Benjamin Cook
@benjamincook.bsky.social
Writer • Journo • TV/video/podcast editor. Business enquiries: ninebrassmonkeys@gmail.com
Yesterday was the online review and final mix of our 2025 cut of “The Sea Devils”. 🌊 😈 Pictured ⬇️ at the mix with @markayresrws.bsky.social, Russell T Davies, and our brilliant post-production producer Ceres Doyle – and ⬇️ in the actual TARDIS (!!) with Mark and Mark’s son Sam.
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yesterday was the online review and final mix of our 2025 cut of “The Sea Devils”. 🌊 😈 Pictured ⬇️ at the mix with @markayresrws.bsky.social, Russell T Davies, and our brilliant post-production producer Ceres Doyle – and ⬇️ in the actual TARDIS (!!) with Mark and Mark’s son Sam.
Accidentally walked into a cupboard. It’s bigger on the inside. WHERE ARE WE? Send help!
@markayresrws.bsky.social
@markayresrws.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Accidentally walked into a cupboard. It’s bigger on the inside. WHERE ARE WE? Send help!
@markayresrws.bsky.social
@markayresrws.bsky.social
Expect:
🚢 Missing ships!
😈 Sea creatures!
⚔️ The Master (safely locked up – or is he?)
🥪 Sandwiches!
💣 Landmines!!
⚡ Reversing the polarity…
🖋️ A brilliant Malcolm Hulke script
🎬 Gorgeous direction by Michael E Briant (who’s been very supportive ❤️)
🎵 And. That. Music!
🚢 Missing ships!
😈 Sea creatures!
⚔️ The Master (safely locked up – or is he?)
🥪 Sandwiches!
💣 Landmines!!
⚡ Reversing the polarity…
🖋️ A brilliant Malcolm Hulke script
🎬 Gorgeous direction by Michael E Briant (who’s been very supportive ❤️)
🎵 And. That. Music!
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Expect:
🚢 Missing ships!
😈 Sea creatures!
⚔️ The Master (safely locked up – or is he?)
🥪 Sandwiches!
💣 Landmines!!
⚡ Reversing the polarity…
🖋️ A brilliant Malcolm Hulke script
🎬 Gorgeous direction by Michael E Briant (who’s been very supportive ❤️)
🎵 And. That. Music!
🚢 Missing ships!
😈 Sea creatures!
⚔️ The Master (safely locked up – or is he?)
🥪 Sandwiches!
💣 Landmines!!
⚡ Reversing the polarity…
🖋️ A brilliant Malcolm Hulke script
🎬 Gorgeous direction by Michael E Briant (who’s been very supportive ❤️)
🎵 And. That. Music!
Starring Jon Pertwee & Katy Manning!
🎶 With NEW MUSIC by the legendary Lorne Balfe! 🙌 – woven together with Malcolm Clarke’s groundbreaking 1972 score – and updated sound design by the genius @markayresrws.bsky.social! 🔊
Graphic design by @georgieoboy.bsky.social!
And… action by HAVOC!! 💥
🎶 With NEW MUSIC by the legendary Lorne Balfe! 🙌 – woven together with Malcolm Clarke’s groundbreaking 1972 score – and updated sound design by the genius @markayresrws.bsky.social! 🔊
Graphic design by @georgieoboy.bsky.social!
And… action by HAVOC!! 💥
November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Starring Jon Pertwee & Katy Manning!
🎶 With NEW MUSIC by the legendary Lorne Balfe! 🙌 – woven together with Malcolm Clarke’s groundbreaking 1972 score – and updated sound design by the genius @markayresrws.bsky.social! 🔊
Graphic design by @georgieoboy.bsky.social!
And… action by HAVOC!! 💥
🎶 With NEW MUSIC by the legendary Lorne Balfe! 🙌 – woven together with Malcolm Clarke’s groundbreaking 1972 score – and updated sound design by the genius @markayresrws.bsky.social! 🔊
Graphic design by @georgieoboy.bsky.social!
And… action by HAVOC!! 💥
“I always find that violent exercise makes me hungry.” I’ve edited a thing. 7 DECEMBER! – 7PM – BBC FOUR (and iPlayer from 6AM, for early risers/sadists)…
THE SEA DEVILS. 🌊😈⚔️🥪🚤🔥👹 A brand-new 90-minute blockbuster edit of one of the maddest DOCTOR WHO stories EVER! www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
THE SEA DEVILS. 🌊😈⚔️🥪🚤🔥👹 A brand-new 90-minute blockbuster edit of one of the maddest DOCTOR WHO stories EVER! www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“I always find that violent exercise makes me hungry.” I’ve edited a thing. 7 DECEMBER! – 7PM – BBC FOUR (and iPlayer from 6AM, for early risers/sadists)…
THE SEA DEVILS. 🌊😈⚔️🥪🚤🔥👹 A brand-new 90-minute blockbuster edit of one of the maddest DOCTOR WHO stories EVER! www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
THE SEA DEVILS. 🌊😈⚔️🥪🚤🔥👹 A brand-new 90-minute blockbuster edit of one of the maddest DOCTOR WHO stories EVER! www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-fea...
“Go back, Grandfather!” In the new Doctor Who Magazine, on sale TODAY, you can read my epic 27-page interview with CAROLE ANN FORD – now 85 and still defiantly, magnificently Susan! Also, I take a look at the near-Susans lost to the show’s turbulent pre-history.
🧵 Quotes to follow…
🧵 Quotes to follow…
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“Go back, Grandfather!” In the new Doctor Who Magazine, on sale TODAY, you can read my epic 27-page interview with CAROLE ANN FORD – now 85 and still defiantly, magnificently Susan! Also, I take a look at the near-Susans lost to the show’s turbulent pre-history.
🧵 Quotes to follow…
🧵 Quotes to follow…
“I want to come back! I want to meet Daleks again – or be in a Christmas Special. All-singing, all-dancing.”
Hello. I’ve done a little 27,000-word thing for the new Doctor Who Magazine – on sale this Thurs! It’s CAROLE ANN FORD’s most in-depth, introspective interview ever!! Let’s go!!!
Hello. I’ve done a little 27,000-word thing for the new Doctor Who Magazine – on sale this Thurs! It’s CAROLE ANN FORD’s most in-depth, introspective interview ever!! Let’s go!!!
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“I want to come back! I want to meet Daleks again – or be in a Christmas Special. All-singing, all-dancing.”
Hello. I’ve done a little 27,000-word thing for the new Doctor Who Magazine – on sale this Thurs! It’s CAROLE ANN FORD’s most in-depth, introspective interview ever!! Let’s go!!!
Hello. I’ve done a little 27,000-word thing for the new Doctor Who Magazine – on sale this Thurs! It’s CAROLE ANN FORD’s most in-depth, introspective interview ever!! Let’s go!!!
Which production is this from, please? It’s Carole Ann Ford, but in… what?
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Which production is this from, please? It’s Carole Ann Ford, but in… what?
OUT TODAY! In all good newsagents, supermarkets, and comic shops – or buy online. #DWM621 #BuyMagazines 🧵⬇️
September 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
OUT TODAY! In all good newsagents, supermarkets, and comic shops – or buy online. #DWM621 #BuyMagazines 🧵⬇️
PLUS! I talk to screenwriting royalty (and four of Jodie’s favourite collaborators):
▸ Joe Cornish
▸ Jesse Armstrong
▸ Chris Chibnall
▸ Jack Thorne
… about Jodie, Doctor Who, the “no wankers” rule on set, and British television’s uncertain future. #DWM621
▸ Joe Cornish
▸ Jesse Armstrong
▸ Chris Chibnall
▸ Jack Thorne
… about Jodie, Doctor Who, the “no wankers” rule on set, and British television’s uncertain future. #DWM621
September 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
PLUS! I talk to screenwriting royalty (and four of Jodie’s favourite collaborators):
▸ Joe Cornish
▸ Jesse Armstrong
▸ Chris Chibnall
▸ Jack Thorne
… about Jodie, Doctor Who, the “no wankers” rule on set, and British television’s uncertain future. #DWM621
▸ Joe Cornish
▸ Jesse Armstrong
▸ Chris Chibnall
▸ Jack Thorne
… about Jodie, Doctor Who, the “no wankers” rule on set, and British television’s uncertain future. #DWM621
We chat about keeping secrets, her friendship with the ‘fam’, the brilliance of Billie, the beauty of Ncuti (“I really was like, ‘f–– me, you are so beautiful’”), the art of imperfection (and of vom’ing on set), the thrill of non-conformity, and the nowness of everything. #DWM621
September 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We chat about keeping secrets, her friendship with the ‘fam’, the brilliance of Billie, the beauty of Ncuti (“I really was like, ‘f–– me, you are so beautiful’”), the art of imperfection (and of vom’ing on set), the thrill of non-conformity, and the nowness of everything. #DWM621
“Would I come back to Doctor Who? Every time. I now hope it’s every five or six years. YEAH! Me and Billie? I’d do it. There’s NO part of me that doesn’t want to.”
Jodie Whittaker’s BIGGEST, most EXPLOSIVE interview ever?? Bring it on! All 20K words of it!! Coming this Thurs in DWM!
Jodie Whittaker’s BIGGEST, most EXPLOSIVE interview ever?? Bring it on! All 20K words of it!! Coming this Thurs in DWM!
September 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“Would I come back to Doctor Who? Every time. I now hope it’s every five or six years. YEAH! Me and Billie? I’d do it. There’s NO part of me that doesn’t want to.”
Jodie Whittaker’s BIGGEST, most EXPLOSIVE interview ever?? Bring it on! All 20K words of it!! Coming this Thurs in DWM!
Jodie Whittaker’s BIGGEST, most EXPLOSIVE interview ever?? Bring it on! All 20K words of it!! Coming this Thurs in DWM!
