So today I learned that there were tie-in novels for THE DOLLARS TRILOGY that went beyond the movies and boy do they have some amazing titles.

It's got everyone in it from Paul Young to Young Marble Giants, and from Salt-N-Pepa to Chas & Dave. #IntoTheGroove, my new book, the month-by-month story of 1980s pop, out on Thurs 2 Oct from @eandtbooks.bsky.social. Pre-order from everywhere and anywhere, eg: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/into...

What a time to be alive!*

New episode alert! This week @johntymacc.bsky.social & @garferty.bsky.social take a look at the Stockbridge Trilogy from @bigfinish.bsky.social. Listen here: rss.com/podcasts/apo... #Podcast #DoctorWho #AudioDrama

Tony Hadoke has piqued my curiosity with his book about The Quatermass Experiment, and as ever eBay was there… lurking…

It’sa-me! Continuing our voyage through Blake’s 7. There are ups and downs…

One of the many things I hate about that “I poured too much sugar on my pasta, hewp me I’m a dumb widdwe babyyy” AI ad is that a person who can be bothered to make pasta from scratch can be bothered to properly research a solution.

Fourteenth Doctor watching the world collapse on May 23 whilst idly picking his teeth: I’m sure he’s got this #DoctorWho

Look, I like Billie, she’ll be great, and if (as it looks) it’s a “what’s going on here” regen with a familiar face then that isn’t in itself a terrible idea, but WE ONLY JUST DID THIS and this one is THE OTHER HALF OF THE GUY WE JUST DID IT WITH. Do! New! Things! #DoctorWho

This Era Is Going To Be A Fresh Start That Will Hook The Disney+ Crowd latest: Bonnie Langford: hey who else remembers Time And The Rani #DoctorWho

Bit funny really that Final Reckoning bothers to tell us what the Rabbit’s Foot was from M:I-III but it can’t be bothered telling us what the main villain of this movie’s motivation was. Did JJ Abrams tinker with it as revenge?

Most of fandom Saturday evening if he doesn’t, y’know

Rushing to the shops in the hopes they haven’t run out of The Wheel In Space novelisation. The fucking state of me honestly

I’m finding it a bit bizarre how RTD handles villain reveals given how well he did it in 2007. Show us what this means! Don’t just go oooOOOooo, that’s a name that is, ta-dah!

That lady who dies in the Dead Reckoning flashbacks ought to win some sort of fridging award. Her death is the catalyst for Ethan Hunt’s entire life and we don’t know anything else about her whatsoever. RIP Dead Doris, maybe you were good at crosswords idk

I wish the Mission Impossible Reckoning movies had left in the de-aged back story stuff. It might be nice to understand the villain’s antipathy towards the hero, and more broadly why we should give a shit about this inexplicably magic bad guy - or Hunt’s entire alluded-to past.

I do know AI is useful for some people. Great. I get that. But when someone says, “I don’t like it” and you say, “Fuck you, eat it all,” you’re not really making a case that it’s actually something the other person would in fact like if they just gave it a chance.

Ooh! Fancy book alert. Time to find out what this whole Quatermass thing is about… @tenacrefilms.bsky.social @tobyhadoke.bsky.social

Hey Ted Sarandos, found another reason to keep cinemas

Do Labour base this kind of stuff on positive feedback of some kind? Because all I can find online when they do a Reform dog whistle is “you no longer represent me, what are you doing” or “not bigoted enough, nice try.” Can’t they see this doesn’t have legs?

Willpower is a funny thing: at the same time I’m clearly crap at staying off social media when I haven’t watched a TV show at 8am, social media addiction amirite, but do the guys just going full spoiler on a Saturday morning get a willpower pass? You couldn’t NOT post that image for 12 hours?

The Man With The Golden Gun might be my least favourite Bond theme. Listening to the (lovely) John Barry soundtrack and having Lulu sidle in again at the end is just purest embarrassment. Urgh.

So no spoilers or anything but THAT character death in #Thunderbolts is clearly meant to introduce an element of danger… but that doesn’t work because of who’s doing it. And sure enough it doesn’t happen again. It just comes off as throwaway, a marketing gimmick.

Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne

Sinners invites a new bold business idea. What if people want to see movies because they like them and not due to a pavlovian response to being 12 years old once!?

It’s honestly wild that they’re making all this stink about trans women using public loos because of vastly fictional safety concerns when cis men have been the main problem all along and there’s just… no concern about that. You getting to that later or?

Guess I might watch all of Black Mirror.

‘Out Of Time 3: Wink’ is definitely worth a shout out (no, dear, I said Wink). Tennant & C Baker have great chemistry, the setup is impressively original, and it adds a whole bunch of imaginative new wrinkles to the Angels’ threat. A fun, fast, conceptually rich, adventure. #DoctorWho

Think about this pretty much on a daily basis now: bsky.app/profile/elea...

Facebook seems to be hitting new heights of unusability for me. I’ve never had this many irrelevant ads (trying to hide them is like beheading a Hydra) and every other group post is a sodding AI meme.

Transphobia is no more "acceptable" than any other form of bigotry, and I continue to be absolutely astounded, shocked, and revolted that otherwise "liberal" people think otherwise. What do they want transgender people to do? Hide away? Pretend they don't exist?

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.

Well if nothing else the last few years have been a really good advert for not hoarding wealth, considering how much misery is happening specifically because of about half a dozen fuckawful billionaires.

RTD knows how to do a peppy, frothy series opener and this was another one. I liked Belinda. I sort of wish RTD would investigate other sorts of series openers. #TheRobotRevolution

Can’t be doing with Doctor Who at 8am. I can still taste the toothpaste, to quote Lister.

Every time I see the trailer for Clown In A Cornfield I’m more convinced it’s a deliberately bad trailer that characters would watch in a better movie and they’ve uploaded it by mistake.

If you need something related to #DoctorWho books and fiction to look forward to, series four of the We're All Stories in the End podcast gets properly underway a week from today. Why not dip into the archive before then? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

New Lost in Adaptation now on Youtube. Wicked (The book to the musical this time). youtu.be/uzUo_mxDo24?...

THERAPIST: Pick your battles ME: I PICK THEM ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Needed to show a QR code at the post office to send a return but because this was the last saved image on my phone this is what I showed them

RIP The Alto Knights, evidently binned off by my local cinema after 4 days. Did the two De Niros do “you talkin’ to me?” I can only wonder.

Another bit of Doctor Who non-fiction! Yes please.

Had lots of fun reassessing the first episodes of Blake’s 7. They started strong. We’ll see how it goes after that…

Just back from Mickey 17. There should be an Academy Award for Best Weird Lil Guy and Robert Pattinson should win it for this.

Heard a car revving a lot outside the funeral home opposite. Seems odd. Went to have a look. He’s gone in now. Either a big OFAH fan has left us or Del Boy’s really pushing his luck.

Rather hoping these are unrelated articles.

“Personally I don’t see the big deal about transphobia,” says cis actor with no trans friends.