Sophie Petzal
@sonicscrewup.bsky.social
TV writer, ‘BLOOD’, ‘HOLLINGTON DRIVE’, THE LAST KINGDOM’, ‘MEDICI’, other things you’ve not seen. They gave me a Writers Guild Award once. Mostly post about Arsenal.
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Sophie Petzal
@sonicscrewup.bsky.social
· Sep 23
"Gripping" Adrian Dunbar thriller that "wastes no time in ratcheting up the tension" gets new UK home
Something to tide you over until Line of Duty s7 gets announced...
www.digitalspy.com
News to me (I didn’t even go looking, google algorithmed me the story, incredible) but Blood is coming to Netflix if you never watched it and want to. www.digitalspy.com/tv/a67998771...
Perhaps I’m being ignorant, but it seems to me that the objective behind the interest rises and the threshold freezes on student debt is to maintain inflow of £15.2bn into tax coffers at a time UK is aging and unproductive. A secret trap tax on the young. And if so, surely a generational scandal?
February 3, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Perhaps I’m being ignorant, but it seems to me that the objective behind the interest rises and the threshold freezes on student debt is to maintain inflow of £15.2bn into tax coffers at a time UK is aging and unproductive. A secret trap tax on the young. And if so, surely a generational scandal?
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This bastion of moral virtue has opinions about the Green Party.
Just remember that as they continue to attack us.
This is who they are. Mask is off.
Just remember that as they continue to attack us.
This is who they are. Mask is off.
February 2, 2026 at 9:56 PM
This bastion of moral virtue has opinions about the Green Party.
Just remember that as they continue to attack us.
This is who they are. Mask is off.
Just remember that as they continue to attack us.
This is who they are. Mask is off.
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plz, the UK, a crumb of Pitt
The Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷♂️”
February 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM
plz, the UK, a crumb of Pitt
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Gaming articles be like "Game gets long awaited expansion" and its just a mod, its always a mod
February 2, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Gaming articles be like "Game gets long awaited expansion" and its just a mod, its always a mod
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A #TPTV Exclusive Event!! PETER CUSHING: WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 23rd & Sun 24th May 2026. An event celebrating the life and career of a screen legend! Tickets are very limited so book now - call 0808 178 8212 or online here: buff.ly/mLDl6jP
February 2, 2026 at 6:31 PM
A #TPTV Exclusive Event!! PETER CUSHING: WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 23rd & Sun 24th May 2026. An event celebrating the life and career of a screen legend! Tickets are very limited so book now - call 0808 178 8212 or online here: buff.ly/mLDl6jP
So far this season is also shot far better than s3, which was starting to look the way all Netflix shows do after s2 :S. All cheap and daytime.
February 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
So far this season is also shot far better than s3, which was starting to look the way all Netflix shows do after s2 :S. All cheap and daytime.
Also I HEART Alfie
The music in this season of bridgerton is fabulous. That scene with Sophie and Alfie outside the drawing room is so sweeping and romantic.
February 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Also I HEART Alfie
The music in this season of bridgerton is fabulous. That scene with Sophie and Alfie outside the drawing room is so sweeping and romantic.
February 2, 2026 at 6:56 PM
The music in this season of bridgerton is fabulous. That scene with Sophie and Alfie outside the drawing room is so sweeping and romantic.
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Chelsea have progressed from their last three League Cup semi-final ties, but have gone on to lose the final each time. They last went out at this stage of the competition in 2017-18 against Arsenal.
#ARSCHE
#ARSCHE
February 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Chelsea have progressed from their last three League Cup semi-final ties, but have gone on to lose the final each time. They last went out at this stage of the competition in 2017-18 against Arsenal.
#ARSCHE
#ARSCHE
Chelsea score goals and we are leaky and not scoring many regularly… I’d be shocked if in a semi final we didn’t see Raya!
February 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Chelsea score goals and we are leaky and not scoring many regularly… I’d be shocked if in a semi final we didn’t see Raya!
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Example: we don’t need no stinking PayPal imposing domestic American moral panics on us in Europe. We do payments far, far better than anything America has. And we certainly don’t want members of the International Criminal Court being debanked by the Trump regime.
PayPal ban on York firm’s Cuban coffee imports
A YORK company had half of its business put on hold after payment system PayPal froze its account for selling Cuban coffee.
www.yorkpress.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Example: we don’t need no stinking PayPal imposing domestic American moral panics on us in Europe. We do payments far, far better than anything America has. And we certainly don’t want members of the International Criminal Court being debanked by the Trump regime.
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The thing is, little of American tech is very difficult. It just requires the will to move from the status quo and to something sovereign. China has been doing this for a while, and it’s time for Europe to do the same.
February 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
The thing is, little of American tech is very difficult. It just requires the will to move from the status quo and to something sovereign. China has been doing this for a while, and it’s time for Europe to do the same.
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“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”
Europe just started building a ‘kill switch’ for U.S. tech — and the market isn’t priced for it, says this strategist — MarketWatch
Zoom and Microsoft are among those companies that could lose business, says Matthew Tuttle
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February 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”
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just to play devil's advocate here: what if being a paedophile billionaire was Good? - my latest for The Daily Telegraph
February 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
just to play devil's advocate here: what if being a paedophile billionaire was Good? - my latest for The Daily Telegraph
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yo, upcoming Actor's Award and Oscar winners...
...your music industry peers are teaching you a lesson or two tonight about speaking out for whats right
...your music industry peers are teaching you a lesson or two tonight about speaking out for whats right
February 2, 2026 at 2:21 AM
yo, upcoming Actor's Award and Oscar winners...
...your music industry peers are teaching you a lesson or two tonight about speaking out for whats right
...your music industry peers are teaching you a lesson or two tonight about speaking out for whats right
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BREAKING: Keir Starmer has urged House of Lords to urgently modernise disciplinary procedures so that Peter Mandelson can be stripped of his peerage and removed from upper chamber.
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 PM
BREAKING: Keir Starmer has urged House of Lords to urgently modernise disciplinary procedures so that Peter Mandelson can be stripped of his peerage and removed from upper chamber.
www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcast-in... Someone's finally adapting Sex Criminals
Lucky Chap and Big Sick duo prep Prime Video drama
Eight-part series based on Sex Criminals greenlit by Amazon's Peter Friedlander
www.broadcastnow.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 10:20 AM
www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcast-in... Someone's finally adapting Sex Criminals
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That game was perfect. Spurs were humiliated for 45 minutes and City dropped points.
February 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
That game was perfect. Spurs were humiliated for 45 minutes and City dropped points.
I guess he’s dead which helps
February 2, 2026 at 7:55 AM
I guess he’s dead which helps
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Arsenal's 2nd goal yesterday has been overturned from an own goal to a Madueke goal.
A goal and an assist for Madueke yesterday then.
A goal and an assist for Madueke yesterday then.
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Arsenal's 2nd goal yesterday has been overturned from an own goal to a Madueke goal.
A goal and an assist for Madueke yesterday then.
A goal and an assist for Madueke yesterday then.
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Kendrick Lamar’s straightforward, punchy, and unsurprising album "GNX" can’t be understood without revisiting his battle with Drake, Spencer Kornhaber wrote in 2024:
Kendrick Lamar Makes His Point Clearer
On his new album, GNX, a rapper who’s obsessed with excellence tries to entertain the masses.
bit.ly
February 2, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Kendrick Lamar’s straightforward, punchy, and unsurprising album "GNX" can’t be understood without revisiting his battle with Drake, Spencer Kornhaber wrote in 2024:
She’s a fucking troll. Such an embarrassment.
#bbclaurak tries to get a gotcha. Zack, you refuse to fly. How can you be a candidate for high office if you'd refuse to ever get on a plane?
Well Laura, in that situation I'd get on a plane.
Well Laura, in that situation I'd get on a plane.
February 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
She’s a fucking troll. Such an embarrassment.