Philip Ralph
@philralph.bsky.social
Screenwriter, recovering actor, rites of passage guide, dog walker extraordinaire.
Will write for food…
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emergence-uk.org
Will write for food…
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emergence-uk.org
My absolute pleasure to talk to @stuartwright.bsky.social
about the ongoing ‘crisertunity’ in the TV industry and possible ways forwards.
And what a joy to share 3 films that have impacted everything in my adult life - especially my favourite film of all time, Stanley Tucci’s ‘Big Night’!
about the ongoing ‘crisertunity’ in the TV industry and possible ways forwards.
And what a joy to share 3 films that have impacted everything in my adult life - especially my favourite film of all time, Stanley Tucci’s ‘Big Night’!
What film best defines art vs commerce? Is it Stanley Tucci’s BIG NIGHT?
@philralph.bsky.social talks about the ongoing crisis in the TV industry & share 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life
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@philralph.bsky.social talks about the ongoing crisis in the TV industry & share 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life
Apple Pod podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/20nU...
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
My absolute pleasure to talk to @stuartwright.bsky.social
about the ongoing ‘crisertunity’ in the TV industry and possible ways forwards.
And what a joy to share 3 films that have impacted everything in my adult life - especially my favourite film of all time, Stanley Tucci’s ‘Big Night’!
about the ongoing ‘crisertunity’ in the TV industry and possible ways forwards.
And what a joy to share 3 films that have impacted everything in my adult life - especially my favourite film of all time, Stanley Tucci’s ‘Big Night’!
Fantastically well deserved International Emmy win for the brilliant Lost Boys & Fairies. And what a tragic irony that Duck Soup Films, the bold and innovative indie that produced it, have been forced to close their doors from January next year.
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2025 International Emmy® TV/Movie Mini-Series Winner, Lost Boys & Fairies
YouTube video by internationalemmys
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Fantastically well deserved International Emmy win for the brilliant Lost Boys & Fairies. And what a tragic irony that Duck Soup Films, the bold and innovative indie that produced it, have been forced to close their doors from January next year.
youtu.be/naBtD-2fD9s?...
youtu.be/naBtD-2fD9s?...
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Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place. An article by our founder, Julian Richer: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer
I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place. An article by our founder, Julian Richer: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through ‘Divide and Rule’ | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
Podcast Episode · Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · 19/11/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
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This is why they've been jamming AI into everything - so that they can say they are too big to fail and can bleed governments dry. “Nice economy you’ve got there, be a shame if anything were to happen to it.” It’s 100% grift with these people.
🎶 The AI bust is coming / and everybody's jumping 🎶
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
The AI boom has been an
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This is why they've been jamming AI into everything - so that they can say they are too big to fail and can bleed governments dry. “Nice economy you’ve got there, be a shame if anything were to happen to it.” It’s 100% grift with these people.
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Meritocracy is a myth. Of course it f***ing is… Witness the ongoing ‘successocracy’ in action across the arts, TV in particular. Luck and privilege rule the day. Individualist dogma needs to be called out for the bollocks it is. Let’s be fair…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer
I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Meritocracy is a myth. Of course it f***ing is… Witness the ongoing ‘successocracy’ in action across the arts, TV in particular. Luck and privilege rule the day. Individualist dogma needs to be called out for the bollocks it is. Let’s be fair…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Meritocracy is a myth. Of course it f***ing is… Witness the ongoing ‘successocracy’ in action across the arts, TV in particular. Luck and privilege rule the day. Individualist dogma needs to be called out for the bollocks it is. Let’s be fair…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer
I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Meritocracy is a myth. Of course it f***ing is… Witness the ongoing ‘successocracy’ in action across the arts, TV in particular. Luck and privilege rule the day. Individualist dogma needs to be called out for the bollocks it is. Let’s be fair…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
“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
youtu.be/Epgo8ixX6Wo?...
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
youtu.be/Epgo8ixX6Wo?...
Massive Attack - Protection ft. Tracey Thorn
YouTube video by MassiveAttackVEVO
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November 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“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
youtu.be/Epgo8ixX6Wo?...
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
youtu.be/Epgo8ixX6Wo?...
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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...
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
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...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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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
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
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
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
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How many more warnings will it take before we wake up and finally act on climate change?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
How many more warnings will it take before we wake up and finally act on climate change?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
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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.
Trump says he will sue BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion despite apology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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...
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
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...
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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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
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
[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
i want you to stay with me, because this is gonna get a little wild! but what if the story went ... in order
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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!
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
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!
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!
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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
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.
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
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…
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...
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
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...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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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
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?
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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
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…
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Happy 100th birthday to this magnificent bastard.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Happy 100th birthday to this magnificent bastard.
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
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…
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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
🆕 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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