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Joe Barton

@JoeBarton_

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Professional writer, amateur speller. Spurs fan. #GiriHaji #BlackDoves #HalfBadTheBastardSonAndTheDevilHimself #TheLazarusProject #TheRitual

Joined January 2009
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Joe Barton
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Very much enjoying that this Mediterranean washing machine has special settings for if you spill tomatoes, wine or olive oil on yourself
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Joe Barton
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Joe Wicks starting to limber up menacingly
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2 years
House has got full signal
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Joe Barton
2 months
Still find it odd when you meet an adult who supports Man Utd. Can't explain but it just feels like something they should have grown out of by now
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11 months
Man on the till at the supermarket said he was impressed with my packing. Iโ€™m absolutely fucking buzzing. You just donโ€™t get recognition like that every day. I feel like I could run through a brick wall
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
3 years
Heโ€™s making a list Heโ€™s checking it twice Heโ€™s gonna start mining Arrakis for spice
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Joe Barton
2 years
fucking cant wait for susie dent to tell us a medieval word for being under a desk later
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Joe Barton
9 months
Culturally telling that Americans leave out milk and cookies for Santa whereas British people are like โ€˜quick shot of brandy before you drive home you big red cunt? Xxxโ€™
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Joe Barton
9 months
Just to provide a counter balance, as a Joey Barton who also had family members killed in WWI, I think itโ€™s probably okay for women to be allowed to talk about sport ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ˜”
@Joey7Barton
Joey Barton
9 months
I have a great grandfather who was gassed at Ypres in 1915. He received a Military Medal for bravery later in that war. Patrick Stanton is his name. Look up his citation if you choose. I have a duty to him. And the hundreds of thousands of men like him. Those who gave their
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Joe Barton
4 months
The face of a man who had to wait for new episodes of The Simpsons to drop on BBC2
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
4 years
One to hold my hand, one to wipe away my tears, one to put on a plaster and one to give me a lollipop
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
3 years
We improve their national dish with the gentle introduction of pineapple and this is how they repay us?
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Joe Barton
2 years
Thanks guys this tweet would have been so helpful 2 years ago
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Netflix
2 years
Before he traveled to Italy, London-born actor Will Sharpe played a drug addicted rent boy in the brilliant crime thriller Giri/Haji
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Joe Barton
3 years
They're trying to distract you from Albarn vs Swift with the Sue Gray report. Stay FOCUSED.
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
6 months
Can you all not start leaving off the 'y' when you refer to him please, it's all I've got ๐Ÿ™
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Mukhtar
6 months
Joe Barton is 41 years old married man with a daughter tweeting about how he wouldn't have sex with 21 years old Greta Thunberg.
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Joe Barton
2 years
The best part of the creative process is having a little idea pop into your head. The rest is fairly unbearable tbh
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Joe Barton
6 months
God I would hate to know how long it takes to get a doctor's appointment in the third most powerful country in the world
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Joe Barton
3 years
Was thinking bout a meeting I had in LA where an exec spent 30 minutes talking about how uptight & easily offended Brits are & I joked that it's weird how we're fine with the word 'cunt' tho and they went really quiet and said they don't like that word and then the meeting ended.
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Joe Barton
9 months
Imagine having to watch your mum slowly succumb to poison as she takes part in a highly camp gothic death march hosted by national treasure Claudia Winkleman ๐Ÿ˜”
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
3 years
My cat started breathing really weird yesterday so we took him to the vet and ยฃ700 later the diagnosis is... maybe heโ€™s just a weird cat? Nothing wrong with him. Back home now. Iโ€™m going to kill him.
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Joe Barton
9 months
Goodnight sweet prince. When you were on the pitch you gave everything. Sometimes you would leave the pitch, to take a shit, or fight someone. But you always came back. You are fully COYS and we love you
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Joe Barton
3 years
Some birds are not meant to be caged. Fly free, Matt Hancock. They tried to stop you being your true self - an absolute fuck machine.
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Joe Barton
3 years
Football coverage will apologise if you hear a swear word or cut away from a pitch invader but a man getting CPR while his crying wife watches on the sidelines theyโ€™re suddenly getting out the zoom lenses.
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Joe Barton
2 years
When the Roald Dahl estate approached me to edit his work for a modern audience I was initially sceptical. But then they looked me in the eye and said 'Joe this is about one thing and one thing only: Oompa Loompas. Sucking. And. Fucking.' And I said ok you mad bastards I'll do it
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Joe Barton
1 year
This is not main man at the Sunday roast mentality ๐Ÿ˜ค
@TheSpursExpress
The Spurs Express
1 year
Harry Kane says he is enjoying the pressure of having to win every Bundesliga match convincingly, compared to how two Spurs games without winning โ€œwasnโ€™t a disasterโ€. [ @IndySport ]
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Joe Barton
3 years
A selection of enjoyably intense responses to my silly Die Hard tweet
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Joe Barton
3 years
In the timeline of Die Hard we're in the post-credit sequence. The morning after. Bruce Willis watching his children open their presents. Numb, the adrenaline worn off. He excuses himself and goes to the spare bedroom. He cannot stop crying. So many men. He killed so many men.
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Joe Barton
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Having seen Lewis I think he might be overselling his ability to communicate with his face.
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
4 years
So yes obviously this is very exciting for me.
@DEADLINE
Deadline
4 years
โ€˜The Batmanโ€™:ย Joe Barton Joins HBO Maxโ€™s TV Series As Showrunner Following Terence Winterย Departure
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Joe Barton
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I pitched on True Detective S4. Would have loved to do it but at least I was saved from having to deal with the dipshit original creator. Issa Lรณpez is a class act, looking forward to seeing her go from strength to strength
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
3 years
Played a perfect game of Hungry Hungry Hippos today. 100% of the balls. My kids were in tears. Couldnโ€™t believe it. For a professional Hippos player these are days we dream of. Why we push ourselves. Why we never stop believing we can be better. Faster. Hungrier.
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Joe Barton
1 year
This is the worst thing Germany has ever done
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Joe Barton
3 years
Everyone on Twitter yelling about the government apart from Spurs fans, who are having a somber memorial for Dele
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
4 years
Might encourage my kids to start smoking so they occasionally pop out the house for five fucking minutes.
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Joe Barton
3 years
You know I donโ€™t like talking about my work or indulging in self promotion of any kind, but I DID write the screenplay to a horror movie once which I mention PURELY because it is Halloween today and I care about your spookiness.
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Joe Barton
8 months
When the faithfuls saw Harry being sea sick thatโ€™s the moment they should have known he was a traitor. The briny deep offers no quarter to the deceitful.
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Joe Barton
2 years
Happy Valley was great. Would personally be up for watching the Sarah Lancashire drives to the Himalayas in a knackered jeep spin-off as well, thanks.
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Joe Barton
2 years
Tottenham social media team keep putting out videos from the training ground with captions like โ€˜Back to it! ๐Ÿ’ช ๐Ÿ˜โ€™ and itโ€™s just Ben Davies walking past the camera looking like someone just ran over his dog
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@EvanHandler Eating a Tide pod full of ragu right now
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Joe Barton
3 years
Writing "Well, you get the general idea" halfway through a screenplay and sending it off.
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Joe Barton
2 years
Billy from The Boys supports both West Ham and Charlton Athletic like the authentic Londoner he is.
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Joe Barton
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In the olden days this man would have been carted to the sanatorium and given laudanum for his โ€˜nervous ailmentsโ€™
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Joe Barton
2 years
Oh to be in the room when the Wednesday writing team read this interview
@IndieWire
IndieWire
2 years
"I don't think I've ever had to put my foot down on a set in the way that I had to on 'Wednesday,'" Ortega revealed.
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Joe Barton
1 year
Because I have done all three
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Joe Barton
2 years
Statistically someone has been fingered in that queue
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
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But weโ€™re going to be absolutely RIMMED by mild temperatures come the spring
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Metro
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The Met Office warns the UK will be double-fisted by deadly snow and ice
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Joe Barton
10 months
Romero gonna bring new meaning to the phrase โ€˜cashless societyโ€™
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Joe Barton
3 years
Lucas, youโ€™re so afraid of getting your heart broken youโ€™re shutting yourself off from the possibility of ever finding true love again. Erik, you use humour as a defence mechanism. Gareth, you...
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Hotspur Related
3 years
Josรฉ Mourinho stayed at the #thfc training ground for four hours after he was sacked and told home truths during talks with multiple players. [The Telegraph]
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Joe Barton
4 years
Got Jackie Weaver doing sea shanties in the recording studio. Honestly sweating over here lads think I might have misjudged the longevity of the fads. Canโ€™t get the deposit back.
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@JoeBarton_
Joe Barton
2 years
Sadly, yes, Netflix have cancelled this. Very proud of it and really liked the people I got to make it with. Sorry not to be able to finish the story...
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Imaginarium
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Half Bad is a show we are incredibly proud of, which gained stellar reviews, along with a fiercely loyal global fanbase. While we are disappointed not to continue the story, we have loved working with such a talented cast and crew on bringing our beloved show to life.
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Joe Barton
4 years
Apparently we were filming this 2 years ago today.
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Joe Barton
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I feel like there was a moment in time where everyone was going to move to Margate and then only a few people did and now they all regret it.
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Joe Barton
2 years
Love Happy Valley but the props department have dropped a bollock here with a clearly fake pint of Guinness. How difficult is it to get this stuff right?
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Joe Barton
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@nickmurftweets Itโ€™s the classic โ€˜ignore the show, cancel it, wait for one of the actors to be in a more successful production and THEN start the marketingโ€™ tactic
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Joe Barton
2 years
Writers should 100% get into the habit of asking other writers if the production company they're thinking of working with are any good.
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Joe Barton
1 year
Eldest son and his friends are filming a little movie in our house today. Asked me to write a script for it ๐Ÿฅฐ Refused cos A) Iโ€™m not a scab and B) they couldnโ€™t fucking afford me
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Joe Barton
4 years
My parents have formed a childcare bubble with my sister and her kids so canโ€™t help out with mine. And actually thatโ€™s okay because instead of complaining Iโ€™m just going to push this down and let it fester inside me until I die!
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Joe Barton
3 years
Tragically allowing my mood to be affected by whether or not Tottenham Hotspur Football Club buy players whose existence I had not previously been aware of 48 hours ago
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Joe Barton
3 years
I was 10 minutes late for a haircut appointment and a guy with dyed blonde tips told me I was a 'little late there buddy ๐Ÿคจ' and that he was charging me but couldn't cut my hair anymore. I think I will occasionally think of him and get annoyed probably until I die?
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Joe Barton
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Last night I dreamt someone sent me their screenplay but instead of paper they'd written each page in marker pen on the window of a kebab shop and then taken a photo of it so I had 90 photos of this kebab shop window and I was like oh boy I gotta tell 'em this isn't how it's done
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Joe Barton
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Happy Valley doing for PE teachers what Jaws did for sharks
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Joe Barton
3 years
When you go to the chippy and they offer you salt and vinegar imho it would be more fun if they said 'salt and malt'? It's better, no? Americans would have been doing this years ago but they fucked up the definition of chips so they're out of the game but it's not too late for us
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Joe Barton
2 years
Well. Yes. Indeed.
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Deadline
2 years
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video is developing an action drama series from film and TV writer Joe Barton and director-producer Michael Bay. The project hails from A+E Studios, in association with Range Studios, and Amazon Studios
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Completely share their concerns but Iโ€™ve never taken a posh teenager seriously in my life and Iโ€™m not about to start now
@damiengayle
Damien Gayle
2 years
โ€œWhat is worth more, art or life? โ€ฆ are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?โ€ @JustStop_Oil โ€™s activists explain their action
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Sitting there seething while Father Christmas gets all the credit for finding a PS5.
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Joe Barton
1 year
Sorry to be the voice of opposition against all you cynics but I have never, and will never, stand against love. I hope they felt like shooting stars, like the rest of the universe didnโ€™t exist and it was only them. I hope they fucked like greased hogs all night.
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Joe Barton
4 years
My dad just got a date for his vaccination! It's his secretary, Susan. Everyoneโ€™s devastated, how could he break up the family like this.
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Joe Barton
3 years
This is the face of someone who has had to get out of bed to drive to their old house to pick up their cat who has someone found his way back there during the night and is trying to fight everyone who now lives there.
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Joe Barton
2 years
A Christmas gift box arrived from Warner Brothers today including this commemorative book and mug from the franchise they fired me off.
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Joe Barton
3 years
I remember talking to an actor whoโ€™d just joined a big superhero show, and them speaking at length about how intensely miserable the diet was making them. I really donโ€™t know why we make actors suffer just so we can continue to aid the spread of toxic body issues to everyone else
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The Guardian
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Actor Rafe Spall talks about his weight struggles
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Joe Barton
3 years
Someone please remind me that taking your only time off work all year when your children are also off school is, in fact, not a holiday.
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Joe Barton
3 years
Set up a wildlife camera by the big hole in the garden and just FYI this account will exclusively be fox pictures from now on.
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Joe Barton
4 years
I suppose now we may just never know whether I May Destroy You was better than Emily in Paris.
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It's the most British I've ever felt.
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3 years
Gave my 4 year old a chocolate biscuit and he said โ€œOoh itโ€™s fucking Christmasโ€ and walked off. Like a little Ray Winstone.
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Joe Barton
3 years
Argh! In the treatment for series 2 there was this new character we all loved and the description was literally just โ€˜do you reckon we could get Kathy Burke for this?โ€™
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Kath ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ™€๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บโœŠ๐Ÿพ
3 years
Very late to the party but finished Giri/Haji last night. Donโ€™t usually like gangsters and guns stuff but was completely captivated. Beautifully made, very funny and at times really surprising. Gutted thereโ€™s no second series. Criminal.
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Joe Barton
1 year
Absolutely boggles the mind that I got a Bafta Cymru award and am still expected to make dinner for my horrible children like a peasant
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1 year
Christopher Nolan asks the questions other directors wont, like; what if Oppenheimer could get it?
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Joe Barton
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My 7 yr old had a panic about us dying so I had a difficult but healthy and most importantly HONEST chat with him about death (promised him we would cure it in our lifetime, assured him both heaven and/or reincarnation are real anyway so like donโ€™t even worry about it mate)
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Joe Barton
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When my partner asks me to put the kids coats on sheโ€™s started immediately following it up with โ€˜I know they wonโ€™t fit youโ€™, ruining my little joke and souring my morning.
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Joe Barton
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@Spacemanc โ€œChoice of clubโ€. Youโ€™re telling on yourself pal x
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Joe Barton
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Not to be hyperbolic but if Britain ever succumbs to a fascist coup Paul is volunteering for head of the secret police on day ONE #Traitors
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Joe Barton
2 years
My kids are watching Rogue One. Feel like this film didnโ€™t get the love it deserved. Top tier Star Wars IMHO.
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Joe Barton
3 years
you owe me money
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Joe Barton
3 years
No comment on the play, which I haven't seen, but there's a whole stable of establishment writers who've been able to get any old shit commissioned for years and it's nice if that is no longer the case.
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I turn 37 today. Trying to light the candles on my cake in the storm. The kids crying and begging me to come inside. Me refusing. I like my cake outside. Always have. Wonโ€™t change that now. Too old.
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Joe Barton
2 years
Charles Dickens had a sister named Fanny. Fanny Dickens. And yet he never did anything with that. But we still call him a writer.
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Joe Barton
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Okay Iโ€™m back in
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Joe Barton
1 year
3am in a strangerโ€™s kitchen on a simply ungodly amount of ketamine
@bmay
Brendan May
1 year
I cannot stop watching this. Itโ€™s one of the most peculiar things Iโ€™ve ever seen, which given the venue, is really saying something. Get to the end (if you can).
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Joe Barton
2 years
As a defender how do you stop Haaland? Traditional football methods wont work. No. You have 90 minutes to make him fall in love with you. Become his moon and stars. His reason to be. Make it so scoring against you would betray something unspoken inside him. Something real. Primal
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Joe Barton
3 years
Guess if you post your wins you should also post your losses. Sadly adding this to the โ€˜ones that got awayโ€™ column. It really would have been something special. Hope Matt gets to make it one day.
@joshuahorowitz
Josh Horowitz
3 years
Bad news: the Gotham PD HBO Max show is on hold. Worse news: it sounded pretty awesome. Listen to Matt Reeves describe his Sidney Lumet inspired year one story and lament what might have been.
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Joe Barton
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I'm sorry but these children are too young to be commissioners
@Broadcastnow
Broadcastnow
2 years
EXCLUSIVE: Sky has launched a two-year commissioner training programme for six individuals to help widen the commissioning talent pool
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Joe Barton
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๐ŸŽน ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ‘บ
@skytv
Sky TV
8 months
#TheWhiteLotus star Will Sharpe will play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in new Sky Original limited series #Amadeus . Playfully reimagined from Peter Shafferโ€™s award-winning stage play, Joe Bartonโ€™s new version promises a corrupting symphony of jealousy, obsession and genius.
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Solidarity with all writers apart from whoeverโ€™s doing copy for the vegan-alternatives industry
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Joe Barton
3 years
If I'm a character in the Danny Boyle/Alex Garland film 'Sunshine' I'm asking constantly whose fucking idea it was to name the spaceship 'Icarus.'
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Joe Barton
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The 90's are over. You have a mortgage and children now. Have some self respect please
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Joe Barton
4 years
Correct
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Joe Barton
2 years
The pure untapped potential of this IP. Hollywood are leaving money on the table.
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