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Steve Cole @stevecolewriter.bsky.social · 17h

Excited that my new book got into this Waterstones promotion. 25% off til midnight tonight. www.waterstones.com/book/new-you...

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 2d

No, he but he'll only drink vintage wines and Napoleonic brandy. It won't be a cheap night.

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Saucy Seventies @saucyseventies.bsky.social · 7d

Dance off! Dainty vs Gaga!

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 11d

Stranger Things. People keep telling me it's absolutely my sort of thing and I'd love it, which automatically trips my contrary switch.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 12d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 11d

I mean, even she tried it once before she decided she didn't like it.
youtu.be/RXtFQdvcp4o?...

Tried it once

YouTube video by Words Without Restraint

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 14d

Eight word horror story.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 14d

Hand Held in Black and White is, in many ways, the record that determined the course of pop music for the following four years. It is AMAZING. #totp

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 17d

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

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Matt Michael @cybermatt.bsky.social · 16d

Riverside Studios doing a New Avengers 4K/blu-ray launch on 9th November. I shall be making the pilgrimage

riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/e...

Exclusive New Avengers 4K box-set launch + Q&A - Riverside Studios

Join us for a very special event launching Studiocanal’s brand new 4k restoration of every New Avengers episode ever filmed, soon to be available as the definitive box-set on UHD, Blu-ray or DVD. Full...

riversidestudios.co.uk

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you, Matt! I'm in!

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 24d

What a cast!

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 24d

Scott On Travel (23rd September 1971). Terry is joined by Cheryl Kennedy, Frank Thornton, Colin Jeavons and June Whitfield for this musical Star Trek skit.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 24d

Absolutely fascinating thing here.

INDICATOR @indicator.bsky.social · 24d

The movie diary of a mystery cinemagoer was recently discovered. In it, they review the 325 films they saw in 1939. But who were they?

Delve into the mystery on @filmhubni.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4m8ktcpe

And don't miss entry #40: Spawn of the North, now available on Blu-ray: tinyurl.com/3d7a8x4t

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 25d

Lovely Chris Achilleos covers!

Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 25d

So today I learned that there were tie-in novels for THE DOLLARS TRILOGY that went beyond the movies and boy do they have some amazing titles.

In addition to A FISTUL OF DOLLARS, FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE and THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY...

We have: THE DEVIL'S DOLLAR SIGN, A COFFIN FULL OF DOLLARS, BLOOD FOR A DIRTY DOLLAR, THE MILLION DOLLAR BLOODHUNT and A DOLLAR TO DIE FOR.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 26d

My radical idea: do a sitcom in an actual theatre, eg the Palladium, and record it as live. Or even two different sitcoms, either side of an interval. A different show every week for six weeks, record the last performances. Make the live audience a selling point, not an irritation.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · 26d

The obvious outlier is Mrs Brown's Boys. It's pretty dreadful, but the live audience gives it warmth, and that's what people respond to, I think. It's mad that something like Amandaland is single camera. It should be the biggest, broadest comedy du jour.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · Sep 17

Can't remember. I doubt I'd have gone there, that wasn't the point.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · Sep 17

There's a first time for everything! I daresay 'comparing falls' will be a big part of all our futures. 😀 Still, my knee's OK now – it's the bruised ribs that stopped me going for a run this morning, annoyingly.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · Sep 17

Hadn't realised that my fall on Monday left me with a bit of a shiner, chiz

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Emaux @emauxstylo.bsky.social · Sep 17

As times get weird, there's a Doctor Who audio drama from 2002 that I think about a lot called Neverland.

In it the Doctor discovers that his own people, the Time Lords, used to have a method of execution called "the Oubliette of Eternity" which erases the convicted person from time completely.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · Sep 17

I am! Yes, it was recorded January 2001, I think. I'm glad it still has life. It's all a CIA* operation, of course.

*Celestial Intervention Agency, what else?

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · Sep 16

It comes with a facsimile of the shooting script!

Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · Sep 16

My Australian The Keep box set just turned up, months after I preordered it. It is huge, and very heavy, and comes with a metal cross, and so much STUFF and oh God I love it

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · Sep 15

A lovely quote about their debt to Delia Derbyshire here...

The Quietus @thequietus.com · Sep 15

"It was our manager’s idea to put Deepak [Khazanchi, santoor] and Dinesh [Pandit, tablas] on ‘Living On The Ceiling’ even though it’s a Middle Eastern melody. It’s a geographical nonsense!"

R.I.P. Stephen Luscombe of #Blancmange

buff.ly/22haNPK

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · Sep 15

Sorry to hear that, Ivan. My condolences.

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Alan Barnes @senrabnala.bsky.social · Sep 15

I'm OK now, thanks. Although I suspect I won't be running on this knee for the rest of this week. :(

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