Simon Blackwell
@simonblackwell.bsky.social
Screenwriter/showrunner: Breeders, Back, Veep, The Thick Of It, Peep Show, In The Loop, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Four Lions
My YouTube algorithm has decided to bombard me with Michael Caine talk show clips, and I’m very happy it has.
November 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My YouTube algorithm has decided to bombard me with Michael Caine talk show clips, and I’m very happy it has.
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Very moving (and funny) tribute to the great Bill Dare at the BBC Radio Theatre today. If you ever laughed at Dead Ringers or Spitting Image, that's probably thanks to Bill.
September 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Very moving (and funny) tribute to the great Bill Dare at the BBC Radio Theatre today. If you ever laughed at Dead Ringers or Spitting Image, that's probably thanks to Bill.
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I've just finished re-watching @simonblackwell.bsky.social's glorious Back. Both series are on Netflix should you want to treat yourself to some top notch telly.
September 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I've just finished re-watching @simonblackwell.bsky.social's glorious Back. Both series are on Netflix should you want to treat yourself to some top notch telly.
Jo was a gifted actor and such a kind and generous soul. When she knew her character in Breeders was based on my late mum she went out of her way to get her Battersea accent pitch perfect. Gone far too soon, she’ll be much missed by everyone who had the privilege to know her.
July 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Jo was a gifted actor and such a kind and generous soul. When she knew her character in Breeders was based on my late mum she went out of her way to get her Battersea accent pitch perfect. Gone far too soon, she’ll be much missed by everyone who had the privilege to know her.
20 years ago today since the first episode of The Thick Of It went out.
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‘Just sprinkle your swearing s*** all over it’: how The Thick of It redefined expletives on TV - NewsBreak
It takes about one minute for a verbal grenade to be lobbed in The Thick of It ’s first episode . Spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, played by Peter Capaldi, is o
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May 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
20 years ago today since the first episode of The Thick Of It went out.
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Swifts are back and if we forget that they’re early because of terrifying climate change - hooray.
April 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Swifts are back and if we forget that they’re early because of terrifying climate change - hooray.
Just finished a draft of a thing. It’s a nice feeling. It now exists in an un-noted limbo. Could be great, could be crap. But it exists.
April 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just finished a draft of a thing. It’s a nice feeling. It now exists in an un-noted limbo. Could be great, could be crap. But it exists.
Currently some snuffling hedgehogs out in the garden, one of my favourite sounds.
April 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Currently some snuffling hedgehogs out in the garden, one of my favourite sounds.
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
Back, the sitcom we made a few years ago, is now on Netflix. www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/n...
Netflix adds 'binge-worthy' sitcom 'almost as dark and sharp as Peep Show'
The Channel 4 sitcom, which first aired in 2017, has just landed on Netflix and is said to be 'almost as pin-sharp and cheerfully dark as Peep Show'
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April 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Back, the sitcom we made a few years ago, is now on Netflix. www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/n...
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This feels like a trap.
March 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This feels like a trap.
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"... Ooh, he's here again..."
February 27, 2024 at 4:35 PM
"... Ooh, he's here again..."
A chat about comedy writing with Mike Battle from the Red Carpet Rookies podcast.
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February 24, 2024 at 9:51 AM
A chat about comedy writing with Mike Battle from the Red Carpet Rookies podcast.
pod.link/1529608643
pod.link/1529608643
Sad to see no Alan Bennett diary in the London Review of Books this Christmas, always one of the highlights of the season for me. LRB says AB thinks his life is “so dull he won’t inflict it on LRB readers”. (Personally I’d rather read dull Alan Bennett over exciting anyone else.)
January 9, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Sad to see no Alan Bennett diary in the London Review of Books this Christmas, always one of the highlights of the season for me. LRB says AB thinks his life is “so dull he won’t inflict it on LRB readers”. (Personally I’d rather read dull Alan Bennett over exciting anyone else.)