Backrooms: not bad. Well made and effective. Does run out of steam 2 thirds in and substitutes story for piling on the weird, but on the whole I liked it.

JD Vance telling the U.K. how to tackle crime is a bit rich considering the U.S.’s approach to policing seems to be “shoot ‘em, just in case”…

Entertainment Weekly's 100 greatest albums of all time is... something.

I mean, it’s two weeks in a row now… I can’t cope with this level of fame…

That’s where I got married 23 years ago. My kids think it’s where Doc sent Marty back to the future. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i saw a video of a tv writer offering tips to emerging writers on how to get stuff sold/made, and no shade to the writer, who i think is good, but what’s the point of giving them advice when you and three other dudes are writing *all the telly*?

Tom Watson told me on Substack that he believes Louis Mosley is a sound character. I promptly unsubscribed.

FAME AT LAST!!!!!!

I presume this energy price hike (thanks to that orange idiot) includes the energy companies not giving bosses bonuses and not putting the shareholders first etc etc…

Hottest day of the year and I’m drinking a lemsip. Of course.

On the main five channels on today’s bank holiday, there is no scripted programming until 8pm. I’m not one for jumping into the “things used to be better” but TV programming definitely used to be.

If you’re a judge that can’t make a blindingly obvious decision based on what’s right then you shouldn’t be doing the bloody job.

Lou Bega’s favourite book as a child:

Why is “we got our film shown on Amazon prime” a selling point? Don’t they buy indie movies for, like, $500? Do these filmmakers ever see any kind of return on their investment? I hope so - but let’s stop that statement being something to aim for.

Anyone else completely sick of politics and the way the world runs?

Wes Streeting: a rat in snake’s clothing.

Ted Kotcheff certainly covered all bases in his career: Wake in Fright, Edna, the inebriate woman, First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s.

Just read somebody saying how they won’t be seeing The Odyssey because they wanted it to be like Sinbad. What is wrong with people today?

Adolescence cleaned up again. Surely it’s on its tenth lap of honour now? 😂

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... What I love about the original SW films is they utilised people like Michael Sheard, Don Henderson, Michael Culver, Kenneth Colley and Julian Glover as Vader-fearing Imperial Officers. All of them great. Bless them all.

Imagine being rejected for PIP because you haven’t had a limb amputated… 😳🙄🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

"Somehow, Palpatine returned" doesn't sound so unbelievably stupid now, does it? 🤦‍♂️

Of course he does.

This is perfect!

It's almost as if Labour's pandering to the far right achieved sod all 🤷‍♂️

New Reform Councils next week:

Finished! It may have said ‘Phoenix’ on the box but we all know it’s the USS Cygnus!

Shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Voted. And not for Reform and Tories, and for the first time - not labour.

They should have saved millions by not rebranding. The name was never the issue.

This from @zackpolanski.bsky.social is sensible and reasonable. Compare and contrast with the histrionics from the other politicians on the media round this morning who are much more concerned with the vilification of their opponents ahead of an election than they are with protecting communities.

Listening to Andrew Rosindell referring to Romford as a “market town”… The market died on its arse years ago!

Shima Enaga, also known as the Japanese Snow Fairy, which is a subspecies of the long-tailed tit

Remember that time they did a reboot of The Equaliser staring Roger Whittaker

I'm going to have to watch this frame back to find out how this happened. Never seen anything like this in, what, 35 years of watching snooker.

Just awaiting the arrival of the Vogons and that will perfectly complete my day.

Lawd save us… I can’t live in a world where someone praises Jaws 4 and says “the OG hasn’t aged well”. Stop the world, I want to get off.

Today’s “who’s this moron and how do we bin him?”.

Captain. Leader. Far-right sympathiser. Terry joins ranks of football’s radicalised | Jonathan Liew

You are living.

We'll be in the karaoke booth at Boom Battle Bar Exeter from 9pm singing this.

And they wonder why lone gunmen shoot CEO's... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Before 9/11 this is what the news was like every day

And they were saying this over 20 years ago…

“Right, we’ll have to re-shoot the whole scene again, JD you were smiling when the extra we hired was taking you away, and forgot that your wife was still under the table, and who forgot the blood capsule to put on Donald’s ear? “

Happy Alien Day!

Margaret Thatcher’s dungeon.