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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reading Russell T Davies’s self-described tangent – “the problem of leaking online is now so vast and so pernicious it threatens to ruin everything...” – you can feel his anger. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

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‘Goodbye Whoniverse. God, that was fun!’: Russell T Davies on writing the end of Doctor Who

In an extract from his new memoir, the screenwriter bids farewell to the show he helped save – and welcomes its new future, whatever that is

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#empireworld is available for 99p as a kindle deal innit amzn.eu/d/0aaF6wLd

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a fabulously entertaining interview which will make you smile as you read. The two pictures of Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski during their rehearsals of "Hay Fever" are lovely. And - oh, to have been a fly on the wall during *that* dinner party! www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/s...

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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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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 19/09/2026

I've added a new feature to my website where I'll make a selection of script pitches, outlines, and early drafts available for download. The PDFs themselves will be password protected in a futile attempt to keep the scrapers at bay, but the code's right there. First up, John Buchan's The 39 Steps

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Downloads – Stephen Gallagher

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is an excellent and moving tribute to Jeremy Thomas. I feel very lucky to have known him, and very guilty that because of me (in part) he spent so much time towards the end of his life on a project that ended up going nowhere. www.screendaily.com/features/a-h...

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This was a shock. Been a fan of Bonnie Greer ever since I first saw her on Newsnight Review (also much missed). Always enjoyed her contributions to those cinema documentaries on Sky Arts. RIP Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband

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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Pitching a snooker podcast, specifically for snookerists with long arms, called The Rest Is Unnecessary.

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KateW @kateweb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking for first 10,000 words of a novel, from unagented, unpublished women writers:

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hale and Pace never got the cultural credit they deserved from contemporary critics and the subsequent historians of the alternative comedy movement. I thought it was due to snobbery because they were successful, popular and pushing boundaries but on mainstream ITV rather than "Home of Comedy" BBC2.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Two years later when I got my first proper job, that year’s Hale and Pace was still the show people – or to be more accurate, young male graduate trainees – talked about Monday mornings. The first three series were genuinely good. I still remember “The Lion, The Witch and the MFI Wardrobe” sketch.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In 1988, I was a postgrad in a house share with four male first year students and – despite the age gap and different tastes in pop culture – for six consecutive Sunday nights in the autumn that year, all five us sat in front of a 14-inch portable TV, laughing our heads off, watching Hale and Pace.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys

A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house. A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it. It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just saw this commercial on SNF, and I aint gon lie, it had my full attention. Wasnt expecting that

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I took advantage of this to watch “Train to Busan” director Yeon Sang-ho’s new Zombie/Infected – your mileage may vary – horror film “Colony”. Recommended – that’s both the film and the National Cinema Weekend when it happens again next year.

Cinema ticket stub (price £4) for the film "Colony".

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Clearly, the sign of new tech or software innovation going mainstream is when a “Guide for Seniors” is produced. (And placed by the till – staff operated till, obviously – for that FOMO impulse purchase.)

Photo of a magazine-format book "Seniors' Guide to ChatGPT" on sale a supermarket till.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Report card for Summer 2026 box office. Interesting. Even more interesting would be a report card for the Grauniad! “This article was amended on 1 September 2026. The caption for the picture accompanying the entry for The Odyssey misidentified the stuntwoman Devyn Dalton as the actor Matt Damon.”

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Summer box office 2026: what can we learn from the hits and misses?

It was a bumper season for Hollywood, almost back to pre-pandemic levels, with Tom Holland blockbusters winning out, but there was still a string of disappointments

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This weekend is National Cinema Weekend where you can see any film for just £4 at participating cinemas (absolutely loads are taking part, use the tool to search for your nearest one) You can go and see as many films as you like during the weekend - go and see all the ones you've wanted to see!

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National Cinema Weekend: £4 Cinema Tickets, 5–6 September

5–6 September 2026: for one weekend only, cinema tickets are just £4 at participating UK cinemas — any format, any seat, any film. So who will you take?

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Legendary Indie film producer Christine Vachon: “It taught me that if you make a movie for the right amount of money for a specific audience, and only they show up to see it, you can still make your money back.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...

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‘I love provocative stories’: producer Christine Vachon on fighting for her ‘offensive’ movies

The maker of indie classics Kids, Swoon and Poison on daring to have a temper in the 90s, what some producer credits mean – and what happened between her and Joaquin Phoenix

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Rocliffe have updated the T&C document (and changed the URL!) – updated link below. The new version clarifies that the competition submission no longer requires separate episode guides or character breakdowns – and that these can be included in the expanded treatment. rocliffe.com/terms-and-co...

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My feeling is informed by how the Guardian treated Jason Arday – digging-up school classmates with 30-year-old recollections, then publishing a hypocritical, self-congratulatory editorial on Monday scolding other media outlets for their coverage – it’s the same have‑your‑cake‑and‑eat‑it posturing.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not making fun of the interviewee – she comes across as lovely – but the Guardian’s editorial choice – placing that headline and that surname right next to each other seems unlikely to be accidental – it has that vibe of have-your-cake-and-eat-it mischief with a safety-net of plausible deniability.

Screengrab of the headline, sub-headline, photo and down to the first line of the article itself.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 17/08/2026

With an eye to creating an online archive of past scripts and pitches, both the produced and the criminally passed-over, I've uploaded the episode referred to in my Sam Neill thread

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Crusoe: Episode 12, The Traveller – Stephen Gallagher

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Golden Age Of Children's TV is currently an un-whopping ninety nine pence on Kindle! I really am quite proud of it and I think you'll enjoy it, especially at this price. If you've already ready it, why not share the link? Hint Hint. amzn.eu/d/08bSsIIp

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The Golden Age of Children's TV: The shows we loved growing-up, the perfect gift eBook : Worthington, Tim: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Rocliffe TV Comedy Writing Competition has returned – last one was spring 2024 – and it’s back to the pre-Covid live event format at BAFTA. Submit 25-word logline, series treatment (increased to 800 words max), intro to extract and 10-page script extract in one PDF. Early bird d/l 5 Sep (£58).

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My first go adapting the sketches into a sitcom pilot made the shortlist of a BBC two-hander script call-out in 2004. Next draft won Guardian’s Funny Farm contest two years later. So a script with history but whose time may have finally come? Here’s the Guardian piece from 4 Aug 2006 announcing win.

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That's all, jokes

Two weeks ago, we asked you to take our minds off the sweltering heat, by sending us samples of your wonderful wit in our Funny Farm competition. Here are the winning entries.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Originally, just a single sketch I wrote in autumn 1990. However, the characters and situation grew over half a dozen sketches (and quickies) as runners for first series of “The Real McCoy”. All filmed at Pebble Mill but only one was ever broadcast on 7 June 1991. Like to think it dodged Compliance.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Decided to jump into #ScriptSky with both feet and both pages for #TwoPageTuesday to mark exactly 20 years to the day since an early draft of this won a Guardian comedy contest. With Trump-like opportunism, I'm updating my satirical and surreal sitcom “The Folks on the Hill” for our new Gilded Age!

Image of page 1 of a surreal and satirical sitcom script "The Folks on the Hill" by Kulvinder Gill. Transcript below:

OVER A GRAPHIC of a Stars-and-Stripes map of Britain...

SOUNDS of rioting, fading slowly - but long enough to notice England, Scotland and Wales are unified under the US flag - and Ireland and Northern Ireland are conspicuously absent.

NARRATOR (V.O.)
During this, the fourth term of the Trump presidency, the 54th State is under pressure as never before. Pensioners are protesting, parents demonstrating and the young - as always - are revolting... bless 'em. Faced with this existential threat, the President responds as only she can with the ultimate deterrent...

After two quick REVS of an electric drill...

NARRATOR (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Crucifixion!

EXT. CRUCIFIXION SITE - DAY

Hill-top crucifixion site - not biblical, modern, futuristic even - with razor wire, towers, search beam equipped drones.

The just crucified NEW BOY - a young white guy in a pristine orange jumpsuit - is secured to the crossbar by a large shiny factory-fresh Phillips "cross head" screw through each wrist.

Somewhat more incongruously, the New Boy has a cigar in his left hand - but despite his luxury item, he looks downcast.

OLD LAG (O.S.)
(chirpy cockney)
First time is it?

The New Boy, startled, looks around at the nearby crosses - but seeing only decaying bodies - he shrugs his shoulders.

OLD LAG (O.S.) (CONT'D)
I said, is it your first time?

The New Boy looks around again but still can't see anyone.

OLD LAG (O.S.) (CONT'D)
Behind you!

The New Boy looks over his left shoulder but still nothing.

OLD LAG (CONT'D)
Not that side - your other side!

The New Boy looks over his right shoulder and is confronted by the OLD LAG - a bearded, unkempt, elderly black man.

The Old Lag is crucified on the other side of the cross!

Page 2 transcript below:

NEW BOY
(middle-class accent)
What the-- who the trump are you?

OLD LAG
Allow me to introduce myself.
(in French accent)
I am "Le Grand Jean-Pierre - Escapologist Extraordinaire".
(back to cockney)
Forgive me if I don't shake hands.

The Old Lag laughs at his little joke.

OLD LAG (CONT'D)
A little gallows humour there. To lighten the mood. Break the ice.

NEW BOY
What are you doing on my cross?

OLD LAG
Your cross! You got a bleedin' nerve Sonny. I offer the hand of friendship - metaphorical though it may be - and you claim squatter's rights! Listen, you cheeky git - you can forget that white entitlement nonsense - I was 'ere first and don't you forget it.

NEW BOY
Sorry - no offence intended - just not quite sure I get the set-up here.

OLD LAG
You're my other half. Not the better half, I flatter myself - hey Roomie!

NEW BOY
What?

OLD LAG
Blimey, you are slow on the uptake. It's the latest deficit reduction plan innit. Gotta pay for The Walls somehow - n'est pas? So - yeah, we've all gotta double up.

NEW BOY
You mean share?

OLD LAG
Yep, it's two to a cross these days.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/07/2026

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

I recently discovered Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature which tells you which words are the same age as you.
I'm convinced there are 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe your vibe.
Mine (1987):
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-adhd
• brain fart
-dad joke
-potty-mouthed
-thirtysomething

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Watched noon showing of Man In A Suitcase – and it really is a character-led drama – not just star Richard Bradford (exceptional) but also the guest cast who are generously given lots of screen time. Today’s episode “Burden of Proof” (IMDb 8.2) guests John Gregson and is repeated @ 8pm on F’view 81.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You know that scene at the end of Soylent Green, when Charlton Heston discovers the secret ingredient that makes the soya-lentil based staple of the 21st century dystopian diet so moreish and screams at the top of his voice: “Soylent Green is People”? I have some bad news: Slushies are bum cheeks!

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For the second time in as many weeks, I’ve binged all six episodes of a one-hour drama, only to see the dreaded “To be continued...” at the end of the (as it turns out, not quite) final ep with a likely year wait for the next series on Freeview. That’s one spoiler, I’d like to have known in advance.

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Video phones. www.nms.ac.uk/collections/... collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co83... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Also Great! Action (Freeview 42) is repeating starting today “Burn Notice” starring Jeffrey Donovan as an unfairly dismissed/blacklisted ex-intelligence agent working as a bounty hunter/troubleshooter in Miami. Sunshine, spycraft and great support from Bruce Campbell, Gabrielle Anwar & Sharon Gless.

The cast of Burn Notice (from left to right): Sharon Gless, Bruce Campbell, Jeffrey Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Rewind TV (Freeview 81) is repeating (IMO) the best Sixties ITC show “Man in a Suitcase” starring method actor Richard Bradford as an unfairly dismissed/blacklisted ex-intelligence agent working as a bounty hunter/troubleshooter in the UK and Europe. Cynical, gritty with a great feem toon. Noon/8pm.

Cover image of the Man in a Suitcase DVD box set showing actor Richard Bradford.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Don't be surprised if one the supposedly many Hollywood execs currently scouring the internet for the next Backrooms, sees this and, er, appropriates it!

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Trevor @theestshuffle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

That said, Harrison Ford and Steve Martin should absolutely make a film together playing a couple of estranged brothers who have to come together to solve their 105 year old mother’s murder.

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Was reading the Guardian's weekend piece "Pressed for time? 20 brilliant books you can read in a day" – which could/should easily have included both "The Accidental Woman" and "A Touch of Love" – anyway, in the BTL comments I found this. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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Carole Solazzo @carolewriter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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Kulvinder Gill @kulvinder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Also "The Omega Man" episode of Jonathan Creek. No preview appearing - so uploading the image. www.jonathancreek.net/season3episo...

Theatre poster which, from left to right, reads: "Live Together on Stage! Steve Martin / Harrison Ford in 'The Odd Couple' by Neil Simon" - but the cast names are meant to be ready vertically down, column-wise, so the two actors are actually called Steve Harrison and Martin Ford.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This isn’t vandalism, it’s art – and reminds me I must watch They Live again

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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A new printing of The Quatermass Experiment is now in stock, @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's immersive account of the making of TV's first sci-fi classic, illustrated with rare photographs from the archives of writer Nigel Kneale. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

Cover of The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV's First Sci-Fi Classic

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