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Paul Doolan

@pdoolan.bsky.social
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Writer - Death Valley, Mammoth, Bloods, Trollied, Cuckoo (and many more of mixed quality). Occasional #nufc podcaster.

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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 14/02/2026
Fuck me. VAR is so much better than this. #nufc
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Bizarre and maddening but also great, proper investigative journalism.
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I know 15 months is too late to change a child’s name but fuck it, my son is now called Harvey Barnes. #nufc
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Looking like half our team got ketamine in the secret santa #nufc
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"Getting a robot to use the treadmill for you at the gym doesn't make you any fitter" You don't say?
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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
If you could chuck a few bob our way I'd be very grateful. It's an immersive school project. The kids get hands-on experience of the filming process as well. They, and Lancaster Film Institute, are amazing. Please repost/share/bung us! Thanks, you're amazing too, whatever. www.spacehive.com/angeline
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Angeline - A film by Dallas Road Primary
'Angeline', a film by Dallas Road Primary School, created with Lancaster Film Initiative and Ian Martin.
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A cracking read #nufc
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Cannot wait for this.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I’m in tonight’s Death Valley on BBC1. Don’t think I’m in it that much but I’m in it and it was fun so that’s the important thing.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Bluesky when something funny happens
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Selfish: This Man Found Time To Build A Birdhouse While JonBenét Ramsey’s Murder Is Still Unsolved
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Craig Deeley @craiguito.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 02/06/2025
BBC1’s Death Valley with Timothy Spall is as charming as it is absurd — it’s like Midsomer Murders at its best
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At last, I’ve found a crime drama to enjoy — it’s even got jokes
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Cracking work as always from the inimitable @editkev.football #nufc
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Lacy Baugher Milas @lacymb.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Timothy Spall plays a famous TV sleuth who starts helping solve crimes in real life in BritBox's warm and utterly charming new crime drama #DeathValley, and I desperately hope it finds the audience it deserves. My review at @pastemagazine.bsky.social:
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A Former TV Sleuth Turns Real-Life Detective In Witty Cozy Crime Drama Death Valley
Timothy Spall steals the show as a former TV sleuth turned real-life detective in BritBox's latest cozy crime offering, Death Valley.
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Steve Tallantyre @tallantyre.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I am probably the last to discover this but my mind is blown that Andor's Diego Luna and Stellan Skarsgård were originally in cast Goal! and filmed a couple of scenes before the director left and the film was completely changed. #nufc
Young Diego Luna in NUFC shirt on field at Newcastle.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Oh christing arse the estate agents have discovered chatgpt
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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Looking forward to Death Valley on BBC1 tonight in the all important post Antique's Roadshow spot. Starring Timothy Spall and written by the great @pdoolan.bsky.social. I pop up briefly in episode four.
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Simon Hynd @simonhynd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Death Valley starts tonight at 8:15 on BBC1. Here I am half way up a mountain in the Brecon Beacons last summer. There are worse jobs.
Simon Hynd and camera equipment on a hillside overlooking a reservoir.
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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
How much do I love detectives? My dog's called Dorothy L Sayers...
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How much do I love detectives? My dog's called Dorothy L Sayers...
Writer Paul Doolan on his new BBC comedy-crime series Death Valley
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Simon Hynd @simonhynd.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
To celebrate the broadcast of Death Valley on Sunday 25th at 8:15 on BBC1, here’s a photo of @pdoolan.bsky.social and I looking completely relaxed and normal.
Publicity photo of cast and crew of Death Valley.
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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
105 cyclists/yr are killed by cars in the UK. Cars kill or seriously injure 1,233 child pedestrians (u16) per year. Changing the law is meaningless because so few people are killed by bicycles. The only effect will be to give drivers an even greater sense of entitlement to endanger others
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Robin Allender @robinallender.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
On my deathbed urging my son to continue the family business, the production of Bubble Gum Camel Balls Extra Sour
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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Did you know that people who have lived in the UK for just three years, who may never have worked here, can buy a full state pension? It would be good to know how many people overseas are doing this. So I asked HMRC. They don't know: www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
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Exclusive: the state pension is being siphoned off abroad
And HMRC has no idea where it’s going to.
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Every time Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart refer to Anthony Scaramucci as The Mooch it just torpedoes the seriousness for me. They might as well be talking about a friend they have called Farthouse or something. That is all. #news
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Lisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
My new series DREAMERS is available to stream on C4 from Sunday. Add it to your watchlist now. Or set your series link for 10pm on Sunday night. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...
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Dreamers
Coming-of-age drama following the highs and lows of an eclectic dance troupe in Leeds
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Every time I walk past a bank, I face an ethical question. Should I just rob it? It's a stumper.
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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We decided that on balance it was probably a good week to record a Newcastle Natter. Should be available wherever you get your podcasts... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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LEAGUE CUP CHAMPIONS
Podcast Episode · Newcastle Natter - The NUFC Podcast · 19/03/2025 · 1h 17m
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Memecastle United FC @memecastleunited.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Redraw the maps #NUFC
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
‘Counting down the days’ ‘hilarious’. Not my words, Carol. The words of Good Housekeeping magazine. #deathvalley #excited #hashtags www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...
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Motherland director’s new BBC crime drama Death Valley is bringing a “hilarious” detective duo to town
Meet the Welsh murder mystery series we’re counting down the days for.
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Simon Hynd @simonhynd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In other news… www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Filming commences on BBC One sitcom Can You Keep a Secret?
Featuring an all-star cast, Dawn French leads the lineup as a determined widow who will stop at nothing to make sure her family’s protected
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Geraint @geraintg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I swear Glastonbury gets worse every year. I haven't heard of any of these bands.
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Nothing more comforting than watching Rick Stein sweating through a shirt and complaining about Brits taste for ‘hamburgers’. It’s my hyyge.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The fact that there might be a conclave so close to a movie about one has really motivated me to finish my screenplay "The Tech CEO Who Died of Diarrhea So Explosive The Coroner Said He Had No Lower Back to Speak Of"
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Or just have a pancake.
Screenshot from Psychic TV which I used to watch all the time. Box at the bottom of the screen says "Happy pancake day! What are your plans today? Why not get a psychic reading?"
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The only thing you ever need to read about Cummings is the @vizcomic.bsky.social cartoon. Perfect encapsulation of his character and work.
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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
THE WEEK AFTER: Flying machines are the new Fleabag.
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Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Funerals should have a bit where they ask the congregation to speak up if there’s any lawful reason why the dead person shouldn’t be buried
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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Martin Fishback on the Musk salute.
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
It’s mad how many private school scare stories and anti-trans articles you have to wade through to get to actual news in The Times.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
There are around 10k private school kids in Edinburgh. 51 have moved to state schools in January. As I've repeatedly said the effects of VAT on fees are going to be minimal. www.thetimes.com/article/ab42...
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VAT on private school fees puts Edinburgh state schools at capacity
Majority of the capital’s 15 private schools are understood to have lost pupils, dispersed to state schools throughout the city
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Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
'A government spokesperson said: “Current uncertainty about how copyright law applies to AI is holding back the creative industries and AI sector from realising their full potential."' I notice the government are not sugesting the power companies give the AI sector their electricity for free.
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British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’
Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
New Newcastle Natter podcast up on Spotify and wherever you get your pods. Previewing tonight's game and soft launching @ferguscraig.bsky.social 's hard hitting political podcast, Both Carols. #nufc
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Paul Doolan @pdoolan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Well that was pretty fucking wonderful. #nufc
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
You boy, is the transfer window open?
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
oh boy! Labour publishing this kind of horrid AI art while their consultation on generative AI is going on - that really inspires confidence that they'll listen to dissenting voices in the creative industry, doesn't it!
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