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Oh, this absolutely *should* exist! 🤨

Got word at 5am this morning. Had my tickets by 5.10. No sense in taking silly chances. 🤓

Sun 9 Nov An Audience With Peter Davison PRICE £19.95

When listing the different TV series that Peter Davison has been a part of since he first appeared on screen in 1975, it's probably easier to list the series he hasn't been a part of. Over the years, Davison has been part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Doctor Who, Miss Marple, All Creatures Great & Small, Law & Order UK, Toast Of London, Good Omens, Gentleman Jack... the list goes on. Square Eyes is delighted to welcome Peter to this year's festival to talk about his stellar TV career. Before the Q&A, we'll be screening the Doctor Who adventure Black Orchid from Davison's first series as the Fifth Doctor, plus we'll also be showing clips from the Andrew Davies drama A Very Peculiar Practice, which was partly filmed at a number of University of Birmingham locations in the late 80s, including the Arts Building tower and the Vale. SQUARE EYES TV FESTIVAL

DOCTOR WHO FANS OF THE WEST MIDLANDS & BIRMINGHAM, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

RIP John Woodvine

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

The Darjeeling Invasion of Earth? 🫣

'I, Claudius' Episode 8 Recap: Blood in the Streets - Pop Heist Rome falls into bloody chaos when once hidden betrayals are pulled, screaming into the light. How much longer can Claudius survive?

"I never fully realized before how a small mind, allied to unlimited ambition and without scruple, can destroy a country full of clever men." Aired in 1976 based on books from the 1930s, I, Claudius is the show of 2025. (gift link)

All hail the secret New Street speedy steps! (Though the “turn left” option onto Hill Street - about which I only learned a few months ago - never actually seems to be open when I need to go that way…)

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The Hills Have RiCiCLES

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column 'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column

cf. deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

This is how you get to be part of #Andor S3.

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Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: The Playlist (unofficial)

Just starting in on @kermodemovie.bsky.social & @nelsonjenny.bsky.social's wonderful new book #SurroundSound.

Couldn't see an official Spotify playlist to pop on in the background though, so began one of my own.

(Sadly no sign of 'Dougal and the Blue Cat' though.)

open.spotify.com/playlist/2zU...

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying.

We ALL need to step up for the first amendment.

By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.

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Every soundtrack tells a story: Mark Kermode’s favourite ... The critic relives the joy – and confusion – of discovering the scores behind the movies of his childhood

Nice extract from SURROUND SOUND in The Observer. Book out now!
observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Happy Friday everyone… 🫩

Was a cracking event, thanks so much!

Is it just me latently parsing this as “Question *for* Mark”, question mark?

@kermodemovie.bsky.social

Stargate: Universe. Never clicked with *any* other SG shows, but this was love from start to finish.

“Yeah Wellington, there’s a good boy.” 😂

How do you answer your phone?

Recap from BFI Screening of 'Twin Peaks' Pilot with Kyle MacLachlan Recap from the BFI Southbank screening of the "Twin Peaks" pilot with Kyle MacLachlan held on Sunday June 15, 2025.

- and for those of you who prefer writing not about Doctor Who and which you don't have to pay for, I've done a guest column over at the legendary and long running twinpeaksblog. twinpeaksblog.com/2025/09/08/r...

A screen capture of the Merriam Webster ‘enshittification’ article where most of the screen is covered with ads, almost covering the text that says ‘Enshittification is most commonly used to call out degraded user experiences’

Ahem

HOLLY: It takes time, this. One slight error in any of my 13 billion calculations and we'll be blasted to smithereens. Here we go, then: 10, 9, 8, 6, 5--
RIMMER: You missed out the 7.
HOLLY: Did I? I've always had a bit of a blind spot with 7s.

"You might suggest to your editor that he hold off our interview until he can run it as an obit. With a bit of luck, Ben, your word rate may have gone up by then."

It hasn't. 😏 So I hope DWM won't mind me sharing my 2017 interview with Christopher H Bidmead – RIP. 🧵 ⬇️

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If we’d had this kind of reporting forty years ago, #DoctorInDistress could’ve been topping the charts for a solid five months by this point.

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.