Blue Monday (date) press releases, with 2014 seeing Blue Monday invoked by legal firms and retailers of bottled water and alcoholic drinks. Some versions of the story purport to analyse trends in social media posts to calculate the date. In 2018, Arnall told "The Independent" newspaper that it was "never his intention to make the day sound negative", but rather "to inspire people to take action and make bold life decisions". It was also reported that he was working with Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Holidays, having "made it his mission to challenge some of the negative news associated with January and to debunk
Monday (The X-Files) done, and is peacefully arrested. The bomb blast averted, time continues as normal. This episode, which was written under "extreme pressure" during the show's brief Christmas hiatus, has been stylistically compared to the comedy film "Groundhog Day" (1993). Vince Gilligan and John Shiban, the writers of the episode, however, credit an episode of "The Twilight Zone" entitled "Shadow Play" (1961). Gilligan later noted: "The funny thing about 'Monday' is people seemed to really like it a lot, but people always sorta smiled and said you're sort of ripping off "Groundhog Day" aren't you? [...] And I'd say, we're not ripping