Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be.

Loved S1 but I felt S2 saw a precipitous drop in quality, so I'm not surprised by this. The plans for the future sound bizarre. deadline.com/2025/11/peac...

60 years ago today, at 5.50pm BBC 1 broadcast the first episode of the 12-episode epic Daleks' Master Plan. It was subsequently junked from the archive. I've spent the last 3 years animating it. It's not exactly the same as it was. It's not meant to be. But I hope you enjoy it. 5.50 this evening!

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

The fact that the BBC is reporting on what the BBC did wrong is why we need the BBC. Critical self examination is one sign of a serious news organisation. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail still hasn’t admitted it supported Hitler.

A long, long post on the novelisation Doctor Who The Revenge of the Cybermen by Terrance Dicks, the first to feature the bohemian Fourth Doctor: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/11/doct... #books #booksky #DoctorWho

Doctor Who: The Reality War (2025)

The daily news cycle is now: billionaire promises he'll make the world exponentially worse; govt officials say "yes please, we'll help you make the world exponentially worse"; everyone else goes "wtf?" Repeat.

Lastly the blurb from TOR.UK.

Aaaaand here's the UK version. Gone for less Tim Burton more a classic 1930s feel which I also love and fits the book really well as it's a whodunnit. I love them both.

AT LAST I CAN SHOW YOU! Here is the US cover for MORTEDANT'S PERIL! And ain't it a cracker?

Please god no

I imagine Wired and the New Yorker will be gutted next. Political reporting apparently has no place at Conde Naste.

Coal has been dying for decades. In a truly capitalist free market system *it would just die*. But you have old men with weird models of “real work” fucking us.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes, I've produced two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN. Extremely proud of this. It will make your Christmas 100% more Christmassy! Order here: averageromp.com

Capitalism in the 2020s: we have a sustainable business that returns a 6% profit and looks set to do so forever. So let’s set it on fire in the hope of turning that into a 15% profit.

But they sold out all their users to Amazon. Why on earth would I trust them a second time?

This transphobic corporate charisma-vacuum thinks we're all fucking stupid. He would have been cheerleading for Cuomo, who does he think he's kidding!?

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Me: 54 today. The start of my 55th year. I liked my 40s - you can still be described as young in your 40s, if you're a politician or a writer maybe. Not vibing with my 50s. There's nothing you can do in your 50s and still be described as young. Su: You could die.

Hey, UK FRIENDS, looks like GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD, is only 99p on Kindle and probably KOBO too so if DEEPLY WEIRD slowburn forest adventures are your thing jump on that. www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Wyrdwoo...

I used to work for the British pop music TV show Top of the Pops. The (Dixie) Chicks came into the beeb to record a song the day after the gig where the infamous comment was made. It was reported in, I think, The Guardian that morning 1/4

Let's not minimise this. I mean, the kind of SHRAPNEL that explosion would have SPRAYED around would have absolutely SHREDDED wet tissue paper.

Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.

“Ian! Ian, it’s Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Levine. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!”

reminds me of when @richardlittler.bsky.social Scarfolk rabies poster went into a civil service magazine... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

It's all very well to say 'you can still pay for a COVID vaccine if we've decided we're happy for you to risk long-term disability' but if no pharmacies in your area never, ever have any stocks at all, what is the fucking point?

It's hard to believe, but 2025 means Romanitas has been in print for 20 years. A modern world where the Roman Empire never fell. If that sounds good to you, the ebook's just £0.99 for the anniversary all this month! www.amazon.co.uk/Romanitas-1-...

If you're stuck for a film this Halloween, Hammer's YouTube channel will be live streaming their 4K restoration of Quatermass 2 this evening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdy...

In the last 30 years. University has become unaffordable. Homes have become unaffordable. Healthcare has become unaffordable/non existent. Heating has become unaffordable. All the jobs are Minimum Wage. The screws are only turned on you so billionaires can become trillionaires

I'm not saying a writer's retreat is a bad thing. I'm just saying that it should be a tactical decision designed to lure your enemy into a trap so you can turn a difficult situation into a successful writer's attack.

People who post screenshots of moronic right-wing posts from X are an instant block. You are part of the fucking problem, mate. We came here to get away from that rage-baiting shit and here you come, Captain Gormless, scooping it up and posting it through our letterboxes just to get attention.

Telling scary stories around the campfire to young people: "...and you had no way of knowing who was calling. You just had to pick it up." "...co...couldn't you put it on silent?" "There was no silent. And anyone in the house could answer. Even if the call was for you."

🎶Here we come, walking down the street, spreading herpes and Covid, to everyone we meet. Hey, hey we’re the monkeys, who escaped from a truck, everyone would be panicked if the world wasn’t already fucked🎶

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Not now, highly contagious, aggressive escaped lab monkeys!

Not only does this episode of Redcap star Leonard Rossiter & Ian McShane, but the welsh soldier in this scene is played by John Noakes - I had no idea he'd ever acted until today 🤯 youtu.be/BKv0RfSQmPM?...

Doctor Who is coming back and we now knnow that the best casting will involve a talented, charismatic actor who is in the sweet spot of being not so young that they will leave abruptly for the sake of career progression & not so old that they can't handle the intense pace. Cometh the hour...

That’s a Nazi isn’t it

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Alien Earth ep 1 - so the building that's had a spaceship crash into it has a functioning lift? That is waiting at the same floor as our hero & opens its doors the instant he presses the button, thus allowing him to escape the xenomorph right behind him? Riiight. You're allowed exactly 1 of those 🤨

How is it that when you email someone to arrange a meeting, tell them your availability, & ask them to send you an invite at any time that suits them, they never EVER do, but instead email you back, offering a time that you have already told them is available, asking if that would be suitable?

This series of #Strictly ends with Tess and Claudia regenerating into Bruce Forsyth and Natasha Kaplinsky, in a baffling cliffhanger that everyone hates and that jeopardises the entire future of the programme.

OMFG