Deborah Hodgetts
@dhcreative84.bsky.social
Multi-Award-Winning Screenwriter| TV/ Film Comedy & Drama Writer | Writer-Producer | Showrunner | Author | Poet |
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It is wise to travel with an N95. That has been true for years, but even if you stopped doing it, now’s a good time to restart. Ventilation on planes is quite poor during boarding and deplaning, with CO2 levels in the thousands. It’s easy enough to protect yourself and others—just wear a mask.
•••MEASLES ALERT•••
A traveler with measles was at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey for several hours while infectious this week.
Anyone who was in Newark Airport's Terminal B on Monday between 12:30 and 4:00 p.m. may have been exposed to measles — considered by health…
A traveler with measles was at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey for several hours while infectious this week.
Anyone who was in Newark Airport's Terminal B on Monday between 12:30 and 4:00 p.m. may have been exposed to measles — considered by health…
May 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It is wise to travel with an N95. That has been true for years, but even if you stopped doing it, now’s a good time to restart. Ventilation on planes is quite poor during boarding and deplaning, with CO2 levels in the thousands. It’s easy enough to protect yourself and others—just wear a mask.
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Guys, if you’re a screenwriter or writer and please give @dhcreative84.bsky.social a follow. She’s a screenwriter/writer and producer and even more importantly a thoroughly lovely person.
April 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Guys, if you’re a screenwriter or writer and please give @dhcreative84.bsky.social a follow. She’s a screenwriter/writer and producer and even more importantly a thoroughly lovely person.
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Honestly completely odd
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Honestly completely odd
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Page One: “The Little Things” (2021), written by John Lee Hancock
Download the screenplay here.
gointothestory.blcklst.com/page-one-the... #movies #screenwriting
Download the screenplay here.
gointothestory.blcklst.com/page-one-the... #movies #screenwriting
May 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Page One: “The Little Things” (2021), written by John Lee Hancock
Download the screenplay here.
gointothestory.blcklst.com/page-one-the... #movies #screenwriting
Download the screenplay here.
gointothestory.blcklst.com/page-one-the... #movies #screenwriting
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Please, please, please, see this movie when it's in theaters. It's a gem. Eva Victor is incredible: writer, director, lead actor. If you complain about the state of movies, you have no excuse. Support this film as it's amazing in its humanity, beauty, and subtlety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0j...
May 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Please, please, please, see this movie when it's in theaters. It's a gem. Eva Victor is incredible: writer, director, lead actor. If you complain about the state of movies, you have no excuse. Support this film as it's amazing in its humanity, beauty, and subtlety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0j...
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"Stacey hopes the statue will reassert Wilkinson’s rightful place in history as “the country’s pioneering female landscape designer” who, aside from being honoured with a blue plaque in 2022, has been “fairly little recognised”."
‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener
Fanny Wilkinson designed 75 parks in the capital, the first UK female landscape gardener to be paid for her work
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Stacey hopes the statue will reassert Wilkinson’s rightful place in history as “the country’s pioneering female landscape designer” who, aside from being honoured with a blue plaque in 2022, has been “fairly little recognised”."
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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Oddly specific fortune, but okay 🩵
April 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Oddly specific fortune, but okay 🩵
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“This is public service television at its best and shows the power of television to change hearts and minds. In a climate where making UK-specific dramas... is becoming increasingly challenging, this special award... honours the social and public impact television can have.
ITV wins Bafta television special award for Mr Bates vs the Post Office
The drama has been commended for influencing policy and helping fast-track justice for victims of Horizon IT scandal
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“This is public service television at its best and shows the power of television to change hearts and minds. In a climate where making UK-specific dramas... is becoming increasingly challenging, this special award... honours the social and public impact television can have.
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“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.”
- E E Cummings
- E E Cummings
April 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.”
- E E Cummings
- E E Cummings
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
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Americans, this is an absolutely terrific show (and I’m not even much of an Austen fan). Check it out.
Lovely review for Miss Austen in The Seattle Times. We hit the US on Sunday May 4th on Masterpiece PBS.
www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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Review: An author's words live forever in the beautiful ‘Miss Austen’
"Miss Austen," which premieres on PBS on May 4, offers an entirely plausible backstory on why Jane Austen's older sister may have burned her letters.
www.seattletimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Americans, this is an absolutely terrific show (and I’m not even much of an Austen fan). Check it out.
I reached the top 5% in the BBC Comedy Collective out of 1600 applicants. Even though I did not reach the final, I’m on their radar. Celebrating!!
April 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I reached the top 5% in the BBC Comedy Collective out of 1600 applicants. Even though I did not reach the final, I’m on their radar. Celebrating!!
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There are some exec producers on here, as well as filmmakers/directors, prodcos and agents. Though that’s not to say I wouldn’t like to see that part of the creative community grow still further. Firmly believe it’s doable. 😊 (2/2)
April 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
There are some exec producers on here, as well as filmmakers/directors, prodcos and agents. Though that’s not to say I wouldn’t like to see that part of the creative community grow still further. Firmly believe it’s doable. 😊 (2/2)
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April is A Story Idea Each Day for a Month. This is Year 15 for my Go Into The Story series. These are free for anyone to use! Day 22: “Fortifying the American home has become big business.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/a-story-idea... #screenwriting #scriptsky
April 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
April is A Story Idea Each Day for a Month. This is Year 15 for my Go Into The Story series. These are free for anyone to use! Day 22: “Fortifying the American home has become big business.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/a-story-idea... #screenwriting #scriptsky
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Would probably help if I had added #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky. 🫣 It’s been a long day. *sigh*
Guys, if you’re a screenwriter or writer and please give @dhcreative84.bsky.social a follow. She’s a screenwriter/writer and producer and even more importantly a thoroughly lovely person.
April 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Would probably help if I had added #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky. 🫣 It’s been a long day. *sigh*
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Hey all,
I’m new to Bluesky. Here as a director, screenwriter, producer, and screen acting instructor with 17 years industry experience. Looking to connect with other industry people
www.eringood.com.au
#actingcoach #newtobluesky #director #screenwriter #producer
I’m new to Bluesky. Here as a director, screenwriter, producer, and screen acting instructor with 17 years industry experience. Looking to connect with other industry people
www.eringood.com.au
#actingcoach #newtobluesky #director #screenwriter #producer
April 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Hey all,
I’m new to Bluesky. Here as a director, screenwriter, producer, and screen acting instructor with 17 years industry experience. Looking to connect with other industry people
www.eringood.com.au
#actingcoach #newtobluesky #director #screenwriter #producer
I’m new to Bluesky. Here as a director, screenwriter, producer, and screen acting instructor with 17 years industry experience. Looking to connect with other industry people
www.eringood.com.au
#actingcoach #newtobluesky #director #screenwriter #producer
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Yo #scriptsky and #scriptskyUK writers, who's at the London Screenwriters' Festival next weekend? 🙌
April 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Yo #scriptsky and #scriptskyUK writers, who's at the London Screenwriters' Festival next weekend? 🙌
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publishing a league table of criminals by nationality on Stephen Lawrence day is especially vindictive. When Baroness Lawrence said he couldn't be at peace in this country(he's buried in Jamaica) she wasn't wrong
April 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
publishing a league table of criminals by nationality on Stephen Lawrence day is especially vindictive. When Baroness Lawrence said he couldn't be at peace in this country(he's buried in Jamaica) she wasn't wrong
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Oh yo it's #lesbianvisibilityweek again?
Well, I'm Lucie and I'm a cartoonist/illustrator.
I draw comics for young and old alike, as well as little autobio strips that peek into my gay wee life.
I also love making stickers, prints and zines that I sell online and irl!
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Luci...
Well, I'm Lucie and I'm a cartoonist/illustrator.
I draw comics for young and old alike, as well as little autobio strips that peek into my gay wee life.
I also love making stickers, prints and zines that I sell online and irl!
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Luci...
April 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Oh yo it's #lesbianvisibilityweek again?
Well, I'm Lucie and I'm a cartoonist/illustrator.
I draw comics for young and old alike, as well as little autobio strips that peek into my gay wee life.
I also love making stickers, prints and zines that I sell online and irl!
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Luci...
Well, I'm Lucie and I'm a cartoonist/illustrator.
I draw comics for young and old alike, as well as little autobio strips that peek into my gay wee life.
I also love making stickers, prints and zines that I sell online and irl!
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Luci...
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It's publication day for #screenwriting advice book Don't Screw Up Your Story, by Lucy V Hay and Clive Frayne! Good practical advice for sorting out story, whatever medium you're writing in. Order the ebook via mybook.to/yourstory
April 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It's publication day for #screenwriting advice book Don't Screw Up Your Story, by Lucy V Hay and Clive Frayne! Good practical advice for sorting out story, whatever medium you're writing in. Order the ebook via mybook.to/yourstory
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Deadline today
BODY IMAGE Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance):
storypitches.com/body-image-s...
Submit your BODY IMAGE short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
BODY IMAGE Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance):
storypitches.com/body-image-s...
Submit your BODY IMAGE short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
BODY IMAGE Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance) – Deadline April 22nd
Submit your BODY IMAGE short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself. Accept only stories th…
storypitches.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Deadline today
BODY IMAGE Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance):
storypitches.com/body-image-s...
Submit your BODY IMAGE short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
BODY IMAGE Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance):
storypitches.com/body-image-s...
Submit your BODY IMAGE short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
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deadline today
WOMEN’S FICTION Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
femalefilmfestival.com/womens-ficti...
Women’s fiction is a broad term for books that center on women’s experiences and are marketed to female readers.
3 options to submit: 1st chapter. full novel. performance reading.
WOMEN’S FICTION Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
femalefilmfestival.com/womens-ficti...
Women’s fiction is a broad term for books that center on women’s experiences and are marketed to female readers.
3 options to submit: 1st chapter. full novel. performance reading.
WOMEN’S FICTION Novel Festival (3 options to submit) – Deadline April 22nd
Submit your WOMEN’S FICTION Book by the deadline. Women’s fiction is a broad term for books that center on women’s experiences and are marketed to female readers. Watch Novel Perf…
femalefilmfestival.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
deadline today
WOMEN’S FICTION Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
femalefilmfestival.com/womens-ficti...
Women’s fiction is a broad term for books that center on women’s experiences and are marketed to female readers.
3 options to submit: 1st chapter. full novel. performance reading.
WOMEN’S FICTION Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
femalefilmfestival.com/womens-ficti...
Women’s fiction is a broad term for books that center on women’s experiences and are marketed to female readers.
3 options to submit: 1st chapter. full novel. performance reading.