When the BBC would produce a standalone new Alan Bennett play about British actors & spies in Russia in the 1950s, and even have a central character playing herself. Baftas aplenty. 80s Dundee stands in for 50s Moscow. Him indoors (a local laddie) says they had to spruce it up a bit.

Talking Pictures TV@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · yesterday

Wednesday 5th Aug, 8:35pm AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD (1983) written by #AlanBennett and starring #AlanBates #CoralBrowne #CharlesGray drama #TPTVsubtitles

This has popped up on YouTube, and it's glorious. Tom Baker plays a mysterious traveller from a distant planet, sent to....er....Maidstone in Kent to learn all about sustainable transport.

Tom Baker - The Traveller Comes to Maidstone

YouTube video by Stephen Cranford

youtu.be

Have been a fan of @boxtalesoup.bsky.social 's imaginative adaptations ever since seeing their take on Casting the Runes at the Fringe, at least ten years ago! Today we saw a preview of Edgar Allen Poe www.pleasance.co.uk/event/ghost-... It's very much up to their high standards. Go see!

In a world of dull characters explaining why their dystopian future is grey and colourless, be a Servalan.

I think art should involve ... well ... work and choices. Figuring out what doesn't need to be said. Sometimes you can just hand a character a thing, it doesn't need to be an hour long sidequest.

Our New Avengers blu-ray watch is back on and we're in the K is for Kill doldrums. So much machine gun. So little plot... Slightly lost the will to live when Gambit karate kicked a tree...

Have a look and hopefully sign this if you want to restrict the march of data centres across our landscape petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

Petition: Moratorium on planning applications for all hyperscale data centres until their environmental impacts have been fully assessed

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce a moratorium to prohibit planning permission from being granted for any hyperscale data centres, until it has carried ou...

petitions.parliament.scot

Have a look and hopefully sign this if you want to restrict the march of data centres across our landscape petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

Petition: Moratorium on planning applications for all hyperscale data centres until their environmental impacts have been fully assessed

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce a moratorium to prohibit planning permission from being granted for any hyperscale data centres, until it has carried ou...

petitions.parliament.scot

buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Someone posted this picture of neolithic lego scenes to r/Scotland on reddit so blessing your timeline with it:

No AI used at any stage of composition or design in this selection of covers from the Brooligan Press (brooligan.co.uk). All images licensed, and all revenues go direct to the authors

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 20h ago

I have one answer.

This is a bit in my Doctor Who audio because I thought it was the most absurd satire of modern advertising I could make. As a writer I suppose one is always in a contest with reality to create new horrors. And reality, like the house, always wins.

Dr. Alexandria Brangwin 🇦🇺@alexbrangwin.bsky.social · yesterday

Often people ask "why should I care?" when a company is in financial trouble. Sony is desperate, spider man is the only IP they have left, they needed the new film to succeed, BMW & sony negotiated a LOT of cross promo money, like hell they both aren't gagging to get ther money's worth.

Oh he’s wrecking the moon now

SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the moon - here's what we know will happen

Space-tracking expert Bill Gray predicts an impact speed of 5,400mph - seven times the speed of sound - near Einstein Crater on the moon's sunlit western limb when it hits.

news.sky.com

MAY S4C BE WITH YOU

Showed my 7yo this movie a few months ago and he still talks about it. I explained to him how it was done. He’s watched it 3 times again since. Essential cultural viewing, in my opinion.

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

Coming March 4th 2027 Doctor Who: The Vampire Mutation By Steve Cole The novelisation of the original script by Terrance Dicks, later rewritten as the Season 18 story “State of Decay”, based on original notes by the writer amzn.to/4yYMr8L #ad

Coming January 21st 2027 Doctor Who: The Six Doctors By Simon Guerrier The novelisation of a 'lost classic' by Terrance Dicks, revealing the original conception of The Five Doctors. Based on newly discovered scripts and treatments by Terrance Dicks amzn.to/3UbIe1q #ad

Tuesday

'I read the Pughs today, oh boy'

waltydunlop@waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d ago

I've just seen the cover to the Complete Trumptonshire blu-ray, and now I need you all to see it too, so there can be an outbreak of delighted cooing and "aw" noises all across Bluesky. It's done my heart the power of good, it really has.

Paul Simon’s Obvious Child makes me wistful at the best of times. Today ‘I’m with her’’s cover version popped into my headphones and it destroyed me. Actually howling on the floor.

Freeview switch-off is a terrible idea for many reasons, not least that the signal is much, much more reliable than broadband and isn't subject to DNS attacks.

Adam Sherwin@adamsherwin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cult channel Talking Pictures TV has revived the ‘golden age’ of cinema. Will Freeview digital switch-off kill it? inews.co.uk/news/how-onl... @theipaper.com @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The EU will require AI labels on any authentic-looking online content. Text, images, video and audio designed to look truthful must be visibly marked as AI-generated and contain a digital watermark to show the artificial origins of the content. Please can the UK have the same?

AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real

theguardian.com

I've just seen the cover to the Complete Trumptonshire blu-ray, and now I need you all to see it too, so there can be an outbreak of delighted cooing and "aw" noises all across Bluesky. It's done my heart the power of good, it really has.

Whatever you do don’t take me to The Island from The Prisoner! I’d hate to live in a cool rent free apartment full of bold late 60s modern furniture haha noooo a bubble don’t chase me haha

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

Born #OTD in 1862, Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) influential master of the English ghost story, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), Eton College (1918–36), and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15).

Huge love and congratulations to our Blake (Family Stereo) whose debut album is out today! The Thread is released on Bella Union on vinyl and CD and is available everywhere to stream or download. More importantly it's a lovely piece of work and I think you might enjoy it. ❤️

I know I have quite a small reach on here but is there anyone on here who is a Doctor Who fan based in the South West? I have a lot of old stuff from my childhood and I’m looking to downsize, would like to pass as much of it onto a loving home if possible

Any recommendations for a watch* repairer in central Edinburgh / North Edinburgh and Leith? * self-winding, mechanical