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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18h

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 16h

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Dear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin

The Emmy-nominated actor and author pens an open letter to the AI avatar that's got Hollywood in a tizzy.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 18h

Hugely appreciate both you David (and our rather fantastic agent Julia) and Caroline and Fritha and all who are fighting the good fight for a future for the industry we all love. ✊

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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 18h

...those in power are sawing off the branch they are sitting on. You cannot solve scarcity and austerity with more of the same. To have a future, the TV industry needs to invest in itself again - creativity, risk, a willingness to fail, experimentation. New voices. New stories...

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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 18h

The more voices the better on these issues imo. What we're seeing is the end of our industry being sustainable for all but the most 'successful' and it all comes from fear, panic and scarcity. Focusing only on the 'successful' might appear to be viable in the short term but in reality...

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 22h

And if anyone knows of what she speaks on this subject, it’s Caroline… the fear and scarcity mindset that’s currently driving commissioning is truly off the charts at this point. And ironically everyone suffers - including audiences - except the chosen few… it must change.

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David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social · 23h

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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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 1d

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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 2d

One man and his dog… 🐶❤️

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Last month, a delegation from GB News entered the White House & met with Trump.

Senior Trump figures turned up at its US launch party. Could it now become Trump’s preferred outlet in Europe?

It’s reopened the debate over Ofcom’s oversight of impartiality.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

www.theguardian.com

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 2d

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 2d

Every word... more people with RTD's clout and influence need to be standing up and speaking out in this way. "Censorship is in us." TV needs leaders and champions who stand up for the world we want to see and be. "TV is a light in the dark and we must not let that flame go out!"

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 2d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 3d

BBC News - Bafta Cymru: Lost Boys and Fairies wins five awards
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bafta Cymru: Lost Boys and Fairies wins five awards

Lost Boys and Fairies has scooped five awards at the Bafta Cymru film and TV awards ceremony.

www.bbc.com

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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 3d

RIP, John Woodvine. A very fine actor, and son of South Shields

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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 3d

Not seen Frauds yet but concur that the 'zero sum' game of rampaging austerity is driving TV towards the undemanding. I call it the 'success-ocracy' where fear and scarcity drives decision makers away from risk, the new, and anything other than 'the known'. We need change.

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 5d

Great story. Can't overstate the desperation in creative industries right now. Nearly every person I know who previously had a viable, or even lucrative, career in media/entertainment is in a financial panic, leaving longtime apartments, desperately taking any work they can find. It is really bad.

Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 7d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

www.wsj.com

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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 4d

Bill Hicks used to do a bit about new US presidents being shown footage of the JFK assassination from the grassy knoll to make them toe the line….

What do new UK Home Secretaries get shown to turn them from rational sane people into raging authoritarian zealots?

Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 4d

Police forces will be granted powers to put conditions on repeat protests, the government has announced, a day after nearly 500 protesters were arrested

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Want to see what Reform UK's politics would look like in government?

🇦🇷 Look to Argentina. Massive spike in poverty and a crashed economy.

📉 A template for disorder and chaos.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/02/javier-milei-argentina-nigel-farage-donald-trump-elon-musk

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 6d

"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you."

RIP Patricia Routledge.

Patricia Routledge Kitty

YouTube video by ukcomedy

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"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 7d

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 7d

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

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Philip Ralph @philralph.bsky.social · 8d

a man in a suit and bow tie says better to be king for a night

ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie says better to be king for a night

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 8d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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