Exactly one year ago today:

Fyre Festival: Iran

Avenue Q is back in the West End and it‘s as filthy and lewd as ever. I laughed plenty and enjoyed the songs but in a landscape with the pacy Titanique or the stunt-filled Play That Goes Wrong, this felt a bit baggy. I love edgy humour but knowing it’s coming blunts it. Regardless, it’s a good laugh

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” ~ Pope Leo

Not irony - hypocrisy

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.

Welcome To Pemfort is a strikingly well written simple play. All four characters feel rich, empathetic and full of life and it grapples with challenging issues without offering easy answers or straw man arguments. If it has a future life, it’s worth seeing

THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (1951)

Alternative ending to Doctor Who series 4:

Is there a coffee table book of panto posters? there should be

Did I miss Lord Of The Rings: The Wrath of Smaug?

Think you can’t hate Lime Bike cyclists any more than you already do? Think again

Just when I thought I was starting to become uninterested in The Prisoner, they crack pit Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling and I am absolutely hooked. What a terrific episode; shame Patrick MacGoohan is barely in it

The only #EdFringe commentary that matters

i never get enough of the crazy women at JCP/WCW shows

A lot of Kubrick films get repeated at the cinema, but not Lolita. Funny that

Throwback Thursday to when we took over @thefestfl.bsky.social ! French Toast brings the food fighto to everyone's favorite toucan-gerbil-hybrid, Tucor!

Fellow book lovers, we have begun to move our bookcases into their new home. It is a 100% cheerful time.

‘We didn’t burn him!’, he added before hanging up

So now there’s two episodes of The Prisoner where they play that weird sport where they try to push each other off trampolines into a pit of water, with very little plot relevance. I’m starting to wonder if it was a brief trend in the ‘60s

I’m now imagining The Picture Of Dorian Gray starring Michael Caine

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Nothing for a gnu? The gnicest of the animals in the zoo?

It’s not unfolding, it unfolded a year ago

How did it take them this long? He made the threat yeasterday

Jesus, what a cast!

It’s morphin’ time!

If the world goes tits up tonight, how long have the Artemis II crew got to stay up there for it all to blow over?

Watching the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony and I remembered that very cool history of the British Isles segment, not to mention the Mr Bean sketch, but I’d forgotten that you also get Harry Hill’s TV Burp and Michael Fish‘s hurricane prediction

A lot wrong in the world today, but can we all congratulate 84 year old British wrestling legend Kendo Nagasaki who has described Nigel Farage as: "a really hateful man ...got this terrible history of racial and right wing abuse - and still doing it to this day, but now he camouflages it a little."

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Should've posted this a bit sooner, really #ArtemisII www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Ll...

A lesser known BBC Micro title tied to the musical Chess, also known as One Night in Bangkok. A very different project from Superior Software that never surfaced. More here: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/04/one-...

Really gutsy move by PayPal to pull their sponsorship immediately AFTER the PayPal exclusive pre-sale where customers had to use their platform. Great guys(!)

Number Two in this episode of The Prisoner has hair so peroxided he should be nicknamed The Nature Boy. I don‘t think I can buy him as Number Two

Absolutely loving the live video footage of the dark side of the Moon from the Orion spacecraft. #ArtemisII

No idea what this drawing alludes to, but I like it

Pip and Jane Baker Alert! Available for catch-up on Encore

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Spending Easter Monday with the resurrected...Doctor Who episodes. Gonna make a morning of it and finally watch the refilmed Mission To The Unknown episode as well

My favourite job titles given by Bullseye contestants in the intros are carpet tufter, bobbin boy and pig man.

There’s a Korean drama with a similar plot and it’s very good, although they’re not an item. I wonder if it’s based on that

The limitations on violence established after World War II were not brought by pacifists or peaceniks but by literal old soldiers. They knew. They had seen.

I only know the musical version of this (there’s two, I saw the Lloyd Webber one), for which the Boyzone song No Matter What was written

There’s no proof of any “blue badge misuse” + stats are from 2011. The AA comment is seemingly responding to being asked about fraud. Yet all the papers are running with another reason to hate disabled people, coincidentally as motability and benefit cuts happen. I’m so bored.

Seeing Pet Shop Boys this week at the small Electric Ballroom, where I used to watch monthly pro wrestling. I’ll be sure to give them a wave

I would love to see something so bad it closes on a professional stage after nine performances. It’d be awful but fascinating. I saw a revival of this a few years ago and it’s really odd, but I found it a lot of fun, more so than some of Sondheim’s more serious works

Remember the reason for the season.

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Steve Holt!!!