Stephen Gallagher

In case you missed them, I wrote some books

Here we go again. Rueful & Co will be trying to take over again but you know what to do to stop them. Don’t ignore your emails from the NT with links to votes. Don’t split the vote (easiest to select the NT preferred selection of both members & motions) And get all family members to vote too!

Blue sky has four kinds of users

"When the voters have dumped him, we can all say it was AI"

The misinformed spam from GOP Comms just keeps on coming. Note the crappy AI art and the '45-47' declaration of intent. This one's headed, "J D Vance needs your input"

I've signed the petition; BBC Radio Drama was my writing school, and I'm happy to see my back catalogue as part of the legendary archive that feeds 4 Extra (not just legendary but also a massive bargain for the broadcaster, if the royalties are anything to go by)

I've added a second page for near-miss projects and the stories that go with them. New entries include the show bumped for Spielberg and the untainted Eleventh Hour pilot

Can you help #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub? BBC Books had organised a Target Book Shop but it's fallen through. Do you know a cuddly trader who'd like a free table to sell Dr Who books? Maybe old Targets like the market stalls of our childhood?

Come and see the mighty @cooraysmith.bsky.social on differences between Doctor Who on screen and Doctor Who on the page and why we’re richer for them.

"Stories want to be told, and now I have another one that I can tell. About the time my show was bumped for Steven Spielberg"

Gandalf holds the One Ring to Rule Them All! Original production cel art from #LOTR is now listed at our official ebay: ebay.io/m/BjtrMi

#BornOnThisDay one of our favourite French film directors Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973)! #NeoNoir #FilmNoir #BOTD

Uncle recently died. As a kid I thought he was quite a cool hippy type person. Just before his death he was saying that people in boat crossing the channel should be shot, plus other racist shite. The small inheritance I received gone straight to RNLI

Methinks Amol is mistaking in-house BBC favour for a wider public popularity

Ok, thx for all the likes, I've filled in the form and made it an official entry

If you've seen the spooky header on my website, that's Katherine's work

Trash Gordon

Or here in now unaffordable London how many revolutionary geniuses went to art school for free and lived on the dole or odd jobs while working on their art & music projects with their friends.

Super excited that we’re back for a super funny Season 2! All episodes release December 9 on Paramount Plus! deadline.com/2026/10/kevi...

After polling its members, the WGGB issued a policy statement

Knowingly stripping Ukraine of defensive capacity while Russian attacks continue is not legally trivial. It can raise liability for aiding war crimes under Rome Statute Art. 25(3)(c), and conflict with Geneva Common Art. 1’s duty not to encourage IHL violations. Knowledge and foreseeability matter.

Reading back over some old stuff, I realise that I like writing because an hour of thinking distilled into a minute of reading makes me look more quick-witted than I actually am

I married an axe murderer for tax purposes

Anybody? What about in London?

Actual human persons contacting authors about podcasts, appearances, or really anything at all...thanks to the flood of AI bullshit in our inboxes, please be as informal as possible in your emails or begin with a DM. Otherwise we're likely to assume you're a bot.

“If the aim is to produce a sequel to Treasure Island with Eddie Izzard at the heart of it, then the character’s almost complete absence from the novel—appearing only once at the beginning, blind, decrepit, and dying—is, to say the least, an obstacle to adaptation.”

A new version of Treasure Island triggered a memory of tackling a sequel for Sky's, so I've made it the latest addition to The Morgue; this has been developing in such a way that you can skip the downloads and just read the stories behind the projects stephengallagher.com/downloads/

Just in case it needs saying, the Guardian's killer review of the new release is unconnected to the project I once worked on!

My admiration for Zelenskyy is off the scale. The word "hero" doesn't come close.

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.”

Two weeks until #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub. Expect lots of promos as I try and flog the last few tickets (mainly so I can print the list for door in advance rather than copying it out on the tube on the way, but also I like money) Tickets: bit.ly/smallbluebox

The decent people won't watch. Who does that leave

I take every chance I get to make fun of the Telegraph, but credit where it's due.

I encourage people to use GDPR and send this guy's company a subject access request (SAR) if you think there's even the slightest chance he's been putting you on a list. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.