James Huntrods

Would love to meet creative folk here, so here's an 🦋 Intro Post 🦋 I’m a TV writer and I’ve been lucky enough to write for Netflix, Disney+, BBC, Cartoon Network, Nick and more! I’ve written on 3 shows that are coming out soon(ish). All of them are under NDA so you just have to trust me, OK??

Congrats to the Russian sleeper agent(s) in Trump's team, gotta hand it to them, clocking up some real wins over the years

New shooowww! 🚨🚨🚨 Very excited to see that Hyperlight has been announced by the BBC. Writing on this was a total joy. It has epic sci fi stories, big battles, teen drama… everything you could want! I can't wait for people to see it!

AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid

Super proud of @benjibpm.bsky.social for getting a Fringe First as part of Hannah Maxwell's show "Turn your f*cking phones off". Benji composed the music, designed the lights, video, sound, production managed it... a multi-talented man. So well deserved - incredible show! tinyurl.com/4fputu8s

I see your Collinder On White Cardboard and I raise you Randomly Fortunate Leaf Shadow On Window Frame

it's done... my tax has been made digital. But at what cost?* *£1.60 a month on Xero's Simple Plan, upping to £7 in six months, plus the cost of an hour long call with my accountant to learn how to use this new programme WHEN IN THE RECENT PAST WE COULD INPUT THIS SAME DATA INTO HMRC FOR FREEEEEEE

me pitching to the exec "we open on an evening spread against a sky and then cut to a patient etherised upon a table" exec: "interesting, interesting. The antagonist?" me: "it's daring, but I'm thinking a peach"

Tinfoil hat time... I think OpenAI exaggerates these kinds of things in order to make its product sound more intelligent and advanced than it actually is. For investment. "oh wow it's gaining sentience... it truly is a revolution... no one has any idea what it is capable of... pls give us money".

But I don't WANT to make my tax digital

*A well rehearsed, tightly written scene with punchlines and pay-offs, and good comedic acting that is well rehearsed* Instagram Reel: "This is actually all improvised 🥰, the reactions here are genuine, the actors had no idea he would say and do that"

thank god she's still culture secretary, can you imagine how the arts would struggle without the right honourable Lisa Nandy, it doesn't bare thinking about

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

I need England to at least do better than the USA. for the air conditioning discourse, you understand

The instinctive reaction right now is lazy, sleep-walking cynicism, or sullen don't-give-me-hope despair. But the truth is: someone with very good communication skills, the right diagnosis and a reforming zeal is about to become prime minister. That seems pretty fucking encouraging to me.

And this is now out! The whole series of 22 episodes is on Disney+. I was fortunate enough to write four of them, and I'm so excited for people to see the finished show!

Guess where I am going tomorrow! Annecy Animation festival gonna be a scorcher this year

this is very very silly

I like that “Widow’s Bay” is from a “Parks and Recreation” writer and answers the question, “What if they made a whole show out of the Pawnee City Hall murals?”

So excited to share the trailer for The Doomies, which will be out on Disney+ on 26th June! Getting to be one of the writers on this show was some of the most fun I have had (comedy horror, the dream!) and I can't wait for people to see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjxJ...

among the biggest problems with television today, the lack of economic or logistical pressure to actually make shows is among the greatest. (1/14)

Its time for the avenging wife action sub genre. Lets see some dead husbands under the white sheets in a sunny flashback.

everyone is always like "in animation you must be able to write anything", meanwhile I am currently writing the "everything set in one location with the main cast only and strictly using props already built" episode

The phrase "quantum draft" from @vinaypatel.bsky.social in his latest newsletter is 👌. I very much recognise this state patelograms.substack.com/p/their-fact...

just heard a sad, soft, solo "nooooo" drift across my North London street at that penalty.

Widow's Bay expertly combines horror and social embarrassment, making me real uncomfortable the whole time I watch

Balancing my like for Andy Burnham with my intense dislike for anything that looks like a funko pop

"Feel the Burn" - that's a slogan there for you, Andy. You're welcome

whisper it* but is a Starmer revival on the cards? *you have to whisper because if you say it at a regular volume you will be made fun of

Watch Submarine Jim on BBC iPlayer for biting and current political satire

UK today

Today this board game I pledged on in July 2023 arrived. What a nice present from myself in the past

mr civil servant, you must sacrifice your career to protect the great and illustrious rule of sir keir starmer, it is the noble thing to do

*unrealistic main character name, please revise

I know it's important to push back against these kinds of people, but there is wisdom in this reddit post:

blobby would fuck him up... but at what cost

Rightmove: "you wish to know the service charge? The ground rent? The years remaining on the lease? Why? Can we not have some mystery in our lives?"

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

always worth carrying water for Trump, who is sure to show loyalty to those who go out on a limb for him

this byelection showed that reform is very out of touch with what voters want and they must take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror.

This is what we’re doing. Because it’s kind of impossible to make scripted podcasts any other way. Believe me. This could be the future…

*faithful accidentally banish one of their own* Claudia: you fucking imbeciles. You clowns

Kemi Badenoch tells the BBC's Matt Chorley that if she were prime minister, Donald Trump would simply not be like this.

They better do this. It has become very silly. And service charges too. Just gouging