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Yale Drama shortlist (2024); Verity Bargate longlist (2022, 2017, 2013); Bruntwood longlist (2013); Papatango longlist (2022, 2017)

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as Sun Tzu says in The Art of War, 'try not to shoot yourself directly up the dick for no reason' #TheTraitors
January 4, 2026 at 9:38 AM
'...and in the confusion, the Guardian declared war on Uncle Albert'
January 4, 2026 at 6:37 AM
'staying under the radar' is a great idea, ruined only by the number of planes that have been destroyed by the ground

#TheTraitors
January 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Incredibly, a person exists who should have read more Tom Clancy
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 AM
My own personal resolution for 2026 is to pivot from 'i was like...' to 'i says...'

If it goes really well I have '...says i' as a stretch target.
January 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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January 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
long story but good grief this Captain Scarlet face
December 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
BIG WALK
December 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Standing complaint about how out of 18 TV highlights of next year, only 3 are original drama properties www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
TV lookahead for 2026 and beyond
We look ahead to 18 notable shows and events to look out for in 2026, from drama to sport.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I'm now a stone's throw from the Honor Oak, and this very sound view
December 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
December 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We made a decade, my lemon meringue wife.

Please enjoy #DuvetKnowItsChristmas and donate if you can x
A spare room decked out like a bone china plate
A disgruntled cat as your brand new room-mate
A bulb with no shade from the ceiling does hang
In a bleak-looking prison of lemon meringue
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
'Assume your audience is stupid'
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
And so it was, much to my surprise, that i has my own flat
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
rest in the peace this world couldn't give you, James Ransone x
December 22, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Asterix panels that go hard:
December 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Remember MANTA Force, and that phase they went through of selling 'the graphically semi-decomposed corpses of your troops'?
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
stunning start to '2026 arriving like...'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
'Absence makes the Ed mund Honda'
December 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by duncan gates
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Dickens' mate, maybe Wilkie Collins: would Scrooge REALLY drop 'more of gravy than the grave'?

Dickens: yeah!

WC: would he really? is he a right larf?

CD: he shouldn't be THAT much of a dick

WC: ......................

CD: yes, he's had some regrets/

WC: /just not 'missing this sick zinger', k
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
WHY ISN'T IT 'STEAK KNIFE'??????
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Hello all! I'm not so active on here at the minute, but wanted to share that the first screening of my community pop-up cinema, Breeze Frame Film Club, is on Thursday at the Irish World Heritage Centre in Cheetham Hill!

🧵
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
bold of The Devil's Hour to go with the conceit that a heavily autism-adjacent character is a 'soulless husk' that doesn't belong in this world, very bold indeed
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM