🏫 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: Season One (Part 2 of 2) We’re diving back into the Hellmouth to discuss two more episodes of BTVS: "Angel" and "Prophecy Girl” with @marialattila.bsky.social & @brendonconnelly.bsky.social 👇🏻 pod.fo/e/390391

@margueritekenner.bsky.social I can't reply to your question but there's something about a pan-tenna that might work.

There's a thing going on where people name beloved record albums from when they were 19. I can't reliably distinguish my memories of being, say, 17, 18, 19, 20 or 21. Not really. Let's throw 16 and 22 in there too. It's mostly a jumble of fragments. Still, I do like Flood by They Might Be Giants.

Asta Norris is the latest member of the Wickleford Whodunnit Book Club, where her seen-it-all attitude doesn't win her many friends. When the club is caught up in a murder mystery of its own, it’s down to Asta to cut through cliches and sort fact from fiction. Coming to BBC Radio 4. #OpenYourMind

Publication day! Two years of my life very well spent, please buy the book! Tonight’s launch event at Waterstones is SOLD OUT but we’ll be doing more events harpercollins.co.uk/products/the...

An addictive anagram headlines game. jamwitch.itch.io/the-daily-sp...

Redux Redux compares to The Terminator, Primer and Memento but I found it more compelling than two of those. A taught, smart revenge film about a woman on a mission... or two... or an infinite amount. In US cinemas this week and UK streaming soon. Skip the trailer? www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3MI...

I keep thinking of and laughing at that brilliant establishing shot of a pub in the second episode of Small Prophets. What a fantastic show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiF6...

Maryam d'Abo has been speaking about her time as a Bond girl and her upcoming performance in the play Spanish Oranges. I suppose I can now say she's also going to appear in a certain Radio 4 murder mystery show later this year... www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/f...

Can't stop thinking about Send Help. Especially three particular beats and the production design, dialogue and editing that makes them work. I'm just so delighted by the craft of it.

It's staggering how affordable the TV license fee is. Utterly mindblowing compared to the prices of commercial subscription services. A genuine bargain.

Okay, it's fantastic. Give Piggy an Emmy. I hppe there are many more and they're as carefully crafted.

I'm without Disney and therefore unable to watch The Muppet Show so please, watch it for me. I'll get to it as soon as I can. Obviously.

I will write this TV series right now.

I confused Mandelson and Mandelbrot and now I'm left with a snowflake showing repeated patterns of behaviour.

This could be the game equivalent of The Hangover or some nasty crap like that, or perhaps it's much more self-aware. Either way, I think it's a cult hit about to explode. store.steampowered.com/app/4258290/...

I want everybody to hear absolutely every word Aliya Rahman just told the DHS congressional hearing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJof...

If you're in France, or the internet thinks you are, there's a new documentary about Spirou's role in World War II resistance. Adventure comics vs. Nazis. Eat that, Tintin. www.france.tv/france-3/nou...

reposting with alt text for accessibility: Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Secret Genius has a diverse bunch of working class contestants solving puzzles and playing memory games. Many of the players noticeably grow in confidence as the show goes along. That's all hard to resist but the elimination format seems arbitrary. Why not let everybody play throughout?

Hello, Universal Pictures executives. It's me, Mark. Again. You keep accidentally not replying to my amazing thoughts about the future of the Fast & Furious franchise, so I put them in an open letter over on @filmstories.bsky.social. Where we're going, we don't need roads...

Sadly, YouTube spoils the end of the trailer but the iPlayer does not. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Here's a trailer for Small Prophets. Very exciting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...

The mania for so-called AI is just pareidolia writ large. It's a fart machine built on plagiarism and waste. LLM technology is, at best, a crappy magic trick. Shapes in the clouds. Don't be deluded that it's 'not quite ready' and 'will get better'. It's pointless and polluting. Tear it down.

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

The Up Helly Aa fire festival livestream. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Vb...

@louiestowell.bsky.social There was a round on children's books on the game show The Floor this week, which will likely amuse you if can watch it (about 35 minutes in, not counting ads). I am proud to say I got a clean sweep.

Society exists. Community exists. We will root out corporations and cults and put society, community and humanity at the centre of things again. A return to things run by the people, for the people. I'm looking for clues how I can better play my part in this.

These lucky, lucky people.

Assuming the date is correct (and the story’s not apocryphal), this was 39 years ago tonight

Charlie Drake's boomerang will return in Avengers Doomsday.

The Traitors taking us on another rip-roaring trip into the house of stopped clocks for silly ass solipsism hour. Is this reality TV or a catalogue of logical fallacies?

Just a few of the 2025 films I loved are The Ballad of Wallis Island, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Sketch, The Choral, Redux Redux, The Baltimorons, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Tornado, Dust Bunny, Bring Her Back, L'Accident de Piano, The Rule of Jenny Pen. You might like them too!

Worse things happen at sea. MOCKERY MANOR: Season 4 is coming later this year.

Jackie Evans has very little music online but she obviously has a dazzling way with melody. Perhaps she's rather beholden to the music of Carole King and James Taylor but, well, aren't most of us? www.youtube.com/watch?v=02qQ...

I just went to a sold out screening of The Housemaid, at 6pm on a Tuesday night no less, and the audience had an absolute riot. The whole experience was just brilliant fun, buzzing like a midnight screening of a cult classic.

Amongst the many gems to come to light while writing the first biography of writer Roy Clarke are handwritten scripts for classic Last of the Summer Wine episodes. During the '60s, '70s, and '80s Roy would write in longhand before sending his drafts away to be typed.

You won’t want to miss this class. ko-fi.com/vampirevideo...

Add Barbara Steele video clips to the rituals and I'm in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ISZ...

The Royal Television Society East has added a Generative AI category to their awards. They say 'This category recognises excellence in the use of generative AI.' Both absurd and disgraceful. Shame on RTS. I'm done with you. Meanwhile, the anti-AI stance of @writersguildgb.bsky.social is spot on.

One of the #AudioDrama people who see this will be able to help Sara for sure. (FAO @saraaaaah.bsky.social @alasdairstuart.com You guys know cool sound engineers!)

No steak, some cake.

Animators Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson have collaborated with Mackenzie Crook on his new sitcom Small Prophets and I think it's going to make them a lot of new fans. vimeo.com/1036327590

Tracy Morgan, Tina Fey and company didn't get where they are today by not inexplicably using the first six words of another sitcom title as their own. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw7W...

New distracted boyfriend meme just dropped with Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, and Joyce 'sister of Lionel' Blair.

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

That was the best mission on The Traitors to date, wasn't it? I would love to have played that. Also, that second envelope we keep seeing in Uncloaked is a family tree of all eleven secret pairs, I'm pretty sure of it.