Tara Conlan
@taraconlan.bsky.social
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Journalist writing about media for the Guardian & others since all this was just Gracie Fields. taraconlan.com
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A starter pack for media and telly types of the content and media brands & platforms you know and might (or might not) love. Will add as more are verified. Excludes bots and bridges go.bsky.app/5uvdFgh
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this involves an independent production company but Hat Trick hugely experienced & trusted. Plus, HIGNFY has a lawyer the panellists often refer to in the show. Would be awful if one of the greatest satirical shows & bulwarks against corruption & pomposity brought down by this
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Suspect Have I Got News For You Multiverse error will follow usual BBC pattern of investigate, apologise, review, CMS grilling, new role to ensure doesn’t happen again. Or could it be subsumed into scope of James Stephenson, announced yesterday in role created by Gaza doc mistake review? Again tho..
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Here’s the clip (which I will once again note for out-of-context reposts, is a total bullshit conspiracy/fake news).
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I regret to inform you that doing the thing I was putting off forever did not take very long and was not very hard.
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39% out of creative industry freelancers out of work and just 13% feel secure in their job, Bectu’s Big Survey reveals. Around a third have no savings & just 48% have a pension. Concerning now but also for the future bectu.org.uk/bectu-big-su...
Bectu’s Big Survey
The UK’s creative industries are a global success story.
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Ed Miliband’s Strictly audition tape revealed
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Been following Tilly Norwood for a few months to track the trajectory & the PR storm has boosted numbers; she’s on 32.4K followers so attractive for collabs but the comments (apart from those from
other AI artists) are mostly not so pretty
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Only for those who’ve done a degree in it at Bamford University
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If they’re anything like my children they’ll prefer a packet of Halloween Haribos anyway so advise not getting lured in by the Instaguilters!
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the funniest joke you’ll hear involved with the Bonesaw Fringe
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First time this guy has ever made me laugh
Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons.
He said he had been offered "a large sum of money" - $375,000 for one performance - and said that other comedians had been offered as much as $1.6 million. He told his detractors to "get over it," adding, "So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way."
But in an episode of the Tim Dillon Podcast last week, the comedian announced he'd been removed from the lineup for the comments he made about the country's record on slavery.
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I was wondering too when that plot line would re-emerge. Hoping it’s discovered on the Scottish holiday when one of them can’t stop humming “I’ve Got a Brand New Combine Harvester”
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The choreography of it was always going to be interesting but I liked that David’s questions were concise & he left Obama lots of time to answer
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fair to say that 80% of [the world’s] problems involve old men hanging on and who are afraid of death.” Also huge laugh when said first met Mark Zuckerberg he thought he was “someone’s kid.”
The power of good intentions was palpable among the audience; felt like a moment & a movement
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underpinning” and cautioned about power AI brings being concentrated in the hands of just a few tech billionaires, reminding audience (which incl Sadiq Khan) “We have individuals who control more wealth than nation states”. Huge cheer when he said he was optimistic due to young people as “it's..
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previously provided by religion (though he said organised religions had had problems) or counter-culture. Those in the JP Morgan and Google boxes likely squirming after Obama said everything’s become “transactional” & “that plays into the hands of authoritarianists”. He warned markets need “moral…
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increases actually had to do with a broadening of the criteria across that spectrum so that people actually can get services and help. All of that is violence against the truth.” Applause also for when he said we’ve become very “materialistic’ without counterweight of “something of good value”…
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undermines public health, the degree to which that can do harm to women who are pregnant, the degree to which that creates anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic, which, by the way, itself, is subject to a spectrum and a lot of what it’s being trumpeted as these massive…
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not by name, saying: “We have to insist that there are things that are true and false, not perfectly true, but more true. So we have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproved & the degree to which that..
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Incredible scenes at sold-out 02 last night as Barack Obama was quizzed (brilliantly) by David Olusoga about why we are where we are socially, politically & economically. Biggest cheer was when he said: “Integrity character & honesty matter”. Only referred to current president as his “successor” &…
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Maybe he’s channelling Mark Thompson’s 2004 justification for quitting C4 for BBC DG: "What made the difference for me between then and now was what Sonia Gandhi would call my inner voice. I just felt, in the end, it was a one-of-a-kind opportunity that I could not pass up."
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Good point - shows how much an actor can sell a show plus David Tennant leading entrant in international Who’s (Doctor) Who
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Interesting The Hack (written by Jack Thorne, starring David Tennant, Robert Carlyle & Toby Jones & produced by Mr Bates vs The Post Office alumni) selling well globally after Mr Bates struggled to sell abroad, as ITV said didn’t appeal to international audiences; but perhaps it paved way for this?