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David Allison

@davidovitch.bsky.social

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TV Screenwriter in Leeds - THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (C4/Starz) Agent/bio: https://www.jtmanagement.co.uk/clients/david-allison/ International Disco King. Presenter of Mondo Pop radio show: http://mondopop.uk

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · Jun 25

Hello lovelies! Please excuse me as The Couple Next Door S2 is coming v soon and I'm afraid I'm going to flannel on about it quite a lot in the coming weeks. I hope you don't mind my excitement, getting a show to screen is a rare and joyous thing. Anyway here's the trailer!
youtu.be/4Zz5Mimurf0?...

The Couple Next Door Series 2 | Official Trailer | 4TheDrama

YouTube video by 4 The Drama

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 1h

Damn right. Three perfect albums.

David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 1h

WTAF. Terrible news. Black Messiah, man, what a record. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

D'Angelo, Soul's Modern Visionary, Dead at 51

D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums — 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' — are all revered as modern classics, has died.

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 5h

New obsession

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 5h

Me sliding into your DMs

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d

HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.

David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 8h

Well, it's been three weeks and I'm still waiting for the gift of everlasting life and I guess DPD lost the delivery.

David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 8h

Bad news, the knee noise never goes, this is now your life. Ah teenager, huh? We've just become an empty nest: WTAF? Am I this old, Daniel? Am I?

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David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social · 9h

Spotted near Russell Square today.

Plain printed A4 poster that says:

“SEEKING
people to competitively tell me their worst breakup story until mine seems insignificant

winner gets my ex's netflix password. must make me feel genuinely better about my situation

Thursday 9th 7PM
@ The Institute Bar”

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 22h

LGBTQIA+ is rebranding as LGBTQIA MAX

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 9h

Ha ha! Never better, sir. And you?

David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 9h

✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 9h

Clippy was the beginning of the rot!

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 1d

So Microsoft are increasing the prices of their 365 subscription by £25 p.a. to pay for incorporating unbelievably shitty AI into the product. The good news it's now quite easy to opt out, even on a family plan. I just downgraded to Family Classic here: support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office...

Switching to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Classic Plans - Microsoft Support

Learn how to switch to a Microsoft 365 subscription plan without AI features, which include Microsoft 365 Basic, Microsoft 365 Personal Classic and Microsoft 365 Family Classic.

support.microsoft.com

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

'Well actually antisemitism fell last year'

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 2d

Diane Keaton by Annie Leibovitz, 1986

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 4d

GUYS.
(Also, I didn't know this, WTF? Genuinely marvellous story!)

David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 5d

Well aware of Phil's excellent contributions, we've talked through plenty of this! (We also share an agent)

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 5d

Oh hello you beauty! #LIFF2025

(Btw, I only just realised that @leedsfilmfest.bsky.social is on Bluesky, and considering their Twitter account had 16k followers and their Bluesky currently has 360, neither does anyone else. So give them a follow!)

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 5d

I feel a bit bad cos he's the nicest guy on the planet and it's not his fault, but COME ON!

David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 5d

Jack Thorne, eh? There's a name I haven't heard in a while. Talking of which, this is what my partner said yesterday at MIA in Rome: variety.com/2025/tv/glob...

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 6d

Saw this prick on the London - Leeds LNER last week and not punching him hard in the nuts was a terrible error on my part.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 6d

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 13d

September 30th/October 1st

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 13d

Gotta say, I thought ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER was the real deal. Manages to feel both free-wheeling and action-packed, full of breathtaking sequences and set pieces. Di Caprio, Del Toro, Penn all on zinging form and Teyana Taylor is just dynamite. One of PTA's absolute best.

David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 13d

Famously

David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 14d

Been thinking a lot during this Oasis tour about the naked racism of Noel Gallagher's response to Jay-Z headlining Glastonbury in 2008 and how little pushback he got. Amazing how normalised their prejudices were by their adoring fanbase. Just banter though eh, lads?

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 14d

Oasis stadium jaunt ends (for now), it has been odd seeing how massively they’re loved, and also odd that it is seen as churlish to critique it. For me, they inescapably represent the worst of the 90s, the banterous homophobia, the conservatism. It made life miserable & I struggle to get over that.

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