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The official poster for the 4K restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils 👀 In theaters October 16 from Warner Bros. Clockwork.

Only When I Laugh - Where There's a Will (6th May 1980). Patrick Troughton (eschewing the subtle approach) guest stars.

It's like Vic Reeves showing Les a spirit level at this point.

This is Blu. He is here for booty scratches. Can also easily be over there for booty scratches. Or there. Just say the word. 13/10 (TT: 24hddsd)

How many Customs and Excise careers did Claire Nielson launch, with recruits thinking they would have an unflappable Scots secretary like "security-minded" Luke Fraser in 1967's The Revenue Men ?

She also turned up on the second ep of Rab C Nesbitt from it's first series (of which I only knew of when Paramount Comedy 2 repeated it around 2007), and was also as brilliant there too in my view youtu.be/cI0jB9pLJjs?...

Nice to see Hennimore is still getting work #IYKYK

This is now happening. BBC Four to repeat A Very Peculiar Practice for its 40th anniversary on Wednesday 20 May. Includes a new intro from Andrew Davies. #AVeryPeculiarPractice

I came across this fascinating video a few years back, behind the scenes of CNN on 9/11. Ted Turner's there, right in the middle of it, but also letting everyone do their job. youtu.be/yD5ZSEzriLI?...

See also her work on Scotch & Wry with Rikki Fulton (which reputedly used rejected Two Ronnies scripts, at least early on in its run) Brilliantly versatile actress.

Who knew that selling overpriced things in the worst possible atmosphere wouldn't make a successful business?

I still wish I could be as glamorous as her. This sketch is a favourite with me and @dirtyfeed.org, as well as her famous turn as Mrs Hamilton in Fawlty Towers. RIP, Claire.

There are many, many reasons why Zack Polanski’s *share early, share often* social media policy is incredibly stupid, but this is just the latest. (H/T @adamlangleben.bsky.social)

[email protected] has just published polling done by @moreincommonuk.bsky.social. While it's important to focus on the (relatively) positive, as the headline does, I would urge readers not to miss this deeply, deeply disturbing statistic in the polling. www.jewishnews.co.uk/uk-voters-mo...

He's gradually morphing into Stuart Pearson

Sick of election chat? Worn out by war? Have a photo of this kitten who is about to steal a piece of ravioli right off someone’s plate. His eyes are full of crimes.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

BBC One is live this Friday from 6am - 10:40pm, which is fun. And not just news/current affairs stuff, as it includes a live celebration of David Attenborough from the Royal Albert Hall.

I would like the media to stop trading in blatantly antisemitic caricature

Contains reference to the unscreened pilot of Colin's Sandwich.

“Come Helga, ve are having lunch with General Von Klinkerhoffen at ze Café René”

As I vaguely return to doing some proper writing, enjoy this little tale of a very strange moment I experienced while working on Channel 5. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/05/keep...

EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. Tickets available at all prices.

Incredible chart (from otherwise depressing news story about bad advice being given to new parents) showing how cot deaths fell by 50% in the first year after the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched, and have continued to fall since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Yes I am, I'm lovely"

As a general point “I don’t work for you!” is an extremely liberating sentence every woman should practise and use.

😧 Hungarian public opinion is consumed by last night’s interview with this oligarch, who broke down in tears multiple times. We watched in disbelief as one of the richest men in the country, collapsing on live TV, tried to defend the indefensible… 3/1

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

Oh look, it’s your fav calling out antisemitic hatred. Not so fucking hard, is it?

Happy one-year anniversary to the time I was leafing through an early 70s issue of TV Times... and stumbled across an actual advert for Trim- Jeans.

it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

Me, my mum and my brother Ben (being lifted up) meeting Dave Prowse in the toy dept of a Co-op back in 83. About 30 years later, I bumped into him in a restaurant and he claimed to remember meeting me. Wonderfully polite bullshit. I shook his hand. It was the size of a bunch of bananas. #StarWarsDay

This, on the other hand, is hanging out of a window in one of our neighbourhoods without a care in the world.

I don't remember any previous campaign where this sort of thing happened - it's routine this year. This particular sign has been torn down & put up twice. Some people are too scared to put a Labour poster in their window because someone could put a brick through.

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

I don't know what the conventions are on sharing children's work, but when you're a cartoonist and your 6yo's homework is to draw the PM, and he comes up with this cracking image, it feels like there's an obligation.

My hope is a whole bunch of not Jewish people will sign up, discover that the location of Jewish events are frequently kept secret until 24 hours before for security reasons and conclude that is not a reasonable state of affairs.

Watching 8½, and you fucker Fellini, we were trying to keep that bit of male sexuality a secret.

amusing myself greatly imagining the tone of voice in which camilla said "wow"

OK I found a picture in Crete of the guy with the coolest t shirt ever

This picture from ATP turned up on my Facebook feed and I thought the players were wearing crop tops.

Thread. I don’t consider this an acceptable position for any group to be in when living in this country, not if we still value ourselves as a democracy.

If you wondered what I do for a living: it's annoying Al Bundy.

Good clear statement. Thank you Newcastle Green Party

One of the greats.

I'll add that there are plenty of black Jews, brown Jews, and LGBTQ Jews. How interesting that the Manchester Green Party seems so keen to erase their existence.

Well, that's certainly one way for the Green Party in one of the UK's largest cities to respond to a series of attacks against the Jewish community, of which Wednesday's stabbing attack was just the latest. Not even pretending it's about Israel now, are they?

Wakefield’s fraudulent paper is one of the worst things to happen to humanity in the past 50 years. It is responsible for countless preventable deaths and ongoing disabilities. He and his supporters are monsters.

Vincent does indeed make everything better. What a marvellous man he was.