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James Moran

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📝 Screenwriter 🎬 Severance, Cockneys Vs Zombies, Tower Block 📺 Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Crusoe, Crossing Lines, Eve, Dave Spud, & more 👋 He/him www.jamesmoran.com

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · Dec 13

Introduction pinned post! I'm mostly a screenwriter, wrote the movies Severance, Cockneys Vs Zombies, Tower Block, and TV episodes of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Primeval, Crossing Lines, Dave Spud, and more. Several Doctor Who audios for Big Finish, with more on the way, and 3 Commando comics.

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 13m

The kid (7) loves orchestras/classical music, but there's VERY little family/kid-related live stuff- the LSO one is almost sold out for June already, so are the few other things I found. I've Googled the most obvious ones, are there any I'm missing? She's desperate to see a live orchestra, any size.

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Melissa F. Olson @mfolson.bsky.social · 19h

It’s finally here!
You can now buy the trade paperback of ARCHAIC, about a badass single mom who’s put in charge of a sentient island and its mythological Inhabitants. Come for the Mesopotamian goddess of the dead, stay for the 9-yr-old who saves the day w/birdwatching skills.
bit.ly/Demonde

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 1d

Super duper cool.

James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 1d

Wait wait Dr Yes should be Dr Ohhhhh Go On Then

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 1d

Me and my wife are in a throuple with our air fryer, not a marriage though, until we can get the law changed

James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

OMG I want to be cool! I have two already but a 3rd would seal the deal

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

Before I got one I was all, pffft, how good can they be, now I’m like, hey neighbour have you heard the good news about our lord and saviour air fryers

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

Actually enjoying the Bond photoshop “scandal”, it’s delightfully silly. The 007 logo literally has a gun in it. I hope they rename some of them too. Licence To Arrest. Live and Let Live. The World Is Enough. The Man with the Golden Watch. Octofoofoo. Dr Yes.

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

YES

James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

Salter XXL Hot Air Fryer is the one I have- nice and big. I use silicon tray inserts, you can get multiples to divide the food into sections, and then just chuck the inserts into the sink or dishwasher to clean them

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

I knew I could rely on you

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

Genuinely seriously considering getting the Sickos image as a tattoo on my arm, talk me out of it

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

Also, I did not expect to see the word chimps so many times today, nor did I expect that I would be typing chimps so often…

James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo— (1/94)

James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

I know, it was just a silly way of making fun of snobby people, I’m not claiming Jane Goodall invented chimps

James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

SHE DID

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 2d

And obviously I have to reshare this, because it took me ages and ages and it was the best date I have ever planned.

I took 25 *different* forms of London transport in one day:

www.girlonthenet.com/london-trans...

Numbered list which reads:

High speed train – Stratford International to St Pancras International
Thameslink – St Pancras to Farringdon
Sub-surface tube (Circle line) – Farringdon to Monument
Moving walkway – Monument to Bank
Waterloo and City Line – Bank to Waterloo
Mainline train – Waterloo to St Margarets
Hammerton’s Ferry – North to south Thames banks
Single-decker bus – 371 to Norbiton Church
Double-decker bus – 57 to Wimbledon
Tram – Wimbledon to West Croydon
Overground – West Croydon to Whitechapel
Crossrail – Whitechapel to Liverpool Street
Inclined lift/funicular – Liverpool Street
Deep tube (Central Line) – Liverpool Street to St Paul’s
Hire Bike – St Paul’s to Aldwych
Vintage Bus – Aldwych to Charing Cross
Pedicab – Charing Cross to Embankment
Thames Clipper – Embankment to North Greenwich
Cable Car – North Greenwich to Royal Docks
Black Cab – Royal Docks to North Woolwich
Woolwich Ferry – North terminal to South terminal
Uber/Private taxi – Woolwich ferry to Cutty Sark
Lift – Cutty Sark
Greenwich Foot Tunnel – Cutty Sark to Island Gardens
Docklands Light Railway (DLR) – Island Gardens to Stratford International

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

…holy shit this is EPIC

(Also: reported for transporterotica)

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IT MADE ME HAVE A LADYTHOUGHT MY MIND HAS GONE ALL WOMANNY

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(I kind of do want to do that on Jane Goodall posts now, I’m sure she’d have found it funny)

James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

I GOT LADY WORDS ON ME

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 2d

Y’know, you can celebrate Jilly Cooper’s life *without* prefacing it with “not a fan of her writing”— don’t worry, we won’t assume you have the same taste as us mere plebs… I don’t go on Jane Goodall tribute posts commenting “not a fan of chimps, but RIP anyway”

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 3d

I loved loved loved Jilly Cooper, i got to meet her last year and burbled at her about how her novels had often got me through hard times and she was so kind. RIP xx www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall

www.theguardian.com

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 3d

RIP JILLY COOPER! A queen who wrote THE most readable books in existence. People saw my thread of epic Jilly quotes and decided I was saying the books are shite. You COULDN'T be more wrong. Go and watch Rivals today.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Oct 18

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · 3d

Overheard posh parents chatting - “we went to Lake Garda for 10 days. Yeah, it was really nice, actually”. OMG, really? Was it ACTUALLY nice? Did you ACTUALLY manage to tolerate one of the most beautiful places on the planet??

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