I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, game, or TV show until I forget: Day 1000

The Tories constantly chopping and changing their approach to the BBC is damaging. The Govt are failing to honour their own deal. They’ve overseen dramatic cuts to the BBC and their shambolic mishandling of the economy which sent inflation sky-high is causing them real problems.

So great - with a killer punch line

Lots to look forward to from BFI in 2024, highlights of which have just been announced -- but notably not a single mention of anything to do with television bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-progr…

It's been a long time since I've compiled 'Sunday links', but I've decided to return to the practice, under a new title, and this week published on the Illuminations blog a day early illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-doz…

This is really excellent news

The Sunday dozen A selection of just twelve articles, downloads, broadcasts and podcasts that in the past week I found surprising and engaging and challenging. illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-sunday-doz…

Important too - this is such a key issue

What an awful, cynical and frankly tragic abrogation of responsibility at this time.

🧚 🎶 🧛‍♀️ Sleeping Beauty and vampires, a real treat this Christmas Day. This gothic romance version by Matthew Bourne 💙's New Adventures has sumptuous sets and costumes, and masterly storytelling. Watch Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.

🚨 Image fees and UK museums - a breakthrough moment. The system is collapsing. There is now no reason to pay fees for historic artworks (2D) in most cases. The UK's art history tax is over. Scholars, the public *and museums* will be better off. A 🧵

#OTD 10th Jan 1938 - Alice Delysia, French actress and singer who made her career in English musical theatre, appeared in 'Starlight', also on 2nd Feb, 13th June & 17th June 1938. She appeared on a Baird 30-line transmission in Dec 1932.

Image fees - more good news: Tate will start removing Creative Commons licences from their non-copyright artworks online. This means that potentially thousands of images of some of the greatest British art will finally be clearly in the public domain, and free to re-use. 1/3

Occasional reminder that I profoundly object to views of the owner of this site, and what he has facilitated it becoming, and so I'm now only posting regularly in the blue place as @illuminations.bsky.social

Brilliant ending to the first day of the Television By Design conference - May Davis talking about her design work on Landscapers. I forgot to take pictures of Illuminations opening paper on early TV design but that was fascinating too. I have learned a lot today

Breaking my X silence to urge my friends and follows to read Ketan Joshi - and then to join us in the blue place ketanjoshi.co/2024/04/19/you…