Stephen McGann
Doctor Thingy in Whatsitsname. Full biog: tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
- Do we know what nationality the new pope is? Because I don't think anybody has mentioned that.
- To mark VE day, the @liverpoolecho.co.uk are running extracts from a wonderful book called 'Blitz Kids' - an account of those dark days from people who experienced it directly. My mum is one of those - her family home destroyed in the May Blitz in Liverpool. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalg...
- It is a Chewy the Raccoon world, and we are merely players in it. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...
- Yep. It's all go in our house... :-) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Are they going to use AI to de-age you for the prequel? 😜
- There is not currently a supercomputer powerful enough to do the processing for that!
- Herself has just described the expanding programme portfolio as the 'vaginaverse'. :-)
- The flares on the kids!
- the gang’s back together! 🥳❤️ and Tim’s home for Christmas! ☺️ #callthemidwife @stephenmcgann.uk
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- WHAT a game. But the aftyer-match stuff has had us in bhits here :-) ❤️
- Did you get up there Kris?
- The scenes!!!! xxxxx
- If we can hang on for another ten minutes, I think we just might be able to pull this off... #lfc
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- Hmm. Might want to give this series of Last of Us a miss then!
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- Yep. These things have a self-limiting logic to them. It all depends on the way you mix in the humans and their sub-battles I think.
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- A revenge tragedy is a good way to go though...
- I'm partial to a bit of a 'zombie dystopia' drama :-) But I think it's easy with this kind of drama to lose track of the immediate jeopardy that brought them to this place, and vanish down a rabbit hole with the personal feelings and sub-plots of the protagonists (Walking Dead, From, etc)...
- ...so like like that the wider danger is never too far away, regardless of the sub-plots of the characters.
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- S2 has been great so far :-)
- Good though, innit?
- So far in this season I think they've got a really good balance of action and human drama.
- Well, that, or an unorthodox sex life...
- "You boy! What tariff is it today?"
- I am SOOOO looking forward to this. Perhaps one of the greatest narratives in our culture. Mythology, almost. But a real thing, with real people. Thousands of them - onboard and off - whose lives were changed. Like my own relative.
- TITANIC: SHIP OF DREAMS @stephenmcgann.uk and Stephanie Barczewski in conversation with Duncan Barrett 3pm, Sat 26 April | British Library & Online Individual pass: £12 Day pass: £30 Weekend pass: £50 BOOK NOW: histfest.org/histfest-2025/ #HistFest2025
- I have sad news. After being admitted to the vet yesterday, Dayve's condition deteriorated overnight to the point where we had no choice. She reached a few months shy of 20 and we miss her terribly already. Hug your pets for me. X
- Awww David! x
- Did a thing on my great uncle.
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- The false positives can be quite funny. A courier at my door was identified as an Eagle Owl. (there's a way to prune the database to get rid of these)
- Delighted to be taking part in HistFest 2025 at the British Library on April 26th! I'll be talking all about my great uncle Jimmy, who survived the Titanic disaster as a lowly member of the engine room crew... Come along! >> histfest.org/histfest-2025/
- They had me at "Dear , ". Dear %$££& If you're going to treat the customer as little more than a data cow that you milk for internal metrics using email harvesting, then it might be good to start with their human name, and not a random piece of punctuation. love , xx
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- Awww! Tell you what, it's damned heavy that book! You could do someone an injury with that....
- Really good interview, this. The industry aspects behind the production are fascinating, and the modesty, intelligence and passion possessed by the makers of this drama do them all great credit.
- Spoke to Jack Thorne about Adolescence and the "devastating" drama funding crisis. If not solved, he says shows like Adolescence could simply disappear. Thorne calls on government to introduce a streamer levy and enhanced tax breaks to avert disaster. deadline.com/2025/03/adol...
- A few points resonate. We need many different 'facets' to drama output - not just procedural crime or 'twisty' tropes. Genre-driven commissioning has become so narrow. Also, the next hit never resembles the last one. Don't just make another 'Adolescence' - make your own thing good, and mean it.
- Lordy, Adolescence is good. Haven't seen state-of-the-nation drama like this for a long time.
- Yeah, but WHY????
- It's the stupid, economy.
- "Elon Musk, a celebrity, ..." Chef's kiss, FT. Chef's kiss.
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- You are definitely the plane princess!
- Pancakes. The only thing that separates us from the animals.
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- Belgian. Got it in a sale.
- Rat poison and the smell of drains?
- She sang that, you know, you were a firework, and, like, she's now a firework!!!!!! * * I've lived too long.
- Well, there's nothing to bring out those hand-wringing articles about Premier League uncompetitiveness like a different team threatening to win it for the first time in five years.
- Mo Salah?
- Your outie will know.
- Righto. But is pretension still pretension?
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- I can't believe it's not perception!
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- Maybe perception is a carrot.
- I have just laughed for a clear half minute at this photograph.
- We had cars that colour in the seventies.
- Like somebody put a suit on Uluru.
