A decent night’s sleep? Gracious, what did I do to deserve such a luxury?

Saw a monkey at the zoo yesterday.

4 x new episodes of Wooden Overcoats? This September? On your podcast apps? Free to anyone who wants to listen? Goodness!

Hello writers! James Hamilton is a very clever man who writes TV Animation, and he'd like to teach YOU how to write & pitch TV animation! He's a Wooden Overcoats Alumnus too. (That episode where Antigone writes naughty books? YEP!) Check out his classes while there are still spaces left!

Top quality Secombe here! I’m so lucky he’s a regular in Wooden Overcoats. He’s an absolute gent and one of the funniest actors I’ve ever worked with.

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

been furious with Starmer for long enough that this is genuinely coming as a surprise to me, but I'm feeling a bit.......sad this morning? not really about him per se but about the waste of time, I guess, and the end of yet another political failure when Britain really couldn't afford another one

Evening walk along Southsea beach

Terrific morning watching Top Secret, the Val Kilmer rock n roll / war movie spoof. I wondered how they filmed the underwater bar fight scene, and it turns out they just filmed a bar fight underwater. Now that’s dedication!

Shocking language from Roy Castle in “family film” Dr Who and the Daleks

Hearing that Russell T Davies stepped aside so Andy Burnham could save Doctor Who

"Well, that's the end of that," said a voice they had not heard before. "But it's probably the beginning of something completely different."

I go out for breakfast and they cancel Doctor Who, the sneaky bastards

Quick, get Billie Piper to do this monologue and dub it over the end of The Reality War

This is the best geography lesson you'll ever have. youtu.be/F19_pz8lGhE?...

Gosh that's gonna take years, surely

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

Wow!!! Thank you to everyone who's enjoyed The Tiny Angry Witch today, and it's great to see so many enthusiastic comments about stop-motion animation generally! We try to release these shorts on a monthly basis, and you can find them (and more about our team) here: www.tinyangrywitch.com

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

Absolutely fuck this, and everyone even tangentially involved in it, into the very heart of the sun.

It closes at 1am, and all the staff are desperate to go home.

My future brother-in-law @joeeyre.bsky.social joins the Whoniverse as Anton Chekhov!

thank you so so much for the offer but I won't be reading a 6,000 word essay on the Labour party from Tony Blair, so kind of you but afraid I'll simply have to pass

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

Last call! I’m going to this workshop at the New Actors Centre at the Marylebone Theatre tomorrow, 2pm, Tues 26th May. Learning Ayckbourn from Skilbeck is an opportunity not to be missed! www.newactorscentre.org/products/the...

I'm on Smersh Pod! If you'd like to hear me and @johnrain.co.uk discussing how Jeff Bridges faced an enormous ape at the World Trade Center (oh dear) then boy have I got the podcast for you!

Once more for those at the back: There is NO WAY to reliably identify trans people, and certainly no dignified and respectful way to ask any person to prove their sex in a public facility. This will just cause harm to trans people and to cisgender people who don’t conform to gender stereotypes.

The fact we consider this to be the definitive adaptation is one of the things that makes me proud to be British.

If you’ve got 400+ MPs but you don’t think that ANY of them could be a decent PM - to the extent that you’re contriving an elaborate scheme to elect another MP so they can run for the job - then there *may* be a risk that the electorate will think you’re not terribly good at running the country.

Keir: Do you ever think about death, Wes? Wes: No, Keir, I can't say I ever think about death. Keir: I think about death, Wes, I think about it a lot. Death death death, I think. Wes: Well it's the misery innit, Keir. Keir: It is the misery, yes, Wes, you're right there. It's the crushing misery.

I was meant to go to an event last night but felt tired and ill, so I stayed home and watched a Robin Askwith Confessions movie, and felt much worse

Why does it look like Rachel Reeves is officiating a wedding between Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown

Keir Starmer's writing style is so robotic that Richard Dawkins has just fallen in love with him.

Very pleased for and very proud of my friend Tom today. He works so very hard and more often than not that sort of work means you get nowt for it. A well deserved award that will hopefully lead to more. Congratulations.

🏆 Crowley Time took the big award for Funniest Podcast of 2026 at the Golden Lobes last night! I can’t believe it. Here’s me talking about the whole situation ⬇️ youtu.be/IbKwebNJZZc?...

The Odyssey is one of the oldest, most enduring narratives we have. But this trailer looks like every blockbuster movie of the last 25 years. Very hard to elicit awe from your audience when you can be sure there’ll be another near-identical movie coming along within a fortnight.

Richard Dawkins may not be aware of the “sad lonely man falls in love with his computer / Siri / app” archetype, but his AI certainly is.

Quite genuinely the best King’s Speech since the one with Geoffrey Rush.

King Charles: "The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."

A depressing thread about the TV industry right now - and with a few words switched around, you could apply much of it to the audio industry too

Very pleased to hear that this is coming back. Another class on Tuesday 21st April! www.newactorscentre.org/products/the...

Looking forward to hearing Paul McGann on an episode of Real Dictators purring the line: “Trump even mocks up an image of himself healing the sick, in Messianic regalia. That’s on the same day he launches a bizarre tirade on the Pope, who’s apparently too ‘weak on crime’ for his liking.”

Tom Crowley and Viz is the crossover I never knew I needed until this moment!

House of Cards is the best piece of British telly made in the 20th century. When I learned that the director was also once a Doctor Who villain, well, I don’t know how to end this sentence, but it sure was something.

He's pulled off his betting market scam again, has he?

Trump may not carry out the threat. But the fact he even made such a threat means he should immediately be removed from office. For that is the purpose of a constitution with checks and balances.

Took a screenshot in case I ever forget what irredeemable evil looks like.