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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 2h

A smaller missive this week, as we're on holiday for half-term. Film Club is very good, Peacemaker finale was very disappointing and Dreaming Whilst Black is great, but more drama than comedy for me. Let me know your TV thoughts!

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Luxmuralis light show at Durham Cathedral with headline Things That Make Me Feel Good: Being on Holiday in Durham

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Treehouse Of Harrison 🎃 @markharrison.bsky.social · 13h

Never a tired true-crime drama or tired gritty cop show or tired rich-people-are-pricks show with some people, is it? Only romcoms. Looking forward to catching up with this!

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 6h

Precisely! And I hope you enjoy it too.

James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 14h

I've seen a lot of dismissive reviews of Film Club, claiming it's a tired rom-com. Now maybe I've not watched enough rom-coms, but this show is interesting, heartfelt and offers surprising depth to initial stereotypes. So go watch it.

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Film Club

Besties Evie and Noa watch films together every week. But are they only there for the love of movies or something more? Big-hearted rom-com with Aimee Lou Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 19h

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 1d

The Chair Company feels so close to my personal comedy tastes I worry no-one else will watch, but you should and must. Tim Robinson is the most excellent clown of realism.

Poster for The Chair Company, in the style of a 70s spy thriller, with Tim Robinson looking worried. About his chair probably.

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Mark Donaldson @markdonaldson.bsky.social · 1d

Telly's pretty good at the moment, isn't it?

Adjani Salmon in "Dreaming Whilst Black"

Amelia Bulmore, Lorraine Ashbourne, Rosalie Craig, Joanna Scanlan and Tamsin Greig in Sally Wainwright's Riot Women

Jodie Whittaker and Suranne Jones in Frauds

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 5d

Experiment successful.

The cast of TV sitcom Cheers, Cliff, Coach, Carla, Sam, Diane and Norm, but they're all been quickly faceswapped with Cher's face. The title above reads 'Chers'.

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 5d

It does help your work afternoon move more swiftly when you have a face of biscuits to devour.

Two gingerbread Oreo eyes, and an oval Provencal biscuit mouth on a green plate.

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 7d

It's all about Alan (Partridge) this week, as his new show How Are You... has officially made me Feel Good. I explore my history with the little man, including audio cassettes! Also Peacemaker, Creature Commandos and a very mediocre SNL season 51 opener.

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Things That Make Me Feel Good: How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)

Never before have parentheses so totally portrayed character

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Andboo Scare @andrewblair.co.uk · 7d

* change national anthem to Mogwai Fear Satan
* Bring Arran a bit nearer
* Neeps and tatties to be combined into Neeties
* Cities will have legs installed and roam the country
* A bothy for every child
* Anyone with mental health gets five minutes in a cave with a struggling spider

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 7d

John Swinney is set to unveil new plans for an independent Scotland

'A fresh start': John Swinney to unveil new Scottish independence plans

www.thenational.scot

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Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · 8d

If you want the first line of the trailer for your telly show delivered INCREDIBLY bastard well, you know exactly where to go.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6P1o...

Murder Before Evensong | Coming Soon | Channel 5

YouTube video by Channel 5

m.youtube.com

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 9d

WELCOME TO DERRY is amazing. First episode is terrifying.

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 9d

Irn Bru Winter Bru is good. Might just be the 14.9g of sugar per can.

A can of Irn Bru Winter Bru on my work desk, with an out of focus Lego TARDIS in the background. This detail is not important.

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 9d

I am literally on the same trajectory. Saw so much about it on social media when it came out and ignored it!

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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 10d

The Smith & Harcourt Three Camera Sitcom we never got.
#Peacemaker Finale airs this Thursday on HBO Max.

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 11d

So I guess the multicam Arrested Development is coming out... Soon?

[SmartLess] "Mitch Hurwitz" 🅴 #smartless
podcastaddict.com/smartless/ep... via @PodcastAddict

A great listen.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 12d

Keeping Up Appearances outtakes.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12d

The British Podcast Awards featured a strange “glitch” that everyone found amusing; but has interesting implications. Most of the winners were upstairs in the cheap balcony seats, meaning there was a few minutes’ delay on almost EVERY award as the winners went down the back stairs to the stage. >>

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ceej @ceej.online · 12d

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 13d

What a theme tune.

youtu.be/p7-YDbuDZnw?...

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 13d

Don't miss Buddy Nutzack's set in Riyadh. youtu.be/lRXn-g1s4T8

Every Edgy Millionaire Comedian

YouTube video by Alasdair Beckett-King

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Yorkshire Tea @yorkshiretea.bsky.social · 14d

It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 14d

No major TV obsession this week, just a handful of Moments of Joy. Have you heard the Ridley Jones theme tune? It's intense. Also a massive Thirteenth Doctor interview, brilliant Peacemaker and many new upcoming shows to distract me from writing. Jump in!

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Moments of Joy

The Thirteenth Doctor, Ridley Jones, Peacemaker, Taskmaster and more!

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 15d

Right context, wrong specifics! 😅