davidovitch.bsky.social
TV Screenwriter - THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (C4/Starz)
Agent/bio: https://www.jtmanagement.co.uk/clients/david-allison/
International Disco King. Presenter of Mondo Pop radio show: http://mondopop.uk.
Leeds resident, long-suffering YCFC fan.
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I'd heard of the ITV Archive, though I don't know Andy, but I don't even know if it's still going. DM me if you're struggling and I'll see if I can find a contact in the city.
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Hi Jude, my first TV job was at YTV, where I also met my wife! I'm sure you already know this, but it was a derelict trouser factory before it became YTV (the old joke - that's why the shows are so pants boom boom). It is, alas, a shadow of its former self, and really only has local news there...
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Yikes. Get well soon David!
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A meaningless figleaf that doesn’t obscure the face they’ve decimated access to the sport for most viewers. Terrible news for cycling and its fans in the UK.
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The Yentob of the Guardian, kept on the payroll out of some dewy-eyed respect for being a “man of the arts” even though he was always pompously dreadful and full of the worst takes imaginable.
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🐶
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Their high street is terrible, no decent shops, but I haven’t quite worked that into a pithy chant 🤷🏻
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“I’m Bailey, Fly Me”
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Right, we can do this, Graham. Find image of the album on google and save it your photos. Click on “quote post” under my post then paste your photo and add the text from the original post. Bingo!
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Heard 10cc just the other day and thought of you!
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Oh god yes, Gereon ❤️
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Ryuichi Sakamoto, beautiful, brilliant and stylish for a lifetime.
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As haunting as the incredible title track. I used to find it quite frightening.
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So close…😬
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(This was actually the first album I owned but pretty sure my Mum stumped up the cash as I’d have been too young.)
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LITERALLY THE SAME AMBITION!
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This is the most embarrassing post I’ve read on here since I joined. My brain hurts trying to imagine having the deluded arrogance of posting something so stupid and so utterly, utterly false.
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Yeah it's impressive without being annoying, which is rare on YouTube. I actually just subscribed.
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So good! Thanks for sharing.
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I was in raptures when the epilogue appeared. I wasn't expecting it all. It answered so many questions about whether America ever embraced him or his work - and as for that reveal about the dimensions of the rooms - oof, what a punch to the gut. Hopeful but devastatingly poignant too.
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Yeah, that world feels almost quaint now 😢. I think the key word there is 'megacorps'. They sure as heck aren't into investing in strong regional production centres with creative autonomy!
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As a Northern writer who got his first job at a then vibrant Yorkshire TV, nothing would make me happier, James, but that ship has long sailed, alas. Not a hope in hell of that happening. (Sorry for butting in late on the chat!)
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To be clear, this policy is repulsive, and that needs to be expressed again and again. But I really think it's worth stating that it's also tactically, strategically, politically suicidal. It's the most clear-cut bad idea in contemporary politics. It always fails. It's the dog that just won't hunt.
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(*doffs hat to the OG)
bsky.app/profile/cbth...
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Thought you would have!
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Nicely put, Ludo. It was the 3rd in a trio of recent-ish Paris films that I felt really captured ordinary lives really beautifully - the others being Jeune Femme and Paris 13th District ('Les Olympiades'). Recommend either if you haven't seen (but I bet you have!).