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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Presumably both having significantly differing views on crosses

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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage...

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Presumably both having significantly differing views on crosses

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’d have said Terror of the Vervoids

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have seen a lot of films from the 1940s - I think the medium's most impressive even-numbered decade - and A Canterbury Tale might be my favourite. Saw it on the big screen at Newcastle's Tyneside Cinema a couple of years back. A religiose experience.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At Allendale for the Burning of the Wolf

A wooden sculpture of a wolf,
Starting to burning

A wooden sculpture of a wolf burning a bit more

A wooden sculpture of a wolf destroyed by fire!

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Recently listened to the audiobook of Jon Ronson’s The Castle. Remarkable book, and the chapter on Linehan was fascinating. I think there’s a full book to be written on the subject of well-regarded people poisoned by radical ideas to the extent their legacy or life is ruined.

The cover of the audiobook of The Castle. It shows the silhouette of a modern grand folly at the end of a suburban American street.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HOW THE HELL DID I NOT KNOW THERE WAS A LIVE-ACTION COMPUTER GAME WITH DARROW IN IT

Paul Darrow in Contradiction: Spot the Liar.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quite a few obvious gaps: Pac-man, Red Dead, Mass Effect, Arkham, Witcher 3, Portal, the entire PS2 era, but not a bad selection. God, I’ve been playing computer games since the 1980s.

The covers of 9 computer games: Dr Franken, Flashback, Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Sensible Soccer, Tomb Raider, Skyrim, GTA: San Andreas, Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, Disco Elysium.

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Glauber Gleidson Peres @glaubergperes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@worldsofdrwho.bsky.social Dr Who' song theme by Sing Sound System on Facebook Link: www.facebook.com/share/r/14jS...

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a little bit of context of the passage of time in #70Up / #UpSeries, here's an overview of some of the television programmes that were around the time each one was broadcast. Seven Up! (5/5/64) was shown in the week of the penultimate ep of #DoctorWho's Keys of Marinus: Sentence of Death.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Vaun's fab, on telly and in person. Chuck him a few quid if you can.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s nice to see that the very first letters page in 2000AD, way back in Prog 8, 1977, has someone moaning about the state of #DoctorWho

Dear Tharg, I think most science fiction films are a load of rubbish. The new Dr Who is no good because the creatures are not at all frightening. They should make films about things out of comics like 2000AD. Splundig Vur Thrigg, Ian Olsen, Liverpool

Tharg: You speak Zarjaz words, Earthlet Olsen! But watch out for a new film called Star Wars, I think you will like it.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Both, probably. 'You're not an internationally-famous novelist?' No. 'You have a credit on televised Doctor Who?' Yes. 'You still can't play the piano?' No. 'But you can play guitar?' Yes. 'You can't speak French properly?' No. 'But you ink comics for money?' Yes. &c.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine all the 'Rassilon and Omega are mates with a young William Hartnell' fan nonsense written by back-bedroom barkers that some poor bugger's going to have to wade through. 'What's your proposed budget'? 'Sixpence and a slice of Mam's battenberg from the biscuit tin.'

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I see there's an AI sitcom out. #AIShitcom plot: Basil Brent runs a 1970s boarding house in Walmington-on-Torquay. He has a yellow car and an ex-wife called Mags. He's slightly pompous and a bit of a Tory, with a lower-class brother, Gary, who's having an affair with a clapped-out Robin Reliant. 1/2

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

JW the first 10 mins of #DoctorWho Timelash. It's all in the wrong order! There's a scene where Mykros says, 'Who knows where that time corridor ends?', but it's after the Doctor's already told us it goes to 1179. We see the nasty version of the Borad before we see the nice Denis Carey version.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Alien. They don’t pay their workers properly and then a black immigrant kills them all

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tom should have left and there should have been a new #DoctorWho for Season 15 in 1977.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Buy this book, for charity! We've never said who wrote which bits of Maximum Power! but I can now exclusively reveal that I wrote the 'Barbara Smelley' joke in page 301.

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Surly Scream Queen @surlyqueen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We ended up catching an old black and white episode of Doctor Who at my F-I-L's house when there was nothing else to watch. I didn't think my tween would be into it but when it ended she was like, "Mom, is there, like, more of this?" MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD, THERE SURE IS...

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m assuming ’bummed’ means something different in America

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just made a cup of coffee too strong and said, out loud, to myself, on my own, 'that coffee's too coffee-y'.

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Radio Times @radiotimes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The homunculi have spoken – Mackenzie Crook's comedy gem is coming back for more. 🙌 Read here: www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/small-…

Pearce Quigley as Michael Sleep wearing a brown jacket and black jumper, stood on a garden path.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's #StarTrek's birthday, so here's a thread of that time I watched a load of old TOS.

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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Join me for a skeetalong-a- #PendasFen this Wednesday night when BBC4 reruns it from 10.15pm. Behind the scenes stories, pics and things to spot. If you've seen the play before, then follow live. If it's new to you, give it proper attention and then join the # on catch up. Link in bio to the book.

Title screen for Play for Today: Penda's Fen (1974)

Close up on Dictionary of Place Names reading "Penda's fen" with Penda in italics.

Cover of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene (Ten Acre Books 2025)

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The sixth Doctor on the phone to Tasembeker.

A shot of Colin Baker on the telephone in the first episode of Jonathan Creek, with his subtitles reading, 'I don't know. Just get round here and make me bark like a sea lion'.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s 15 years today since I met the woman who would become my partner. She took a photo of me that day so I decided to recreate it. I got chubby. (And yes, that is @bobfischer.bsky.social lurking in the background of the original. He turns up in every other photo of me.)

Andrew Orton, aged 29, slim, skeletoid, innocent.

Andrew Orton, aged 44, chubby, handsome, ruined.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I feel there should be a Meaning of Liff-style definition for 'having a hair in your mouth and not being able to find it'. 'Wiveliscombe' or something.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For all its usefulness, I think I hate the editorial voice of TARDIS wiki. It's full of this sort of nonsense. Who the hell is writing it? 'Absolving the set designers of narrative responsibility' ffs What does that even mean? #DoctorWho

'Time Crash's "explanation" that the TARDIS console room design changes over the years were the result of the Doctor changing "the desktop theme" — thus absolving the set designers and decorators of narrative responsibility for their occasional inconsistencies over the years.'

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A pointless, trivial and ridiculous Doctor Who thread. I’ve been thinking far too much about the peculiar and (as far as I know) unconsidered congruence of two consecutive stories from Jon Pertwee’s final season: The Time Warrior and Invasion of the Dinosaurs. Here come my mental meanderings. 1/13

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The release of The Young Ones' cover of Living Doll. I was 3. I can definitely recall series 9 of Grange Hill from the same period too. Vague memory of Madness' song Uncle Sam in the charts in late '85, as I can remember singing it in the bath with a toy boat.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This really is a very silly story indeed, and the people behind it also got N.W.A.’s greatest hits album signed by Fraser Hines, Sylvester McCoy, Peter Purves (who “didn’t bat an eyelid”), and Michael Jayston—and then got the Doctor Who Sound Effects album signed by Public Enemy

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Sign o' The Times — atlasfloyd

  Of course you can. It’s not an unreasonable question, there’s a long answer and a short answer. You see I’ve got form on this score. It all began as these things often do with Steve O’Brien a...

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A little empathy and human kindness, eh, even when people have made mistakes. Perhaps especially so. Imagine where that might get us.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 14/08/2026

Here is a comparison of how Red Dwarf, “Holoship” was first introduced back in 1992 on BBC Two network, and how network, Wales and NI introduced it last night. Forgive my poor editing done at 2am.

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Matt Rosser @matt.cymru · 13/08/2026

And if you're watching BBC Two Wales you'll hear the very same announcer who introduced it in 1992 😊

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just been up the Old Man of Coniston (fnur fnur)

Andrew Orton in walking gear, leaning against a trig point, in very misty weather. He looks happy though.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just been to see The Odyssey. Samantha Morton was the best thing in that film by miles…

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