Rampant overuse of AI is even affecting Doctor Who on home media. Like an ocean of slop, ruining everything it touches.

An "AI" or CGI or whatever recreation of a dead performer is a massive, massive insult to them irrespective of what one thinks of the technology, simply because it is a statement that all that matters about the person in question is their likeness, not their actual artistic ability.

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

If anybody would like to commission the TV version of an award-winning independent British sitcom that ran for 4 x seasons, well, I've got one. It's a podcast, you can listen to it right now for free. We still get fan mail and donations every day. Let's make more narrative comedy, please.

I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:

Cor! Looking forward to seeing some Hot Peter Purves Action at Easter! #DoctorWho *swoon*

2 x missing episodes of Doctor Who are back! Daleks! Brett Vyon! Katarina! If you need some Master Plan fun to whet your appetite until Easter, I wrote an audio adventure some years back all about Katarina! With two Doctors! www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/d...

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

I want to be this cat when I grow up

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Squelchy things ahoy: the best Beano strip of all!

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

James Hamilton is off to the Emmys and I am so proud and in awe!

"The military actions obliterating Iran's nuclear capacity once-and-for-all were becoming more frequent."

They might as well call it Operation Tiny Penis. Pathetic.

Small Prophets: magnificent. Give Doctor Who to Mackenzie Crook.

A thorough - and thoroughly entertaining - article about the 1980s TV career of Kenneth Williams, the king (or jester) of the British chat show!

Culturally, formatively, the greatest impact in my life came from two people. One is Tom Baker’s Doctor Who. The other is Kenneth Williams. “He was queer in every sense, truly at odds with the world in which he found himself.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"

Can't believe the establishment have arrested him to distract from the announcement of the 4K Blu-ray release of the 1996 Dr Who TV movie.

IMAGINE being the cop who got to snarl “Happy Birthday” at him this morning. You’d replay that glorious moment for the rest of your life.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Well fuck it, I've started writing a stage play. It's been a 5 years, probably more, since I did anything for stage. Christ knows if I'll finish it, but I just felt I had to do this one.

Every so often I return to this sketch, to enjoy 2 minutes of the tightest writing + performing in comedy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5q...

UK inching closer towards the political apocalypse: - Prime Minister resigns - Snap election - Reform voted in - Emergency podcasts every hour of the fucking day

imagine getting so thoroughly bodied by the Beano like this

Time to draw Starmer's face on a lettuce, lads.

A vintage post from Vintage Wicks 👌🥂

Massive congratulations to @peterwicks.com for his One Voice Awards nomination for the role of Didius Julianus! 🎉 It truly is an incredible comic performance in a cracking script by @davidkbarnes.com Even if you’re not up to date on The Amelia Project, this episode works standalone, check it out!

Hang on a minute

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

End of January

Watching the Logopolis studio footage of Tom Baker recording his final scene of Doctor Who, and I’m finding it far more emotional than the actual episode! Seeing him leaving the role in real time. It’s heart wrenching when, shots done, he leaps up and bolts. Just wants to get away.

The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.

Got myself some discount Yeti (please don’t tell the NCA)

First haircut of 2026

My GP just made a statement that you *really* don’t want to hear when he’s in the middle of examining you: “Huh. You learn something new every day.”

Living in Rome itself under Caligula must have been fucking terrifying, but at least people living in the most distant provinces of the empire didn't get minute-by-minute updates on exactly how insane, unpredictable and evil he was being.

I don’t want to do it, but I may seriously have to tell America to pack it in.

was briefly so excited reading this until I realised he meant Davos

America, could you give it a rest, eh?

Watching the Graham Williams documentary on Doctor Who S15 box set and, God, I wish he were still with us. I’d want to tell him how much his 3x seasons of Who meant to me. The humour, the ideas, the joy. I wouldn’t have become a writer without those stories.

I’ve long been baffled by the meandering 1960s comedy Rocket to the Moon, so thank God for @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social’s excellent explanation of it on the StudioCanal blu-ray. Much more entertaining than the film itself!

Regaining access to my Twitter/X account (after 2+ years of not using it) took me the best part of 24 hours. Deactivating my account forever took me less than 24 seconds. It's the social media platform for bots, paedophiles, and the politicians who want to reach them. They're welcome to it.

Hard to believe I know, but we’re only one week into 2026.

In other news, a wonderful TV project I worked on for much of last year just got cancelled mid-production because of “corporate restructuring” Happy New Year 🫩

Watching Battleship Potemkin with the Pet Shop Boys score tonight, lads

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

Some men will literally order airstrikes and the kidnap of a sovereign head of state rather than admit to being a massive paedophile.