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David Allison

@davidovitch.bsky.social
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TV Screenwriter - THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (C4/Starz). New series WINTER (ITV/PBS) on screen RIGHT NOW, baby. Agent/bio: www.jtmanagement.co.uk/clients/davi… International Disco King. Presenter of Mondo Pop radio show: mondopop.uk

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Lisa Severn @lisasevern.uk · 10h
The BBC charter section 6.4: "...the BBC should accurately and authentically represent and portray the lives of the people of the United Kingdom today, and raise awareness of the different cultures and alternative viewpoints that make up its society"
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's my annual highlight of the autumn! Loads of overlap - I think LIFF is the 2nd biggest film fest in the UK after LFF, so we get most of the big guns, but they do great retrospectives too. My plan is 29 films in 2 1/2 weeks so let's see how that goes!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can I just say that I find your reviews v useful, Patrick? @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social is always just after LFF and it's so handy to hear what you've been enjoying.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Any excuse to link my fave 80s French tune that you almost certainly haven't heard. Ridiculous and funky in equal measure! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyQP...
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PILOU Ça va!! (1982 #french #boogie)
YouTube video by woodytube
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So many faves, but this one SLAPS so hard: youtu.be/NyQPnqXn694?...
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PILOU Ça va!! (1982 #french #boogie)
YouTube video by woodytube
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is the obituary this vile man deserves. Magnificent stuff. "It strikes me that Archer’s whole career was an exercise in selling piss but the obits are straining to persuade us that it was champagne." 👏👏👏
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear writers, please do not use AI to write/help write your pitches, they arrive in my inbox absolutely honking of data centre, please please just have original ideas and work them up yourself else really, what is the fucking point of being a writer? Getting so many of these at the moment.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh god, I absolutely adored that Young Disciples album. So underrated.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I should probably have had some Erasure in there!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And an absolutely phenomenal film!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This was fun! Influences from my musically formative youth.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gang of Four AND Gene Clark. You're spoiling us!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Highlight of the day TBH!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you, highfalutin' fella x
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Honestly, Isabel, I love Sarah's reviews, so it was just fun the be the recipient of one. Unlike a surprising number of reviewers, she actually seems to love TV Drama. I'm just secretly rounding it up one star in my head ;-)
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks Matt, much appreciated!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not at all! We knew we were a strong flavour and I'm tickled that you were up for the ride.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sometimes you get a 3* review for your show and it sounds a bit mid, and sometime you get a 3* star review that makes you want to jump with joy. Thanks @dempster2000.bsky.social, I will never be able to hear Richard speak again without hearing the phrase "a voice like a Twix melting in a bra fire" 😆
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sarah, as the writer of this show, can I say that I enjoyed this review ENORMOUSLY?
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
His Aim Ain't True
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, mobile came later (mid-late 90s?). I remember 'portable phones' being a thing, and also 'brick phones' (because they were massive and looked like a brick!).
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks Marie!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tonight, but don't worry, it'll be there to stream at your leisure!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Friends, lovers, countryfolk, WINTER starts TONIGHT on ITV at 9pm! Please tune in or stream or I'm afraid there will be serious consequences for every one of you.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I stand by my initial theory that the new BBC DG is in fact a tech-bro plant to totally destroy the corporation from within.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hopefully that she's lost her job. We can but dream.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant being adorable. Interviewer Ryan Gilbey wisely just winds them up and lets them go.
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‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre
The actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-stars
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hello friends, like many, a part of me wants to die when doing the old self-promotion thing, but my new series WINTER starts on ITV next Wednesday. Eek! It's been my life for most of the last 18 months, and now, suddenly, here it is going out into the world. Tell your friends/RT and well, enjoy!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Socrates: "When the rizz ain't workin', I pull out my moves"
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Perfectly put!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And it's fascinating how much higher that discomfort/disgust is about bi men than it is bi women.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(with apologies to all the stylish Garys)
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Genuinely floored that 2/3rd of straight women are uncomfortable with the thought of dating a bi man. My own extremely scientific survey can now exclusively reveal that we dress better, cook better and love better. But you go for it and stick with Gary and his horrific shirts.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Replacing television and film with Whatever All This Is has gone so well. The bright future that the disrupters came up with (a version of having a very big hard drive of indifferent content you can’t navigate and don’t value) has worked about as well as it did for music. We’re all so much poorer.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Despite its vintage vibe, this is actually from 2010 and British!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This stone-cold banger by a bunch of chumps (and an incredibly cringe video): youtu.be/DL7-CKirWZE?...
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New Radicals - You Get What You Give (Official Music Video)
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ooh, might spin that right now. What a record.
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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026
The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026
I don't think we should be giving the racist village all that attention, I think they deserve to be ignored
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh gosh I really need to watch that!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Such a pleasing set of #Emmy wins - Widow's Bay, DTF St Louis and Pluribus are all genuinely oddball and bracingly original. So heartening to see weird being rewarded. Let's keep it weird, peeps!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This late ABBA masterpiece. At the time I thought it was weird and downbeat and I was a bit disappointed, but then I was 11 and expecting a bit more of a Supertrouper vibe.
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey, just livening up my highlighting game (I do a lot of it on draft scripts). I will report back if they prove too drab ;-)
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just bought them now after your seeing your post. But then I am slightly obsessed with stationery!
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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I...actually love these so much (sorry)!
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is exactly the outcome that the “gender-critical” movement, which is directing the EHRC, wanted. A situation in which trans people cannot exist in the workplace - or anywhere else in public - at all.
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