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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Charles Dickens wrote some of the best paragraphs ever written, and these occur randomly across thousands of pages of impenetrable boring guff.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favourite multicamera sketches, one where audience reaction is integral to the timing. Mitchell and Webb with added Oscar winner Olivia Colman in arguably her finest ever role. share.google/jYdc6SKvUaYr...

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 2d

This is a really interesting thread.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 3d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Multi-camera is especially good at capturing moments of comic chemistry between two actors. You get the real instinctive timing without the need to recreate it in the edit. You also get to capture the chemistry between performers and audiences, which can be lovely.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly nearly all the people who make multi camera sitcoms are nearing retirement. Fairly soon the collective knowledge of how to do it will disperse. Like tears of laughter in the rain…

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 5d

This is such a valuable public service.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 5d

I saw this and immediately thought, this film has got me written all over it.

Photo of a piece of cling film which I have written the word 'me' all over.
Sorry.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 11d

This is magnificent!

Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 13d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 12d

Surely nobody expects the Spanish explanation of the origins of the C of E?

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14d

www.worldofmoose.com/products/the...

Cartoon. William Shakespeare stands proudly in front of rows of shelves presenting a number of woks. Caption: The Complete Woks of Shakespeare

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 14d

Moose, shhh! You can’t say anything these days because of wok.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 16d

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 19d

Ruin a book with a car:

A Prius for Owen Meany

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 19d

Gwych!

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20d

“I’m trying to find a monastery where all the monks are over six foot five”
“That’s a tall order”

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 20d

But surely also yes!!!

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 20d

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 21d

Also check out the story of when the Wye Parish church fell down.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 26d

Coming soon from @christhebarker.bsky.social and me...

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Pickwick The Dodo @lesleyhustler.bsky.social · 22d

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23d

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 26d

Weirdly the third foot has the stress reversed. “bloom the”.

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 26d

Such a breathtakingly beautiful poem.
Do you read it as “barred” or “barrèd”?

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 26d

Written 206 years ago today.

• John Keats •

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Gareth Edwards @garethmedwards.bsky.social · 27d

Aardman presumably gutted to have missed out on this title.

"It's a smashing machine, Gromit!"

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · Sep 15

The IMAX poster for Benny Safdie's ‘THE SMASHING MACHINE’ starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.

Early access screenings September 22, expanding everywhere October 3.

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