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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 1h

New shooowww! 🚨🚨🚨 Very excited to see that Hyperlight has been announced by the BBC. Writing on this was a total joy. It has epic sci fi stories, big battles, teen drama… everything you could want! I can't wait for people to see it!

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How are these so good? What magic did they put inside?

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"he was riding high off the conference, now he is brought back down to earth. Here are 15 columns about why labour is now doomed"

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OK everyone ready for "Bumpy Budget Breaks Burnham Bounce" style headlines in like, four weeks?

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Totally. There could have been a version where his loneliness and feeling left behind in a world where robots were taking his job reflected what his mum was going through. But instead they made him The Worst and I just wanted him to suffer even more.

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Such a lovely show about loneliness when growing old, with great character dynamics and laugh out loud funny... and then for some reason they have a B plot centred around The Worst Man In The World.

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Super proud of @benjibpm.bsky.social for getting a Fringe First as part of Hannah Maxwell's show "Turn your f*cking phones off". Benji composed the music, designed the lights, video, sound, production managed it... a multi-talented man. So well deserved - incredible show! tinyurl.com/4fputu8s

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Scotsman Fringe Firsts: we reveal our final award-winners of 2026

Six more shows win our prestigious, long-running theatre prizes, ahead of today’s Scotsman Fringe First Awards at Pleasance Grand.

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gym one is every single time I walk past a gym forever

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head: 1. *Reads gym sign* A gime? What's a gime? *Goes in* Ohhhh, a gime. 2. You don't make friends with salad. 3. To alcohol. The cause, and solution to, all of life's problems. 4. Lousy Smarch weather. 5. The worst day of your life so far.

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I really liked the Jade City books. Really original setting, super readable, and proper good characters driving it (usually I find fantasy characters can be kinda flat - these ones are so well drawn)

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I see your Collinder On White Cardboard and I raise you Randomly Fortunate Leaf Shadow On Window Frame

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

it's done... my tax has been made digital. But at what cost?* *£1.60 a month on Xero's Simple Plan, upping to £7 in six months, plus the cost of an hour long call with my accountant to learn how to use this new programme WHEN IN THE RECENT PAST WE COULD INPUT THIS SAME DATA INTO HMRC FOR FREEEEEEE

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

me pitching to the exec "we open on an evening spread against a sky and then cut to a patient etherised upon a table" exec: "interesting, interesting. The antagonist?" me: "it's daring, but I'm thinking a peach"

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Xero works in browser btw. That should have been in the above message.

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I haaate that we now have to pay for a software to do what we used to be able to do on HMRC's site. Lucicrous. I'm using Xero, which is like £1ish a month for six months for their "simple" version then SEVEN BLADDY POUNDS a month after that. Just to have a place to write "income" and "expenses" in

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Tinfoil hat time... I think OpenAI exaggerates these kinds of things in order to make its product sound more intelligent and advanced than it actually is. For investment. "oh wow it's gaining sentience... it truly is a revolution... no one has any idea what it is capable of... pls give us money".

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

But I don't WANT to make my tax digital

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

*A well rehearsed, tightly written scene with punchlines and pay-offs, and good comedic acting that is well rehearsed* Instagram Reel: "This is actually all improvised 🥰, the reactions here are genuine, the actors had no idea he would say and do that"

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

thank god she's still culture secretary, can you imagine how the arts would struggle without the right honourable Lisa Nandy, it doesn't bare thinking about

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I need England to at least do better than the USA. for the air conditioning discourse, you understand

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The instinctive reaction right now is lazy, sleep-walking cynicism, or sullen don't-give-me-hope despair. But the truth is: someone with very good communication skills, the right diagnosis and a reforming zeal is about to become prime minister. That seems pretty fucking encouraging to me.

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

And this is now out! The whole series of 22 episodes is on Disney+. I was fortunate enough to write four of them, and I'm so excited for people to see the finished show!

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Guess where I am going tomorrow! Annecy Animation festival gonna be a scorcher this year

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I like that “Widow’s Bay” is from a “Parks and Recreation” writer and answers the question, “What if they made a whole show out of the Pawnee City Hall murals?”

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It was so great to be part of something so ambitious! The animation is just gorgeous throughout!

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

So excited to share the trailer for The Doomies, which will be out on Disney+ on 26th June! Getting to be one of the writers on this show was some of the most fun I have had (comedy horror, the dream!) and I can't wait for people to see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjxJ...

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The Doomies | Official Trailer | Disney+

YouTube video by Disney Plus

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

among the biggest problems with television today, the lack of economic or logistical pressure to actually make shows is among the greatest. (1/14)

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Its time for the avenging wife action sub genre. Lets see some dead husbands under the white sheets in a sunny flashback.

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

everyone is always like "in animation you must be able to write anything", meanwhile I am currently writing the "everything set in one location with the main cast only and strictly using props already built" episode

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The phrase "quantum draft" from @vinaypatel.bsky.social in his latest newsletter is 👌. I very much recognise this state patelograms.substack.com/p/their-fact...

I seem to have developed a tic where I can’t stop saying “I used to have a draft when…” or “I had a scene where….”. The director tells me they’re starting to get a sense of how many versions of this has lived in my head. Creates the danger of the quantum draft - where, to you, the play exists as all the versions at once.

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

just heard a sad, soft, solo "nooooo" drift across my North London street at that penalty.

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Widow's Bay expertly combines horror and social embarrassment, making me real uncomfortable the whole time I watch

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Balancing my like for Andy Burnham with my intense dislike for anything that looks like a funko pop

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

feel the burn, taste the ham, bandy the andy

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Feel the Burn" - that's a slogan there for you, Andy. You're welcome

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

thank you for replying to my genuine and sincere belief that a Starmer revival is on the cards

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

whisper it* but is a Starmer revival on the cards? *you have to whisper because if you say it at a regular volume you will be made fun of

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Watch Submarine Jim on BBC iPlayer for biting and current political satire

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Today this board game I pledged on in July 2023 arrived. What a nice present from myself in the past

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

mr civil servant, you must sacrifice your career to protect the great and illustrious rule of sir keir starmer, it is the noble thing to do

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James Huntrods @jameshuntrods.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

*unrealistic main character name, please revise

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