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Colin Hicks

@docfilth.bsky.social
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A bit spectrum-y. Always looking to stick my oar in about Doctor Who, Taskmaster, D&D, Marvel, Bob Dylan or cryptic crosswords. Please try and keep me off politics, it just makes me cross.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That top 100 is nothing without Taskmaster and The Traitors. Two incredibly popular formats that have successfully been replicated internationally, and are event TV in the UK. And Ghosts, too, while I think of it.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Name a tv show that's the right amount of seasons.
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Simon Pegg Gaming in Spaced
ALT: Simon Pegg Gaming in Spaced
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We’ve held a village referendum
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
About to see Transformers: The Movie on the big screen, redressing a grievous wrong I felt I was done 40 years ago.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Watching the 2002 adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles and two of the cast are, coincidentally, in the same Doctor Who episode (Richard E Grant and Neve McIntosh,The Snowmen). If anyone keeps a list of such things.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Waiting on the doggy’s blood test results. I know he’s old, and we’ve long since resigned to the fact that he’s not immortal, but it’s still a worry.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Name your fav film from when you were 17. I’m spoilt for choice, but going to be boring.
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Man in Suit Making Hand Gestures
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you see this, post a character that starts with W.
Kathy Burke as Waynetta Slob.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Date yourself with an image of your first ever computer. (but we got this secondhand, in 1991, by which time everyone else had Amigas or Atari STs)
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Getting ready for a weekend-long cinema marathon of Twin Peaks Series 3, which I haven’t yet seen in its entirety. Not quite sure if my brain will ever be quite the same afterwards.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Happy “New series of #Taskmaster” day! Regardless of him, or him.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Name a character you can't stand. This prick. But he does get the best death scene in the history of TV.
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Babylon 5: Refa's 'Why Did You Do This?'
Alt: Babylon 5: Refa's 'Why Did You Do This?'
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The nu-fandom gang behind the #DoctorinDistress cover aren't exactly anyone I have any reason to be fond of, but the people picking on them for it are far fucking worse. At very least, appreciate the spirit in which the thing's done.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
An electrical salesman tries to see his mother and his girlfriend on a Sunday, but it's a little bit busier than usual.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reverend Dave. So called because he was a minister in the Universal Life Church (a title he’d received online). A practicing pagan, and a big, jolly man who shared my love of comics, Tolkien and Doctor Who. He died suddenly at 34, just after Christmas 2003. (1)
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
London E3 2NN (the Big Breakfast house)
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Name a film with an underwater scene. Captain America: The First Avenger (the bit with the submarine)
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Name your favourite fictional pet. Greebo.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not a good year for Frank N Furter actors. www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/t...
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Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80
Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Watching a classic Who as part of prep for … *something* (being as vague as possible here), and realising that I can’t actually remember the last time I watched this one. I feel like I should have my fan card revoked.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Who's the biggest villain in TV history?
Reece Shearsmith as  Maureen Sowerbutts in “Psychoville”, in costume as Tina Turner
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hi, I'm a strangulated hernia that would have done for me within about 12 hours if they hadn't caught it when they did.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A very late birthday present. I bloody love early Alan Moore.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Share a TV show you love with a catchy theme/intro www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUPj...
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The League of Gentlemen Theme
YouTube video by Hilary Summers Contralto
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Post a GIF from a TV show! 📺
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Taskmaster: All the Information's on the Task
ALT: Taskmaster: All the Information's on the Task
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/ Cringeworthy Head rush NPC Social liberalism Tetchy
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Spider-Man Brand New Day comes closer to my ideal of what an MCU film should be like than any entry in the franchise since Endgame. Like a good run of comics all smooshed into two and a half hours.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I seem to have spent weeks and weeks doing prep work for the new D&D group. I'm so glad it's only a monthly thing, I don't know how people running weekly games find the time.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm getting quite angry at people on other sites celebrating the BBC's latest axeings (and, in some cases, giving suggestions of what should also go). If you don't like a show, that's fine, but If you're actively pushing for other people to lose things they like, you're probably a cunt.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney or Ghibli.
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Shaun Of The Dead Simon Pegg Zombie Walk
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Zoe's feather boa @zoesfeatherboa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is really a crap day... RIP Tom Chadbon Unforgettable as Duggan in #DoctorWho and then Merdeen in Trial of a Time Lord plus Del Grant in #Blakes7 Countdown and so much more including Out of the Unknown in 1971 and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in 1994.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Amelia Tyler, the narrator of Baldur’s Gate 3.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Drop a GHOST or SPIRIT 👻🖤
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Annie Sawyer Annie The Ghost
Alt: Lenora Critchlow as ghost Annie Sawyer in "Being Human"
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Without saying your age, what's your favorite movie that came out when you were 18.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Share a TV show you love with a number in the title. 📺
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Name a tv show you never stopped binging. I'm never not in the middle of rewatching a series of Taskmaster.
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Greg Davies as the Taskmaster
ALT: Greg Davies as the Taskmaster
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Farage pushing for extra security...
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That's What The Money Is For
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
QTP with the #DoctorWho character you are most like:
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In memory of Bonnie Tyler (RIP), this excellent video by BabelColour (and, indeed, the whole series is just as good): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENg0...
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Supergirl
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Homer? Who is Homer? My name is Guy Incognito"
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's about the time of year for the next Doctor Who: The Collection announcement - has anyone heard anything?
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
OK, episode 2 of the new series of #X-Men'97 is a delight. So many 90s references, just what I want in this series, not nods to 21st century stuff.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What a shock to hear about Justin Richards. One of the great old reliables of the Wilderness Years, a chameleonic writer who could turn his hand to any style of Doctor Who, and frequently did. R.I.P.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Chuds and neckbeards be damned, I’ve just seen #Supergirl and thought it was just fine. Milly Alcock is great, and Momoa isn’t allowed to steal her thunder.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If er get Andy Burnham after this, at the very least it's what Nigel Farage really doesn't want, which can;t be a bad thing. Not that I'm not pissed off at how Starmer's been chased out by the right-wing media, but I'll take some consolation where I can.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Drop some books… Yes, D&D rulebooks count, as I’ve fallen off the tabletop gaming wagon again lately.
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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Post a robot that’s not from Star Wars or Transformers. "OBSTRUCTION DEPTH: FIVE METRES. COMPOSITION: SAND, GRAVEL AND COMMUNISM"
Liberty Prime from the Fallout franchise.
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