If you want to watch famous, powerful people lying, cheating and double-crossing each other, then skip Celebrity Traitors tonight and tune into #TheHack on ITV OK, OK you can watch both if you must. #TheHack is also on ITVX and lends itself very well to a binge.

🎥: In a live episode of Media Confidential, @janemartinson.bsky.social speaks to @arusbridger.bsky.social, actor Toby Jones, writer Jack Thorne and producer Patrick Spence about ITV’s new phone hacking drama The Hack.

Official trailer for #TheHack just out. Hot off the press.. youtu.be/AShPTasA7eI

My kid forced me to watch K Pop Demon Hunters and it was so good it made me cry.

Just throwing this out into the ether.. Does anyone know anything about where (in UK) a visually-impaired person could learn to windsurf?

Please take a moment to watch this urgent message from Jess Thom about cuts to Access To Work. As ever, no one puts it like her and no one puts it better. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpq...

DYING FOR SEX is gentle, crushing, funny as fuck and will leave you either sobbing or speechless. It’s a story about cancer, sexual trauma, death, kink, pleasure and love that is like nothing I’ve ever seen. I am in awe of this script and all the people who brought it to life.

Proud to be part of this and grateful to this bunch of icons for their passion, time and hard work putting this vital campaign together. It’s time to ask our government to stop #TakingThePip

“I’m in tears reading the stories of what might happen if these further cuts go ahead, which is why I’ve joined forces with others to demand action.” A strong piece by Cherylee Houston MBE on why she and fellow disabled celebs have launched #TakingthePIP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Norm 🍺 This is a delightful hour of George Wendt and Ted Danson reminiscing podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Finished the final episode of SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE last week and I still feel emotional. That show is seriously special - such beautiful, tender, silly, clever writing. I loved and will miss everything about it.

My kid just described the date of my birth as the date when I was ‘first released’. Like an album. I think we should all adopt this terminology.

I am here to tell you all to watch #WeAreLadyParts immediately. Am watching with my 11yo son and it’s so good to be laughing together at something so bloody wonderful.

When this series is over and Stanley Tucci can no longer be spotted amid a herd of Calabrian buffalo eating a fistful of fresh mozzarella declaring ‘this - this is truly out of this world’ I shall be bereft. I may have to rewatch all 20 eps. Perfect for winter gloom 👌 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

It was such an honour to be invited behind the curtain on a show I’ve loved for fourteen years. Tonight’s episode of Call The Midwife (written by me) features a man in an iron lung and Poplar’s answer to the 1970 Commonwealth Games.

Keeping quiet about this for the last year or so has been hard work! This job was a madly exciting, pinch-me experience. The team are amazing. The show will be broadcast later this year. I wrote ep 4 and co-wrote eps 5 and 7. deadline.com/2025/01/the-...

#TheFireInside is a true story perfectly told. The writing, directing, performances - all bloody stunning. It’s the kind of film that leaves you just feeling grateful that a film like this exists. It will also leave you empty of tears. This week particularly 🇺🇸🙏🏻

Go see #SingSing. It’s really something. Quietly, messily beautiful. Loved it.

At a time when audio drama and entertainment is having a moment, it seems short-sighted of the BBC to cut their radio drama slots. Still, that is what they have been quietly doing. Sign the petition opposing their latest cuts. chng.it/V6QyDwkfbp

My kid just looked at me with rare admiration and described me as a very hydrated lady

Writing for radio is so exciting, collaborative, immediate. It demands a certain kind of imagination. Radio 3 is a rare space that actually cares what you have to say and gives you the time to - you know - author. And it reaches people in surprising ways. Shutting the door to this is terrible loss.

Chris McCausland, calling for more funding to the Access to Work scheme while also freeing mince pies from oppression. Thank you channel 4 🙏🏻 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9hC5...

Last night on #Strictly Chris said ‘disabled people can do anything given opportunity, support & determination’. This is true for me and all my disabled buddies. Give us the first two, we supply the third and the results will defy expectation. Every. Single. Time.

#BlackDoves feels like what would happen if the Coen Brothers crashed a dump truck into Love Actually and left it bleeding on the pavement. Am loving it.

What feedback does Rudolf most regularly receive about his screenwriting? That it’s too ‘on the nose’ ❄️ 🎄 #CrackerJoke #Screenwriting

This wintery time of year I like to carry a miniature of rum in my handbag just in case I find myself in the emergency situation of needing to buy a hot chocolate and knowing it would be improved by rum.

Lowercase #hashtags are inaccessible to blind folks—and they confuse everyone. In 2012, #susanalbumparty earned singer Susan Boyle the wrong kind of attention. Capitalizing #EachNewWord (aka #CamelCase) would’ve prevented the #SocialMediaFail. #LetThisGuideYou #AccessHelpsEveryone #Disability

But Christ that final episode of Derry Girls is beautiful. Just watched it with my 10yo son and was in floods. So heartening to be able to explain that moment in history to him. God knows he deserves some hope and reassurance after so much exposure to me singing Take That and The Cranberries

A friend came round today to help me plant crocuses in my lawn. We thought it might be nice to make a shape so naturally we opted for a massive penis.

For any journalists looking to write about #Strictly and #disability and the mighty Chris McCausland, I do a dance class specifically for people with sight loss at Rambert studios in London. My teacher is wonderful. I’d be happy to make introductions.

Was going to make a starter pack for people into 19th century German nihilism, but I realised it would be too Nietzsche.

My top reads the year are: All Fours by Miranda July and I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest w You by Miranda Hart. The former is like a firework up your arse - left me in pieces muttering ‘every day is tuesday’. The latter is like eating marmalade & getting a hug. 2024 - the year of essential Mirandas.

Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 - Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple One movie 🎥 - Gladiator One album 💿 - Woodface, Crowded House One TV show 📺 - Derry Girls

So thought I’d create one of these funky cool @bsky.app starter packs this one for my British or Britain based Deaf, Disabled, Neurodivergent pro actors so people can find us casting directors included 😉 want to be on this handy dandy list drop a comment and feel free to share ❤️ go.bsky.app/R9EbV9d

What about a pack for writers who only put make-up on for zoom meetings and then wipe it straight off again afterwards?

Am looking to follow more people into puns and French philosophy. Anyone got a Sartre pack?

Why does Jeremy Bentham take care to maximise the wellbeing of all his spatulas? Because he’s a utensilarian

Why was Robbie Williams unable to name Karl Marx as his favourite political thinker? Because he’s loving Engels instead.

Being English and emotionally repressed, my response to Rose Ayling-Ellis’ beautiful no-sound dance on #Strictly a few years ago, was to have a massive nosebleed. God help me this year if my mate Chris McCausland gets to the final.

I have a poster above my desk of Russell Crowe in a chainmail skirt fighting a tiger. It’s there to remind me to put conflict in every scene. It’s also there because it’s a poster or Russell Crowe in a chainmail skirt fighting a tiger. Happy Gladiator Day, Maximus. We salute you for all eternity.

What a funny, touching and clever film #MyOldAss is. I really dug it.

I love Chris McCausland. I love how brave he is for taking on this challenge (I know I wouldn’t have the guts) & I love why he’s doing it. As he said: ‘disabled people don’t need to see themselves represented on screen, but other people do’

On such days the immortal words in 2002 of former Whitehall permanent secretary Sir Richard Mottram re-echo down the ages: “We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. We're all completely fucked.”

For this evening’s Halloween festivities, my son will be dressing up as (his choice) a bottle of ketchup. My daughter will be dressing as (her words) a slutty bumble bee.

My kids are not persuaded by my genius ‘Ghosts’-themed Halloween costume idea.

Got to the bit in #Rivals where Rupert Campbell-Black quips to his lover that he is a member of the ‘clit-Tory’ party and I’m calling it, ladies and gents, we have reached sex-based pun of the year. We have peaked.

I just apologised to a call centre robot for thinking it was a call centre robot.