I think I preferred Hugo from the Traitors when he played the Curious Orange.

sssshhh but leadmojo.co.uk/smelt

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Sorry to hear we’ve lost my old voice teacher Greg De Polnay. I was delighted to be instrumental in getting him back to be D84 one last time…

Have finished a first draft of a new @bigfinish.bsky.social so it’s time to down tools and focus on books, board games and food for two weeks.

Hive mind help. Are there any particularly famous fictional writers in the Whoiniverse, alien or otherwise. Like Oolon Colophid in HHGTTG.

This was fun!

Today on the #DoctorWho Too Hot For TV Advent Calendar I am joined by @johndorney.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/864883/episo...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 The glorious Twelfth is getting his own audio drama adventures! Click https://bgfn.sh/new12 to read all about Jon Culshaw and Gwithian Evans in the forthcoming Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor Adventures.

I endorse this opinion!

I’ve read this play by my @bigfinish.bsky.social colleague @verbatimfoley.bsky.social and love it like a favourite child. See it if you can.

Crikey, I’d forgotten how weird this @bigfinish.bsky.social script of mine is (it’s recording over two years after it was written!). Suffice it to say can’t wait for it to be announced.

I just backed The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...

Different @bigfinish.bsky.social audio recording today. Lovely guest cast - and you’re not going to expect who they are.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Got a @bigfinish.bsky.social audio recording today. Such a good cast making the script twice as funny as it felt on the page…

Is there are list anywhere of where the Doctor Who Production Info text is different on the Collection sets to the original DVDs?

Check out The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two by Georgia Cook on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...

Pretty much every Culture Secretary we've had since the post was created has reinforced my impression that our frontline politicians simply do not know or care about culture.

Happy Halloweeeeen! Remember to leave out a glass of milk and a plate of cookies tonight, so the pumpkins don't eat you instead

Well, up to date with Celebrity Traitors. I don’t think this is a spoiler but my suspicion is that the final episode is going to be a masterpiece of editing for tension - like a lot of the last regular series finale - because it feels a bit of a fait accompli currently.

Just seen a post saying Disney definitely weren’t on board with RTD2’s content. As if they would give all that money and never take a second glance or give a note and just put it all straight onto the screen. That’s just not how TV works guys.

Like his Graham Williams piece, Worlds Within - the Ian Marter documentary is a triumph by @chrischapman81.bsky.social . A beautiful, moving piece of work that gives amazing insight into one of my greatest Doctor Who heroes.

I’m really delighted that he seems to be one of the real surprise MVPs of this series. Like Celia Imrie and Joe Marler.

Bloody hell, Traitors is so much more tense when you actually know one of the competitors. I will be properly gutted if Mark doesn’t get to the end.

Last couple of days have been reading Dark Gallifrey 5 and 7 for different reasons. Very happy with how wide ranging and weird this series is.

My keynote is here - www.linkedin.com/pulse/common...

I highlighted this issue in my keynote on class in TV last week. Our TV channels can no longer afford to make ltd series at HETV budgets... so why not stop competing with streamers with endless resources and try making modest shows with more risk? www.c21media.net/news/the-hac...

The first few dates of our 2026 Tour of IT WALKS AROUND THE HOUSE AT NIGHT have been announced! www.thickskintheatre.co.uk/itwalks/ 3 to 6 February - Chichester Festival Theatre 13 February - Watford Palace Theatre 18 & 19 February - ARC, Stockton Arts Centre Links in the thread below...

All these flags, where the fuck are the Morris dancers? Where are the scones? Where are the poets, the singers, the playwrights? Where is this English Culture they claim to love?

I found myself stuck in central London yesterday. The level of emboldened hatred surrounding me was repellent and deeply upsetting. On the tube people got off at King’s Cross, presumably for trains home. And I realised there’s only one type of person I wanted to go back where they came from.

metro.co.uk/2025/09/03/g... The Metro going against the grain at least. Good on Crystal for writing this.

When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.

Since we're sharing examples of Linehan's scummy behaviour

Idris Elba playing the Prime Minister of the UK and the US president in the same year just makes me think of this youtu.be/zNAc6V--z6g?... via @YouTube

Who's In The Mood for Love? Wong Kar-wai's modern classic is a very recent film to be so high up the Sight & Sound list. Will we fall for its cool charms or be left unmoved? pod.fo/e/31ec6f @johndorney.bsky.social

Just realised that the song Maria from West Side Story can sound like a man singing a celebration of his own bum (‘my rear’). Not sure I’m ever going to hear it the same way again.

Working my way through Bergerac and finally reached @louisejameson.bsky.social Huzzah!

So we’ve decided that Predator should be called Alien and Alien should be called Parasite. Can we complete the circle?

Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

I script edited the Hallowe’en set. Some absolute crackers here.

Oh the delight of seeing Alixion (or Alison as we came to calling it due to autocorrect) on the new DWM. Brilliant news for Robin.

Just to be clear - Shrinking = comedy. Hacks = comedy drama. The Bear = definitely a drama. Hope that helps.

Watching Twin Peaks on DVD and always delighted by how keen the menu is to push the Log Lady intros on you. Like three full times before the episode. ‘Did you want the log lady intro? No? Well what about now? Or now? How about now?’

There’s a lot to love in Bookish but my favourite thing is possibly that each story is told as two fifty minute episodes with a cliffhanger. Growing up with the TV versions of Marple, Campion and Lord Peter Wimsey I am convinced that this is the perfect format for a classic style whodunnit.

Did everyone enjoy hearing the Ninth Doctor & Rose back in action in Snare? Here's what's coming next...

One of the odder movies we've watched so far, but it provoked some fascinating conversations. pod.fo/e/305e78 @tomsalinsky.bsky.social @johndorney.bsky.social

Following on from my previous post - here’s a comparison of the respective scenes from Drop Dead Fred and Absurd Person Singular.

Started watching Drop Dead Fred with some kids and was quite surprised to see some dialogue out of Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular in it. Seemingly lifted almost wholesale.