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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

All that’s left of the external Corrie set - it’s now a car park 😭 spot the different coloured bricks from the 50th anniversary tram crash storyline…

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is what was Studio 2 - former home of Granada Reports, and where the very first episode of Coronation Street was recorded. Cor!

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As well as providing quality reading material courtesy of @transdiffusion.org

Transdiffusion’s Rediffusion 70th anniversary book

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This week I went to Versa Studios Manchester. They keep it quiet, but I have a feeling it has some sort of heritage…

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Radio Times closing their bespoke iPad app is an interesting move. The FAQs, which force you to work out what’s going on by reading a series of questions, direct you to Zinio and Readly.

Radio Times iPad app stating it closes 25/11

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Makes “attitudes night” look near the knuckle

Radio Times letter complaining about swearing on the cover

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Where do they get these ideas from…

Pretzels bags with competition to “Grab a Grand” on the side

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

An unfortunate couple of typos in the new Radio Times for #totp Story of *2003*

Radio Times listing for
TOTP Big Hits/Story of 2023

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just having a snoop around BBC Elstree thanks to the fabulous theelstreeproject.org/bbc-elstree-.... Barely even started and found myself in Studio C, which a quarter of a century after #totp left still had the branding on the door to the green room and the coloured railings they did links from

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In that 1982 #totp you see Bates making his escape after the opening link so he’s not stuck up there for the whole song. The big stage they introduced the followed year had an “escape route” at the back presumably for this very reason

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I went to the Eurovision 70th exhibition at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, and found the t-shirt I was wearing was one of the exhibits

Eurovision 2023 United by Music t-shirt worn by me and behind glass

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Can I just shock you? I like third place play offs

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Yes, yes and did I say yes. @katerubu.bsky.social and I independently loved this as teenagers, and it was our walkout music at our wedding ceremony. On The Ropes is an absolutely brilliant album too #totp

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

…and if you’d researched it properly, you’d know he has stopped using it for fairly obvious reasons #totp2000

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is on display at the pool where our daughters have their lessons. Every week I love the complete lack of context and vaguely threatening nature

“Staying 4+ hours…? Cover your own back!!”

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Time to fire this up for the last time

BBC Radio 4 198 LW Test Match Special branded radio

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Ten years ago I opened my iPad and found the night of the Brexit vote in BBC News notifications…

BBC news notifications ten years ago today

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Offering some gum…I was right, the relationship is developing!

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Finally I must mention the Sunday Best titles for the spot on depiction of a British Sunday on the early 90s. youtu.be/7RUOpOegmTY?...

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This opener from Yorkshire even has a very brief glimpse of the VT clock to the titles, which gives nothing away about there being alternate versions. (I’d make a comment about them only being completed 3 days before tx but that’s entirely normal in my experience) youtu.be/li2PnlhXuUw?...

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I chanced upon this from June 1993. And the bus couple bit is different! Here it’s dress down day and they’re both embarrassed at wearing the same thing. youtu.be/cuUeT5Rjm9g?...

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Then there’s these two in the bus queue in a shot that’s slightly too long and an odd downer to the generally aspirational tone. Clearly she is disgusted at the prospect of being stuck next to this guy all the way to work (and presumably in the office too)

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

On closer inspection, she’s in the shot before buying a melon from the market. So does she deliver this guy’s daily melon and is shocked when he runs off without it?

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It’s a standard “everyone gets up and goes to work/school” type affair, but the shot on the Mum and kid seeing the Dad off at the door (she’s staying at home, obvs) has a random woman outside almost doorstepping them

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I was watching the original GMTV titles recently (as I’m sure we all do from time to time) and there’s something not quite right with them. 🧵https://youtu.be/3gh54IrWHhE?is=4SWyGrJ1XU78F8RN

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Sorting out old CDs. Kids, I was there first

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Just driven past Paul Chuckle on the M62

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Keeping an eye on the sportsball for work tonight so….yeah. I’ve been lucky in that I’ve worked late many times but never quite this early

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A long awaited Kickstarter arrives!

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Randomly I was at my parents house today and found this old L&K Magazine sticker on a cassette drawer…

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Uncovered this the other day…great timing as ever…

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

New geek corner on the stairs up to the attic. Photo on the left is from a meeting room in the LWT tower - they did a charity auction when it closed. On the right is a more recent print marking the services transmitted from Leeds until last May.

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Cracking Sounds of the 90s dedication to Don’t Speak by No Doubt. It’s definitively a song about breaking up with someone, but never mind that

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Distressing scenes this week on EastEnders

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Meta AI then. About a year about I asked it the most basic innocuous question about Britain’s Got Talent and this is how it did

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This #totp 1999 tour is a fascinating dive into turn of the century nightclubs that mostly don’t exist anymore. Post Hitman and Her shirt-and-tie era but pre the sector going virtually bust unless you’re called Popworld. This is what ISIS Nottingham ended up like

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Not that my BluRay player is getting on a bit but this is the Amazon Prime logo…

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Re-reading “Love You Bye - My Story” by Scott Mills. Only on page 2 and it’s already delivering

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Pleasingly tiny too! (Watch for scale). My TiVo recorder in 2001 was an absolute monster of a box. This could go in your pocket (not that you would, that would be weird)

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Virtually nothing missing from “the apps” which is normally where these boxes fall down. And there’s Google Cast for the rest. TiVo bit is yer bog standard zillion fast channels with nowt you actually want to watch. Remote feels great and has loads of buttons as it should (Guide position not great)

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In 2010 for my birthday I got one of the first Freeview HD boxes available in shops for my birthday. In 2026….

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Kaiser Chiefs also send their regards

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Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Unwrapping some mugs I put away to store in July 2020. One was in this. Laugh, and indeed Out Loud.

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