Merlyn Rice

Help to save the UK’s oldest working cinema before it is demolished to build a block of flats! The Electric Cinema was a historic, well-loved cinema before it was brought by developers and closed suddenly in 2024. The post below outlines the plan to save it from being demolished.

🚨 Mary Beard is absolutely bang on here on Trump: “One of the biggest ca- casualties of the Trump administration actually has not been, in the old phrase, truth is the first casualty of war….. It’s words. Words and language have been so extraordinarily crudified and debased. Now when you were talking to Wes Streeting you were talking about the idea that we have to take Trump seriously but not literally. Well I’m sorry. I think politics is in part about words and and if we live in a world in which the words of the leading politicians of the planet are simply kind of looked on as window dressing to something else going on underneath, to the real action, I'm afraid we've just lost it.” #IranWar‌

NOW THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (THANK YOU DONALD!), I HAVE MANY BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE! FIRST, EVERY TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDER IS NULL AND VOID, STEPHEN MILLER AND EVERY TRUMP GOON IS FIRED, AND THE TRUMP CORRUPTION PROBE IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED! HEALTH CARE IS NOW FREE FOR ALL AMERICANS (NO MEASLES!) AND ALL MOMS GET FREE CHILDCARE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE BABIES!!! ALSO CANNABIS IS NOW LEGAL AND ABORTION IS BACK FOR WOMEN WHO WANT IT. I WILL SOON BE BANNING ALL TICKETMASTER FEES AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE COMMERCIALS ALLOWED DURING NBA AND NFL GAMES, AS WELL AS ALL BRAVO “REAL HOUSEWIVES” SHOWS (LONGER EPISODES!). EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY NOW GETS A “TARIFF AND GAS SPIKE REFUND” TO BUY A CHEAP ELECTRIC CAR! THE COUNTRY IS NOW RUN BY SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY COMPLETE A SENTENCE. AMERICA IS NOW “HOT” BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DYSLEXIC PRESIDENT INSTEAD OF A BRAIN-DEAD ONE. BIG UPGRADE!!! — GOVERNOR GCN

@hemmagulhane Congrats 🙌

Had an absolute blast last week. What an amazing start to the year. Wrapped on my first TV job of 2026. I have one more to look forward to next month, then back to auditioning!!!!!! #tv #actress

@corriepodcast @Sjl170 Yes I did! So glad you remembered 🤗

@Sjl170 @MerlynMMR -- didn't you direct this classic?

This. #corrie

@duncanfo Excellent work Duncan. Congratulations 🙌 x

Friends. Coming real soon to The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. 29th November - 10th January

@OldStationSt @OCSmusic @rubyturnersoul @_Nightingales @UB40OFFICIAL @duranduran This is sad news.

Birmingham drummer & producer Bob Lamb has passed away. He worked with a who's who of The Crown & Birmingham music royalty Locomotive, @OCSmusic, Tea & Symphony, @rubyturnersoul, Lilac Time, @_Nightingales, Micky Greaney, @UB40OFFICIAL, Steve Gibbons Band, @duranduran, Idle Race

Here is my recent keynote on class in the UK TV industry given @LeedsUniMedia for @whatsonTVclass on Friday 19th - give it a read and let me know your thoughts. Many thanks to @lrjdmnr for inviting me to hang my metaphorical arse out in public... linkedin.com/pulse/common-p…

@AmyTrigg Big Congrats Amy. Beautiful pictures X

Mr and Mrs Benjamin 🧡🩷 20.09.25

Wonderfully wonderful!

@matthiltondir @emmerdale Looking forward to it. X👏🏻🧡🎬

The only things I’ll say about tomorrow’s episode of @emmerdale are the performances are OUTSTANDING and be watching from the first frame. Enjoy ! #emmerdale

@hemmagulhane @BBCCasualty @matmchale73 @JudithDine1 Congratulations Hemma xx

What an absolute blast I had filming @BBCCasualty Thank you to everyone who made me feel so welcome and made my time here so special. @matmchale73 @JudithDine1 Cheers to a very good year. I feel so proud of how far I’ve come. ❤️

enjoyed directing tonight’s #corrie with loads of twists and turns. Don’t read the spoiler, watch at 8! #directing

"Are you going to watch the women's rugby, too?" Cartoon: Ben Jennings Superb cartoon, this. The two sides of patriotism.

@DavidJCrowley @Hollyoaks That’s brilliant! Congrats 🙌

Absolutely delighted to be directing the 30th anniversary week of @Hollyoaks including the crossover of two legendary soaps, bringing Brookside back to life! Buckle up it’s going to be EPIC!

@hemmagulhane @BeCoMeCast @BBCCasualty Whoop! Congratulations to you x

@BeCoMeCast my casualty ep comes out this Saturday! @BBCCasualty !!!!!!!!!

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Great news from Channel 5 reviving ‘Play For Today’ to offer opportunities to new storytellers across our ailing TV industry. If only someone had thought of the idea sooner… x.com/philipralph9/s… theguardian.com/media/2025/aug…