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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 16h

The Thick of It is a fobwatched 12th Doctor.

James @thasceles.bsky.social · 1d

Me too. When Steven rushes out of the Tardis to help and the Doctor yells at him to get away, Hartnell sounds utterly mad with grief and horror at what's happening.

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 1d

The War Doctor got blasted with the Daleks' Time Destructor almost immediately after regenerating and this is why he looks old. He only actually fought in the Time War for a couple of weeks.

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 2d

I rewatched that earlier in the year - would certainly be interested in anything you write about it

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 2d

Afraid so. One of many people who make a comfortable living claiming to have been cancelled.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 3d

A friend recommended this website, of the UK Sepsis Trust, in the aftermath of my dad's death last month - there are many useful resources. sepsistrust.org

Home

UKST aims to end preventable deaths and improve outcomes for sepsis survivors, striving to raise public awareness and working to support anyone affected.

sepsistrust.org

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 2d

That's him, I'm afraid.

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 2d

He's the answer to the old Dr Pepper slogan, "What's the worst that could happen?"

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 2d

#DoctorWho Postcards are now available to buy! 15 Doctors. 15 debut stories. Published by Penguin Books in another universe, in a different time. Get them here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 2d

Cesar Romero wouldnt shave his tache off to play the Joker, but still gives a more committed performance. Leto comes across like someone who came fourth in a Marilyn Manson lookalike contest - all metal capped teeth and a forehead tattoo saying "damaged", just in case his performance was too subtle.

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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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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 2d

We can hope.

James @thasceles.bsky.social · 2d

The story i read was that he also pissed on Will Smith's breakfast. Rather a shame Smith's not a method actor - given he was playing Deadshot, I suspect his response would have gone a long way to shutting Leto the fuck up.

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 2d

... you'll think the speckled band is one of Mrs Hudson's breakfasts. You'll be more mashed than Isadora Duncan after he opened the matchbox."

James @thasceles.bsky.social · 2d

"Watson, how many times have I told you, when you eliminate the imp-"
"Mote times than I care to remember and always when you're off your tits. By the way, write anything on my door in bullet holes and I'll sneak into your room in the small hours and dose you so that...

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 3d

"What is the charge? Eating a well-prepared meal?"

Peter Davison and a Cyberman look conspiratorial.

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 3d

I'll be at this year's Square Eye TV, introducing an ultra rare screening of the 1975 adaptation of Poe's Imp of the Perverse, starring Michael Kitchen and Lalla Ward.

Also screening is the magnificent A View from a Hill from 2005, followed by a Q&A with writer Peter Harness.

Details:

A Birmingham Ghost Story + Q&A | Midlands Arts Centre

The BBC became well known in the 70s for producing popular anthology series Ghost Stories For Christmas, but Birmingham’s Pebble Mill had its own anthology

macbirmingham.co.uk

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 3d

He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
More reliable than a garden strimmer
He's never been mistaken for Yul Brynner
He's not bald, and his head doesn't glimmer

A Southport shop called Rimmers Music. Presumably owned by Howard Goodall.

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 3d

Modest proposal:

BBC BRING BACK 'TOMORROW'S WORLD'.

Science, tech, environment reporting are woeful currently. Something that blasts excitement about what a golden age we're in of discovery (vaccines, computing, space exploration etc etc) but can also be a trojan horse for warnings on climate etc

the presenters of 1980s Tomorrow's World

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 3d

I blame Alec Guinness. And possibly Peter Cushing.

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 3d

... Peter Cushing had had an absolute nightmare making Sherlock Holmes on multi-camera for the BBC. I wonder if, while they were shooting Star Wars, he told Guinness about how difficult he'd found that and whether that was what decided Guinness that he did not want to do multi-camera for TTSS?

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah. I miss tv being happy to be electronic theatre, because electronic theatre is an artform and it's one we've lost. I blame - at least partly - Alec Guinness. When he was offered George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, he accepted on condition it was shot on film. 10 years earlier...

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 3d

Didn't even have a video recorder until 1987. I remember the height of frustration being the day I caught the last 15 minutes of BBC2's repeat of Jonathan Miller's Alice in Wonderland and then having to wait 17 years for the BFI to issue a dvd so I could watch the rest of it. It didn’t disappoint.

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. I'd love to be able to access the excitement 10-year-old me would have felt at the thought that I'd own all these things.

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James @thasceles.bsky.social · 3d

... Just knowing that I'd get to watch them once was exciting enough. But being able to keep them? And watch them whenever I wanted to? It would've been beyond belief.

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