Reposted by annalisa dinnellaAnna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Brilliant article by brilliant @annalisadinn.bsky.social on how funding is being quietly withdrawn from disabled creatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 03113
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026More from me on Access To Work. Here is my longer piece. www.touretteshero.com/2026/08/17/i...touretteshero.comIs This Thing Working? ‘Access To Work’ and My Labyrinth of Doom - TourettesheroLast year I wrote extensively about the sudden cut to my Access to Work support that meant I had to stop doing the job I love for three months. While my support was eventually reinstated, many other w... 011
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026My Guardian op ed and the longer piece upon which it was based. I hope you’ll agree these cuts cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... www.touretteshero.com/2026/08/17/i...theguardian.comDisabled creatives like me are behind many of your favourite shows – so why has our work support been withdrawn? | Annalisa DinnellaCuts to the Access to Work scheme will mean no more contributions to shows like Sex Education, Call the Midwife or The Hack. It will be devastating to lose such talent, says TV writer Annalisa Dinnell... 0127
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I have decided to name the heatwaves in London from El Niño ‘26. The first one was Alfonso. This one is Bruno. If next week counts as a new one, it will be Carlotta.  Stay with me on this, people. We may get to Fernando and Gloria before long.  020
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026So now England face Mexico and I must choose between my loved ones and my axolotl. 000
Reposted by annalisa dinnellaStephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026It's Friday, it's five to five, it's the only chart that counts: my top 10 for the last week in May 26 includes new writing on McCartney, McKellen and Köln 75. trousse.ghost.io/ankle-deep-i... You can sign up, if you're so inclined here: trousse.ghost.iotrousse.ghost.ioAnkle-deep in ducksMcCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026 042
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Delighted to be writing episode 4 of this beautiful beast 🐉 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...bbc.co.ukNew BBC drama Dragon Slayers to explore the work of legendary newspaper editorThe six-part series stars Matthew Rhys as Harry Evans, whose team broke some of the biggest stories in UK history 031
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Conversation with my 12yo Him : If there’s a channel 4 and a channel 5, then where is channel 3? Me: ITV is channel 3. But this was back in the day when people used the numbers on their remotes so they could choose what to watch based on what was on at the time. Him: Were you alive back then? 020
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I have also just had my grant cut. We, as a community, are in shock, picking up the pieces and trying to work out what to do next. These callous, devastating and nonsensical cuts cannot and must not be allowed to continue. 022
Reposted by annalisa dinnellaUncut Magazine @uncutmagazine.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Morrissey: live in London. He appears crooning the opening lines of Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” in a pink shirt, unbuttoned to the waist, like a Quorn beefcake Tom Jones, his collar extravagantly popped à la Eric Cantona, with perhaps a hint of Ming the Merciless and Dick Emery.uncut.co.uk10 things we learned from Morrissey's London O2 Arena show10 things we learned from attending Morrissey's show at London's The O2 Arena on Saturday, February 28, 2026 022
Reposted by annalisa dinnellaTouretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Disabled people are facing an existential threat as #AccessToWork seems to be being gutted from the inside. We know it’s being reformed but not what this will look like or the timeline. We need leaders to engage now or risk undoing decades of investment www.touretteshero.com/2026/01/19/a...touretteshero.comAccess AnxietyOften when I write these posts I’m doing it with a wide audience in mind, but this one is slightly different. While everyone’s welcome to read it, it’s particularly aimed at funding bodies, grant admi... 062
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026If you are looking for something sublime to listen to, look no further than Ian Holm’s narration of The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins on audible. You’re welcome. Always happy to help.  010
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025If you want to watch famous, powerful people lying, cheating and double-crossing each other, then skip Celebrity Traitors tonight and tune into #TheHack on ITV OK, OK you can watch both if you must. #TheHack is also on ITVX and lends itself very well to a binge. 040
Reposted by annalisa dinnellaProspect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 01/10/2025🎥: In a live episode of Media Confidential, @janemartinson.bsky.social speaks to @arusbridger.bsky.social, actor Toby Jones, writer Jack Thorne and producer Patrick Spence about ITV’s new phone hacking drama The Hack.youtu.beThe true story behind ITV’s The Hack—live with Toby Jones, Jack Thorne, Alan Rusbridger and moreThis week’s special live episode of Media Confidential coincides with ITV’s new drama The Hack starring David Tennant. The show is about the phone-hacking scandal, which led to the closure of the Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, the Leveson Inquiry, and a national reckoning on press ethics. Pros 11412
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...prospectmagazine.co.ukMe, Toby Jones and a timely reminder of why we need a free pressA new drama on the phone-hacking scandal shows us journalism at its worst, but also how reporting can make real change 010
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Official trailer for #TheHack just out. Hot off the press.. youtu.be/AShPTasA7eIyoutu.beThe Hack - Coming soon to ITV1 & ITVXYouTube video by ITV 031
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025My kid forced me to watch K Pop Demon Hunters and it was so good it made me cry. 020
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Just throwing this out into the ether.. Does anyone know anything about where (in UK) a visually-impaired person could learn to windsurf? 101
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025 Please take a moment to watch this urgent message from Jess Thom about cuts to Access To Work. As ever, no one puts it like her and no one puts it better. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpq...m.youtube.comJess Thom: My job hasn’t changed, my disability hasn’t changed, so why has my support changed?YouTube video by Touretteshero 000
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 01/06/2025DYING FOR SEX is gentle, crushing, funny as fuck and will leave you either sobbing or speechless. It’s a story about cancer, sexual trauma, death, kink, pleasure and love that is like nothing I’ve ever seen. I am in awe of this script and all the people who brought it to life. 040
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Proud to be part of this and grateful to this bunch of icons for their passion, time and hard work putting this vital campaign together. It’s time to ask our government to stop #TakingThePip 122
Reposted by annalisa dinnellaFrances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025“I’m in tears reading the stories of what might happen if these further cuts go ahead, which is why I’ve joined forces with others to demand action.” A strong piece by Cherylee Houston MBE on why she and fellow disabled celebs have launched #TakingthePIP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comLabour is taking the Pip – and disabled people have had enough | Cherylee HoustonI am in tears reading the stories of what might happen if these further cuts go ahead, which is why I’ve joined forces with others to demand action, says actor Cherylee Houston 212663
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Norm 🍺 This is a delightful hour of George Wendt and Ted Danson reminiscing podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...podcasts.apple.comGeorge Wendt (Re-Release)Podcast Episode · Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes) · 09/04/2025 · 59m 010
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Finished the final episode of SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE last week and I still feel emotional. That show is seriously special - such beautiful, tender, silly, clever writing. I loved and will miss everything about it. 140
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 20/04/2025My kid just described the date of my birth as the date when I was ‘first released’. Like an album. I think we should all adopt this terminology. 010
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I am here to tell you all to watch #WeAreLadyParts immediately. Am watching with my 11yo son and it’s so good to be laughing together at something so bloody wonderful. 010
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025When this series is over and Stanley Tucci can no longer be spotted amid a herd of Calabrian buffalo eating a fistful of fresh mozzarella declaring ‘this - this is truly out of this world’ I shall be bereft. I may have to rewatch all 20 eps. Perfect for winter gloom 👌 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...bbc.co.ukStanley Tucci: Searching for ItalyAcademy Award nominee Stanley Tucci travels across Italy to discover the secrets and delights of the country’s regional cuisines. 010
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025It was such an honour to be invited behind the curtain on a show I’ve loved for fourteen years. Tonight’s episode of Call The Midwife (written by me) features a man in an iron lung and Poplar’s answer to the 1970 Commonwealth Games. 0101
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Keeping quiet about this for the last year or so has been hard work! This job was a madly exciting, pinch-me experience. The team are amazing. The show will be broadcast later this year. I wrote ep 4 and co-wrote eps 5 and 7. deadline.com/2025/01/the-...deadline.com‘The Hack’: ITV Unveils Phone Hacking Drama Series Starring David Tennant As Bullish Investigative Journalist Nick Davies, Robert Carlyle & Toby JonesITV has unveiled 'The Hack', a phone hacking Rupert Murdoch drama starring David Tennant, Robert Carlyle, Toby Jones 330
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025#TheFireInside is a true story perfectly told. The writing, directing, performances - all bloody stunning. It’s the kind of film that leaves you just feeling grateful that a film like this exists. It will also leave you empty of tears. This week particularly 🇺🇸🙏🏻 020
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Go see #SingSing. It’s really something. Quietly, messily beautiful. Loved it. 010
Reposted by annalisa dinnellaLisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025At a time when audio drama and entertainment is having a moment, it seems short-sighted of the BBC to cut their radio drama slots. Still, that is what they have been quietly doing. Sign the petition opposing their latest cuts. chng.it/V6QyDwkfbpchng.itSign the PetitionSave Audio Drama at the BBC 03426
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025My kid just looked at me with rare admiration and described me as a very hydrated lady 150
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Writing for radio is so exciting, collaborative, immediate. It demands a certain kind of imagination. Radio 3 is a rare space that actually cares what you have to say and gives you the time to - you know - author. And it reaches people in surprising ways. Shutting the door to this is terrible loss.know.author 02220
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Chris McCausland, calling for more funding to the Access to Work scheme while also freeing mince pies from oppression. Thank you channel 4 🙏🏻 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9hC5...m.youtube.comChris McCausland Addresses The Nation | Channel 4 Alternative Christmas MessageYouTube video by Channel 4 041
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Last night on #Strictly Chris said ‘disabled people can do anything given opportunity, support & determination’. This is true for me and all my disabled buddies. Give us the first two, we supply the third and the results will defy expectation. Every. Single. Time. 04514
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024#BlackDoves feels like what would happen if the Coen Brothers crashed a dump truck into Love Actually and left it bleeding on the pavement. Am loving it. 020
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024What feedback does Rudolf most regularly receive about his screenwriting? That it’s too ‘on the nose’ ❄️ 🎄 #CrackerJoke #Screenwriting 040
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024This wintery time of year I like to carry a miniature of rum in my handbag just in case I find myself in the emergency situation of needing to buy a hot chocolate and knowing it would be improved by rum. 060
Reposted by annalisa dinnellaLawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Lowercase #hashtags are inaccessible to blind folks—and they confuse everyone. In 2012, #susanalbumparty earned singer Susan Boyle the wrong kind of attention. Capitalizing #EachNewWord (aka #CamelCase) would’ve prevented the #SocialMediaFail. #LetThisGuideYou #AccessHelpsEveryone #Disability 14219
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024But Christ that final episode of Derry Girls is beautiful. Just watched it with my 10yo son and was in floods. So heartening to be able to explain that moment in history to him. God knows he deserves some hope and reassurance after so much exposure to me singing Take That and The Cranberries 040
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024A friend came round today to help me plant crocuses in my lawn. We thought it might be nice to make a shape so naturally we opted for a massive penis. 280
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024For any journalists looking to write about #Strictly and #disability and the mighty Chris McCausland, I do a dance class specifically for people with sight loss at Rambert studios in London. My teacher is wonderful. I’d be happy to make introductions. 03311
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Was going to make a starter pack for people into 19th century German nihilism, but I realised it would be too Nietzsche. 262
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024My top reads the year are: All Fours by Miranda July and I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest w You by Miranda Hart. The former is like a firework up your arse - left me in pieces muttering ‘every day is tuesday’. The latter is like eating marmalade & getting a hug. 2024 - the year of essential Mirandas. 070
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 - Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple One movie 🎥 - Gladiator One album 💿 - Woodface, Crowded House One TV show 📺 - Derry Girls 151
Reposted by annalisa dinnellaDan Edge @danedge.com · 19/11/2024So thought I’d create one of these funky cool @bsky.app starter packs this one for my British or Britain based Deaf, Disabled, Neurodivergent pro actors so people can find us casting directors included 😉 want to be on this handy dandy list drop a comment and feel free to share ❤️ go.bsky.app/R9EbV9d 6279
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024What about a pack for writers who only put make-up on for zoom meetings and then wipe it straight off again afterwards? 190
