Being self-employed in your late 30s is watching an old Leslie Phillips film on a Tuesday morning and thinking “I’m not really enjoying this but I’ll see it through.” * (*Experience may not be relatable)

Got through 15 minutes of Predator: Badlands before I had to duck out with a headache. It was so loud! Never had that with a movie before. Going to assume the cinema had the volume up too high, unless everyone else who’s seen it can’t hear either

Unfortunately Kamala Harris wasn't responsible for a similar, balancing insurgency. I'm sure if she had been, the BBC would have dedicated a programme to it. Christ this Prescott guy is a moron.

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

Panorama made a stupid error, but imploding the top of the BBC is mad. Especially when it concerned a US President who actually did incite a riot and then got re-elected afterwards. “Institutional bias” my foot. We’re being taken for mugs.

Was having lunch in Highgate this afternoon when the actual Prime Minister walked past. He didn’t recognise me though. Yours, Outraged of Holloway Road

And you wanna know why society is so polarised? This fucker, going about, reversing it all over the shop.

- I'm going to analyse the Welsh by-election result - Caerphilly? - Nah, I'll probably just fire off some hot-takes

Now AI is coming for Tom Baker’s teeth! I’ve adored the Doctor Who Collection sets so far, but this sort of overzealous AI can get in a bin. Hope they’ll learn their lesson and scale it back. Leave Tom’s teeth alone!

A lovely production team, making excellent audio drama! It’s terrific to see that the appetite for AD is demonstrably there. It’s still one of the best routes for fresh talent in the arts - support audio drama today!

Diane Keaton 💔

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Hey kids! Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom? Remember that?

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

If I were in charge, every scene on television would begin exactly like this

Hades II is a wee bit fiddly to begin with, but after playing it for a few hours I can tell that I’ll be doing nothing else for the rest of the year.

The David K. Barnes series hides a large heart behind its acidic exterior. www.avclub.com/podcast-cano...

Feeling very proud about this write-up on Wooden Overcoats in the AV Club. We've just celebrated our 10th anniversary and it seems incredible to us that the show is still picking up new listeners! www.avclub.com/podcast-cano...

A moment of high drama in Doctor Who as the Master menaces a cherry bakewell

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

Tom Baker meets Cleopatra! I wrote this way back in 2018 - I’m looking forward to finding out what happens in it!

Shocked to read this awful news John was a top egyptologist and cultural critic, though I first knew him as a regular customer at Penhaligon’s in Covent Garden back when I used to work there. While selling him a cologne I asked “Is that an 8th Doctor TARDIS keychain?” We became friends instantly.

In this video, you will see me celebrating my 10th birthday on a boat

We sold out so quickly they gave us a bigger room and more tickets! Come to London on September 7th to see a new episode of Wooden Overcoats! Or nab a streaming ticket to see it anywhere in the world!

In baffling news, The Tiny Angry Witch has a literary agent! (I'm not being cute: I still don't have a literary agent. But The Tiny Angry Witch does. I have the contract right here.) Huge thanks to Charlie Olsen of Inkwell Management! Now I'd better help that Witch to write a children's book...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

one of the greatest sentences i have read in a very long time

Deviating from my usual whimsy, I wrote a true crime series for Vespucci / Audible - and it's out now! "CRIME SCENES" is an anthology narrated by Emilia Fox, about horrible murders in Australia, Antigua, a Disney town, and more. (It's very grim. No jokes. Treat the trigger warnings seriously)

Wow, what a response! We're so glad so many of you are as excited as we are about our new birthday episode, RUDYARD RUINS EVERYTHING! Tickets are selling fast so book now to join us LIVE at the London Podcast Festival. We can’t wait to see you there! www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/com...

what absolutely INCREDIBLE news!!! gosh, what I wouldn't give to be there - if you're in London, or can get to London, for this, I highly HIGHLY recommend you do your darnedest to get a ticket. few better ways to spend an evening than by listening to wooden overcoats, especially live

I've written a new episode of Wooden Overcoats - pass it on

Jurassic World: Rebirth is pretty good. Obviously it’s not *that* good, but it has nice characters and scary dinosaurs. It’s fun. I reckon it’s the best one since Lost World.

Stop using it. Stop using it. Stop using it. It doesn’t work.

Tell them to do their own bloody work, they get paid enough.

Post your favourite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.

The threat level for Emergency Podcasts has been raised to critical.

This is the last thing the BBC needs

I’ve written Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with Cleopatra! Mark Antony has taken K9 and given him to the Queen of Egypt as a present - and now the Doctor and Leela need to get him back! But Egypt and Rome are on the brink of war… 4 x episodes of Who historical drama!

Nabbed a bargain: Peter Cushing’s two worst films for the price of one! If only they’d had The Devil’s Men too it could have been a hat trick

I’ve finally discovered a question that even the AI can’t pretend to know the answer for

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I had a deep dive about Doctor Who with one of Doctor Who’s most utterly splendid fans - Si Hart! 90 minutes about why Who is important to both of us - and why a series of videos were particularly important to me… I *loved* recording this

Hurrah! It's the Beth Eyre and Matthew Sweet crossover I've always wanted! I'll definitely be giving this a listen.

Beautiful ✨

Absolutely astonishing tales of fuck-uppery. If a writer as celebrated in the industry as Joel can be screwed around like this, we all can. Just awful.

The Unbound fuck-up is specifically awful, but generic. The creators of “content” being the last people to get paid, while the people who own the pipe do fine. It’s the new normal. It’s Spotify’s CEO taking home millions. It’s AI stealing our work. It’s that. Again. Which is exhausting.