Cracking night at tonight's Divine Comedy gig at the Glasshouse. Forgot how, for good or ill, At the Indie Disco (good) and Our Mutual Friend (ill) really sums up my student years.

Signed off the last week of ARC's cinema screenings for October and it's porridge, Pavement, and PTA! (Love this gig) Come visit ARC's cinema if you're in or around Teesside! arconline.co.uk/whats-on/?_s...

We all know that the Voord and the Cybermen are related. But aren't the Teletubbies another variant?

Gornfest 2025 continues this week on Untitled Star Trek Project, as we head back to 1967 — when the Gorn were just a single rubber lizard in a spangly minidress and the Federation was barely a glint in Gene L. Coon’s eye. #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS untitledstartrekproject.com/168/

The audio edition of our conversation from last night (also up on YouTube) about another possible path that the future of Doctor Who might take. strangersinspace.libsyn.com/blue-box-190...

‼️ NEW NOSTALGIA TOURS ‼️ Join the very lovely @jonarnold.bsky.social and @markdodyk.bsky.social as we explore Mind of Evil, Terminus, Oxygen and Power of the Doctor. Which story will get the most plaudits and handshakes? And who will get the dreaded P45? Find out.. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

More gossip and rumours about potential fates for Doctor Who... youtu.be/6wzeeTK0X-8

Our hilarious Funny Friday is back to start your weekend off *right*. 4 great new acts saying the unsayable. £18 advance £20 on the door

❗️Coming Friday ❗️ Join @jonarnold.bsky.social, @markdodyk.bsky.social and me for a wild trip across the universe! From Mind of Evil to Terminus, from Oxygen to Power of the Doctor, we’ll sort out who’s getting the handshakes… and trust me, there are some surprises in store.. plus laughs and opinions!

Nothing convinces me more that the backlash against Slow Horses from certain publications is manufactured for clicks more than actually watching Slow Horses. The interrogation scenes between Kristin Scott Thomas and Christopher Chung this week were 👌

Tonight, Clare Balding proved a universal truth that anyone working in customer service could tell you: people do not read signs. #CelebrityTraitors

Jonathan Ross' Top Gun jacket definitely feels like he's had a Taskmaster costume waiting to go but never got the call. #CelebrityTraitors

Alan Carr is Linda at an 11 #CelebrityTraitors

Alan Carr AND Jonathan Ross? That's two massive personalities. The Traitors are gonna end up killing themselves. #CelebrityTraitors

the only good news all year #CelebrityTraitors

Cannot tell for the life of me if Charlotte Church is taking the mic or taking it seriously which make it even better #CelebrityTraitors

You'd be insane to choose Mark Bonnar as a Traitor. Subvert expectations, finally give the bloke a chance to play a good guy. #CelebrityTraitors

Nick Clegg is the Duplo Tony Blair.

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

* change national anthem to Mogwai Fear Satan * Bring Arran a bit nearer * Neeps and tatties to be combined into Neeties * Cities will have legs installed and roam the country * A bothy for every child * Anyone with mental health gets five minutes in a cave with a struggling spider

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

Oh my God this.

If only we knew what sorts of emissions significantly contribute to people needing to use inhalers, maybe we could find a way to fight this environmental menace.

Got my flu jab on Saturday and today I'm sick and run down. Is that a normal side-effects thing or a purely unrelated second thing?

Will people vote for arrogant superiority (and whatever Dave is up to?) or will they vote for fun, spectacle and modern day TV (techniques and narratives)? Press play and find out! @thepolisbox.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/KRXLChu...

Game of Thrones. Haven't seen a single episode because dragons and sword and sandal stuff isn't really my bag. Then I read a snippet of one of the books which was seemingly written by a horny teenager so I swore off it completely.

Purely coincidental, of course, but it's quite apt that "How Are You? It's Alan Partridge" debuts at the end of the week of the Riyadh Comedy Festival recriminations.

Unfortunately, I had the same emotional disconnect with The Smashing Machine that I've had with every Safdie Brothers movie that isn't Uncut Gems. It's undoubtedly A Good Film but it left me cold and couldn't escape the shadow of your Raging Bulls.

Enjoying each and every time someone says "Dunstable" in episode four of Object Z

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path. [Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

Watching the new Shane Black film. Do you reckon he has a Christmas dinner every day?

IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.

"He doesn't need an ambulance. He needs a hoover." 'The Last Days of the Powell Estate' was a lot of fun. Some good gags, a nice mix of sci-fi and horror, and a villain with a very silly name. It's solid but unremarkable Doctor Who. Eccleston and Piper are brilliant, though.

Night of the Living Dead was released 57 years ago today🧟‍♂️

On this day in 1969, The Man Trap (Star Trek S01E01) debuted on BBC1.

Work finished for the week. Time to unwind in the nerdiest way possible, even for me!

Jamie Oliver should be tried at the Hague.

We’re pairing up with @toohot4tv.bsky.social for a mental health special - check out Too Hot for TV where we talk about Minuet in Hell & Unregenerate! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

One of us loved this book, one of us hated it and one of us sat squarely in the middle but doesn't ever want to read another Doctor Who book after this. Can Doctor Who tackle mental health sensitively in prose? @toohot4tv.bsky.social @michaelmills.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Stormy weather outside and Amy's gone away for the weekend, so it looks like me and the boy are watching some archive television.

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Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect

Cor, EastEnders was great last night, wasn't it? A beautiful way to finally draw a line under Max and Stacey while setting up new Max Branning stories. Corking script by Simon Ashdown

Recent colour footerings of A5 Stramash sketches

The lads

For a Doctor who doesn't do domestics, the Ninth is spending a lot of time on the Powell Estate of late.

If @docoho44.bsky.social doesn't top @pljquinn.bsky.social's dog mask by turning up on a horse, then the rest of the trial of Flux may as well be thrown out of court.

It's Movie Time! #OnCinemaSeason16