Do any of you lovely folks happen to have a copy of Private Eye, issue 1659, dated 3 October 2025? I’m looking for the review of The Hack (ITV) in the EYE TV column. 📺 This is the issue’s cover:
Richard Dhillon
@drricharddhillon.bsky.social
Sessional Tutor, Film and Television Studies, Warwick. British/queer television and film histories. 📺 he/him https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/dhillon/
A rant: One of the most frustrating things about the current academic job market is the lack of feedback on applications not shortlisted for interview.
A huge shoutout to the tool who yelled “batty man” at me from his car — nothing screams masculinity held together with masking tape like drive-by homophobia.
Fantastic, fully-funded, PhD Studentship at @uniwestminster.bsky.social: ‘The Development of a Gayborhood in Post-war London: Mapping Soho and its Archives’
PhD Studentship: CDA - The Development of a Gayborhood in Post-war London: Mapping Soho and its Archives at University of Westminster
Explore the PhD Studentship: CDA - The Development of a Gayborhood in Post-war London: Mapping Soho and its Archives on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for higher education. Apply now.
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Fabulous fully-funded PhD opportunity working with a stellar team of supervisors at Warwick/BFI on British South Asian Culture in Non-Fiction Films and Television, 1960s-1980s. @drjlw.bsky.social @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social
PhD Studentship: Interrogating British South Asian Non-Fiction Films and Television, 1960s-1980s at University of Warwick
Discover a PhD Studentship: Interrogating British South Asian Non-Fiction Films and Television, 1960s-1980s on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
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I’m delighted to announce that I have just received another job rejection email.
TV doing what only TV can do — and doing it brilliantly! #dirtybusiness #channel4 @channel4tv.bsky.social
Dirty Business
Shocking real-life drama about the muck in our water and a corporate scandal
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Dear BBC Archives... A letter to thank you for Mañana, the Ibsen collection and more, to express my disappointment at how in certain ways you fail to treat these precious fragments with proper respect, and to suggest how you could do things better. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/dear-bbc-arc...
Dear BBC Archives... - Illuminations
In a way, you’re spoiling us – and we’re grateful. ‘Us’ being the nerdy types fascinated by television’s deep archive. For so long, because of rights restrictions and a general lack of interest, telev...
illuminationsmedia.co.uk
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
Next April, I’ll be running @manchestermarathon.bsky.social to support the vital work of @tht.org.uk. Fundraising page: www.justgiving.com/page/richard...
A great piece from @katiecrosson.bsky.social, who, it’s safe to say, knows a thing or two about Play for Today. 📺
Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original
Channel 5 has a lot to live up to, but research into the original BBC drama series has inspired nine principles the new Play for Today should live by.
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Thank you to @theobserveruk.bsky.social for giving attention today to the campaign for independent access to the BBC Written Archives. The Corporation is still yet to engage with our argument and properly defend the policy shift. That is because it is indefensible. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
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Huge kudos to Channel 5, here – but the BBC needed to be running with this, long before now. 📺
Channel 5 revives BBC’s Play for Today to ‘help shape future of British drama’
Series aims to follow original in tackling ‘thornier issues’, and to support talent from lower-income backgrounds
theguardian.com
I simply would not have had a thesis without this place ... 📺
Richard Dhillon@drricharddhillon.bsky.social · last yr.📺 An OPEN LETTER responding to the recent access restrictions at the BBC Written Archives Centre – changes that effectively mean an end to sustained research into histories of the BBC, and those of television more broadly. Read the letter, spread the word, and join the campaign here:
📺 An OPEN LETTER responding to the recent access restrictions at the BBC Written Archives Centre – changes that effectively mean an end to sustained research into histories of the BBC, and those of television more broadly. Read the letter, spread the word, and join the campaign here:
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
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That Wes Streeting, a gay man who used to work at stonewall, is having to attempt to rebuild bridges with his own community because he burnt them by selling us out in the hope of getting his slimy hands on the keys to 10 Downing Street is shameful. May he never be welcome in an LGBTQ+ space again.
Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · last yr."(Wes Streeting) has taken steps to build bridges with the LGBT+ community and stakeholders by hosting constructive, open and honest roundtable discussions, and has set out his intention to maintain an open dialogue and to continue to listen to all views." Every word is a lie.
Really looking forward to this whole issue. Two articles already available (Rebecca’s, and Faye Woods’s), #openaccess. 📺 EastEnders at 40, @cstonline.bsky.social
Dr Rebecca Williams@augustaquarius.bsky.social · last yr.My own article in my EastEnders at 40 special issue @cstonline.bsky.social is now online in open access Solving ‘The Six’: EastEnders, convergence culture, and ‘forensic fandom’ #FanStudies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Excellent funded PhD opportunity, working on a fascinating research project at @cujournmedcul.bsky.social in collaboration with Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales: 'The Reg and George archive: co-creating stories about love, care and LGBTQ+ relationships in later life' www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
PhD Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Programme - PhD Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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