Philip Ralph
@philralph.bsky.social
Screenwriter, recovering actor, rites of passage guide. Advocate for positive change in UK TV and the arts.
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Common People - Reclaiming the narrative on class in TV at a time of crisis.
YouTube video by Philip Ralph
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My keynote on class in the UK TV industry given @leedsunimedia.bsky.social
last year is now available to watch on YouTube. Grab a cuppa and check it out. I’d love to know your thoughts.
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last year is now available to watch on YouTube. Grab a cuppa and check it out. I’d love to know your thoughts.
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Bingo.
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Bingo.
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My first episode of Father Brown is now available to watch on iPlayer. It was an absolute delight to write for this iconic show from first pitch to shooting script to a fantastic day on set.
Hope you can catch it.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Hope you can catch it.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Father Brown - Series 13: 9. The Power of Suggestion
Father Brown investigates when a Hollywood starlet is murdered while filming an advert for washing powder.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
My first episode of Father Brown is now available to watch on iPlayer. It was an absolute delight to write for this iconic show from first pitch to shooting script to a fantastic day on set.
Hope you can catch it.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Hope you can catch it.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
My first episode of Father Brown is now available to watch on iPlayer. It was an absolute delight to write for this iconic show from first pitch to shooting script to a fantastic day on set.
Hope you can catch it.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Hope you can catch it.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Father Brown - Series 13: 9. The Power of Suggestion
Father Brown investigates when a Hollywood starlet is murdered while filming an advert for washing powder.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
My first episode of Father Brown is now available to watch on iPlayer. It was an absolute delight to write for this iconic show from first pitch to shooting script to a fantastic day on set.
Hope you can catch it.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Hope you can catch it.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
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Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
January 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.
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'(Off X's look)' gets you fucking anywhere, in a script, doesn't it? Especially when actors are fretting 'do you really want me to smile here/laugh here/cry here???' (Off X's look) is basically 'actor does something' and everyone is happy. My favourite paranthetical.
January 8, 2026 at 11:45 AM
'(Off X's look)' gets you fucking anywhere, in a script, doesn't it? Especially when actors are fretting 'do you really want me to smile here/laugh here/cry here???' (Off X's look) is basically 'actor does something' and everyone is happy. My favourite paranthetical.
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🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.
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Some of you are posting your way through it. Yelling "fight harder" to strangers on the internet means you have lost it. Please get therapy, hydrate, and take your meds.
January 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Some of you are posting your way through it. Yelling "fight harder" to strangers on the internet means you have lost it. Please get therapy, hydrate, and take your meds.
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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Also... Trump is 79, Putin 73, Xi 72, Modi 75, Erdogan 72, Khamenei 86, Netanyahu 76, Obiang 83, etc.
There is one relentless enemy that the gerontocracy has never yet beaten.
There is one relentless enemy that the gerontocracy has never yet beaten.
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Also... Trump is 79, Putin 73, Xi 72, Modi 75, Erdogan 72, Khamenei 86, Netanyahu 76, Obiang 83, etc.
There is one relentless enemy that the gerontocracy has never yet beaten.
There is one relentless enemy that the gerontocracy has never yet beaten.
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I know "nothing ever changes" is part psychological defence and part easiest hedge bet, because it is so often true, but people should think before sharing their "everything will always be awful" take. First, it adds to collective depression, but also it becomes a personally disempowering mantra.
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM
I know "nothing ever changes" is part psychological defence and part easiest hedge bet, because it is so often true, but people should think before sharing their "everything will always be awful" take. First, it adds to collective depression, but also it becomes a personally disempowering mantra.
My keynote on class in the UK TV industry given @leedsunimedia.bsky.social
last year is now available to watch on YouTube. Grab a cuppa and check it out. I’d love to know your thoughts.
youtu.be/_66i8f815oA?...
last year is now available to watch on YouTube. Grab a cuppa and check it out. I’d love to know your thoughts.
youtu.be/_66i8f815oA?...
Common People - Reclaiming the narrative on class in TV at a time of crisis.
YouTube video by Philip Ralph
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 PM
My keynote on class in the UK TV industry given @leedsunimedia.bsky.social
last year is now available to watch on YouTube. Grab a cuppa and check it out. I’d love to know your thoughts.
youtu.be/_66i8f815oA?...
last year is now available to watch on YouTube. Grab a cuppa and check it out. I’d love to know your thoughts.
youtu.be/_66i8f815oA?...
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I hope Renee Nicole's bravery lights the blue touchpaper of mass civil resistance. Not just for the sake of America, but for the whole world. Murders like hers, especially caught on video, have a recent history of doing that.
She was a warrior. They are cowards killing, quite literally, The Good.
She was a warrior. They are cowards killing, quite literally, The Good.
January 8, 2026 at 9:54 AM
I hope Renee Nicole's bravery lights the blue touchpaper of mass civil resistance. Not just for the sake of America, but for the whole world. Murders like hers, especially caught on video, have a recent history of doing that.
She was a warrior. They are cowards killing, quite literally, The Good.
She was a warrior. They are cowards killing, quite literally, The Good.
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There is a grave moral consequence to letting this go on. Shut down the government, have a general strike, grind the country to a halt, hit the streets. But not treating a demented administration lying about its thugs committing cold-blooded murder as an emergency? That is an emergency in itself.
January 8, 2026 at 4:05 AM
There is a grave moral consequence to letting this go on. Shut down the government, have a general strike, grind the country to a halt, hit the streets. But not treating a demented administration lying about its thugs committing cold-blooded murder as an emergency? That is an emergency in itself.
The fact that UK audiences *still* cannot legitimately watch this show is an indictment of the ongoing rolling shitshow that is the modern TV landscape…
HBO Max has renewed The Pitt for season three ahead of season two of the hit medical drama premiering on Thursday.
‘The Pitt’ Renewed for Season 3 at HBO Max
HBO Max has renewed The Pitt for season three ahead of season two of the hit medical drama premiering on Thursday.
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January 8, 2026 at 9:04 AM
The fact that UK audiences *still* cannot legitimately watch this show is an indictment of the ongoing rolling shitshow that is the modern TV landscape…
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I’d seen clips but never a whole Harlan Coben TV. Is there any reason that these *very* American stories are ported over to the UK with no adjustment? The casual gunplay is weird as hell. It’s clearly set in an American moral universe re: violence and justice. But all done in British accents.
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 AM
I’d seen clips but never a whole Harlan Coben TV. Is there any reason that these *very* American stories are ported over to the UK with no adjustment? The casual gunplay is weird as hell. It’s clearly set in an American moral universe re: violence and justice. But all done in British accents.
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Rewatching one of my favourite shows that I haven’t revisited for a few years. I know I sound like an old man but there’s been nothing like this since. Deadwood was a masterpiece.
a man with a mustache and a beard is talking to another man in a suit .
ALT: a man with a mustache and a beard is talking to another man in a suit .
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January 6, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Rewatching one of my favourite shows that I haven’t revisited for a few years. I know I sound like an old man but there’s been nothing like this since. Deadwood was a masterpiece.
Words of inspiration for TV storytellers in 2026 from David Milch in his devastatingly raw biography, 'Life's Work' -
"Let me say from my heart: Don't give up on mass culture. Contribute to it. Break your heart in trying to make it better."
I certainly intend to this year. How about you?
"Let me say from my heart: Don't give up on mass culture. Contribute to it. Break your heart in trying to make it better."
I certainly intend to this year. How about you?
January 7, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Words of inspiration for TV storytellers in 2026 from David Milch in his devastatingly raw biography, 'Life's Work' -
"Let me say from my heart: Don't give up on mass culture. Contribute to it. Break your heart in trying to make it better."
I certainly intend to this year. How about you?
"Let me say from my heart: Don't give up on mass culture. Contribute to it. Break your heart in trying to make it better."
I certainly intend to this year. How about you?
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Getting rid of DCMS meant there was no one in government able to warn the prime minister that creatives can't live off thin air. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
January 7, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Getting rid of DCMS meant there was no one in government able to warn the prime minister that creatives can't live off thin air. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
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wow this hurts
Terrifyingly accurate depiction of the editing process by larskenseth.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 11:58 PM
wow this hurts
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"Who is the man who appears unexpectedly in an OS map..?"
January 7, 2026 at 11:43 AM
"Who is the man who appears unexpectedly in an OS map..?"
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Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.
January 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.
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If the shit pouring out of X - on all fronts - were pouring out of any other media or publishing outlet, people would be up in court.
But apparently New Tech is High Magicke, in service of the great Basilisk (all hail the singularity) and cannot be constrained by the law of humans.
But apparently New Tech is High Magicke, in service of the great Basilisk (all hail the singularity) and cannot be constrained by the law of humans.
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM
If the shit pouring out of X - on all fronts - were pouring out of any other media or publishing outlet, people would be up in court.
But apparently New Tech is High Magicke, in service of the great Basilisk (all hail the singularity) and cannot be constrained by the law of humans.
But apparently New Tech is High Magicke, in service of the great Basilisk (all hail the singularity) and cannot be constrained by the law of humans.