Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 26/11/2025No the BBC is not responsible for the opinion of external speakers, but (unlike social media) the BBC is legally is responsible for what goes out on its airwaves. It is subject to libel laws and editorial standards which are overseen by OFCOM. 010
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Maybe watch a few movies with Jazz in them. Mo better Blues is v good. Miracle on the Hudson has some good jazz. There’s a Clint Eastwood film where the music is done by his son Kyle. Or George Clooneys Good Night and a good Luck. 110
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 14/07/2025You are listening to the wrong kind of Jazz. 110
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I’m not sure that’s true anymore. He’s been the subject of many books, on a bank note and of course in a number of films. If you want a real unsung hero Google Tommy Flowers. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Apparently producer/presenter Cathy Rogers got the idea for Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars when watching Apollo 13. 071
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I wrote something about crisis the film and TV industry finds itself in. Please be kind. #television open.substack.com/pub/michaels...open.substack.comTV's real battle for survival.1: How the industry really works. 030
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 15/05/2025After I had told them we were expecting our first kid, a good friend of mine said “what no one tells you is you will never laugh as much”, and he was right. Being woken up by at 5am tottering 3 yr old pretending to be a penguin is a great way to start the day. As is taking Spider-Man to nursery. 140
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Whilst it’s right the DPs, designers etc all get the credit for Severance, the desk op and lighting team deserve a lot of credit. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I know Pinewood is almost completely booked out to Disney.. but how are Disney allowed to control security?? 010
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 05/05/2025It’s a combination of sources. We saw during the pandemic how disruptive sources like WhatsApp groups with dodgy messaging being spread very rapidly across chats. LK maybe gets 1m, QT around 800K. And yes Reform etc are very good at manipulating FB, X etc. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 04/05/2025UKIP got into power as MEPs without any help from the BBC. Reforms rise also helpfully coincides with the decline in importance of traditional media and a rise of social media, especially platforms like X, Facebook and WhatsApp. 100
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 03/05/2025When did The Onion start reporting actual news? (I know it’s not but where we are it’s not that far fetched) 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Dialogue is usually mono in the middle. Could be the L and R channels are phased reversed. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 26/04/2025How come in this digital world of streaming and everything being available everywhere, @warnerbrostv.bsky.social still haven’t made The Pitt available in the U.K. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 23/04/2025What they mean is they didn’t build whole scenes in a computer. VFX could be practical effects or greenscreen, or wire removal. 100
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 18/04/2025@warnerbrostv.bsky.social when are we getting The Pitt in the U.K.??? Sounds amazing. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Don’t. Save yourself. I did and I regret it. 100
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Arguably this is the 2nd biggest role.. after the DG. 010
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 16/04/2025He got to be an MEP with very little if any help from the BBC… 130
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Good job the Covid out break didn’t happen when the unions were in power… a journalist an FM! ACTT would have had a fit. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 10/04/2025It’s not just drama though, factual TV is just as important and needs help as well. It’s a vital training ground for production and tech crew alike. 120
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 06/04/2025So has it just got 10% more expensive for US producers to shoot in the U.K.? #filmproduction #tvproduction 010
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Check out the photography of Helen Binet. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Actually the 6x2 looks bonkers! Would buy one of them if I had some that work stuff 🤣🤣 010
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The last episode of the Rest Is Entertainment raised the very interesting counterpoint that viewing figures on YouTube are not necessarily accurate. Over the past couple of years I’ve worked with quite a lot of influences and all they are interested in doing is getting on broadcast TV. 020
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 01/04/2025There’s only 10 types of people - those that understand binary and those that don’t. 0110
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I’d love to hear what Rory Stewart thinks. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The problem with advertising is that to be really effective it has to be so in your face that many people refuse to use it. A lot of the local U.K. newspapers are impossible to read there’s so much. 120
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Well er they’ve done the research and many have come to the conclusion a paywall is the best way to keep people paying for news - which is incredibly expensive to produce. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Serious question: how does news pay for itself without them? 120
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Or more likely it was a BBC model B or Master fed into a vision mixer. 000
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I got biscuit line technical operator the other day. 120
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 21/02/2025My favourite game is trying to date the Ep of TOTP by the digital effects. 120
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 21/02/2025You are meant to soak salt cod before cooking it. 050
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 18/02/2025My late father’s marmalade is sublime. I have the last remaining jar made in 2015. He died in 2017. It’s going to be a sad day when I start and finish that jar. 030
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 13/02/2025You should get a job with one of the broadcasters in the obituaries dept. 010
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Considering the effort of the team went to for everything else it seems like a weird miss. 010
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Loving Brian and Maggie - apart from the geek in me that winces everytime I see the shot of the TV on top of a DigiBeta VTR - which wasn’t invented till the late 90s 110
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025It depends how it’s done. The changes they have made around Covent Garden for instance mean in some situations you now have to travel further - so seemingly very little reason. 020
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Brian and Maggie is a very interesting TV series but did no one tell the props team DigiBeta didn’t come in to existence till the late 90s! 020
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Albeit still important in the running of the city.. (TV crews more or less so depending on your POV). 110
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025It’s great - until you are a plumber, builder, a/c engineer, TV camera crew or anyone who has to has to lug heavy kit into a central London 110
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Of course it is. These ideas and beliefs are multiplying - that’s why we got Brexit and why reform did so well at the elections. Unless we challenge them how do we explain the realities? Ignoring something doesn’t make it go away. 010
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Why can’t it do both? The fact that some of the UKs best actors and playwrights have learned their craft whilst working on BBC radio and TV inc soaps would seem to prove Kate is wrong. 020
Michael Sanders @michaeljsanders.bsky.social · 31/01/2025That’s the point - the public and politicians need to hold these people to account, it’s never has been for the broadcasters to do it. 010
