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4 years
How to ruin a band’s name with one extra letter. I’ll start: SS Club 7.
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Robert Popper
3 years
Thank you to everyone who watched Friday Night Dinner for the past 10 years. Your love meant everything to all of us x
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3 years
Been thinking a lot about this lovely man recently. Still can't believe he's gone.
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Robert Popper
1 year
Here's a Friday Night Dinner dinner scene I never used. No memory - as usual - of writing it...
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Robert Popper
6 years
Thanks for the death metal album recommendation. Will check it out.
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Donald J. Trump
6 years
NO COLLUSION - RIGGED WITCH HUNT!
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Robert Popper
3 years
Devastated at this terribly sad news. Paul was a lovely, wonderful human being. Kind, funny, super caring and the greatest actor I ever worked with x
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Friday Night Dinner star Paul Ritter dies of brain tumour at 54
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Wandered into a hotel conference room while everyone was on a break. When they come back, this will greet them...
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3 years
Thank you to everyone for sending mesages about Paul Ritter. Much appreciated. He was a man who touched so many hearts. My thoughts go out to his lovely family.
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Robert Popper
2 years
It's Holocaust Rememberance Day... My grandparents escaped the Nazis on one of the very last trains out of Germany. Many of my family weren’t so lucky. Here’s a few of them… (a thread 1/8)
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Robert Popper
4 years
And that’s a wrap on Friday Night Dinner Series 6.
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Robert Popper
2 months
And here’s my last day (well, night) ever filming in the FND house. ‘Twas a sad day (um, night)
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Robert Popper
5 years
Bless you, Pam. Blam.
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4 years
Late night shopping list left in supermarket trolley...
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There was a computer repair shop near Goodge Street London called Micromend I used to go to 15 years ago mainly cos it was the MESSIEST SHOP IN THE WORLD. Here are some real photos. Enjoy...
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3 years
Today’s shopping list left in supermarket trolley:
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Robert Popper
9 months
LOOK AROUND YOU is finally on iplayer. Thanks iplayer. Thiplayer
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Robert Popper
3 years
My latest shopping list left in an unsuspecting supermarket trolley...
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Robert Popper
5 years
Friday Night Dinner S6 rehearsals. Much japery.
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Robert Popper
2 years
Been rewatching The Royle Family. It’s beyond comedy. It’s art.
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Robert Popper
4 years
Every year I remember six year-old Uzhu, who would have been my uncle, murdered by the Nazis. Six.
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Robert Popper
5 years
Latest shopping list left in Tescos trolley for today’s happy shopper...
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Robert Popper
4 years
‘Stay Alert. Control The Virus. Save Lives’.
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Robert Popper
4 years
Friday Night Dinner 6 - Here's a scene we had to cut in the edit for time reasons. A painful decision...
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2 years
Which happy shopper will find my latest shopping list?
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Robert Popper
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My latest shopping list left in a supermarket trolley for a happy shopper..
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Robert Popper
5 years
Prince Philip’s not looking his best:
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Robert Popper
2 years
Friday Night Dinner script thing I just found that I never used. From Jim coming to dinner. No recollection writing it…
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Robert Popper
3 years
My latest shopping list left in supermarket trolley:
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Robert Popper
2 years
It is with great sadness that Harry Landis - aka Mr Morris in Friday Night Dinner - has passed away. He was a brilliantly funny, wonderful man. Our greatest guest star.
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Robert Popper
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Thanks Sunday Times. Thunday Times.
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Robert Popper
1 year
Friday Night Dinner - Adam with Buggy Series 2. And me with (real) Buggy Age 3
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4 years
Latest shopping list left in Tescos trolley...
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Robert Popper
4 years
Thanks for watching FND6. And thanks to all who were in it and who made it with me :)
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Robert Popper
3 months
My new favourite werd
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Robert Popper
4 years
Terribly sad that our wonderful Friday Night Dinner Grandma, Frances Cuka, has passed away.
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Robert Popper
10 months
My latest shopping list left in a supermarket trolley for one happy shopper…
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Robert Popper
3 years
After five months of sitting in a room going insane, I’ve finally finished writing my new series ‘I HATE YOU’ for @channel4 . Beyond happy.
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Robert Popper
3 years
I want this on a t-shirt.
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Robert Popper
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Maybe one day we’ll make this secret extra LOOK AROUND YOU episode…
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Robert Popper
3 years
I worked at @channel4 for 3 years. I've also made shows for them for yonks. It's full of the most thoughtful, brilliant people who care passionately about pushing British creativity. It's the best UK network to work with and for. Hands off.
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Robert Popper
3 years
I have started buying these from the chemist. I am 80.
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Robert Popper
3 years
The Friday Night Dinner documentary is Fri 28th May at 9pm on @Channel4 Also - vote on your 3 fave eps right here: The top 3 will play after the show. Thanks :)
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Robert Popper
6 years
I’ve always loved @george_clinton , but this last paragraph makes me love him even more...
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Robert Popper
4 years
Friday Night Dinner S6. Shoot day 11...
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Robert Popper
6 years
Thanks BBC. Theebeecee.
@BBCArchive
BBC Archive
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#OnThisDay 2002: Look Around You was first broadcast.
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Robert Popper
4 years
Friday Night Dinner S6 shoot day 10...
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Robert Popper
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Here’s my latest shopping list left in a supermarket trolley... i
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Robert Popper
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Thread: My dad is the world’s worst texter and this is the craziest text exchange I’ve ever had with him...
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Robert Popper
6 years
We’re back...
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Robert Popper
2 years
And this is sweet little Robert, shot into a pit in Latvia, aged just 5. Same first name as me. And he died on my birthday.
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Robert Popper
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And here is their angelic little boy, Uzhu, murdered, aged just 6 in 1942. This photo has always haunted me
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Robert Popper
4 years
Thanks for watching.
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Robert Popper
4 years
My dad made lunch for my mum today. The result:
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Robert Popper
4 years
Have finally finished editing FND6. I hope, during this horrid time, it brings some happiness to you all x See you on Friday 27th 10pm @Channel4
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Robert Popper
5 years
After 7 months writing, Friday Night Dinner series 6 IS ALL WRITTEN!
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Robert Popper
5 years
And thus we begin...
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Robert Popper
2 years
Which lucky happy shopper will find my latest shopping list?
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Robert Popper
3 years
So eerie. Yesterday afternoon I was at home. The curtains were closed with only a tiny gap in them, and this image of the houses at the end of the garden was suddenly projected through the gap - pinhole camera style - onto my wall.
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Robert Popper
3 years
Sometimes a photo just shocks you to the core.
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Robert Popper
2 months
This Friday Night Dinner behind-scenes-clip of The Caravan just popped up on my phone.
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Robert Popper
2 years
Here's my grandma’s sister, Fania. Murdered with her husband, Michael in her home village of Kolomea (now in Ukraine) 1942
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Robert Popper
3 years
Love it.
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@robertpopper @MarkHeapActor my sons Halloween costume this year. Just sharing the love 💕
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Robert Popper
3 years
My latest shopping list in a supermarket trolley. Happy shopping...
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Robert Popper
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My latest shopping list left in a supermarket trolley for one Happy Shopper:
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Robert Popper
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Just found this unused bit of a dinner scene from FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER. As usual, no memory writing it...
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2 years
My grandma’s sister, Adela and her husband Nathan, killed in 1942 in Kolomea
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2 years
But who shall we ask to review it?
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This is my grandfather with his mother, Sima, in his home town Vijnita (now Ukraine) a few years before she was killed in 1941
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Robert Popper
3 years
Blimey.
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BritishComedySociety
3 years
Channel 4's most popular sitcom in decades, Friday Night Dinner marks its 10th anniversary today.
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Robert Popper
2 years
6 months writing. 2 months filming. 3 months editing - my new series I HATE YOU starring Tanya Reynolds & Melissa Saint is finally finished. On @channel4 in a few months. So excited.
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Robert Popper
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Remembering the time I almost had an aneurism when my dad presented me with a clay sculpture he’d made of my head.
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Robert Popper
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And this is one of the greatest articles on the Holocaust that everyone should read. Thank you.
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Robert Popper
4 years
Get ready for some nice Milson action in Friday Night Dinner 6 Ep 2 tonight at 10 on @Channel4 ...
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Robert Popper
3 years
No words.
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Robert Popper
2 years
Found this bit of dialogue from 'The Fox' episode of Friday Night Dinner that I never used. No memory of ever writing it...
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Robert Popper
3 years
It is with great sadness that the lovely Rosalind Knight who played ‘Horrible Grandma’ in FND has passed away. She was a wonderful, talented lady and is sorely missed.
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Robert Popper
2 years
Watching Get Back. McCartney is the most musical human I’ve ever seen. It’s blowing my mind.
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Robert Popper
3 years
20 years ago me and @serafinowicz wrote a secret ep of LOOK AROUND YOU that we never got to make. No one has ever read it. But maybe you'd like to read one page...
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Robert Popper
5 years
Thanks Beeb. Theeb.
@BBCArchive
BBC Archive
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#OnThisDay 2005: Informative science and technology show Look Around You returned, sporting a slick new look and a superior aspect ratio.
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Robert Popper
3 years
‘Curated salad bowls’. CURATED.
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Friday Night Dinner S6. Shoot day 5. Horrible Grandma is back...
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Robert Popper
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Excuse me while I high five myself, but I've just finished writing Ep 5 of Friday Night Dinner Series 6. One more to do. One more!
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Robert Popper
4 years
Friday Night Dinner 6 tonight at 10. I promise I won’t disappoint you...
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Robert Popper
4 years
That’s news to me!
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boohoo
4 years
Friday Night Dinner season 6 will be the final season 😭😭
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Robert Popper
3 years
New show. Off we go…
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Robert Popper
5 years
2020...
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Robert Popper
3 years
Technically, no need for the comma.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
3 years
I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!
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Robert Popper
5 years
A human actually did this:
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Robert Popper
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My grandma escaped the Holocaust, but lots of her family weren’t so lucky. Here’s two of her sisters, killed with their husbands and one of their little boys, aged just 6.
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Robert Popper
6 years
We’re off...
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Robert Popper
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Friday Night Dinner shoot day 7...
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Robert Popper
4 years
And a big thanks to @channel4 for being amazing all the way.
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Robert Popper
2 years
Here’s how my grandparents escaped
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Robert Popper
4 years
Sometimes something just floors you. Found out a terrifying story about my grandparent's train escape out of Nazi Germany, just 5 days before the war...
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Robert Popper
3 years
Every year I remember little Uzhu who would have grown to be my cousin. Murdered when he was just six in the Holocaust. This photo always destroys me.
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Robert Popper
6 years
As a hate preacher, @realDonaldTrump should have his UK state visit cancelled immediately @theresa_may
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Robert Popper
3 years
Sweeeet.
@BroadcastAwards
Broadcast Awards
3 years
Next up we have the award for Best Comedy Programme, sponsored by @PinewoodStudios - and the winner is – Friday Night Dinner, Popper Pictures @robertpopper @bigtalk for @Channel4 #BroadcastAwards
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