John Ellis
@profjohnellis.bsky.social
TV and British film. Editor of View. Chair of Learning on Screen. Emeritus prof at Royal Holloway. Allotment holder and occasional birdwatcher. Once a TV producer at www.largedoorltd.com
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
Unexpected treat on UK’s @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social catch up service: Raoul Walsh’s 1930 western The Big Trail, a confident early sound movie shot in 70mm. A beautiful crisp b&w print for a change. A real revelation… and a young John Wayne too.
August 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Unexpected treat on UK’s @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social catch up service: Raoul Walsh’s 1930 western The Big Trail, a confident early sound movie shot in 70mm. A beautiful crisp b&w print for a change. A real revelation… and a young John Wayne too.
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The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Amazed to be one of the 99 asked to comment on David Attenborough’s 99th birthday. There’s simply no one else like him! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
May 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Amazed to be one of the 99 asked to comment on David Attenborough’s 99th birthday. There’s simply no one else like him! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
A sinister pattern is emerging. Liz Truss meets Queen Elizabeth. Soon after, she dies. JD Vance meets Pope Francis, the very next day, he dies. World leaders clearly should avoid extreme right wingnuts.
April 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A sinister pattern is emerging. Liz Truss meets Queen Elizabeth. Soon after, she dies. JD Vance meets Pope Francis, the very next day, he dies. World leaders clearly should avoid extreme right wingnuts.
Thanks to @theatlantic.com I know that all my 6 books, including some translations (but only a random 4 of my academic articles) have been used to train AI. If you, like me, object to this, then sign the UK petition chng.it/WpMt8sDztF
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April 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Thanks to @theatlantic.com I know that all my 6 books, including some translations (but only a random 4 of my academic articles) have been used to train AI. If you, like me, object to this, then sign the UK petition chng.it/WpMt8sDztF
In 1720 the nuns of the Convent of St Paul in Tavira Portugal commissioned an altarpiece showing the Last Judgement. Their choice for eternal damnation: priests, a bishop, a bureaucrat and a king…#womensart
March 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
In 1720 the nuns of the Convent of St Paul in Tavira Portugal commissioned an altarpiece showing the Last Judgement. Their choice for eternal damnation: priests, a bishop, a bureaucrat and a king…#womensart
How can audiovisual archives respond to the new forms of content discovery that have developed from googling and streaming? VIEW’s new edition explores through interviews with archivists, fresh research and reconceptualisation. viewjournal.eu/30/volume/13...
February 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
How can audiovisual archives respond to the new forms of content discovery that have developed from googling and streaming? VIEW’s new edition explores through interviews with archivists, fresh research and reconceptualisation. viewjournal.eu/30/volume/13...
Trump wants Panama back? Any day now Putin will reclaim Alaska, sold by Russia’s czar at a knockdown price after the Crimean war. No doubt China’s Xi has told him that was an “unfair” deal, like when China had to sell Hong Kong. We know how that ended. @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
Trump refuses to rule out using military to take Panama Canal and Greenland
Remarks likely to set off alarm bells around the world as Trump prepares to return to the White House this month
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Trump wants Panama back? Any day now Putin will reclaim Alaska, sold by Russia’s czar at a knockdown price after the Crimean war. No doubt China’s Xi has told him that was an “unfair” deal, like when China had to sell Hong Kong. We know how that ended. @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
Trump refuses to rule out using military to take Panama Canal and Greenland
Remarks likely to set off alarm bells around the world as Trump prepares to return to the White House this month
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Trump wants Panama back? Any day now Putin will reclaim Alaska, sold by Russia’s czar at a knockdown price after the Crimean war. No doubt China’s Xi has told him that was an “unfair” deal, like when China had to sell Hong Kong. We know how that ended. @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
For some of our neighbours, Christmas seems to be over already. To everyone else, have a good one!
December 25, 2024 at 9:35 AM
For some of our neighbours, Christmas seems to be over already. To everyone else, have a good one!
@illuminations.bsky.social Tomorrow, 9pm: an extraordinary use of split screen in Twilight’s Last Gleaming! Saw this on initial release at the Clapham Grand, and it’s been almost impossible to see since. How prescient will it seem almost 50 years later?
Coming this December! Premiere Saturday 21st December, 9:05pm #BurtLancaster #RichardWidmark #JosephCotton TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (1977) thriller on #TPTV
December 20, 2024 at 9:03 AM
@illuminations.bsky.social Tomorrow, 9pm: an extraordinary use of split screen in Twilight’s Last Gleaming! Saw this on initial release at the Clapham Grand, and it’s been almost impossible to see since. How prescient will it seem almost 50 years later?
@illuminations.bsky.social see you there?
🚨 A Fabulous #TPTV Weekend celebrating a Screen Legend!
The event you won't want to miss!
⭐ PETER CUSHING - WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 24 & Sun 25 May 2025. Tickets are extremely limited! For full details & booking for this exclusive event, click here! https://buff.ly/3P4bsK6
The event you won't want to miss!
⭐ PETER CUSHING - WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 24 & Sun 25 May 2025. Tickets are extremely limited! For full details & booking for this exclusive event, click here! https://buff.ly/3P4bsK6
December 18, 2024 at 6:38 PM
@illuminations.bsky.social see you there?
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Blimey. One for fans of Network Distributing.
December 17, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Blimey. One for fans of Network Distributing.
@nilspratley.bsky.social Still waiting for your analysis of the incomprehensible statement from Ole Jacob Sunde on the sale of #Observer. Clearly a CEO trying to pull the wool over the eyes of stakeholders. Just the kind of thing you usually skewer so well!
December 16, 2024 at 1:40 PM
@nilspratley.bsky.social Still waiting for your analysis of the incomprehensible statement from Ole Jacob Sunde on the sale of #Observer. Clearly a CEO trying to pull the wool over the eyes of stakeholders. Just the kind of thing you usually skewer so well!
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Important report from Community Planning Alliance. Shows govt building spree will not solve the real housing crisis & will destroy nature. What’s needed is a greenfield LAST approach
Important report from Community Planning Alliance. Shows govt building spree will not solve the real housing crisis & will destroy nature. What’s needed is a greenfield LAST approach
www.communityplanningalliance.org
December 11, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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Important report from Community Planning Alliance. Shows govt building spree will not solve the real housing crisis & will destroy nature. What’s needed is a greenfield LAST approach
Important report from Community Planning Alliance. Shows govt building spree will not solve the real housing crisis & will destroy nature. What’s needed is a greenfield LAST approach
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If you haven't seen this now's your chance. Terrific movie.
Coming this December! Premiere Saturday 21st December, 9:05pm #BurtLancaster #RichardWidmark #JosephCotton TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (1977) thriller on #TPTV
December 2, 2024 at 8:49 PM
If you haven't seen this now's your chance. Terrific movie.
How can journalists learn to deal with the datafication of their work? New issue of open source VIEW presents new research eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
The Datafication Challenge | VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
offers an international platform for outstanding academic research and archival reflection on television as an important part of our European cultural heritage. The journal is open to many disciplinar...
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November 25, 2024 at 1:29 PM
How can journalists learn to deal with the datafication of their work? New issue of open source VIEW presents new research eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
I produced this golden oldie!
The great #JamesRobertsonJustice is in the spotlight in the documentary series THOSE BRITISH FACES (1993) at 1:05pm #TPTVsubtitles
November 22, 2024 at 11:12 AM
I produced this golden oldie!
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The great #JamesRobertsonJustice is in the spotlight in the documentary series THOSE BRITISH FACES (1993) at 1:05pm #TPTVsubtitles
November 22, 2024 at 11:05 AM
The great #JamesRobertsonJustice is in the spotlight in the documentary series THOSE BRITISH FACES (1993) at 1:05pm #TPTVsubtitles
It’s World Television Day (who knew? Only the inestimable Dick Fiddy!). So to celebrate take a look at How Television Used to be Made… old equipment and retired professionals back in action
www.adapttvhistory.org.uk
www.adapttvhistory.org.uk
How television used to be made – ADAPT: Researching the history of television production technology
www.adapttvhistory.org.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:49 AM
It’s World Television Day (who knew? Only the inestimable Dick Fiddy!). So to celebrate take a look at How Television Used to be Made… old equipment and retired professionals back in action
www.adapttvhistory.org.uk
www.adapttvhistory.org.uk
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Such sad news. Philippa commissioned my Visible Fictions in 1982 and even designed the cover herself. We did two more books together. She was always the kindest and most perceptive editor and is much missed www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
‘She gave me the chance that became my life’: Jeanette Winterson on her first editor, Philippa Brewster
The pioneering feminist editor and publisher died in October. The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit author looks back on the close friendship they shared
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Such sad news. Philippa commissioned my Visible Fictions in 1982 and even designed the cover herself. We did two more books together. She was always the kindest and most perceptive editor and is much missed www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
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The BFI and Film Foundation restoration of I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! (Powell and Pressburger, 1945) will have its UK TV premiere on BBC Two on Sat 16/11 at 16.10 (and on BBC iPlayer)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVXs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVXs...
I Know Where I'm Going! 4K restoration trailer - in cinemas from 20 October 2023 | BFI
YouTube video by BFI
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November 15, 2024 at 2:55 PM
The BFI and Film Foundation restoration of I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! (Powell and Pressburger, 1945) will have its UK TV premiere on BBC Two on Sat 16/11 at 16.10 (and on BBC iPlayer)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVXs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVXs...