Some far cleverer soul than I has kindly clipped @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's Doctor Who missing episodes report on BBC Breakfast this morning. Cheers DanTheMan! 👏 #DoctorWho youtu.be/HlJpKllRNhw

This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.

Key takeaways: -6 Doctor Who episodes found in the same collection, 4 of which existed - but are likely to be higher quality copies than the ones we have. -We have significantly overlooked "the ecosystem" between shared film & TV facilities for 1st-generation cutting copies. youtu.be/iMtwMztE5VE

Further information on the two recovered episodes of Doctor Who can be found on the Film is Fabulous! website: filmisfabulous.org.uk/missing-doct...

BBC News - Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...

I watched The Man Who Never Was (1956) this week, a film about Operation Mincemeat. Lovely to see William Russell in a small but important role (and in Cinemascope too!) as an RAF pilot who wins and breaks the heart of It's a Wonderful Life's Gloria Grahame.

I had a fantastic time yesterday at the BFI screening of the 'Warriors of the Deep' Special Edition (which is a *real* improvement). Janet, Peter, Sarah and Tara Ward were all on top form. Tara's memory of the welcoming atmosphere created by Peter did *not* go down well with Janet! #DoctorWho

🆕 2.2 PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. 📦 Wicked troublemaker or the victim of history's longest smear campaign? This episode is one WILD ride. And it includes some of my favourite cinematic references. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4E7j... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

So I started looking into this to outline the conspiracy theory. But what I found was a genuinely beautiful piece of practical idealism. A small, attainable progressive change that would hugely improve people's lives. I was inspired by it.

Actor Tom Baker, best known for ITV's "The Book Tower"...

*ahem*

A rain-washed London staging an update of the Thames ident yesterday.

Went to some neighbourhood drinks last week and learned that David Bowie rehearsed in the basement of this building (formerly Underhill Studios) on Blackheath Hill in preparation for the Ziggy Stardust tour, 54 years ago this month. I obviously had to seek it out with my camera in hand! #DavidBowie

He’s back.

Going through old files, I just stumbled across these 2001: A Space Odyssey / 1970s kids' TV mashups. No recollection of doing them. They must have been stuff intended for #Scarfolk, but got forgotten.

*Trump shits himself and uses his turds to try and build a ladder to the moon so that he can “meet the moon people, very good people”* Justin Webb, sagely: “Ah yes, the art of the deal”

92 today. My hero.

I wrote a piece about #DavidBowie. It’s called, This Is All I Ever Meant. #music #Bowie www.nickabadzis.com/blog/2026/1/...

Chortle. Nice work, AI.

If you enjoyed my radio play 'The Goblin King and Me' yesterday, could you please post about it or share the link to BBC Sounds with your family and friends..? It's so easy to miss these things and it's available to listen to for the next week. Thank you! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Watched 'No Place for Jennifer' (1950) tonight, which was an enjoyable enough drama about the impact of divorce on a child and, more importantly, included a brief glimpse of the Euston Arch. Silly ending, though. The cameo of a pre-Hartnell Doctor was a surprise.

So, it turns out that the London Transport poster in our spare room is fake news 😒.

I watched The League of Gentlemen for the first time in a few years last night. Seeing the portrait of Hyde's wife, I thought, "Hang on, isn't that the portrait of Deborah Kerr as Barbara Wynne from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp?" And it is.

I watched 'It Couldn't Happen Here' for the first time yesterday and spotted something that's probably only of interest to #PetShopBoys fans: a couple of the locations are in Crystal Palace, where I lived for 15 years. This one's on Crystal Palace Station Road, near the junction with Anerley Hill.

The thrill of seeing Barry Letts's name in the opening credits of films is usually followed by the disappointment of glimpsing him in only one or two scenes (e.g., 'Scott of the Antarctic' and 'The Cruel Sea'). Not so with 'San Demetrio, London', which I watched recently. He's in it a lot.

George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016. He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Went for a stroll on Ambersham Common, West Sussex, on Saturday – aka Tulloch Moor. It was pretty misty, so the Skarasen must've been out for a stroll too. #DoctorWho

happy slightly belated 22nd birthday to one of the best movies ever made

I really enjoyed @andreworton.bsky.social’s erudite Black Archive on Castrovalva, one of the stories I have my earliest memories of watching. Many fascinating insights on television production, ontology, rationalism vs empiricism, recursion, and why Bidmead’s hard science fiction was pure fantasy.

Watching ‘Lover Come Back’, a romantic screwball comedy in which Rock Hudson keeps his true identity secret from Doris Day and is referred to as ‘Superman’ by some envious onlookers. And then there’s a romantic supper with the New York skyline beyond a leafy balcony.

Whenever I watch Letter to Brezhnev, I have the added joy of thinking, “That’s the hotel I stayed in when I went to my first Dr Who convention.” 😁 flickr.com/photos/11725...

My TV Crime Penguin Postcard series is now available as a choose-your-own quintet. Get your bunch of fives here: colemandesign.co.uk/tv-crime-pen...

Just spotted this front door on a road near where I live 😊.

I’m reading the Black Archive on Logopolis. If you do too and were unaware, the police box scenes were actually filmed a good 10-15 miles to the southwest at Gerrards Cross.

Very much enjoyed watching 'The Thief' (1952) this week, an exciting Cold War thriller with Ray Milland in the lead and not a word of dialogue in its 86 minutes. The regeneration scene was a surprise, though.

I find myself with some availability at the end of the year, and into the next. If you want to have a chat about any upcoming #graphicdesign projects, please drop me a line and we'll go from there! Here's a glimpse of the kind of things I do… www.colemandesign.co.uk

What a lovely and moving documentary about Ian Marter on the S13 box set. It was a bit of a thrill to learn that he grew up on Madeline Road, SE20. For 15 years until 2022, I lived a stone's throw to the south-west across the railway line, on Maberley Road. It's also exciting to know that...

Hurray! The gift to all humanity has arrived.

Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.

Do I want to be a hero, @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social? Well, yes. So, after rewatching Biggles for the first time in over thirty years, I popped over to www.reelstreets.com/films/biggles/ 😊

Really enjoyed the screening of Terror of the Zygons at the BFI today, including a couple of special video messages from Tom Baker! #DoctorWho

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

An Italian sign for which there’s no British equivalent: Don’t lean on the Heras fencing like you’re Arthur Fonzarelli.

On my hols in Italy. Found traces of a Time Lord presence in medieval Perugia.

Founder of the Hilton.

On this day in 1982, the final episode of Sapphire & Steel was broadcast.

We’re working our way through All Creatures Great and Small. It was exciting to see Peter Davison and Patrick Troughton share a scene in the episode ‘Hair of the Dog’, broadcast on 19 Jan 1980 😊.

AW 2025 is going to be a repeat of AW 1981, if Octobre Éditions is anything to go by.