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Obviously this means I’m struggling to be impartial with this series.

I’ve worked with him on and off for many years (including on my very first pro job). He’s a delight of a human.

It took me quite a while scanning the booklet trying to find it before I eventually just took a punt.

Honestly, tears in my eyes this morning. It being billed as ‘Ian Marter Tribute’ could not be understating it more. It’s magnificent.

Like his Graham Williams piece, Worlds Within - the Ian Marter documentary is a triumph by @chrischapman81.bsky.social . A beautiful, moving piece of work that gives amazing insight into one of my greatest Doctor Who heroes.

This is one of the reasons the ITV Miss Marples can’t hold a candle to the Hicksons. All-star casting is a terrible idea.

I’m really delighted that he seems to be one of the real surprise MVPs of this series. Like Celia Imrie and Joe Marler.

I just want him to be a proper part of it and, to be fair, he currently is.

Bloody hell, Traitors is so much more tense when you actually know one of the competitors. I will be properly gutted if Mark doesn’t get to the end.

Last couple of days have been reading Dark Gallifrey 5 and 7 for different reasons. Very happy with how wide ranging and weird this series is.

Glad you enjoyed - very fond of that one!

COMMON PEOPLE: RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE ON CLASS IN TV AT A TIME OF CRISIS… Here is the full text of my opening keynote address given at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 'What’s Class Got to Do With It?' symposium on class and the UK TV industry at the School o...

My keynote is here -
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The Hack producer claims there’s no longer enough money to make limited dramas for UK broadcasters The executive producer behind Mr Bates vs The Post Office and new ITV drama The Hack says that he will no longer develop limited series because there simply isn’t enough money available in the UK to f...

I highlighted this issue in my keynote on class in TV last week. Our TV channels can no longer afford to make ltd series at HETV budgets... so why not stop competing with streamers with endless resources and try making modest shows with more risk?
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The first few dates of our 2026 Tour of IT WALKS AROUND THE HOUSE AT NIGHT have been announced! www.thickskintheatre.co.uk/itwalks/

3 to 6 February - Chichester Festival Theatre
13 February - Watford Palace Theatre
18 & 19 February - ARC, Stockton Arts Centre

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All these flags, where the fuck are the Morris dancers? Where are the scones? Where are the poets, the singers, the playwrights? Where is this English Culture they claim to love?

I found myself stuck in central London yesterday. The level of emboldened hatred surrounding me was repellent and deeply upsetting.

On the tube people got off at King’s Cross, presumably for trains home. And I realised there’s only one type of person I wanted to go back where they came from.

Graham Linehan is an anti-trans obsessive, not a free speech martyr What has happened to Linehan is a predictable outcome for someone who becomes radicalised, obsessive and chronically online.

metro.co.uk/2025/09/03/g... The Metro going against the grain at least. Good on Crystal for writing this.

newspaper article about glinner. Headline is "I was treated like a terrorist for my tweets, says Linehan"

When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.

Sam Whyte The fact JK regards the appointment of a lifelong Sutton fan to manager of a regional women's team as a "plum job" betrays here level of understanding. She doesn't know shit about women's sport, she's an idiot. Solidarity to Lucy. Graham Linehan 🎗️ · May 13, 2024 Another woman serving men at the expense of other women. Don't you get on with your mum? Sam Whyte We've been a bit distant since she died when I was 13, Graham. Still better company than a frothing transphobe, though.

Since we're sharing examples of Linehan's scummy behaviour

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The Best Pick movie podcast: BP321 In the Mood for Love Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 321: In the Mood for Love Released 27 August 2025 For this episode, we watched the Wong Kar-wai’s modern classic In the Mood for...

Who's In The Mood for Love? Wong Kar-wai's modern classic is a very recent film to be so high up the Sight & Sound list. Will we fall for its cool charms or be left unmoved? pod.fo/e/31ec6f @johndorney.bsky.social

It requires an estuary accent (or others) I’ll accept.

I’ve always assumed that one was deliberate to be honest.

Just realised that the song Maria from West Side Story can sound like a man singing a celebration of his own bum (‘my rear’). Not sure I’m ever going to hear it the same way again.

Working my way through Bergerac and finally reached @louisejameson.bsky.social Huzzah!

So we’ve decided that Predator should be called Alien and Alien should be called Parasite. Can we complete the circle?

Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:

the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*

what this country is really good at is producing culture

I script edited the Hallowe’en set. Some absolute crackers here.

Oh the delight of seeing Alixion (or Alison as we came to calling it due to autocorrect) on the new DWM. Brilliant news for Robin.