From the BBAs last night. Who alumni represent! @chrischibnall.bsky.social @jennycolgan.bsky.social !

About last week (2): director James Strong spoke on becoming a director, H is for Hawk director Philippa Lowthorpe introduced the film, The Crown producer Suzanne Mackie talked about being a producer, and @johnhiggs.bsky.social quizzed me on my Desert Island Scripts

About last week (1): From Page to Screen guests including David Arnold, Pillion designer Francesca Massariol, Spacewoman director Hannah Berryman and Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis & Robert Wade.

Are you ready to make your mark as a writer? ✨ The Young Writer Award is now open for entries! If you’re aged 16–25 and passionate about poetry, short stories, flash fiction, or novels, this is your chance to shine. Don’t forget to tick the age box when you submit your entry.

graffiti at Sandycove, Dublin. 'Your phone makes the real world less satisfactory. It's designed to do that.'

… today!

Here's an exclusive snippet from David Zucker, one of the writer-directors of Airplane! Join us at the screening to hear his full introduction, recorded specially for Bridport! Screening as part of From Page to Screen film festival Saturday 25th April, 5:00pm Bridport Arts Centre

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

For anyone wanting to get in to film/TV, I’ve put together a series of lunchtime talks from Wednesday to Sunday next week on directing, design, composing, producing & locations with fantastic guests. Free for under 25s. Do share! Part of From Page to Screen festival. @bridportarts.bsky.social

The Umbrella Man and Other Stories is released in exactly 2 weeks. Here's a selection of endorsements so far. Featuring @almurray.bsky.social, @robinince.bsky.social, @chrischibnall.bsky.social, @knoxharrington.bsky.social, @coldwarpod.bsky.social, @gauthamrao.bsky.social, @quantick.bsky.social

The majestic Eggardon hillfort showing the southern ramparts with the diagonal strip of Eggardon Grit. In the distance is Lewesdon hillfort. King’s Lane runs from here to Powerstock. For a distance it runs along the outer rampart, which makes for skill in reversing! #HillfortsWednesday

From Page To Screen public booking opens tomorrow, Sat 14. Includes:- * Walter Murch recut of Touch of Evil! * Casino Royale with writers Purvis & Wade! * Airplane! & 2001 on the big screen! * James Strong, David Arnold, Suzanne Mackie Q&As & loads more Do share! https://www.bridport-arts.com/fpts/

Where do you write? At the kitchen table. In a café. On the train. Late at night when everyone else is asleep. However it happens, we’d love to read it. Entries for the Bridport Prize close 31 May 23:59pm UK time buff.ly/fMqXUEs #BridportPrize #AmWriting #WritersLife #WritingCommunity

A bit about the thinking behind some events at the upcoming From Page To Screen festival in Bridport. Filmmaker sessions, every lunchtime, for those wanting to get in to the industry. Free for under-25s. (Full Programme announced tonight!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78xgzp5qqpo

Tune into BBC South Today (and hopefully BBC Spotlight, too) this evening to hear guest curator Chris Chibnall discussing this year's From Page to Screen - Bridport's Film Festival (22-26 April 2026). Our programme goes goes 'live' online tonight at 7.30pm.

We thought you might like to see the poster design for this year's From Page to Screen - Bridport's Film Festival. There are still a few tickets left for the free programme launch on Thu 12 Mar, hosted by our guest curator, Chris Chibnall https://www.bridport-arts.com/event/fpts-programme-launch/

I’m curating this year’s From Page To Screen film festival - April 22-26 in Bridport. @bridportarts.bsky.social Full programme announcement on Thursday, with some really special events. A little preview: https://www.marshwoodvale.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Chris-Chibnall-Mar-26.pdf

A stunner of an interview.

Bamboozled with delight - Death at the White Hart is shortlisted in the Crime & Thriller category at this year’s British Book Awards.

Death at the White Hart has been nominated for Best First Novel at the International Thriller Writers Awards taking place in New York in May, at ThrillerFest. 🤯🥳

February POV

January POV (it was a whirl)

I do not write much but there is not a day goes by that I do not think of you.

All three seasons of #Broadchurch are coming to Netflix UK from Tuesday 18 November.

I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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...

This piece, as cited by @emilybell.bsky.social & @taraconlan.bsky.social, is the big picture of what’s going on. The playbook successfully deployed in the US is happening here. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-20-maga-aligned-influencers-media-emerge-new-mainstream-2025-11-08/

Superb, old school, independent local journalism, in a new model of collaboration and funding. Not seen the conclusions of this reporting picked up/acknowledged yet by other outlets. This is the sort of reporting they used to do. https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-raised-the-flags/

Been enjoying watching videos of Radiohead’s return to the stage last night. What a setlist! Anyway, seemed like a good excuse to repost this old favourite I drew a few years back.

Agatha Christie invites you to a Netflix mystery… Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials debuts 15 January on Netflix, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman.

Coming in 2026 📚💙

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

Dad's Army - Getting The Bird (27th October 1972). A moment of Croft/Perry pathos.

Love the cover art for the Japanese edition.

Tomorrow: Dorchester! Friday: Yeovil! Last Death at the White Hart events.

Also: The Chair Company.

Why, yes, @helenlewis.bsky.social did go to the Riyadh Comedy Festival www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Was simultaneously thrilled and slightly terrified to be subjected to The Shoot Treatment by the brilliant @4hundredblows.bsky.social for @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social This show - and Martin himself - always manages to provoke conversations few other interviews get to.

Final Death at the White Hart events next week, back in the South West. Dorchester next Thurs (23rd) and Yeovil on Fri (24th) https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/chris-chibnall-death-at-the-white-hart/ https://www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/chris-chibnall/10069

#DoctorWho Postcards are now available to buy! 15 Doctors. 15 debut stories. Published by Penguin Books in another universe, in a different time. Get them here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

Congratulations to @johnrivers.bsky.social, @aquatics64.bsky.social, @gasbirder.bsky.social who each win a pack of my TV Crime Penguin Book postcards. Nobody guessed all 15, but I think the first was pretty hard to "crack". Here they all are, and now available to buy: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

🤯Death at the White Hart is Number 2 in the Sunday Times Bestseller list! Thanks so much if you’ve bought it. The support from everyone - booksellers, readers, events, podcasters, media - has been immense. And the team @michaeljbooks.bsky.social have been incredible. 📚💙

Get your guesses in today. You may not have to know all of them to win — the three people with the most correct get a pack!

This is a lovely hour’s listening. Not just the unheard-since-1975 audio with Lennon, but Nicky Horne recounting the experience of travelling to New York as a 24 year old and interviewing his musical hero at the Dakota. www.boomradiouk.com/player/boom-...

US #Traitors casts sneaky & backstabbing celebrities to amp up drama. UK celeb version already feels smart for the opposite instinct: national treasures, Olympians and overall sound types. Their liking for each other makes the game more challenging and the programme funnier & warmer. Great first ep.