I swear, someone *always* resigns when I go on holiday:

My commitments as BBC Director General will be clear: Minus five points for any couple on Strictly that does a “notices and reacts to the camera” bit in their routine.

I wonder whether this or all the farting about LLMs will seem to have been more significant in ten years time.

Joe & @jameslark.bsky.social talk to one of their favourite authors about writing The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee, coming to terms with your own work, and the creating unique short story collections. Insight into the writing process from one of the masters. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Obviously right to criticise it when it makes mistakes but the BBC is broadly very good and British people don’t realise how lucky they are to have it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Bloody hell. You wouldn’t pass a fairly basic data apprenticeship if you missed this yawning gap in your data.

Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight AKA The Cook, the Chauffeur, the Maid and Her Killer

Liz Truss turning up at these things always reminds me of the bit in The West Wing when they wonder if John Goodman will get a presidential library.

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Entirely accurate.

We often speak of you.

And Another Thing

Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

I’m here for Joe and Nick’s beautiful friendship. #CelebrityTraitors

There we go, lads. Fill yer boots. #celebritytraitors

Just perfect television. #traitors

FUCKING SHAKESPEARE #TheCelebrityTraitors

“Joe and Alan at the roundtable.” #TheTraitors

Hamster Book Club Merchandise has arrived! @devondan.bsky.social

what did anonymous do on the 5th of november

Next week, I’ll be interviewing the glorious Jacqueline Rayner for the Hamster Book Club opening weekend in January. If you have any questions for Jac - pop them below.

This news is too damn sexy.

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

Respectfully suggesting one of the Natalie Dormer CBeebies Bedtime Stories each evening.

I am shocked to learn the former star of Billy Elliot is good at dancing. #Strictly

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Chimes of Midnight

Fascinating chart showing UK cinema attendance since 1935. Not what you might expect. TV and home video had a far more detrimental effect than streaming

The future of the Hamster Book Club looks great: @dwcoverstory.bsky.social @jonarnold.bsky.social @grumpy2eb.bsky.social are delving into the Earth and Timewyrm arcs, @jameslark.bsky.social & @michaelmills.bsky.social are getting festive and final with Chimes of Midnight and Lungbarrow…

“That's the problem with plutonium, Craven; it's limited in its application. It's not user-friendly. But as a vehicle for regaining one's self-respect, oh, it's got a lot going for it!”

Reading this. The sort of book in which, when the English are mentioned, you feel you should boo.

Spooky STAR WARS art by Ralph McQuarrie.

I am absolutely certain that “Doctor Who” fandom is not overreacting to this and is taking this news in its proper context. The only live action Disney+ originals or co-productions to broadcast more than two seasons since launch are “High School Musical” and “The Mandalorian.”

Good fun this: what if you wanted to make The Thing but also had some train sets you needed to get the use out of?

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers".

AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.

Happy Halloween! VOUDUN LOVECRAFT STAR TREK WANK FANTASIES OF THE 1990S Join us as we talk about a time Doctor Who tried to do something Doctor Who doesn’t often try to do.

Absolutely here for older Doctor Who fans arguing RTD should’ve remade The Shape of Water with these fellas.

“We play the contest again dickhead.”

And Doctor Who, which did NOT die...

Something that doesn’t get talked about enough: Disney threw out a Star Wars movie and did everything they could to make sure The Rise of Skywalker would appease the man-babies who pissed and moaned about The Last Jedi – and it made over $100 million less profit for them than Rian Johnson’s movie.

I miss the Wilderness Months

Well there we go. #DoctorWho

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

Too Hot for TV have been looking at what Doctor Who fans had to watch when it was off the telly and Dylan invited me on to talk about the Vic and Bob BBC Randall and Hopkirk remake from 2000!

The digital equivalent of soldiers hiding in the jungle believing that the war is still on

With so many contestants using Icons Week as an excuse to dress up as pop stars, it's great to see Vicky paying tribute to M Bison. #Strictly