Very happy to report that both series of Home are now back available on the Channel 4 website. Check it out, now more than ever.

I’m in. Wishing Ed and his team every success.

Thanks to everyone who made it out in the rain last night to the Green Note gig in Camden. Was lovely to see you all and we had a blast. More gigs to come... xx

And people wonder why sketch shows are expensive… this needed a lot of co-finance from ITC even in 1971. Looks British but the producer is a pre-M*A*S*H Larry Gelbart and the writing team includes a pre-Rain Man Barry Levinson. Plus Gilliam, and a lot of UK talent too.

Artificial Unintelligence: the government is in full retreat over copyright, and the attempts to make it look dignified only make it funnier. My SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/arti...

Wait are we at last preventing tech alliances and takeovers because they are an unreasonable concentration of power?! BECAUSE I HAVE SOME CANDIDATES.

This is an amazing thing, a royal #detectorists find that should be pride of place in the British Museum. Please help if you can. They are so close to getting there. www.britishmuseum.org/tudor-heart-...

This evening is the 50th anniversary of Jack Rosenthal's "Ready When You Are, Mr McGill". I'm mentally quoting bits of this to myself whenever it turns cold on location... sublime and brilliant television.

Very surprised that this ever leaked out. I had to make it in a huge hurry, based in an old News studio at TVC. I read in for Paxo and Justin was simply awesome in character as Ben. It was only ever intended to be seen on a TV so the quality is pretty rough.

The festive perineum is the perfect liminal space for a ghost story…

COMMISSION SOME SITCOMS, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

It's here! Joel Morris and I wrote a ghost story for the long winter nights, and Rosie Cavaliero, Carrie Quinlan, Josienne Clark and Victoria Moss breathed strange life into it. Turn off the lights and gather round the fire's glowing embers...

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Spending an evening dubbing Digibetas to SSD… it’s either that, or getting a life.

Feeling terrible for the staff at Halo and Evolutions as their controlling company has gone into administration. Why does this kind of bad news always happen in the run up to Christmas?

2025 has been yet another brutal year for the TV and Film industry, both in the UK and overseas.

We’re doing a gig. January 15th. Camden. Come ye along and hark etc. www.greennote.co.uk/production/c...

Jumpers at NT in 1976 was where I fell in love with Tom Stoppard’s work. Did my O Level dissertation on his early stuff, obsessed over Professional Foul on the TV, and always thought he was the reason I’ve ended up making comedy for a living. A giant of his craft — RIP.

Hurrah! New COMFORT BLANKET out for paid subscribers… @jayforeman.bsky.social talks COUNT DUCKULA!

This is genuinely exciting news for every Runner 5 out there. Watch out! They’re behind you!

You can tell the AI bubble’s going to pop - and they’ve known for a while - by checking the new titles / Smart Thinking display in a big bookshop. It’s all about the grift and the coming collapse (quite the reverse a year or so back). Since it’s all wild speculation anyway, that’s a fatal sign.

🎶 It’s beginning to look a lot like… Awards Season. Delighted for all our nominees at the Children’s and Family Emmy Awards. So pleased to see the movie back on Netflix, and already a festive No. 3 in Kid’s Films.

Extraordinary film from the BBC’s archive. Marvel at Marty Feldman as he chats to pretty much everyone working in comedy in 1969. youtu.be/S0it6iARj64?...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

OUT NOW! ON THE BROKEN VEIL CHANNEL NEW EPISODE! Discomfort Blanket is not a number. It is a free podcast. (Well, a free podcast if you support the Broken Veil channel on Patreon for as little as a couple of quid...) patreon.com/BrokenVeil

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...

Apologies to anyone expecting us to be at the Tales Of The Weird event at the British Library this weekend, but in support of the PCS industrial action, we’ve decided not to cross the picket line. Will and I are both former librarians, and want to show support to the striking staff.

If you're at Spiel Essen and are fans of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social, pop by the @chaosium.bsky.social booth where you'll find the RPG based on his Rivers of London novels! (Core rules, standalone scenarios, and the new US sourcebook) #SpielEssen2025

You asked, we delivered! By VERY popular demand - if you’re five raccoons in an overcoat, you can now say it with your chest! Available in all the usual fits and colours - go go go! the-daily-tism.teemill.com/product/five...

In The Onion Today: New Study Finds Elephants Mourn Cancellation Of Favorite TV Shows — theonion.com/new-study-fi...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Tonight!

I was there. Recommend this highly.

Surely the only qualification to do any job is that when you ask Chat GPT to do something in your field, you can quickly spot where it’s fucking up? If you just ask it and trust it, then anyone could do your job, and you’re fired? With AI, the one thing we’ve not had enough of is experts.

@willmac23.bsky.social and I are going to be representing Broken Veil at the British Library TALES OF THE WEIRD FESTIVAL (1st-2nd Nov). Some great panels and events… Look at these beauties! Come along! events.bl.uk/events/tales...

my new book is out ONE MONTH TODAY. like all authors I am going to be going on & on about it, & encouraging you to pre-order I do actually think this topic is genuinely important, I want to grab everyone by the lapels to tell them but, you can mute: #dontburn www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...

Here's an incredibly useful overview of the complex and deeply worrying picture for TV drama commissioning. The one factor not mentioned here, as ever, are the thousands of freelancers who are struggling and leaving the industry to survive... www.screendaily.com/features/com...

Every word... more people with RTD's clout and influence need to be standing up and speaking out in this way. "Censorship is in us." TV needs leaders and champions who stand up for the world we want to see and be. "TV is a light in the dark and we must not let that flame go out!"

THIS THIS www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-...

Reluctantly agreed to go and see “Weapons” at an Odeon screen that was smaller than some cornflakes boxes I’ve bought. Anyway, it left me entirely unmoved until it turned into a madcap CFF kids film at the end. That bit was great.

“HALLOA! Below there!" Join award winning writer @gralefrit.bsky.social and myself here at 10 tonight for a tweetalong of The Signalman, on BBC FOUR. All welcome to share thoughts, memories, insight or questions. Just use the hashtag #signalman

Broken Veil has been nominated for an Independent Podcast Award! Hurrah! independentpodcastawards.com/IPA25/en/pag...

Just got an mail about new product launch from Dyson. What do you think it'll be. I think it'll be an aliquipper to exercitate my ullamco laboris.

I'm on BBC Radio 4 Front Row tonight, talking about the "death and possible rebirth" of sketch comedy... Wonder what I'll say... Tune in and find out. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Joel @gralefrit.bsky.social is on Front Row tonight (Radio 4, from 7.15pm) talking about the death and rebirth of the comedy sketch show. Should be a good discussion.

It's very good, I think. I wrote some stuff for it, but it's the mad concept and the gorgeous imaginations of these nutty directors that make it so brilliant. The last five minutes are incredibly moving, but it's all, all of it, so FULL and CLEVER and BEAUTIFUL. Love those nutters. ❤️❤️

I love the way this sequence goes from cutting edge zoomed opticals, optical wipes, through a rushed re-print to add in Ken W’s name, to some of the ropiest Letraset-by-a-junior-AP in the back of the scanner I remember seeing. Bonus marks for jostling past the racks to make the caption bounce.

Lovely bit of work by Dave Brown in tomorrow’s @the-Independent.com

Big AI in education news from South Korea. After huge government financial support, masses of media, substantial backing from education publishers, and a lot of international interest, it's now abandoning its flagship AI textbooks program for schools m.koreaherald.com/article/1054...