Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer. If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat. Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

TASK was really excellent from start to finish. HBO and Brad Inglesby, please give us a new Philly dirtbag crime drama every couple years. But what really struck me about the show was its humanity and spirituality, and how much it cared about its characters. Ruffalo is amazing.

@authormiriamtoews.bsky.social loving a truce that is not peace. Thank you

All the presidents men.Pakula perfection.Every shot!

Video credit: itsjuliencohen Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me" This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵 #VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental

Y’all have got to watch this 😭

West Yorkshire! Tickets are now available for the best night of summer theatre. 5 Plays (and a surprise) from amazing writers including @larryandpaul.bsky.social - @jamesmoran.com and @alicenut.bsky.social Cast announcements later this week. www.slunglow.org/shows/

Leeds Theatrical Types! Slung Low Shorts is back after 5 year hiatus with 6 new plays this summer. Casting details are below. Please share with any West Yorkshire-based actors.

Thrilled to say that BRIDES, written by @suhaylae.bsky.social , has been selected as part of TIFF's 2025 Next Wave Film Festival in April! www.screendaily.com/news/toronto...

Here's what Trump does: 1. Creates a crisis that hurts a lot of people 2. Frames the crisis as a good thing 3. The crisis gets really bad 4. Trump then reverses his bad decision and takes credit for ending the crisis he created 5. MAGA eats it up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

The Conversation starring #GeneHackman and directed by Francis Ford Coppola was arguably one of the best films of 1974. #filmsky tinyurl.com/ynxn3ya6

If you are a new comedy writer with a broadcast credit be sure to check out our new comedy writing competition! The deadline is 3rd March, find out more davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk

Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Spain and EU leaders all in Kyiv today

Dave Stewart on the origins of the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" (foul language warning) #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

By the way, here is proof that I do own a signed copy of Stark by Ben ‘Unlikely Nostradamus’ Elton.

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

Using AI to produce writing or art is like asking someone at the gym to lift weights for you. The effort is the point.

Mike Tyson famously said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." This is why Democratic leaders have to punch Trump in the face every day--politically that is--by coming up media grabbing ways to challenge and crush him!

FAO teachers! Dae you hae young folk in the class wha can write in #Scots? How no hae them enter the Young Scots Writer o the Year competition? www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

📢 Write to your MP - ahead of a House of Commons General Debate on the Creative Industries this Monday - to safeguard creative rights in AI + ensure that voices of creatives are heard in the face of powerful lobbying from Big Tech Use the online tool: creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP

Tough times for soap writers. Anybody who is effected can get in touch with the @writersguildgb.bsky.social in confidence.

There's still time to get your entries in, starting from Monday 3 February.

I will say this: if you use the toys of rent-seeking billionaires to do your writing for you, I promise I will never care about a single thing you write or think, ever

Are you a new comedy writer with a broadcast credit? Take a look at our script competition davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk

📢 WE ARE HIRING 📢 We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic individual to join our team as Head of Lighting 💡🌟 Deadline: Monday 17th February APPLY NOW www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/jobs/head-of... #ArtsJobs

📢 WE ARE HIRING 📢 We are looking for a Costume Assistant with strong creative thinking skills and the ability to work calmly under pressure 🎀✨ Deadline: Monday 17th February APPLY NOW www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/jobs/costume... #ArtsJobs

Don't worry about subtext in your screenwriting. Instead, focus your attention on: 1. A character's wants. 2. Their tactics in getting it. 3. A fanatical devotion to emotional truth. Do that, and the subtext will take care of itself. #scriptsky

The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2025 is now open for submissions until Tuesday 22nd April!🎉 @painesplough.bsky.social @concordukshows.bsky.social @ekpshows.bsky.social The First Prize is £20,000: our biggest prize fund yet.👀 Enter via our website: womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk/how-to-enter/

#609 - A Real Pain - Jesse Eisenberg / Searchlight Pictures (2024 film, first watch) damn. {90}

While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

‘[Small Things Like These] lays out in spare but tender prose a crucial tension at the heart of Irish society.’ If you can’t get enough of Claire Keegan’s razor-sharp fiction, novelist Megan Nolan suggests where to start reading. theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/18/where-to-start-with-claire-keegan

It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄 🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇

Irene Maiorino e Alba Rohrwacher são a capa da edição digital dessa semana da Vanity Fair Itália. 📷 stephaniegengotti

Just jumped from X and saying hello from Scotland.