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Gemma Arrowsmith

@mmaarrow.bsky.social

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Comedy writer & actor. Doctor Who, Tracey Ullman’s Show, Beyond a Steel Sky, Justin’s House, Bravest Warriors, Horrible Histories linktr.ee/gemmaarrowsmith

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · Nov 15

I wrote this Tracey Ullman sketch and it was pinned to my Twitter profile for years. So in the spirit of moving everything over to BlueSky, here it is pinned to my feed here.
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What were you wearing? - Tracey Ullman's Show: Season 2 Episode 6 Preview - BBC One

YouTube video by BBC

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 7h

Love this one! 🔴🔵🟢

Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 8h

A classic.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 8h

What’s your favourite TV ident? It’s tough cos there are so many gorgeous ones but I love the rare Thames Television night time ident. 🦇👻

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THAMES TELEVISION LATE EVENING IDENT 1977 ITV LONDON HD 1080P

YouTube video by IainLucey1972

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I agree. Nothing wrong with realism; there have been many wonderful shows in that style. But television can be so much more than that!

Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Great thread on multi-camera TV.

I think partly this is down to the absolute obsession with realism, often to the exclusion of all other forms of expression. Anything even slightly heightened or, god forbid, theatrical is seen as dated.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2d

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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Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · 2d

Seven years of Crowley Time! Seven years of spoofs, goofs, sketches, characters and messages in bottles plucked from unknown shores. If you’ve never listened to it, make today the day you step into the abyss!
crowleytime.com

The episode image for Crowley Time Episode 1: Into the Abyss, as it appears on the show’s website. The episode image features Tom Crowley’s head peering into a big hole.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 8d

YOU DON’T THINK I ALREADY FEEL LIKE I LIVE IN BOLOGNA?? 🍝

Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · 8d

I’m genuinely making a bolognese today, which is reason enough to revisit this @benpartridge.bsky.social masterpiece:
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Bolognese

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Leyline High Rewind @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social · 12d

In our latest episode we discuss the legendary Leyline High episode Harvest Scare-stival from 1984. (You remember? It's the one with the Corn-on-the-Cob Monster that kills the dinnerlady?)

And we also get onto the subject of our favourite autumnal hymns. 🍂

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Leyline High Rewind @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social · 14d

NEW EPISODE! This month we're looking at Harvest Scare-stival (1984), a fan favourite episode.

Pippa finds a strange unlabelled tin at the back of the cupboard & takes it to school for harvest festival. But she's not prepared for the evil it unleashes.

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7: Harvest Scare-stival (1984) — Gemma Arrowsmith

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 14d

Woo! @sueharrison123.bsky.social! 💕🎉

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Leyline High Rewind @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social · 14d

NEW LEYLINE HIGH REWIND IN YOUR PODCAST FEED LATER TODAY!

Uploading 3:30pm (home time)

This month: a Harvest Festival Special!

Leyline High Rewind graphic. A school locker full of strange items, a glowing skull, an ancient leather-bound book and some tentacles. To the right, a sign with the text "7: Harvest Scare-stival (1984)"

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 15d

Writing fiction in the third person past tense is starting to feel as stubbornly anachronistic as making studio sitcoms with a laughter track.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 18d

I didn’t know about this memoir! Ordering immediately.

Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 18d

Woohooo! Listen to me with PAUL PUTNER in Crowley Time Live at the London Podcast Festival.

Action! Intrigue! And so many accents!

Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · 18d

For real, it's Crowley Time! Episode 39: The DiPoni Contingency, as seen live on stages throughout the land, is on your podcast app and at crowleytime.com NOW! What happened to Marco DiPoni? Find out with Gemma Arrowsmith and Paul Putner!
@mmaarrow.bsky.social @realpaulputner.bsky.social

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 20d

Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 21d

Colin Jeavons as sort-of-Scotty! 🎉

Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 21d

If Halloween movies were like Christmas movies. Haley Ween is a go-getting lawyer specialising in trick-or-treat fraud who doesn't need any man living or undead to make her happy. But she wasn't banking on running into pumpkin farmer Raymond Pumpkin-Spice who's about to teach her the true meaning of

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 21d

The Zombie School Cup Final episode was a landmark episode, particularly the bit when Biffo's arms came off in goal.

Leyline High Rewind @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social · 21d

We asked Leyline High fans for their favourite episodes.
Do you remember any of these? 👇

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 21d

It’s in the “How to Tell a Joke” section at the beginning of his Whopping Great Joke Book!

Front cover of Harry Hill’s Whopping Great Joke Book. Yellow background. Harry on the left with trademark glasses and big collar.

HOW TO TELL A JOKE
I. Work up a routine of about five minutes of your favourite jokes. Work out which ones go best and open your routine with your best joke and finish it with your second best joke.
2. Get a good outfit. Then when you've got a good outfit - move around a bit and show 'em the outfit. That way your audience will think you're a success even if you aren't, yet.
3. Shakespeare once said that brevity is the soul of wit - don't worry, I don't know what he was on about either. My advice is you won't get many laughs spouting Shakespeare - stick to jokes.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 21d

Advice from Harry Hill 💛

12. Keep going. That's it, just keep going - it's all you can do.
13. Have fun. This is the most important one.
Never let it seem like work - this life you've chosen for yourself of telling jokes. It ain't work.
Sitting in an office watching other people having fun - that's work. You and me? We're the ones who escaped.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 22d

Like Holmes himself climbed out of the books and leapt over the sofa to Watson.

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 22d

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Red Headed League (22nd September 1985). Roger Hammond guests as Jabez Wilson in John Hawkesworth's adaptation of a story first published in 1891.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · Jul 24

2055. TV shows are now half an episode per season. You get a season every 9 years. It’s made by 17 production companies and costs half the GDP of the G7.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 26d

Post a female character you love.

Maddie Magellan standing in front of Jonathan Creek.

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Leyline High Rewind @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social · 27d

In the last episode we did a rundown of Leyline High actors who had pop careers. Are there any we missed?

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 28d

Ever since watching the Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller back in the 90s I’ve wanted to see P&T live. Tonight I got the chance at the Palladium and WOW the finale was just 🤯

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