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Giving Lovejoy a watch, finally, as it's filmed in and around Bury St Edmunds. Second scene is the Bury market, looking glorious! This should be a fun series to location spot 🙌

It was great to celebrate International Workers' Day by representing @unitetheunion at Ipswich May Day Festival yesterday 🚩 It's the largest free May Day festival in Britain, with live music, speakers, good food & beer 🍻 Even the sun showed up for it ☀️

Obviously I got the doormat, and it was only £12.99 so fair enough. Thank fuck for The Television And Movie Store in Norwich though, which is incredibly awesome and full to the brim with all kinds of incredible merch nerdery 🙌🔥

Met a Dalek at the opening of the new Forbidden Planet shop in Norwich on Saturday! I'll be honest, it's full of 90% franchises I've never seen, bare anime/manga, and lots of FunkoPops. There were a small amount of Doctor Who graphic novels, and a TARDIS doormat. That was it 😵‍💫

I mention how much I love The Dillinger Escape Plan every so often, but I don't think I mention how much I love Greg Puciato enough. Everything he's in is brilliant. From his clean singing to his gutteral screams, he is absolutely stunning. Massive fan of him 💪❤️

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

Also I absolutely passed out for a second after having a blood test today 🫠🩸It felt like a mini little dream... *insert Windows reboot music*

Getting used to wearing glasses on and off 🤓 feels like a 4K upgrade lol x

The Daily Mirror, 1978, the first year Britain got a bank holiday to mark ‘May Day’. Marx’s grave was defaced. Shopkeepers vowed to stay open in defiance of an “un-British” or “communist” holiday. Conservative clubs flew flags at half mast… 🤭

@SFXmagazine More Season 1 (Ninth Doctor) ones please. Any of them 🙌

Wait ages for a Target novel then three turn up at once, as paperbacks AND on audio CD… Which Target novel do you want to see next? #DoctorWho 📚📀 #SFXNewReleases

@joseph_lidster She is! Listened to her reading of Rose yesterday, so it's a perfect audio sequel 🙌

@WeaverTheRed Awh yay thank you!!! Camille is so good obvs!!! X

Giving the new novelisation of #DoctorWho 'Aliens of London' by @joseph_lidster a listen, while at work today 🎧 Halfway in and loving it 🚀🐷

Working on this has been a JOY. Very excited for everybody to find out what we've been cooking up! (I'm personally treating this like TV Doctor Who in lieu of a series this year.)

I wonder how much, if at all, it'll talk about the enormous contributions writer & author Malcolm Hulke. Especially as he is likely one of the only writers who was under state surveillance, whose MI5 file remains classified, due to him being a member of the Communist Party 😉🚩

"May I Introduce Miss Sarah Jane Smith" 🥹💙 OTD in 2006, Elisabeth Sladen returned to the role of Sarah Jane Smith in 'School Reunion' - where she met David Tennant's Tenth Doctor. For this iconic scene, we have dug out the rushes from the #DoctorWho archive to show you an exclusive new look at how this scene looked from the opposite camera. #behindthescenes #SchoolReunion

this scene from buffy is when i was realised i was going to be watching the greatest show of all time

PLEASE RETWEET: I know I said I was parking Who SFX for now… but there’s no way I can’t share this with you. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Paul McGann TV Movie, I’m diving headfirst into a brand-new series of articles - because honestly, the material is just too cool not to share. This is deep-cut, behind-the-scenes, pure Eighth Doctor era goodness. Part of this began life as a pitch for Doctor Who Magazine’s recent (and utterly brilliant) Eighth Doctor special. In the end, it didn’t quite fit alongside the rest of the issue… and, if I’m being honest, to do it justice it would have ballooned into something like an 80-page article. 😄 So instead, I’m unleashing it properly - no cuts, no compromises. If you’re a fan of the 1996 movie, Paul McGann’s Doctor, or that magical, fleeting moment when Doctor Who almost exploded onto the global stage… you’re going to want to follow me on Substack. Link below. 👇 #DoctorWho #PaulMcGann #EighthDoctor

I went down a rabbit hole looking to collect a load of the 1996 magazines reporting on the #DoctorWho TV movie with Paul McGann, and managed to find these beautiful poster prints from the Radio Times 😍

From 1996 to 2026, the legend continues... 🙌 #DoctorWho #PaulMcGann @DWMtweets @bigfinish @Piecesof8thPod

Our new @DWMtweets Special Edition is out today: a McGannzine covering 30 Years of the Eighth Doctor (no, it really is 30 years!). Interviews with McGann, Ashbrook, Roberts, Sax, Sylv + many more! In TG Jones, larger supermarkets and Panini shop #DoctorWho panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/doc…