I wrote one of the episodes for the newly relaunched Play For Today, which starts tonight (my episode is on in a couple of weeks). This is an article about that . www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

60 years ago today, at 5.50pm BBC 1 broadcast the first episode of the 12-episode epic Daleks' Master Plan. It was subsequently junked from the archive. I've spent the last 3 years animating it. It's not exactly the same as it was. It's not meant to be. But I hope you enjoy it. 5.50 this evening!

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Pretty confident this is going to be ready in time now. So here we go: Daleks' Master Plan episode 1 - The Nightmare Begins. Animated. On its 60th anniversary, this Thursday.

Watched Pyramids tonight - and thoroughly enjoyed it. Often I've been quite down on it, as some kind of oddity, but I found it so singularly thrilling. It's amazing how much happens during it! Definitely see why people rate it as a classic - it beats Planet of Evil certainly.

A must-read on the corrosive influence of Gibb, Grossman and Prescott - the three horsemen of the rapidly unfolding BBC apocalypse.

Joe & @jameslark.bsky.social talk to one of their favourite authors about writing The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee, coming to terms with your own work, and the creating unique short story collections. Insight into the writing process from one of the masters. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

“Finding things on the internet to ‘hate read’ is a way of feeling great about yourself because you’re not as stupid and wrong as those other people.”

The media industry keeps talking about linear TV is dead. Well of course it will be if you keep accelerating its decline by pushing people to streaming. It's not completely dead if there are programmes people want to watch.

I don't know about you but I'm absolutely knackered after this week

When two of the cleverest people are shocked, you know that this must be impossible to play from the inside. #celebritytraitors

I've shrieked about 3 times #celebritytraitors

Joe Marler vs Gravity <3 #CelebrityTraitors

Doctor Who brainrot has been taking over me ✨❓❔ #art #digitalart #fanart #doctorwho

I've just been reminded that 59 years ago today the first episode of The Power of the Daleks was transmitted. So here's a repost of some of my renders from that story. It's one of my favourites! Shame we can't watch it. Rendered in #Blender3D

I love how sometimes the telesnaps were so blurred that we saw things that weren’t there. “a strange mist-like substance emanating from the Professor's mouth” Yeah, that’s just a Yeti in the background.

Fantastic description of LLM scat. I thought of the eponymous Robots of Death: no facial expressions, no body language. "While these robots are humanoid... they give no signals. It's rather like being surrounded by walking, talking, dead men." AI is mockery of life, like the voice of a ghost.

So much fun putting together this cover for Doctor Who Magazine pulling all the elements together across time (and space!) Read the fantastic interview of Carole Ann Ford by the brilliant @benjamincook.bsky.social when it hits the shelves soon!

A bit of Pyramids art for your Monday...f

This is very surreal. It beats the moment some obsessive helped Jon Kay find the BBC Breakfast Time sofa of 1983. 😂

Roger Allam giving excellent quote in the Guardian

Oh, he was terrific.

Art c/o the "DOCTOR WHO annual 1986". #DrWho #DoctorWho

If you see this, post four female characters you love (Only four?!)

Have been doing #DoctorWho Evil of the Daleks research. The Emperor Dalek appears in film sequences at Ealing for shots of the Dalek Civil War. There are tons of gorgeous phtographs from this shoot. Note the triangular bars above the Emperor and the two tubes attached at his lowest level. 1/

Nothing pisses off Doctor Who fans like making more Doctor Who

Daily bunny no.3121 begins a new chapter

Sketching (through fences and scaffolding as they are being restored) the Crystal Palace dinosaurs (also @joanneanderton.bsky.social and Caitlene)

Actor Eve Myles looks back: ‘Early on, I was told I wasn’t the typical leading lady. Now I realise my idiosyncrasies are what make me authentic’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Homemade Dalek suit! My dad made this for me when I was 7 and I loved it so much. I've been trying to find a photo for ages.

Comic con today included trying to explain the concept of a rom com to a Dalek

Very sad to read that Nabil Shaban has died. A formidable activist and creative in all manner of ways. During a wideranging interview in 2016, I told him he was the very last person filmed by Derek Jarman while he still possessed sight. He didn't know and it moved him greatly.

I need to post more selfies these days. So here you go!

Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound

My affection for Maureen O’Brien continues to grow after watching Behind the Sofa on S13 … 🫶🏻 #DoctorWho

Well, that's awkward - I've been informed the Raston Robot vs Cybermen picture didn't actually make it into the annual due to space, but my picture of the Master did so here he is... www.dwasonline.co.uk/ct_annual

From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)

I love we are slowly moving back to this sort of thing again.

If you're a #DoctorWho fan who cares about sensitive video restoration that preserves the integrity of the original images, and is concerned about the introduction of unintended artefacts from the use of AI, please watch this short video, share widely and discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hw...

Season 13 has arrived! (Because I forgot to preorder it)

Original versus new. Those new FX shots on #DoctorWho Terror of the Zygons from the new Season 13 Blu-ray in full.

The British Newspaper Archive has recently put up the entire run of the girls' magazine, Jackie (1964-93), including their 1969 serialised ‘Private Life of Frazer Hines’ strip. This is the somewhat wonky section covering Frazer's Doctor Who career (and, of course, bits of his love life!)

#DoctorWho #CGSets Any Cybermen fans in? Behold: a recreation of The Tomb of the Cybermen Episode One, in Lime Grove Studio D!

And the final pair of Daleks for The Dalek Eternity series! First we have a return of the fan-favourite Red Dalek from The Mutation of Time and a brand new 1965-66 edition of the Dalek Saucer Commander! #DoctorWho #DrWho #Daleks #Dalek #BigFinish @bigfinish.bsky.social

And because you only get five seconds there, here they are one by one. #Hartnell #Troughton #Pertwee #TomBaker

Annoyingly this weekend I'm under the weather with covid. But I did manage to start playing my Switch again finally - the remastered version of Metroid Prime, taking me straight back to when I was 11 again. ⭐

Well I've really enjoyed collecting The Collection but for evident reasons this will have to be the final one I can buy.

As well as the prop hunt thing, I also do some doodling. Here are some recent robot related remarques. And if you want to know my opinions on Kerblam! check out my debut appearance on Hamster With A Blunt Pen Knife with @docoho44.bsky.social

Heard the Yellow Submarine soundtrack yesterday, meaning I have finally heard all of the Beatles albums! I'm getting round to "completing" some of my faves - in no rush, so this month have only just got to listening to all the Madonna albums, and all of Depeche Mode. Still have a few Bowies left.

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