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[N @N8X2389]

This @OfficialAli_G thing is so… 😬 Nobody wants it @SachaBaronCohen 🫠

[N @N8X2389]

There just HAS to be a series two! #ANNDROiD I’ve enjoyed every single episode!

[Simon John @hehimta]

The show won't work. It'll collapse, or be cancelled.

Essiedu (Snape) is already receiving death threats before a single episode has aired. An Italian actress has been cast as Parvati Patil, a canonically Indian character. Stanton's parents had to disable all of their daughter's social media within an hour of her casting announcement due to racism and, again, death threats. She is eleven years old and already articles dissecting her skin colour have since been written.

The cast is already fracturing. Lithgow nearly quit over Rowling. Nick Frost publicly distanced himself from her views. Essiedu signed an open letter supporting trans people, while playing a character in a show exec produced by Britain's most prominent anti-trans voice.

The show is also biannual, not annual. Season one arrives Christmas 2026. Deathly Hallows, if they get there, lands around 2040. John Lithgow will be 95, almost guaranteeing he'll die during filming, much like Richard Harris died aged 72 after just two films.

The story itself is a now a logistical trap. A Black Snape being hung upside down by the Marauders, spending years fighting for blood purity, then dying for the cause of a white woman he loved. Those scenes cannot be written cleanly anymore. Every choice will generate a fresh brand new controversy from absolutely every angle and political sphere.

This franchise requires a sustained decade of audience goodwill to function. That goodwill simply does not exist anymore, as her base is now the most vitriolic, toxic abusers, a narrative at some point (if not already, seemingly) HBO Max will have to adresss.

The three child leads have not signed long-term contracts. What happens when they're 18, 19, 20, with fully formed opinions about the woman whose name is on the tin?

The magic is a dead horse.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

We Told You J.K. Rowling Would Come for the Gay Rights Movement Next. Now She Has.

J.K. Rowling is now attacking the gay rights movement, and gay men and lesbians need to understand exactly what that means. Transgender people, gay people and lesbians have warned for years that this campaign would not stop with transgender rights. We were mocked, shouted down and accused of hysteria. We were told that it was only about language, only about sport, only about prisons, only about toilets and only about “protecting women.” We said that once the removal of one minority’s rights became publicly acceptable, the campaign would widen. We were right.

Rowling has now written that the gay rights movement is “host to a cannibalising ideology.” Those are her words, not an interpretation invented by transgender activists. She is no longer merely commenting on one transgender policy or one court case. She is publicly portraying the gay rights movement as corrupted and destructive because so many gay men and lesbians continue to stand beside transgender people.

As a gay man, I regard that as homophobic. She is attacking my movement, my history, my family and the community that fought for people like me to live openly. She does not get to stand outside our community and decide which members belong within it. She does not get to tell gay men and lesbians that our solidarity with transgender people has contaminated our own liberation movement.

We told you this would happen.

This progression did not appear overnight. It began with what was presented as an accidental social-media interaction—a “slip of the finger.” People were told not to overreact. Rowling then insisted that she respected transgender people and did not wish them harm. But the occasional post became a sustained political campaign. Her enormous platform helped move hostility towards transgender people from the margins into Britain’s newspapers, political parties, courts and public institutions.

She did not do this alone, and saying so would let too many institutions escape responsibility. Governments, judges, regulators, newspapers, broadcasters, campaign organisations and political parties all made decisions of their own. But Rowling was not a powerless observer. She amplified campaigners to millions of followers and financially supported the For Women Scotland litigation that featured in the process leading to the Supreme Court’s restrictive interpretation of “sex” under the Equality Act.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention explicitly referred to Rowling’s financial support for that litigation in its June 2025 Red Flag Alert concerning anti-transgender and anti-intersex developments in Britain. It warned about identity erasure, segregation and the removal of protections. That alert is the Institute’s human-rights assessment, not a judicial determination that genocide has legally occurred. It is nevertheless an exceptionally serious warning from an organisation established to identify dangerous patterns before they escalate further.

Amnesty International UK has also investigated the growth and influence of the organised gender-critical movement. Its May 2026 report, Like a Snowball, describes a movement that has gained substantial influence over British politics and media and places anti-trans campaigning within a wider anti-rights environment. Amnesty does not treat this as a neutral academic disagreement in which both sides are merely debating definitions. It examines how a minority’s protections, dignity and participation in public life have been systematically challenged.

[N @N8X2389]

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[N @N8X2389]

#Marvel 🥱

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

I am delighted to have accepted the position of Secretary of State at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Andy Burnham's vision of good growth in every postcode demands we build on the foundations we have already laid to bring the change we have promised.

I look forward to returning to government with renewed drive and determination to put power back in people’s hands - and hope back in our hearts.

[N @N8X2389]

Disappointed with Lauren Branning! #EastEnders

[Catrina Rose @CatrinaRose__]

#AnnDroid on @BBCiPlayer is just brilliant! Funny, moving, and heartwarming 🥰

#DianeMorgan is a phenomenal writer & actor in this! Already regretting binging it!

#NewTVShow #TVRecommendation

[N @N8X2389]

Walkers have changed the recipe on their Lime and coriander chutney poppadom crisps. I’m devastated.

[Hun-derrated @Hun_derrated]

Bring him back, but don’t have A-listers, get interesting people, old movie stars, Broadway performers and soap stars. I want Patti Lupone with Big Mo, Jean Smart with Sonia, Jane McDonald with Rita Moreno, Sarah Lancashire and Siobhan Finneran…

[N @N8X2389]

@143ofashowboy Spiritual

[N @N8X2389]

@RadioTimes Yes. The Sue Sue Sue got me!

[N @N8X2389]

People need to take @megstalter more seriously when it comes to music. Every single has been a TUNE.

[N @N8X2389]

I HATE Dwayne Johnson. He’s ruining so many franchises and now by proxy it looks like he’s tarnishing the #Tangled live action. Please make sure we go and watch Kathryn Hahn as MOTHER

[Sean @textster]

“Ann Droid” is sharp, witty and gorgeously funny. Sue Johnston is brilliant as per and if you’re a fan of Diane Morgan it’s a real treat #AnnDroid @BBCOne

[N @N8X2389]

Omg I’m creased! 😂 SUE SUE SUE #ANNDROiD

[N @N8X2389]

Why isn’t @ferras Legends Never Die on Apple Music?!

[N @N8X2389]

Kojo on his date 😍😍😍 SO cute #EastEnders

[N @N8X2389]

You’d think that 3 series in I’d have some sort of clue as to who belongs to who but alas no! Sat here checking the #HOTD family tree during each episode.