Tara Conlan

A starter pack for media and telly types of the content and media brands & platforms you know and might (or might not) love. Will add as more are verified. Excludes bots and bridges go.bsky.app/5uvdFgh

Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation having swift rewilding impact. OR it’s a giant chocolate frog to promote new Harry Potter Oxford St shop, made by the prop maker from the original films Pierre Bohanna

Favourite takeaway (on all levels) from Fleetwood’s win against Arsenal

Toby Young’s frequent public comments on women’s anatomy over the years renders this rather unsurprising. Free speech!

US judge orders Trump to sit for deposition in $10bn lawsuit against BBC or he could face sanctions, including possible dismissal of the case www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Education, education, educati…oh hang on.’ 20 years ago when Tony Blair gave this famous quote about learning being Labour’s top priority it’d have been unthinkable for BBC to not have an education editor but here it is ⬇️

Alas WH Smith & TJ Jones: doesn’t take a financial analyst to work out its demise perhaps because you can’t buy snacks for less than £1.99 & next door’s Boots has the same items 53% cheaper

Me: "Oh aren't the giant fluffy robots clever and adorable?" Also me: "This is a Terminator in Furby clothing" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT7P...

I’m going to be closing the draw for the first jar of poo chutney tomorrow!!! Enter the competition for London’s worst Christmas present!!

‘Shameless land grab’ sees Meta claim AI rights to all publisher content after 30 October. Wondering what I can claim from Meta in return pressgazette.co.uk/news/faceboo...

I have a theory that this is the secret drive behind patriarchy itself. To rearrange society to not notice male pattern baldness. Hence all the judges’ wigs and priests’ hats.

Good morning. Much of Europe appears to be chaos but I'm filled with patriotism as I report that on Radio 4 we are protesting because The Archers, a 70 year old radio soap opera, may no longer be recorded in Birmingham. Please stand for the national anthem.

As everyone trips off to Hamburg to the reconstituted ‘notnewsgeist’ , it’s worth remembering that the ‘partnership’ tech companies made with the news industry was in fact an abusive relationship all along ….

this is my favourite Renaissance painting #CelebrityTraitors

We're going to see a lot more of this. Reform splashing huge amounts of crypto-billionaire cash outside of the regulated election period (where spending caps apply)

Hansard Society: Baroness Campbell of Surbiton will use an AI-generated version of her own voice to address the Lords on Tuesday, a first. "The Crossbench peer & disability campaigner will speak in the 2nd Reading debate on the Health Bill. Her disability increasingly affects her ability to speak."

🎉 A cracking idea that shows the power of consumer journalism 😱 The number of suggestions they will get involving potholes

super high intelligence technology

🔴 Green Party Would Force Daily Mail Owner to Sell Up Papers Big changes to the party's media policy over the weekend bylinetimes.com/2026/10/08/g...

Festive TV fever starts earlier each year: not even had Halloween yet but ITVX reports “the launch of the Christmas Movies 24/7 channel on 1st September…is already the sixth most-watched channel on the service”. Comes as ITVX reports it hit 3bn streams on 9 Sept, two months faster than did in 2025

Amol Rajan cleverly leaning into The Traitors’ renowned fashion reputation wearing the same jacket on Celebrity Traitors as the graphic of him on his new platform The Amol Rajan Connection. Now all we need is the merch drop! amolrajanconnection.com

Laura Davison, NUJ general secretary, said: "Once again, the union calls on all political parties to uphold press freedom, freedom of expression and the public's right to be informed." www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Jeremy Clarkson also said at RTS London Convention he employs a company at “vast expense” to go through socials to find the “AI cryptocurrency adverts that I've apparently fronted & then shutting them down. But it's just a waste of money because it's an avalanche”

Jeremy Clarkson says at RTS London Convention “currently thinking about what do we do after Clarkson’s Farm & it's going to have to be something bigger to stand out.It has to be unbelievably ambitious…television has to get bigger” to compete with the new platforms:“The be all and end all is content”

Good, good, all fine, nothing to see here, just watch Reform TV until your eyes bulge as much as Farage’s wallet

Looking forward to hearing reviews of Trump TV trailer on YouTube by actors/rights holders of the IP used in it. Video Killed the Radio Star’s rights are with Universal, which recently rejected a bid by Trump supporter Bill Ackman. Note the views/likes counter and that comments are turned off

Advise not wasting your time watching the new AI comedy on YouTube (its most memorable joke is the cobweb-laden one about Eileen & Ben Dover for Christ’s sake) but instead watch Sky’s SNL & brilliant upcoming comedies like BBC’s The Reluctant Vampire & Channel 4’s Break Clause and It Gets Worse

4chan’s and Kiwi Farms’ case in the US against Ofcom over its enforcement of Britain's Online Safety Act dismissed. Ofcom said: "A U.S. Court has acknowledged that we are within our rights as a UK regulator to investigate breaches of the UK's online safety ⁠laws” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Excl: in his first interview since Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was pulled by the BBC over its narrator, Hoyo Films founder Jamie Roberts apologises for the mistake & hurt caused & discuses his timely new Channel 4 film about the far right England ‘Til I Die www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...

‘Nigel, what first attracted you to a convicted money launderer’s £36 million?’

I’ve been OBSESSED with the Shard apartments for at least a decade. Priced at up to £50m. Visible across London. Empty since 2012. Unsellable. No pictures online. Now London Centric has found out what’s happened to them - and the first pic of the interior. www.londoncentric.media/p/the-shard-...

The Government is pledging to cut down on consultations. Case study from the presser: "Between 2019 and 2023, the Government asked the public three times for views on introducing legislation to microchip cats, including gathering views on the legal definition of a cat."

Just over a quarter of Channel 4’s headcount to go: huge cuts as chief exec Priya Dogra says: “We need to secure and own our future so we can continue to make shows others won't, reach audiences others can't, and thrive as a distinctive and disruptive British voice”

Homunculi fans rejoice! Second series of Mackenzie Crook’s magical Small Prophets confirmed with Crook, Sir Michael Palin, Pearce Quigley and Lauren Patel returning and it will move from BBC2 to BBC1

More small independent TV producers at risk of going bust www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...

Inbetweeners 3 film in production for Netflix youtu.be/1fuLaX35IkI