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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 2h

Scott Tracy could move his face more.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 13h

My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 8h

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 11h

Would watch.

Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 12h

It's one thing not to be able to forecast the weather, another to not be able to tell you what it's doing *now*. (Perhaps they could invest in... a window?)

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 12h

Thankfully this mad experiment is nearly over...

BBC reunites with Met Office for weather forecasts

After eight years apart, the BBC wants the Met Office to help provide "the most trusted" forecasts.

www.bbc.com

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

I was on the same junket but didn't know you then, and was too shy to say hello!

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

Had the pleasure of meeting Diane Keaton, and she was 100% Diane Keaton / Annie Hall.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 1d

He also made this while being dragged round an open day at Warwick Uni yesterday. I love how his brain works.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 3d

#totp

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Graeme. Fantastic work on the book (both books!)

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

How were China Crisis?

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

Obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize guy's arms.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

Leave me alone, Simple Minds, you bloody stalkers! (I'm thrilled, obviously 🙂) Glad you enjoyed the show. Where was it?

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 3d

I’m delighted and honoured to have contributed a chapter to this excellent new book about one of my favourite periods of Doctor Who. As I type this, the Kickstarter page went live 45 minutes ago and it’s already over halfway to hitting the target!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...

THE GRAHAM WILLIAMS YEARS - The DNA of Doctor Who

Our second title in a range of beautiful large-format books focusing on the creative team behind BBC Television's DOCTOR WHO!

www.kickstarter.com

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

That audience did give me a sliver of hope, actually. (It's the hope that kills you.)

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely this. Was quite enjoying Zack Polanski and Zia Yusuf going at it on QT last night, then had to have a word with myself. It's good telly, but terrible for democracy.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

I can still recite the whole of Take Me, I'm Yours (and did, in the bath recently) but can't remember to put the bins out.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 3d

Amen to that. (Though Difford's the lyric man, surely?)

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 4d

FreeAlanBudd

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 4d

Please imagine Jenna Coleman tapping her watch at you.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 4d

I like The Number One Song in Heaven, but I still think Pet Shop Boys went on to do that stuff so much better.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 4d

I like everything about Sparks - the attitude, the aesthetic, the jokes - except the actual songs.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 4d

Well, I guess this is as good as it gets, career-wise. A magazine cover story about a band that's been the soundtrack to my life for 40 years.

Stick a fork in me, I'm done 😎

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 4d

FB Memories reminds me of the time those lads who were selling a bowl of Lucky Charms for six quid a pop got a book deal and produced the laziest 'Will this do?' thing ever published.

Cereal Killer. Like serial killer. Those people who murder people. Geddit?

If you put a gun to my head on a rollercoaster while defusing a bomb I could still think of something better than what they've farted onto this page.

Cut out masks of the two perpetrators of the cafe should you wish to look like a prick or a twat.

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