A brand new episode out now. A maverick scientist from 1991 and a Victorian pickpocket ride a time-travelling motorbike back to the English Civil War. It's Time Riders! Featuring guests Rebecca Wray, Kevin Hiley and Tine Jones. open.spotify.com/episode/4ma…

FINAL CALL for the BBC's Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide, starring Peter First, on @TalkingPicsTV catch up service. It leaves tomorrow (Friday) night so get an Encore performance by visiting tptvencore.co.uk, 🔴Freeview82 or downloading the Encore app

Coming this Saturday, a brand new episode looking back at children's adventure series Time Riders. Featuring Kevin Hiley, Rebecca Wray and Tina Jones.

🚨 LAST CHANCE to watch British horror classic The Quatermass Xperiment, starring Brian Donlevy & Jack Warner on @TalkingPicsTV's online cinema. It leaves the service tomorrow (Saturday) night) Visit tptvencore.co.uk, 🔴Freeview82 or download the Encore app to watch.

Lost Late Night Horror Found Film is Fabulous! has collaborated with Darren Payne of ‘Dirt in the Gate Movies’ to preserve a missing episode of BBC television: Late Night Horror: No Such Thing As A Vampire (Broadcast: 19th April 1968)

Just finished the HBO Watchmen series for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised by its imagination, intelligence and strong performances. If there had to be a sequel to the graphic novel I'm glad it was this one.

I talk about it on the new-look @tptvpodcast directory.libsyn.com/shows/v…

A brand new Talking Pictures TV podcast for May 2026. In a new roundtable format. I'll be talking about The Mummy (1959) amongst other films. @tptvpodcast #movie directory.libsyn.com/shows/v…

RT @NeilClark66: Morning Fawlty! I have a piece on that delightful actor Ballard Berkeley aka the Major in Fawlty Towers, in the latest edi…

Michael Skinner, a member of ABC television accounts dept until it was discovered that he was an expert on science fiction and had a large library of international material, was transferred to ABC's drama department as a research assistant on Out of This World.

RT @reece_dinsdale: Someone having a go at me for my politics suggested it was poor form that the highlight of my career had only been Thre…

Incoming message! Thunderbirds are go on the latest episode of Very British Futures. Featuring Mel Byron, Scott Phipps and Daniel Reifferscheid from @tptvpodcast #PodcastEpisode #Fanderson #gerryanderson open.spotify.com/episode/5Z9…

Anyone who has messaged me privately in the last couple of weeks, I have been having trouble accessing messages. I've had to reset access codes and have lost the most recent communications. Sorry!

The final Thunderbirds episode we'll be considering is the unusual Alias Mr Hackenbacker, focusing on Lady Penelope and Brains. #gerryanderson #thunderbirds

"This was a blast!" Our second Thunderbirds episode under discussion by Very British Futures will be "Attack of the Alligators". Having fun editing this one. #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson

Congratulations to my good friend Lisa Topham who #published her first #book "Shadows of Yesterday".

Remembering the legendary Gerry Anderson MBE, on what would have been his 97th birthday. #gerryanderson #sylviaanderson #fanderson

"It's so cinematic!" In the next episode of Very British Futures the team behind the Official Talking Pictures TV podcast join me to talk Thunderbirds. "Trapped in the Sky" is the first selected episode.

"The nice thing about acting is that you can live out your schoolboy fantasies, and one of mine is to go back in time..." Peter Firth talking to @RadioTimes about The Flipside of Dominick Hide, which first aired on BBC One in 1980. You can watch it at 9.05pm on @TalkingPicsTV.

Mmmm. Very pretty & professional looking, I’ll admit… I’ll also admit I wasn’t instrumental in LGB activism, like Bev Jackson, Kate Harris or Fred Sargeant, but, if I may, I’d like to correct the multitude of errors that litter this statement (again, very pretty, all typed out neatly, by Miffy The Whiffy Gamer… either from some bot or his imagination) But let’s get a few facts straight, shall we? I’ve been a vocally out gay actor since 1990. In those days, if you were gay, & open about it, you were only cast in gay parts. And it was bloody difficult. I worked for The London Gay Theatre Company in 1992 & 1994. I was in many different LGB plays throughout the 90’s, & was interviewed & spoke about being “openly gay” with Gay Times, Attitude, The Pink Paper & many other gay publications. In every interview I gave, it was mentioned (much to my eventual boredom & to the irritation of the gay press, who seemed to be frustrated at me for not believing that being gay was the most interesting thing about me.) In 1993, I was part of the West End cast of “Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens”, alongside Regina Fong, Simon Fanshawe, Trudie Styler, Kim Cresswell & many others. The show was about those who’d died from AIDS, & every night, we raised a significant amount of money for AIDS charities. We also all performed on the main stage at Pride that year. In 1994, I was in New York during the Gay Games, where I made a film about lesbian ice skating, which we shot on location. I marched with Ian Mckellen (who was also in the film) & Martin Sherman, to celebrate the Games. In 1996, myself & 6 other openly gay actors were part of a successful little indie film called “Boyfriends”. Again, we all vocally supported gay rights in various interviews. In 1997, Stonewall invited me to their Equality Show at the Albert Hall, to high kick with the Tiller Girls, as part of a small group of out performers, including Stephen Fry, Jimmy Somerville, Simon Fanshawe, to encourage others to come out & be proud. Yes, we were actually “celebrated” by Stonewall back then, believe it or not. In 1999, I played a controversial, purposefully vile gay character in Jonathan Harvey’s sitcom ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’. It was controversial because it was one of the first gay characters that was entirely comfortable with his sexuality, was vulgarly open about it & wasn’t always portrayed in a positive light. The gay press were not happy, initially, but it apparently grew on them. The series continued until 2001. Again, I did interview after interview discussing & championing gay rights. In 2000, I played Bette Midler’s ‘openly gay’ musical accompanist, Oscar, in the short lived sitcom ‘Bette’. Being a series regular, I used my voice in interviews to speak up for gay rights. In 2004, I took part in the first series of Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen, raising £40, 000 for my chosen charity The Terence Higgins Trust, which I publicly supported & endorsed endlessly. Do bear in mind, there was no social media as we know it now. I joined Twitter in 2014. From 2000 to 2014, LGB people had achieved equality & for the first time, it seemed to be ok to be gay. I rejoined the fight online when I saw the damage the TQ was now was doing to the rights we’d, as gay people, had already won, at much cost. I was reluctant & angry, as I’d thought we’d been there, done that, bought the t-shirt etc. But no. So if you mean I played no part in the fight for LGB rights, you’d either be wrong or lying. The world didn’t start with the advent of the internet. Perhaps if I stuck on a red beret, a dress, held an Antifa flag & hollered at a crowd through a megaphone to “punch terfs in the f**king face”, I’d already be lauded as a “champion of LGBTQIA rights”. Maybe that was my mistake…🤷 Please RETWEET as my reach is yet again severely restricted. Thank you.