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Rob Myall

@robmyall.bsky.social

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Lead Programmer at Rebellion. Collector of cancelled TV. Fan of intfiction / sci-fi / urban fantasy / politics / beer.

Picture of Mister Spock (a blue uniformed Vulcan Starfleet officer, played by Leonard Nimoy) mind melding with an injured Horta (a rock like creature that McCoy has to become a bricklayer to heal) to discover why it's killing miners. Unfortunately, because it's injured, he mostly just yells "Paaaaiiiiin!"
Roman Mercer (Avan Jogia) looks pensively back over his right shoulder at a treeline and some fog and a lot of ghostly figures. He's walking towards camera as if he doesn't really care about the ghosts and would rather get off this show and do something better. Across the bottom is the text "From the producers of Hell On Wheels and Fargo", probably two far better shows that you should watch instead (but I've not seen the first and only the first season of the second), and the title "Ghost Wars".
Poster art for "Here And Now" (2018). The cast members are arrayed in a circle all lookup up at the camera with soap bubbles floating between us and them. The title of the show takes up the space in the middle between them. I'd describe each of the people at this point but the show's such a snore-fest you really won't care. Sure, Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins are in it but that doesn't make it good.
A face on shot on Greg Kinnear as Keegan Deane. He's got a black eye on his right and he may well have one on his left but he's holding a whole steak over that side of his face. He's in a suit and tie but his collar's unbuttoned. At the top left is the text "Don't Judge" and at the bottom over his tie are the lines "Greg Kinnear", "Rake" and "January FOX"
Poster art for "The Company You Keep" (2023). The poster has three layers. The bottom is a red city skyline at about a 30-degree angle rising from bottom left to mid-right, with white text (also angled) saying "The Company You Keep" (with the bottom of the P blending into the top of the K), "Series Premiere Sun Feb 19", the circular ABC logo and "Stream On hulu". The middle section, also a red city skyline at a similar angle, has the two show leads on it. Charlie Nicoletti (Milo Ventimiglia) is on the left in a dark suit jacket over a black shirt, open at the collar. His hair's neat but he hasn't shaved in a day or so. On his right, turned away from the camera but looking back over her left shoulder, is Emma (Catherine Haema Kim) in a dark top or dress that bares her shoulders, her hair in a ponytail and small pearl drop earrings. They're cut off a the waist by the lower skyline. Above the two skylines in the top left corner is a small triangle of darker red with more skewed text saying "All Is Fair In Love And Lies".
Poster art for Cupid (2009). On a red background, you have big white text saying "Get a love life". Then there's a guy (Bobby Cannavale) reclining across the poster. He's in black trousers and a red top and has a quiver of arrows over his shoulder. He's holding a single arrow. Below him is the show title with a stylised winged archer emerging from the top of the P. Under that is the text "takes aim tuesdays 10/9c", "series premiere march 31st" and the ABC logo.
Poster art for "The Rook" (2019) shows Myfanwy Thomas (Emma Greenwell) in blue on a paler blue background. She's facing to the left and there's clearly a strong wind blowling as her hair's swept forwards around her chin. There's a turquoise glow around her with lightning coming off it. She's on a plain background and in a plain coat, but everything's covered in a blue filter so no clue what colour they are. Text on the middle left says "Awaken The Power Within". The title "THE ROOK" runs across her upper arm and has a slight blur effect. At the bottom is the text "6/30 STARZ"
Poster art for "Supertrain" (1979). The poster's divided in half by a banner with the lowercase "supertrain" text. In both halves are pictures of the titular train, the top half shot from below looking up and the lower half is shot downwards. The train is going from right to left in both shots. The train itself is a low wide silver vehicle, wider than a normal train, with a sloped front, and taller double-decker carriages after the first car. The first car has two large windows at the front and smaller windows along the first half. At the top right of the power is a round "supertrain" logo in brown, with stylised tracks rising up from the bottom and then right along the bottom of the text, and down from the top and then right along the top of the text. Along the bottom of the poster is the text "1HR", "COMEDY, DRAMA" AND "TV SERIES (1979)"
Poster art for Marvel Studios "Echo". There's a big silhouette of Kingpin's head and upper body with a big glowing white blob where he was shot at the end of 2021's Hawkeye. The silhouette of his body has been filled with a woman (Alaqua Cox - Echo) sitting on a motorcycle on a highway with a lovely red and yellow sunset behind her. The block letter "ECHO" and the Marvel Studios logo cover the back wheel of the bike and her legs.
Poster art for Netflix's "Maniac". A 3x5 grid of small pastel coloured squares show various close-up images of the two lead's faces - Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. Below the screens is the text "A Netflix Limited Series", the show's title, a date of Sept 21, and the Netflix logo.
Poster for Hawkeye (2021). A purple archery target covered in christmas lights, with a whole bunch of people in the central ring. Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) are centered, with Yelena (Florence Pugh) smaller to their left and Lucky / Pizza Dog (a golden retriever in a santa hat) to their right. Echo (Alaqua Cox) is directly below them looking moody, with Kazi (Fra Fee) skulking over her right shoulder and Eleanor Bishop (Vera Farmiga) and Jack Duquesne (Tony Dalton) to her left. 3 indistinct members of the Tracksuit Mafia are to her right. Below Echo are the Marvel Studios logo, the hawkeye title in stylised lower case, and "Original series Now streaming only on Disney+"
DVD cover art for 2005's Kitchen Confidential. Jack Bourdain (played by Bradley Cooper) fills the left hand side. He's in chef's whites and is stroking his chin. On the right we have a lazy susan with 5 of the other cast members standing on it (and about one third the height of Jack). From left to right - Jim (John Francis Daley) holding a carrot and looking apprehensive, Mimi (Bonnie Somerville) with arms folded, Steven (Owain Yeoman) holding a large knife by handle and tip, Tanya (Jaime King), and Seth (Nicholas Brendon). Above the 5's head is the series title, and around the edge of the lazy susan it says "The Complete Series". At the top of the cover is the text "A most delicious comedy from the creator of 'Sex And The City'".
Publicity artwork for 2012's "Hunted" with a close-up of Melissa George's face, in profile, peering down to the left from the top right of the image. A gun (which she's presumably holding) points up from bottom center to middle left). At the top of the artwork in yellow text "A Cinemax Original Series". Above the muzzle of the gun "Never Make An Agent The Enemy". Across the bottom the title HUNTED in slightly horizontally glitchy letters plus a smaller callout "From Frank Spotnitz, writer/producer of The X-Files"
Artwork for Pulse (2025). The title's in white letters at the bottom, and above that are two doctors treating a patient. The patient's in shadow at the bottom. To the left is Danny Simms (Willa Fitzgerald), a blonde woman in blue hospital scrubs and with a stethoscope in her ears. To the right is Xander Phillips (Colin Woodell) also in blue scrubs.
Poster art for Doctor Odyssey (TV series, 2024). Dr Max Bankman (Joshua Jackson) sits centrally on a sun lounger in front of a swimming pool on the top deck of a cruise ship (the titular Odyssey). To his left stand Nurse Avery Morgan (Phillipa Soo) and Nurse Tristant Silva (Sean Teale) and to his right stands Captain Robert Massey (Don Johnson). At the top it says "From 9-1-1 Executive Producer Ryan Murphy", "Doctor Odyssey" and "Big Deck Energy", and below them "Series Premier Thurs Sept 26", the ABC logo, and "Stream on Hulu"
Poster art for Ironside (2013). At the top are the words "His Team. His Town. His Rules. Ironside". At the bottom are the NBC peacock tail logo and the words "New York's Toughest Detective." In the center are four cast members on dark blue twilight skyline with a single lit up skyscraper top. Blair Underwood as Underside is just left of center and forward of the other 3, a short-bearded black man seated in a leather jacket, blue vest and a police badge around his neck. On the right are Pablo Schreiber (Virgil) and Neal Bledsoe (Teddy), his subordinates, standing and scruffy looking. On the left is Brent Sexton (Gary Stanton), Ironside's former partner, in profile as if he's about to walk out of frame, face turned to the camera and looking pensive.
4 unhappy looking teenagers stand on the roof of a bright yellow camper van on the blu-ray cover of Generation Z (2024). Above their heads it says "Created, Written, and Directed by Ben Wheatley". At their feet is the title with an enlarged letter Z. Behind them are some misty woods. Robert Lindsay sits in the driving seat and the side panels of the van are splashed with blood. In the foreground, beside the van, sit four old age pensioners, dancing, laughing, feasting on a torn-off forearm and generally enjoying themselves. Below them is the caption "They're old, they're angry and they want to eat you!", the D for Dazzler logo, "2 Disc Set" and a BBFC 15 rating.
"Bonekickers" DVD cover art. The 4 main characters are centered in front of what looks like an ancient tomb or stone Roman baths and a big glowing light. From left to right they are Gugu Mbatha-Raw in profile, hands in pockets, Adrian Lester holding a torch, Julie Graham with her arms folded, and Hugh Bonneville in a broad brimmed hat. The top right of the cover has "ITV DVD" followed by the actors names (in starring order, Julie Graham first). Below the names is the title, "Bonekickers" (with a cross inside the letter O) and under that is a subheading "History Is Now". Below the actors and wildly over-illuminated is "From the creators of 'Life On Mars'". At the bottom, there's 15 age rating logos for UK and Ireland, two quotes from reviews ("Action Packed" from the Daily Telegraph, and "Great Escapist Fun" from The Observer"), the DVD Video logo, and "As seen on BBC".
Excerpt from the Guardian live UK politics blog: (in italics, quoting from Chris Stokel-Walker's New Scientist article) These records show that Kyle asked ChatGPT to explain why the UK's small and medium business (SMB) community has been so slow to adopt AI. ChatGPT returned a 10-point list of problems hindering adoption, including sections on "Limited Awareness and Understanding", "Regulatory and Ethical Concerns" and "Lack of Government or Institutional Support". (in regular font as Guardian editorial on the article) Stokel-Walker says Kyle also used ChatGPT to give advice on what podcasts he should appear on to reach an audience appropriate to his ministerial responsibilities, and to define scientific terms like antimatter, quantum and digital inclusion.
Bluray cover for "Red Eye (2024)", with the two main cast members standing in the aisle of an aircraft. Dr Matthew Nolan (Richard Armitage), a dark haired, bearded man is on the left, handcuffed in a turquoise suit jacket and zip top purple undershirt/jumper thing. DC Hana Lee (Jing Lusi), a shorter Chinese woman in navy jacket, pale blue round neck vest and police credentials visible at her waist, stands on the right. At the top the caption "The Cabin Pressure Is Rising" (with Rising in red, the rest white), "Red Eye" (with Red in red) across their chests, and "237 Passengers 1 Assassin" at the bottom. A D (Dazzler) logo sits bottom left, and a 15 BBFC rating sits bottom right.
Movie poster art for Cash On Demand (1961). The top third is a set of stairs descending left to right (top part dark with brickwork, the lower a flat grey) with text "HOW TO ROB A BANK..." above the stairs and "and get away with it?" on the stairs. The lower two thirds have a white background and are filled with the legs of a running man (blue trousers, white socks, yellow shoes) carrying two briefcases (upper body cut off). A shocked looking woman in a blue-gray dress stands at the lower left, and the title "CASH ON DEMAND" in red text sit at the bottom with the first letters (COD) outlined in black.
Cover art for "Virtual Murder" (1992). The top half is a pale beige with the silhouette of two people, the world Virtual in embossed scrollwork, and the word Murder in a more modern red font. The bottom half is a picture of the two leads - Dr John Cornelius (Nicholas Clay), a curly brown-haired man in a black bow tie and suit, and Samantha Valentine (Kim Thomson), a redhead in a green dress wearing long beaded black earrings - close together, as if about to kiss.
A black poster with the top right triangle filled with the Los Angeles skyline, the Nakatomi Tower (with rooftop exploding and a helicopter circling) and John McClane's face. Below these in red text is the title "DIE HARD" in capitals.
Poster art for "Mercy Point (1998)". The top third is a starfield with a central white circle with a black medical plus symbol in it and the text "Mercy Point" written across. The bottom two thirds is a shot of 6 cast members, 5 seated in a row (from left, Brian McNamara, Alexandra Wilson, Maria Del Mar, Joe Morton and Gay Thomas Wilson) with one perched behind them (Julia Pennington), dressed in medical scrubs or white labcoats.
Cover Art for "King & Maxwell" on DVD. The cover's divided into 6 photo frames, two above the series title (the left showing a closeup of titular characers and the right a closeup of FBI Agent Rigby deep in thought), and four below in two columns. The left column is a mid-range shot of King holding a newspaper, followed by a small box with the names of the actors (Rebecca Romihn and Jon Tenney), followed by a small shot of someone making a speech from a podium with an agent to their right (possibly Joan Dillinger, but the art's too blurry to be sure). Right right column is a closeup of Maxwell holding a gun, and a longshot of King and Maxwell in a cemetary.
Cupid (1998) TV show poster, with Jeremy Piven as Trevor Hale and Paula Marshall as Dr Claire Allen on a red background with white title text.
Cover art for "The Imperfects" (2022), with the 3 main cast members - Rhianna Jagpal center, Morgan Taylor Campbell left, and Iñaki Godoy right - with the show title (with backwards F) over the top. "Abnormally gifted" is at the top and "A Netflix Series" accompanies the title.
Cover art for "Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector" with a profile of Lincoln Rhyme's head (Russell Hornsby) facing right, but with his skull, neck and shoulders replaced with a fade-in of Amelia Sachs (Arielle Kebbel) and a view across the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan, as well as a small inset "Bone Collector" in shadow.
DVD box for "4400 Season One" with the number 4400 in green digits on a black background vertically descending towards a large crowd of people (mostly silhouetted, with 4 or 5 cast members just about recognisable in the gloom).
Cover art for "Anthony Newley in The Strange World Of Gurney Slade" with objects falling through space (a mannequin's arm, an upright vacuum cleaner, a countersunk screw, a sign with 14 on it) and the actors head entering frame horizontally from the middle right. The Network logo is top left and a PG rating is bottom left.
An image of a tigers head with the text "A maze of twisty little nightmares, none alike..."
Cast image for Perfect Harmony (a comedy TV series from 2019), with Bradley Whitford in a suit in the center, surrounded by 5 other cast members in church choir robes, all in front of a stained glass window.
Cover art for "The Winchesters" TV series with John Winchester (Drake Rodger) and Mary Campbell (Meg Donnelly) centered over a stormy graveyard. The series title in a slightly cracked font with a weird 6 pointed symbol filling the letter C is placed in front of them.
Poster art for ABC's "Forever" (2014) with a brooding Ioan Gruffudd (playing Dr. Henry Morgan) seated in front of a New York skyline. The title "Forever" and the tagline "Who says you only live once?" are superimposed across his chest.
Poster art for 2008's New Amsterdam tv series. John Amsterdam (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), a NY cop, descends subway stairs past broken yellow crime scene tape, with his partner (Eva Marquez, played by Zuleikha Robinson) at the top of the stairs behind him, framed by the New York skyline.
Cover art for "Monday Mornings" on DVD with four cast members, Jennifer Finnigan, Ving Rhames, Alfred Molina and Jamie Bamber arranged left to right above the series title, followed by David E. Kelley's name and a German 12 rating.
Cover art for "The Ellen Show The Complete Series" DVD set, with the main cast arrayed in front of a house with a white picket fence, with Ellen DeGeneres in the center.
Cover art for Peacock's "Poker Face", with Charlie (Natasha Lyonne), toothpick in mouth, lowering her mirrored shades, in which her blue Plymouth Barracuda is reflected.
Wolf Pack Season 1 cover art with the 2 adult leads centered and a forest fire burning behind them.
Cover art for "Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical", showing a number of cast members in song.
Poster art for "Valentine" showing Cupid with a gun shooting a hole in a red poster (with the other cast members arrayed to either side of him).