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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 1d

PG Wodehouse blurbed the first Flashman novel.

Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 1d

They took the meagre budget for an anniversary talking heads documentary and used it to make three episodes of new Red Dwarf. Its mere existence is magnificent.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 1d

Sure. People remember Reaper Man for the high-concept plot of Death retiring, and SQUEAK, but quite large chunks of it are railing against out-of-town shopping centres and as such have not aged particularly well purely in terms of relevance.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 2d

It's good that the filming was done. It's an aide memoire to those of us that were lucky enough to see it, and a consolation prize to those who didn't. And its broadcast was the tin lid on "The Year David Tennant Stole Christmas".

But yeah.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 2d

Professor Chronotis. "Undergraduates talking to each other, I expect. I've tried to have it banned..."

Pretty much anyone in Ghost Light.

Lady Peinforte: "Richard! Put that bow away, the Cybermen are here! Richard!" She was even wearing lace doilies. Case closed.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 2d

Jilly Cooper and John Woodvine on the same day, that's shit.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no. I last saw him in David Tennant's Hamlet and at the time I assumed that would be a bit of a last hurrah for him. It was the nicest of surprises just how long he kept giving amazing performances.

I loved him as Ralph in the RSC Nicholas Nickleby.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 2d

My first job was in an independent bookshop in the mid-90s, and Jilly Cooper and Joanna Trollope's sales kept them open through the collapse of the Net Book Agreement.

And people mostly bought the Trollopes just so they could hide the naughty Cooper covers while waiting in the queue for the till.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 3d

*racking a shotgun as i grill my daughter’s date* do you have a podcast?

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 3d

I've never seen Goonies. And it's not weird for my generation so much as my peer group, but I've only seen a handful of episodes of Blake's 7.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 4d

I remember another interview, probably around the same time, where she mentioned that the cast would be rehearsing scenes ahead of filming, and then went very quiet when the interviewer asked if that meant they'd been unreleased up to then.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 4d

Look, I know this is shit, but I just got my Parkrun time, and I'm below 40 minutes for the first time ever (39:50). This is an achievement that I've been working towards all year, and I'm super chuffed!

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

That would have been great - a few years ago I saw Planer and Edmondson do their play Vulcan 7 which was unmistakably inspired by Godot. markaspen.com/2018/10/23/v...

Vulcan 7

Waiting for Volcan-o Vulcan 7 by Nigel Planer and Adrian Edmondson Jonathan Church and Theatre Royal Bath at Richmond Theatre until 27th October, then on tour until 10th November Review by Andrew L…

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

It's just perfect that they've done it, after that scene in Chasing Amy where the comics fan compares Jay and Silent Bob to "Bill & Ted meet Cheech & Chong" and Ben Affleck replies that he sees them more as "Vladimir & Estragon meet Rosencrantz & Guildenstern".

They need to do the Stoppard now!

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

Me neither, but I rather suspect that Douglas Adams summed it up.

"An expensive gloat, but..."

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

Missing Doctor Who episode rumours remind me that last month I spent a whole conversation referring to ubiquitous 00s actor James Nesbitt as ubiquitous 60s actor Derren Nesbitt, and became genuinely, angrily incredulous that no one in the office had heard of him.

This is middle age, isn't it?

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 5d

It's so exciting that Doctor Who fans may soon have several restored episodes to loathe, for the first time in many cases - some of these episodes might not have been properly despised in 60 years!

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 5d

In memoriam...

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 6d

You have to hand it to Argos, not content with creating a series of ads with possibly unintentionally terrifying sentient toys, they've really doubled down with that new campaign where the dead-eyed automata have started squestering British shoppers in dimly-lit murder warehouses.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 6d

More precisely, Scottish (I'm in Edinburgh today).

Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 6d

I'm also a proud Scummer, but... only VERY QUIETLY proud when in Pompey.

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 7d

We're on a 6am alarm lifestyle and I never get used to it - especially now it's dark when I wake up again...

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 8d

"But they were all engrossed in Frank Windsor's knob, so no one had noticed!"

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 8d

"And when I turned round, they were all knobbing eyepatches!"

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Andrew Lawston @andrewlawston.bsky.social · 8d

New book klaxon! This will be heading my Christmas wishlist.

Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 8d

My new novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, is published TODAY. The hardback may not be out in the UK yet - it's listed for the end of October here - but the ebook is certainly available now. Here are some links but please feel free to buy wherever you can find it: amzn.to/3IOGJRw

The Heist of Hollow London

The Heist of Hollow London eBook : Robson, Eddie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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