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SHORT STORY: IF I'M HONEST
WRITTEN BY MARTIN JAMESON
11 November 2024
Martin Jameson's wonderful short story, If I'm Honest, has been selected by Fabula Press for publication in their 2024 anthology. It's available to read on their website here: https://www.pressfabula.com/martin-jameson-fabula-press/
DOCTOR WHO: STING OF THE SASQUATCH
NEW AUDIO ORIGINAL by DARREN JONES
29 October 2024
Darren Jones' new DOCTOR WHO audio original, "Sting of the Sasquatch" is released CD and download on 7th November. It's a full-throttle adventure in America for the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday, as played on TV by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson. In a National Park in North-West America, the Doctor and Ruby are pursued by large, ape-like creatures who seem to literally disappear into the trees. When Ruby falls ill after apparently being stung, the Doctor believes the infection is extra-terrestrial in origin. They meet Dixie and Greg, two Bigfoot hunters determined to track down the mythical Sasquatch. Standing in their way is Ranger Peone, who’s adamant that the forest is too dangerous to explore. Dozens of people have vanished, or reappeared with no memory, in the last month alone. Then the ape creatures kidnap Ruby, and the Doctor is determined to both save her life and solve the mystery of the Sasquatch. Genesis Lynea, who played Harriet Arbinger in the BBC TV series, reads Darren's tense and dramatic original story.
THE DUMPING GROUND Series 12: "Double Troubled"
WRITTEN BY MARTIN JAMESON
24 October 2024
Martin Jameson has co-written the third episode "Double Troubled" in the new series of THE DUMPING GROUND. It broadcasts on Friday 1st November on CBBC at 6pm and available on BBC iPlayer. Chelsey looks for a clone to take her place in the DG. Meantime, Sid is back in the house.
EASTENDERS
WRITTEN BY LYNNE DALLOW
16 October 2024
Catch Lynne Dallow's latest episode of EastEnders on Wednesday 23rd October at 7.30pm on BBC1 and available on iPlayer. The Panesars try to come to terms with recent events. Meanwhile, Teddy attempts to reach out to Barney.
THE DUMPING GROUND new series
SERIES PRODUCER & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: GERT THOMAS
09 October 2024
Series 12 of flagship CBBC show, THE DUMPING GROUND, premieres on the channel at 6pm on Friday 18th October and available on iPlayer. Gert Thomas is Series Producer and Executive Producer. In the series opener, Oscar loses his last baby tooth. Frankie ropes the gang into catching the tooth fairy in the act.
A SPRINKLE OF DECEIT: A HANNAH SWENSEN MYSTERY:
WRITTEN BY NICK HOPKINS AND TIM JAMES
03 October 2024
Feature length film, A HANNAH SWENSEN MYSTERY: A SPRINKLE OF DECEIT by Nick Hopkins and Tim James has its US premiere on Friday 4th October on Hallmark Mystery Channel.
EMMERDALE
WRITTEN BY JANE PEARSON
25 September 2024
Catch Jane Pearson's latest episode of EMMERDALE on Monday 30th September at 7.30pm on ITV1 and available to catch-up on ITVX. Moira's erratic behaviour worries Mack and Matty. Liam quizzes John on his relationship with Aaron and PC Swirling questions Aaron.
EMMERDALE
WRITTEN BY JANE PEARSON
13 September 2024
Congrats to Core Writer, Jane Pearson, and the Emmerdale team on winning the Drama Serial category at the National Televison Awards last night. Jane's latest episode broadcasts on Wednesday 18th September at 7.30pm on ITV1 and available on catch-up via ITVX.
NUMBERBLOCKS Series 7
WRITER: DARREN JONES
13 September 2024
Darren's two episodes in the new series of CBeebies flagship show, NUMBERBLOCKS, are now available on BBC iPlayer. In "Grid Unlocked", the Numberblocks turn themselves around to save the Times Tables’ 5 by 5 booster grid! In "Seventy-Two's Super Surprise", Octoblock gets captured by Octonaughty and it’s up to superhero Seventy-two to help rescue Octoblock and save the day.
THE DEAD CITY by MICHAEL RUSSELL
Excellent recent book reviews
13 September 2024
We're thrilled with these two recent reviews of Michael Russell's ninth book in his Stefan Gillespie series, THE DEAD CITY (Constable). The Irish Times Michael Russell’s Garda Insp Stefan Gillespie returns in The Dead City (Constable, £15.99), continuing one of the most engrossing Irish series. Focusing on the autumn of 1944, when the fall of Nazi Germany seems inevitable, this ninth Gillespie novel is as memorable as the first. Gillespie’s on leave, enjoying some semblance of a normal existence in West Wicklow, when he’s appointed to help the Irish minister in Berlin extract himself from a collapsing Germany without undermining Ireland’s neutrality. Central among his orders is locating Frank Ryan in Berlin: the Irish government’s worried that, as the war’s end looms, Ryan could be “a loose end” if not “a loose cannon”. So, while finding “Frank Ryan alive would be good”, Gillespie’s given to understand “Dead would also do.” Amidst the chaotic winter of 1944-1945, preoccupied with getting other Irish citizens out, the minister considers Ryan an “embarrassment” and offers Gillespie little help in weaving his way through the collapsing Nazi state without getting caught in its snares. Attuned to the intricate moral conflicts of compromise and allegiance, particularly around Ryan’s place in wartime Germany, and to all the ways one might avoid seeing the cattle cars heading east, The Dead City continues Russell’s searching exploration of neutral Ireland during the second World War. Though no less skilled at tense plotting than Benn, Russell’s work here is, as ever, keenly reflective, closer to John le Carré than to Alan Furst. The Irish Independent The Dead City by Michael Russell Constable, 320 pages, trade paperback €18.39, e-book £8.99 It’s 1944 and the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. Garda Inspector Stefan Gillespie, who has fluent German thanks to his German mother, is sent to war-ravaged Berlin on a secret mission instigated by Ireland’s minister for foreign affairs, Joe Walshe. Stefan is carrying instructions for Irish ambassador Con Cremin, still somehow clinging on in the devastated, body-strewn city despite the destruction of his embassy. With the Russians advancing from the east and the Allies from the south, neutral Ireland is anxious to extract from Germany, by any means possible, an embarrassing Irish turncoat named Frank Ryan. A former IRA man who fought in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists, in an astonishing volte face he now helps the Nazis train bombers and terrorists. Ireland has no diplomatic relations with Russia and he could be used, if captured, to question Ireland’s neutrality. In a country that is barely functioning, where starvation is rife, Gillespie wonders if it is worth risking his own life to save Ryan. Once again, in this ninth Stefan Gillespie thriller, Michael Russell blends real history with fiction to brilliant effect in a raw and unfiltered view of the results of total war on civilian life.
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