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Philip Ralph
@philralph.bsky.social
Screenwriter, recovering actor, rites of passage guide, dog walker extraordinaire.
Will write for food…
philipralph.com
emergence-uk.org
“And I leaned on you for years
Now you can lean on me.
That’s more than love.
That’s the way it should be.
Now I can’t change the way you feel,
But I could put my arms around you.”

The most beautiful lyric of all time. 😢

@traceythorn.bsky.social

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Massive Attack - Protection ft. Tracey Thorn
YouTube video by MassiveAttackVEVO
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November 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Every ad now
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is a fantastically important and timely initiative from Channel 5 and one I hope will be emulated by the other UK channels. New stories and fresh voices are so needed right now - and so are opportunities to enable people to survive in a crumbling industry.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Play for Today: The revival hoping to save British TV from a class crisis
‘Play for Today’ one-off films were a seminal moment in television in the Seventies and Eighties, writes Hannah J Davies. Decades later, Channel 5 is bringing them back, and aiming to diversify small-...
www.independent.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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[sitting in a nondescript conference room surrounded by smiling tv execs]

i want you to stay with me, because this is gonna get a little wild! but what if the story went ... in order
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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please, tv writers, i beg you

stop making the penultimate episode a flashback that answers all my questions about how we got here

i don't care! i already AM here. these are not questions i want answered! i don't care about these flashback people! i don't want to care about these flashback people!
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Can someone just tell me which show we’re currently subtweeting about next-to-last episode flashbacks so I can be prepared for it. I don’t watch as many screeners as most of you.
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
One day we will look back on ‘the Woke Scare’ in the same way we think of McCarthyism - utterly ludicrous and embarrassing years of confected ‘scandal’ after ‘scandal’ as innumerable bad faith self-serving grifters weaponise humanity’s discomfort with change for their own ends…
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
On the centenary of his birth, check out this really terrific story of how Richie Jenkins became Richard Burton thanks to Philip Burton's dedicated mentorship... an inspiring story of selflessness for our selfish times...

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Mr Burton
Film biopic about the power of an inspirational teacher and how talent can sometimes transcend the circumstances in which it is found.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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This piece is bang on. The age of HETV and AI is inexorably leading us to this: shiny story-free, spectacle-heavy simulacra’s of what sort of looks like TV, but is in fact just desperate empty minutes to sell us lifestyles we can’t afford or want in the brief moments between now and when we die…
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Happy 100th birthday to this magnificent bastard.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This piece is bang on. The age of HETV and AI is inexorably leading us to this: shiny story-free, spectacle-heavy simulacra’s of what sort of looks like TV, but is in fact just desperate empty minutes to sell us lifestyles we can’t afford or want in the brief moments between now and when we die…
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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🆕 Listen to the special episode recorded as part of our symposium for our @ukri.org funded project last September!! 🎙️ Featuring our PI @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @lrjdmnr.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social @philralph.bsky.social and Nicola Crowther (BBC).
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What’s Class Got to Do with It? | Rethinking class in the UK TV industry
Recorded live at the University of Leeds during the What’s Class Got to Do with It? Symposium in October 2025, this special episode explores how social class shapes the television industry - from who ...
rethnkingclassinuktv.podbean.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.

on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive
Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’
on.ft.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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As we lose the final episodes of Doctors from BBC iPlayer what is really telling is how much drama especially UK originated has been lost from TV especially when you remember we lost Holby City and it's replacement is a few series of Waterloo Road and that last series was burnt across four weeks.
End of an era… today is the final day to watch my final ep of Doctors
leaving @bbciplayer.bsky.social at 2:45pm.
As these final 16 eps play out, please remember the hundreds of people who have struggled to find work since the axe fell… 😢😢🤬

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Doctors - Series 24: 262. Bureaucrazy
Graham shows his true colours, Bear has big news for the partners, and Rosie is on a mission. Jimmi loses his cool when trying to help a patient.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
End of an era… today is the final day to watch my final ep of Doctors
leaving @bbciplayer.bsky.social at 2:45pm.
As these final 16 eps play out, please remember the hundreds of people who have struggled to find work since the axe fell… 😢😢🤬

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Doctors - Series 24: 262. Bureaucrazy
Graham shows his true colours, Bear has big news for the partners, and Rosie is on a mission. Jimmi loses his cool when trying to help a patient.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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A real pleasure to speak again to the brilliant Jamie Mackinlay @justgetarealjob.bsky.social about the ongoing omnicrisis in TV and how it’s impacting those from marginalised and less privileged backgrounds.

Let us know your thoughts on our conversation!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYoU...
Is the TV Industry Broken? | Philip Ralph on Class, Creativity & Change
YouTube video by Just Get A Real Job
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A real pleasure to speak again to the brilliant Jamie Mackinlay @justgetarealjob.bsky.social about the ongoing omnicrisis in TV and how it’s impacting those from marginalised and less privileged backgrounds.

Let us know your thoughts on our conversation!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYoU...
Is the TV Industry Broken? | Philip Ralph on Class, Creativity & Change
YouTube video by Just Get A Real Job
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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RIP to the incredible Drew Struzan. A true master.
October 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I got my start as a writer @sohotheatre.bsky.social on attachment on a scheme very like Soho ReDraft just a couple (*cough* 23!!! *cough*) of years ago...
Initiatives like this are vital in an industry that can no longer afford proper paid opportunities to develop new work.
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5 emerging playwrights. 5 Redrafts.
Introducing Soho ReDraft — our new development programme for rising writers.

After 1,700+ submissions to the 2024 #VerityBargateAward, we spotted a crucial gap: too few chances for proper development. So obvs we had to fix it.

sohotheatre.com/project/soho...
October 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
When I say ‘the crisis in TV isn’t a blip, it’s a paradigm shift’, this 👇👇👇 is why. The ground is shifting fast under our feet and ‘more of what worked before’ isn’t going to cut it. TV needs to see this as an opportunity for innovation, risk, experimentation and the new before it’s too late…
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
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM