Claire Duffy
@clairesduffy.bsky.social
Writer/Producer at Handbag Studios. Occasional author and sometime crocheter. Inventor of Glasgow Tellyfest.
We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you
April 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you
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Look. It's really important that we attract blockbusters to the UK to employ our skilled crews and related industries (drivers, catering etc). The UK industry won't grow without that.
It's also really important we funnel investment to home-grown projects written, directed and starred in by Brits.
It's also really important we funnel investment to home-grown projects written, directed and starred in by Brits.
UK taxpayers contributed £89m to the most expensive movie ever made
Scheme to boost British film industry leads to Universal Pictures pocketing millions of pounds for blockbuster Jurassic World: Rebirth
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Look. It's really important that we attract blockbusters to the UK to employ our skilled crews and related industries (drivers, catering etc). The UK industry won't grow without that.
It's also really important we funnel investment to home-grown projects written, directed and starred in by Brits.
It's also really important we funnel investment to home-grown projects written, directed and starred in by Brits.
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With Hollywood studios mired in bureaucracy, red tape, and bloated tentpoles, @richardrushfield.bsky.social highlights four indie companies innovating on fundraising, marketing, distribution, and social media that just might revive film theankler.com/p/outsiders-...
April 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
With Hollywood studios mired in bureaucracy, red tape, and bloated tentpoles, @richardrushfield.bsky.social highlights four indie companies innovating on fundraising, marketing, distribution, and social media that just might revive film theankler.com/p/outsiders-...
Whoop! The Glasgow Telly Festival is here 🥳 www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2506926...
April 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Whoop! The Glasgow Telly Festival is here 🥳 www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2506926...
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Put up by Katy Brand today - this is the story over and over again
April 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Put up by Katy Brand today - this is the story over and over again
In this week’s diary I carry on through a burst lip and discover how writing is like putting on fluffy pyjamas… #scriptsky #ukdrama
fikastudios.substack.com/p/diary-of-a...
fikastudios.substack.com/p/diary-of-a...
Diary of a Festival 31 March-1 April
Like putting on fluffy pyjamas
fikastudios.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
In this week’s diary I carry on through a burst lip and discover how writing is like putting on fluffy pyjamas… #scriptsky #ukdrama
fikastudios.substack.com/p/diary-of-a...
fikastudios.substack.com/p/diary-of-a...
Wrote words about how we can save the Scottish TV industry #scriptsky #scotland
April 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Wrote words about how we can save the Scottish TV industry #scriptsky #scotland
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📺 The TV Industry Is Broken—Can We Fix It?
This week we are joined by @clairesduffy.bsky.social , founder of the Glasgow TV Festival to chat about:
🎬 Why she started the festival to push for change
🚨 What’s wrong with the industry.
💡 Her hopes for the future of TV & more.
Listen now🎧
This week we are joined by @clairesduffy.bsky.social , founder of the Glasgow TV Festival to chat about:
🎬 Why she started the festival to push for change
🚨 What’s wrong with the industry.
💡 Her hopes for the future of TV & more.
Listen now🎧
March 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📺 The TV Industry Is Broken—Can We Fix It?
This week we are joined by @clairesduffy.bsky.social , founder of the Glasgow TV Festival to chat about:
🎬 Why she started the festival to push for change
🚨 What’s wrong with the industry.
💡 Her hopes for the future of TV & more.
Listen now🎧
This week we are joined by @clairesduffy.bsky.social , founder of the Glasgow TV Festival to chat about:
🎬 Why she started the festival to push for change
🚨 What’s wrong with the industry.
💡 Her hopes for the future of TV & more.
Listen now🎧
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So once again I will remind you all that the show ya’ll are all talking about (The Pitt) had all levels of writers in the room including lower and mid levels.
If we want more good TV, everyone at the top needs to fight for proper writers rooms… because the results speak for themselves!
If we want more good TV, everyone at the top needs to fight for proper writers rooms… because the results speak for themselves!
March 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
So once again I will remind you all that the show ya’ll are all talking about (The Pitt) had all levels of writers in the room including lower and mid levels.
If we want more good TV, everyone at the top needs to fight for proper writers rooms… because the results speak for themselves!
If we want more good TV, everyone at the top needs to fight for proper writers rooms… because the results speak for themselves!
This is a very short sighted decision and a real blow to Scottish drama. Sad day!
Scottish drama #RiverCity axed by BBC after more than twenty years on air. More details:
www.tvzoneuk.com/post/riverci...
www.tvzoneuk.com/post/riverci...
RIVER CITY: LONG-RUNNING DRAMA AXED BY BBC AFTER MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS
BBC Scotland will be saying a fond farewell to long-running drama series, River City and the residents of Shieldinch next year after more than 20 years on screen. The drama, which has entertained audi...
www.tvzoneuk.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This is a very short sighted decision and a real blow to Scottish drama. Sad day!
Buzzing after our first Glasgow Telly Fest team meeting! Went over the entire plan, everything that needs to be done and planned and booked and it’s a LOT, but we can do it. Hold on to your hats, Glasgow is saving telly 🥳🥳🥳 #tvindustry #scriptsky #glasgow
March 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Buzzing after our first Glasgow Telly Fest team meeting! Went over the entire plan, everything that needs to be done and planned and booked and it’s a LOT, but we can do it. Hold on to your hats, Glasgow is saving telly 🥳🥳🥳 #tvindustry #scriptsky #glasgow
Ever wondered what goes in to planning and executing your very own festival?!
Diary of a Festival 10-14 March open.substack.com/pub/fikastud...
Diary of a Festival 10-14 March open.substack.com/pub/fikastud...
Diary of a Festival 10-14 March
It's getting real
open.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ever wondered what goes in to planning and executing your very own festival?!
Diary of a Festival 10-14 March open.substack.com/pub/fikastud...
Diary of a Festival 10-14 March open.substack.com/pub/fikastud...
This is something I find kind of fascinating (like a car crash) about conservatives. I have never in my life heard of someone on the liberal/left end complaining of conservative friends ditching us or not dating us. Almost like we stand by what we believe?
So I wondered if I was being too restrictive in my dating profile criteria, and expanded the selection to include folks who marked themselves as "moderate," because maybe they don't mean what I think they do by that.
Went on a coffee date this past weekend.
I have learned from my error.
Went on a coffee date this past weekend.
I have learned from my error.
March 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This is something I find kind of fascinating (like a car crash) about conservatives. I have never in my life heard of someone on the liberal/left end complaining of conservative friends ditching us or not dating us. Almost like we stand by what we believe?
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So I would bet my house that it was this character who just got arrested. She’s been a regular for years and usually has the nasty foetus signs. Don’t be fooled by the ‘poor little old Christian lady who just wanted to silently pray’
February 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
So I would bet my house that it was this character who just got arrested. She’s been a regular for years and usually has the nasty foetus signs. Don’t be fooled by the ‘poor little old Christian lady who just wanted to silently pray’
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A message from Scotland to JD Vance and his couch
February 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A message from Scotland to JD Vance and his couch
Loving today’s vinyl haul.
“Did you ever see them live?” the man asked.
Oh, my sweet summer child 😎🤣
@spelts.bsky.social @sk8jag.bsky.social @aclague.bsky.social @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social
“Did you ever see them live?” the man asked.
Oh, my sweet summer child 😎🤣
@spelts.bsky.social @sk8jag.bsky.social @aclague.bsky.social @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Loving today’s vinyl haul.
“Did you ever see them live?” the man asked.
Oh, my sweet summer child 😎🤣
@spelts.bsky.social @sk8jag.bsky.social @aclague.bsky.social @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social
“Did you ever see them live?” the man asked.
Oh, my sweet summer child 😎🤣
@spelts.bsky.social @sk8jag.bsky.social @aclague.bsky.social @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social
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We are going to run out of fucks, need to invent a new word.
February 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We are going to run out of fucks, need to invent a new word.
This has made my day.
You know how sometimes you’ve known something for so long it’s just a given , but when you stop to think about it for a second it becomes bizarre and absurd?
Anyway, one of the greatest writers of all time named one of his most enduring characters Juliet Capulet.
Anyway, one of the greatest writers of all time named one of his most enduring characters Juliet Capulet.
February 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This has made my day.
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Today is Imbolc, an ancient Celtic festival marking the beginning of Spring, and the return of both light and life to Scotland. Wouldn't this be the perfect time of year to highlight Glasgow's fantastic architecture by lighting up as much of it as possible?
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#glasgow #architecture #imbolc
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#glasgow #architecture #imbolc
February 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Today is Imbolc, an ancient Celtic festival marking the beginning of Spring, and the return of both light and life to Scotland. Wouldn't this be the perfect time of year to highlight Glasgow's fantastic architecture by lighting up as much of it as possible?
Cont./
#glasgow #architecture #imbolc
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#glasgow #architecture #imbolc
It’s impressive how you can watch every series set in Glasgow over the past 10 years — supported by Scottish screen — and never know Scottish women exist.
English Wife Syndrome is alive and well. Do better, Scottish industry.
English Wife Syndrome is alive and well. Do better, Scottish industry.
February 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It’s impressive how you can watch every series set in Glasgow over the past 10 years — supported by Scottish screen — and never know Scottish women exist.
English Wife Syndrome is alive and well. Do better, Scottish industry.
English Wife Syndrome is alive and well. Do better, Scottish industry.
It is actually wild that Louis Walsh agreed to the Boyzone documentary, then sat there merrily revealing what an absolute diabolical monster he is. I’m fascinated. #nomatterwhat
February 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It is actually wild that Louis Walsh agreed to the Boyzone documentary, then sat there merrily revealing what an absolute diabolical monster he is. I’m fascinated. #nomatterwhat
Pure joy at the Bluebells at the Barrowlands last night. Feet aching this morning but well worth it 🤩
February 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Pure joy at the Bluebells at the Barrowlands last night. Feet aching this morning but well worth it 🤩
One of my favourite day jobs in Vancouver was as an admin assistant for BC Liquor. I had to take minutes at consultations with First Nations councils to discuss whether to open liquor stores in remote communities in BC. Was always impressed by how respectfully they balanced a lot of complex issues
Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli
February 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
One of my favourite day jobs in Vancouver was as an admin assistant for BC Liquor. I had to take minutes at consultations with First Nations councils to discuss whether to open liquor stores in remote communities in BC. Was always impressed by how respectfully they balanced a lot of complex issues
Monthly catch up with the Glow Club business members is just the best 💖💖 Wee brain is absolutely mince after the past few weeks, but all fired up again!!
February 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Monthly catch up with the Glow Club business members is just the best 💖💖 Wee brain is absolutely mince after the past few weeks, but all fired up again!!