis of the incomprehensible statement from Ole Jacob Sunde on the sale of #Observer. Clearly a CEO trying to pull the wool over the eyes of stakeholders. Just the kind of thing you usually skewer so well!

More context: there are more sustainable solutions that will be easier to deliver than relying on the bulk developers with their market-rigging tactics www.communityplanningalliance.org/uploads/1/3/...

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Important report from Community Planning Alliance. Shows govt building spree will not solve the real housing crisis & will destroy nature. What’s needed is a greenfield LAST approach

ITV has never bothered with Christmas Day… there’s no ad revenue to be had from it

If you haven't seen this now's your chance. Terrific movie.

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Thanks… that’s because you know a huge amount about history!

Hello from UK, part of Europe (more or less) where we also do media theory!

A month to write the paper, but 8 months for peer review and another 3 until it’s posted

I produced this golden oldie!

The great #JamesRobertsonJustice is in the spotlight in the documentary series THOSE BRITISH FACES (1993) at 1:05pm #TPTVsubtitles