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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

- that guy from Come Dine with Me - cat in bin lady - Delboy falling through the bar - taxi driver who ended up on BBC News - when Mr Blobby was on Lovejoy

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today I celebrate the 9th anniversary of this unimprovable piece of fan mail:

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thinking today of the solo dads and the fatherless; the bereaved, the bereft; those who are struggling to be a dad or struggling with their dads. Happy Day to all of you.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I once overheard a “darling, we’ve got PLENTY of truffles at home” (mother to young son) in a waitrose.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A bizarre moment to be listening to Mystery Hour today, as I always do on my long runs, and to be thinking “I must say hello to @mrjamesob.bsky.social next time I see him in the hood”, and right as I’m thinking that thought, a caller brings up HIJACK. Reader, I shat myself.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Here's to the solo dads and the fatherless; to the bereaved, the bereft; to those who are struggling to be a dad or struggling with their dads. Happy Day to all of you. 👊🏻

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Just saw Robert Jenrick in one of those weird Turkish barber shops. His ears must have been burning.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We need @labouruk.bsky.social and DCMS to make a far more substantial public investment into the arts in general and specifically into the film & TV industry, already proven to be an incredibly lucrative source of national income and a substantial provider of employment. 🧵 5/5

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The international productions, particularly the US streamers, will ultimately run out of experienced talent to call upon if all we do is focus on servicing them rather than nurturing the people and the stories that brought them here in the first place. 🧵 4/5

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

These talents were founded and honed in PSB shows, and with those commissions declining not only is the work drying up but also we are losing the all-important training ground for actors, crew, production and post-production folk. 🧵 3/5

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

And that’s because we have a tradition of making high-quality HETV drama that far predates the dawn of the streamers. Cracker. Prime Suspect. Red Riding. Before you even mention comedy, which we once led the world in. 🧵 2/5

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The reason the UK is such a popular production base for international shows, aside from financial incentives, is that the skill set here is second to none... 🧵 1/5

theguardian.com

UK TV industry hit by ‘perfect storm’, says Elisabeth Murdoch

Crisis within British television is leading to an exodus of production talent, media executive says

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Day 133 of shooting season 2 of Hijack, and we wrapped the big man. The end is nigh.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is an unsustainable crisis. An epidemic which we have the ability to curtail if we become more realistic about timescales, budgets and the health and happiness of those we work with.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Please consider supporting this charity, and perhaps more importantly please think about what you can do in your role, whether that is reducing stressors that are adding to this mental health crisis, or simply being honest about your own mental health and reporting it.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The results of the 2024 Looking Glass survey conducted by @filmtvcharity.bsky.social are horrifying but sadly unsurprising. We have to get better at looking after each other.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2024

So I'll be back around then. We'll be trying to raise a bit of money for Centrepoint, bearing in mind that there are a bunch of people who have nowhere to go this evening. gofund.me/637d21d0 ENDS FOR NOW 🎄🛏️

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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden

Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Dieting advice in the 1980s was a vibe.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I think my autocorrect is trolling me?

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Getting ready for the final push on Season 2 of Hijack, with our third (and hopefully last) pre-production meeting. It takes an army.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What a lot of people said at the time about that day, was that the real work was happening on a motorway overpass two hours outside of Madrid.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Fair play to The Telegraph for perfecting the art of self-parody.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Now share your camera map for a 4 page dialogue scene with 8 characters sitting around a fucking dinner table.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Let’s normalise lying in bed for twenty minutes

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

(More facetious commentary will return shortly.)

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Look after each other, and yourself, and go home safely - pleased and proud to come back for more make-believe the next day.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

If your production doesn’t take active steps to reassure you, or the workplace culture has disempowered you from speaking up, then you should already have been made aware of ways of reporting anonymously. If not, ask why not.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

If you’re on set, or in a production office, or a writers room, or an editing suite, and you see or feel something — anything — that could affect the physical or mental health of you or your colleagues, please speak up immediately.

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I appreciate there’s a lot going on here at the moment but I don’t think you can hand in your resignation on BlueSky

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Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It’s almost like you hate Vitamin D?

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