Author: Wok

Warwick Holt is a highly experienced, award-winning screenwriter, who has written for many of Australia's top comedians and presenters, and the Emperor of this here Media Empire.

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AI TV Writing Services

The Ghost out of the Machine

A ghost wearing glasses sitting at an office desk, in front of a laptop
Hard at work on another TVC treatment

The art of expressing a director’s vision in TV commercial treatments, and why the human spirit of a ghostwriter will beat a spooky robot.

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AI Opinion

How Meta: the bots think I’m a bot

A screenshot of an Instagram report. At the top is Warwick Holt's profile picture, in a greyed-out background. A pop-up window reads: "Read more about this rule Why we suspended your account We don't allow people on Instagram to create fake accounts. Examples of things we don't allow * Creating an account to bypass our rules * Using bots or other automatic means to create accounts * Hiding your identity to deliberately mislead or deceive people * Read in full Account integrity" Beneath the pop-up window, it reads: "All your information will be permanently deleted. You can not request another review of this decision."
Can't argue with that...

It took just two days for me to go from opening an Instagram account to have it shut down for impersonating myself.

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Music

2025 through my ears

Me in my home office, music discs clustered on shelves behind me, wireless headphones on my head
Surrounded by music, my happy place

A playlist of my favourite songs released in 2025 plus a rundown of albums I liked, gigs I saw, and my family’s musical exploits.

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AI News Opinion Updates

A Productivity Commission Submission on AI in Australia

Images from the front page of the Interim Report, featuring a woman scrolling on her phone and a man holding a laptop in a data centre

My response to the Productivity Commission’s Interim Report on Harnessing Data and Digital Technologies, focussing on AI regulation, productivity impacts and protecting and enriching Australia’s cultural and creative landscape.

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News The Project Updates

The Project’s Difference Engine

The Project team in 2013, a mere 1000 episodes in

As the curtain closes on 16 years of The Project, I look back on my own 8 years of delivering news differently.

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The Olden Days Updates

My Milestones

My Milestones Page

How seeing some of my very earliest teenage writing unexpectedly crop up online helped embrace a very in-depth profile of my creative life.

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Film The Olden Days Updates

Vale Craig Tonkin

The PhanDom Menace - Producers: two photos of Warwick Holt and Craig Tonkin holding Star Wars style blasters and lightsabers against a brick wall backdrop.

A tribute to Craig Tonkin, my fellow producer/director/writer of Star Wars fan doco The PhanDom Menace, who has suddenly passed, aged just 51.

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Books Updates

Vote for the Highly Commended Squishbook and win!

A dark blue graphic by Squishbook editor David Blumenstein. On the left half is the cover of a comic book - Squishbook: Make comics with Squishface Studio and friends - surrounded by cartoon celebratory icons and exclamations: "Oh!", "Wow!", "Wot?" and "That's Cool!" written in light blue on navy. The Squishbook cover has, stamped in the centre, a cartoon version of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards logo, with "Highly Commended" written beneath. On the right half is a bordered area, inside which is handwritten text reading: "VOT*! * vote for People's Choice" The word "People's" has been struck out and the word "ibis" (with the 's' backwards) has been written beneath it. To the right of the text is a ibis, cartooned in white, saying "AHK GLUG". To the left of the ibis is another copy of the front cover of Squishbook.
Commendation is not enough, we want awards!

Squishbook has been Highly Commended by the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and that means you can vote for it for People’s Choice – and win 10 indivdually-selected books in the process!

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Music

2024 Great Choons

2024 Great Choons - a Spotify playlist by wokholt

So much great music in 2024! Here’s a playlist of my favourite songs plus other highlights from a very groovy year.

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Comedy Film Music The Olden Days Updates

Unmasking Myself As A Multi-Media Terrorist

N.H.I.V. Unmasked (Image courtesy Saddama bin Laden)

New Horizons In Violence (N.H.I.V.) were the world’s most blackly subversive mashed media terrortainment group during the War on Terror. Our complete film has finally been released – here’s the full story.