Meroë Candy

'The Don' of story research for TV and film drama apparently. Most recently: Toxic Town, Help, Best Interests. On BBC, Channel 4, Netflix, Amazon...

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

I did my first podcast with @stonecoledfox and who knew? I can talk ALOT. I really enjoyed it.

[Nicole Davis @stonecoledfox]

✨ A new Best Girl Grip lockdown episode is live! ✨

I spoke to @meroecandy about her work as a story research & production consultant, the intersection of science & stories, freelancing & working on @jackthorne's latest project.

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/xVrIMemmBg

[ITVPolitics @ITVNewsPolitics]

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the government 'will listen carefully to the case for a public inquiry' into the Corby toxic waste scandal

ITV News revealed there are fears more families could be impacted, with more than 40 coming forward after the Netflix series Toxic Town

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

Just popped back on to say thank you for all the love for Toxic Town. It’s been a labour of love for those families and for the indomitable Sam. A total honour.

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

@WFTV_UK @KirstyWark Any chance you could post the awards stuff on Bluesky so we don’t have to come on here anymore. 🙏

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

When I can work out how to download my archive, I'm out of here. Find me here @meroecandy.bsky.social.

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

@13alscott EVs start paying tax in April 2025.

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

@giovanni_ulleri @ThatTimWalker Yes you're right. That doesn't excuse the police of course. I read that he had one woman was arrested for theft when she rejected him. 🤔 Women not feeling they could trust the police is a common thread in these cases.

[GIOVANNI ULLERI @giovanni_ulleri]

@meroecandy The allegations of racism, misogyny & sexual abuse by Fayed was included in an episode of ITV’s The Big Story called A white Christmas at Harrods from December 1994 see: https://t.co/gQmZkzPkCJ

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

@giovanni_ulleri 1994! Sorry I had it down as 1997. Thanks for that.

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

For the record. The ITV first reported this in December 1997 in a Dermot Murgnahan documentary. https://t.co/2gpZOMaCyP

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

We are awfully good and brave in this country at exposing sexual predators after they die. https://t.co/s9lHheFgxG

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

And Vanity Fair and Private Eye subquently. https://t.co/C2eYX4SPnF

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

@giovanni_ulleri @ThatTimWalker 100%. Plus the Vanity Fair article in 1995. It was out there but noone cared enough. https://t.co/C2eYX4SPnF

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

@KeatonStone Absolutely. The BBC first reported it in December 1997.

[The Psychologist @psychmag]

For the distinction between protest and racist rioting, seek out media comment etc from social psychologists such as Stephen Reicher, @ProfJohnDrury, @DrChrisCocking, @cliffordstott etc. We collected many of their past contributions for us here https://t.co/tVFh3zuEYz

[Carol Morley @_CarolMorley]

#typistartistpirateking Now on Netflix @NetflixUK ! Let those algorithms bend & keep spreading the news! Get our road movie on the map! #audreyamiss #monicadolan #kellymacdonald #ginamckee

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

26-year-old Kyle Clifford is being hunted by police.
It’s a fast moving situation and there’s a lot we don’t know.
But there is one thing that we DO know. And it’s depressingly, devastatingly familiar.
Three woman are dead.
They were killed in their home.
A mum, she was 61, and her two girls, 25 and 28, both in their twenties - that decade when you’re working out who you want to be and where you want to go with your life.
But for them, that’s now over.
A woman is killed by a man every three days in the United Kingdom.
That number has been remarkably consistent for the last twenty years.
Women are also much more likely to be killed by someone they know - two thirds of them are killed by a current or former partner.
“Domestic” – that word that somehow doesn’t feel adequate – because terror can also happen in the home.
Remember the three women killed at home in Bushey were still alive when the emergency services got there.
Yvette Cooper – the new Home Secretary – has said the killings are “truly shocking” – and she’s being kept fully updated on the case.
During the campaign, she said that violence against women and girls will be treated as a national emergency under Labour.
And less than a week into the job… three women killed at home. It certainly feels like an emergency.

[Carol Morley @_CarolMorley]

Coming to @NetflixUK 12 July 2024 #typistartistpirateking Road movie artful shenanigans #audreyamiss @MonicaDolan #kellymacdonald #ginamckee #kieranbew @BFI @ModernFilmsEnt 💜

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

GREASE was released 46 years ago today. One of the most popular musicals to come out of Hollywood and one of the movies that launched the career of John Travolta, the behind the scenes story is like greased lightnin’…

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[Prof Francesca Happé @HappeLab]

Please help with our new research study! #Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults in the UK, help us test a new online task looking at facial emotion recognition and its relationship to mood, thinking styles, and more: https://t.co/I3XpxyiCFv

[Ali Plumb @AliPlumb]

Both Anatomy Of A Fall and American Fiction are on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, I've just noticed.

As are The Northman, Lady Bird, The Social Network and Catch Me If You Can.

So, um, yeah. Now you know.

[Meroë Candy @meroecandy]

@NiamhAlgar I’m so sorry this has happened to you. I lost my gorgeous big sister to cancer 20 years ago when she was 36. Sending you love and hope that, like me, the loss and her memory will eventually, over a long time, lead you to a better place of understanding of what matters most x