Thanks a bunch, Nigel

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

Be quick. This will sell right out, if it hasn't already

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Caught a mouse in our utility room and released it far away in an abandoned barn. Mrs G then found that it had shredded the lining of one of her walking boots and made a cozy nest inside. Feels like I've been gifted the subject for an illustrated children's book. BERGHAUS MOUSE: THE LONG VOYAGE HOME

Watched Stephen Gallagher’s SILENT WITNESS last night - The Legacy (from Drama channel last week). It's a great story - chilling government conspiracy & cover-up that had echoes of Quatermass 2. Also reminded me of the science-y investigations of Eleventh Hour. Superb stuff. @stephengallagher.co.uk

Some time back, with @andydiggle.bsky.social and others, worked up a proposal for a Prisoner live promenade drama using the landmarks and landscape of Lancaster’s Williamson Park. Contacted ITV to initiate pursuit of the rights. Ghosted.

It's more than four decades old now but Warren Zevon's The Envoy still makes a banging pitch for a high-end TV series

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

Thanks a bunch, Nigel

"Kindness is a language animals never forget."

So the details are out and I see Trump got bummed by Putin yet again

Now I read dogs better than I did you see it with many on screen dog ‘actors’ where they know exactly where their human is and who has the treats. Obviously they are generally better actors than babies :)

#Scriptsky #UKScriptsky Right chaps (of all genders), James Moran's Screenwriters' Lounge is the place to be. A small monthly membership fee for classes, chat, advice, we're planning script swaps and other stuff... Why not join up?

Nothing more stressful than shooting with a baby in a crib. Hanging 50lbs of camera equipment directly over them gives me heart palpitations. Whatever we get in two takes is about all I can handle.

Whenever there's a baby in a scene you can almost always follow its eyeline to where a parent is standing off-camera. Just saw a show that took this to an extreme; screen mother was carrying it out of the door and the kid points offscreen and says, "Mama".

"Wilson said it was also upsetting for the production and design team, who had worked hard on the books" But they're awful

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

After chipping in with 👇on a @lydiamulvey.bsky.social about unmade projects I found myself re-filing some older material and, like the cat that keeps crapping in your garden, gave in to the urge to rake this one over again. Look, count me a BBC loyalist. But boy, have I been tested over the years

After chipping in with 👇on a @lydiamulvey.bsky.social about unmade projects I found myself re-filing some older material and, like the cat that keeps crapping in your garden, gave in to the urge to rake this one over again. Look, count me a BBC loyalist. But boy, have I been tested over the years

Money that would be better spent on therapy

Suggestion for Starmer. Think, "How would a progressive Labour government handle this?" and do that

Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Watched a bit, got a weird feeling from SW's sombre tone; I have strong recall of scripts where I created or had free rein, less so where I wrote to a corporate format. There's a Quatermass 2 vibe in this one that I'll completely own, though.

Just channel hopping and saw that U&Drama is showing one of mine - Silent Witness: Legacy

If you're looking for some way to make the anguish of loss more excruciating, here it is

Distracting attention from the Epstein files by singing a selection of the hits of Al Jolson.

The @averyhill.bsky.social show at the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate is amazing, and very flattering! So much great @rachaelsmith.bsky.social Nessie art! Do go along if you can!

Inspired

Somewhere between animatic and live action, terrifically atmospheric, and no AI

Sadly, it’s FO time.

"I have met some very bad people....none as bad as trump. Not one decent cell in his body..so yes - dangerous." Jeffrey Epstein 2017

Hartley Hare, from Pipkins. If roadkill were to be repurposed as a hand puppet

Disappeared with not a whiff of his whereabouts

🤔 @slack2thefuture.bsky.social

Zevon!

Listening to @iammilliam.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social (wrote for Writing the Future) and @quantick.bsky.social (whose books I copy-edited for Titan) discuss Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder (@charliehigson.bsky.social recommended in Writing the Murder). www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...

Absolutely this. Apply what you know to what you learn and you'll make something that's personal and unique

...Connery's Aston Martin DB5, with which his version of the character had no historic link, accompanied by Judi Dench who was Brosnan's M, while in the background that mad bloke with the website was chirping "Craig is not Bond" and I've lost count of how many times Blofeld's been killed

Utter bollocks. New young Bond walks into new M's office and gets a mission against a new villain. Cherrypick whatever's appealing from the communal grab-bag of Bondery. Remembering the ripple of delight that ran through the audience when Craig switched on the lights to reveal...

NEW COMMA BLOG ✍️ Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃 Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day. 📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...

Just reboot the fucker and if you can’t, stand aside to let someone else do it. No one will care after the first shaken Martini. 🍸

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Not that it's often come up

I'm ordering a new cover for the BBQ, not too sure about this one

I kind of understand. I feel the same when the news is wall-to-wall racists.

Helmet design #drawing #illustration #design #helmetdesign

I made one

laugh at the bronzer if you must … but carefully inspect that ear where he supposed took the bullet