David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm enjoying Shirley's surreal little shoes. They're like something Vic and Bob might have used as a prop. #Strictly #SCD 050
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I've read Shooting Columbo - really interesting how tricky Falk could be. I'd now like to read those three others! 110
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Started my month of scary movies watching critics pay a high Price... #TheatreOfBlood 030
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think there are two hidden players concealed in Maya’s clothes. #CelebrityTraitors 191
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I can’t help but feel that Richard wants an early dart. #CelebrityTraitors 130
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh I see. They mean like Murder in the Dark-style games. Gotcha. 000
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How has Bella been playing this game since they were 10 years old if they’re now 23? #CelebrityTraitors 230
Reposted by David BrownCameron Yarde Jnr @cameronyardejnr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In 1976, Multi-Coloured Swap Shop created the template that BBC Saturday morning kids TV would use, with tweaks for 40+ years. Even a few ITV Saturday morning kids shows like Saturday Banana would use it. I can remember when the number was 01-288-8055. #SwapShop50 4208
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Weirdly, the phone number was different in 1976! 110
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Happy 50th birthday, Swap Shop. Hope everyone's day reaches the excitement peak of Cheggers going down a slide. 2145
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It would be so Amol for him to be the first one out. #CelebrityTraitors 170
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hilarious that everyone just wants to be genuinely affectionate towards Ross but he’s so used to aggro that he can’t handle it. #CelebrityTraitors 0223
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Interesting. So the men get to have leadership qualities. But Jerry Hall gets called “bossy”. Got it. #CelebrityTraitors 070
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That's a nice fact. I remember those Channel 4 rpts at the time and thinking it was weird seeing it there. Did Prime Suspect also get reshown on C4 at one point? 200
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ooh that is a good one. In my head I was thinking drama, but there's no reason why comedy shouldn't count. 000
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The scheduling of Waterloo Road is baffling. It ought to be 8pm. It's a really good show, which could be attracting a younger teen audience to the BBC. It's certainly on the radar of my sons. But BBC One treats it like filler. 000
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Do you do that thing in your head where you imagine which network would have made certain streaming shows? So, as you say, Rivals should be ITV. Adolescence should be Channel 4. Anything with Eve Miles on Paramount+ should be Channel 5. 100
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yeah, it's this that a section of our readership don't seem to like. They enjoy that Star Trek is there on a Sunday evening to watch on ITV1 and don't like then having to go to ITVX to see the rest. They still seem to desire that old communal experience of knowing it's there at a set time each week. 020
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026These days, yes. But the BBC seemed to stop putting imports in its shop window before streaming became a concern. By the way, our readers get annoyed by those "stunt launches" where only the first couple of eps get shown on scheduled TV. We get a quite a few annoyed emails, esp when it's Star Trek. 220
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Re: Morse. Has that style of leisurely, two-hour TV drama that it started now all but disappeared? Midsomer Murders is the last one standing, maybe? Doesn't seem to be another series of Marc Warren's Van der Valk in production, for example. 120
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think Mad Men was shown around that time, but on BBC Four rather than BBC One. And The Wire too, though that was late-night on BBC Two. So I think Damages was probably one of the final, real primetimers. 210
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To get you excited for Swap Shop's 50th anniversary tomorrow, here's an edition which ended with Noel covering the corpse of John Craven with a shroud. 33116
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Not even they probably read my Magnum hot-takes. Mind you, the original Magnum PI was relegated to ITV late-night in its final years. I remember having to wait years to see the ep shot in England guest-starring Peter Davison. 120
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh yes. I used to preview that week in week out for RT. Even the final season when they changed one of the lead actors. 120
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Oh my god. The Dukes of Hazzard - one of those shows I always watched but never really liked. Did anyone really enjoy it? What was the last 'quality' import shown in primetime on the BBC - Damages, maybe? 310
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Also, it's better for quality US shows to be shown in a public forum like the BBC rather than be siloed on streamers where you have to pay for them. It benefits all if programmes of cultural worth (wherever they're made) are on easily-accessed BBC channels. Anything else, is kind of unmeritocratic. 3131
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My full two-star review of ITV's #Winter www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/win...radiotimes.comWinter review: Richard Armitage leads an unoriginal ITV dramaDr Ethan Winter ticks every box on the maverick checklist in this six-part procedural. But the plot proves as fresh as the corpses he's working with... 130
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Some classic Esther Rantzen in Radio Times from 1981, shot on the North End Road, just a stone's throw from the current RT office. #ThatsLife 041
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My pick of the day for ITV's latest addition to its crime drama roster - Winter, starring Richard Armitage. #Winter 031
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Anyone who didn't get around to seeing Star Trek: Prodigy while it was on Paramount+ or Netflix, it's coming to ITVX this week. #StarTrek #StarTrekProdigy 041
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You can just foresee Danny in particular being very funny and doing whatever's required of him. He's game for anything. 140
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes, both terrific and emotional, I have to say. 010
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It was almost too much. Slightly overwhelming- especially the stuff that Joan H’s granddaughter had kept. I chatted with her for ages and got some real insights into the production of the show. A day very well spent. 000
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Some classic Miss Marple at Riverside Studios, including props and photos brought by Joan Hickson’s granddaughter. Just amazing. #MissMarple 2172
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Shout-out to Robert in Fopp Covent Garden. Popped in today, bought Jagged Edge on Blu-ray, and Robert on the tills chatted for 10 mins about shlock 1980s' thrillers. Proper customer service. You don't get that on the Amazon checkout page. 190
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Unless the Gremlins take over an AI company and use it to break into systems all over the world. Though you don't even need Gremlins for that it seems. 010
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have nostalgic affection because Go West once pulled my name out of a hat on Going Live and I won a Gizmo hand puppet. 130
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I can't believe we're now essentially running the same stories regarding Jack Lowden's unsuitability to play James Bond as were run when it was Daniel Craig in contention. 030
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of the nice things about working at Radio Times is that readers still send you letters through the post - and sometimes (as in this case) they're even complimentary. 0110
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It captures the essence of the human condition. Quietly profound. And it’ll be watched for as long as anyone is interested in TV. 0100
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026All it takes is for autumn to arrive for us to see how relevant scheduled TV still is. Monday-night quizzes, Bake Off on a Tuesday, the finale of the landmark 70 Up, plus the twice-weekly treat of Celebrity Traitors just around the corner. 130
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You’d have thought they could revive it now as it must be so cheap to make. 010
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026He's changed a lot since his years presenting Late Review 1132
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My review of ITV1's The Blame, which I thought was pretty damn good, I have to say. #TheBlameradiotimes.comThe Blame review: A timely drama about the crisis of confidence in policingMichelle Keegan and Douglas Booth star in a six-part ITV series that's impressively pointed, frequently unsettling and keeps you guessing. 050
David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That show felt longer than the time Dermot O’Leary had to dance for 24 hours for charity. #Strictly 0111
