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I thought this guy was meant to be a TV nerd? I could name a dozen US shows aired by the BBC *before* Dallas off the top of my head

"BBC have been showing American TV since Dallas"

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 6h

Poor Limmy's notifications right now #CelebrityTraitors

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 7h

Claudia Winkleman carried onto the stage in a coffin and emerging to rapturous applause, just like Peter Gabriel with Genesis in 1982. 10/10, no notes

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 13h

New favourite Dr Who fact: Desmond Llewelyn unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Professor Parry in The Tomb Of The Cybermen, travelling all the way from Bexhill-on-Sea for a "chat" with Morris Barry. Just imagine him striding about on Telos with his big fucking sausage fingers. We were robbed.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 17h

Great chat about Threads, for which some of you may recall I made the somewhat misguided decision to livetweet during my first viewing. You live and you learn. Well, they didn't.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Farewell to Dame Esther Rantzen. Let's break out the Pernod, Ouzo, marmalade and salt, and drink to her memory. RIP.

Dame Esther Rantzen, as seen on Spitting Image.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Brand new Beavis and Butt-Head on the way. My heart is full.

B&B Season 12 will feature episodes called "Spanish-ish", "TSA-holes", "Stewart Moves In" and "Body Cam".

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rewind TV's approach to screening TV Burp has been refreshing, making full use of disclaimers rather than cutting controversial jokes and sketches wholesale, but I can't blame them for taking the scissors to last night's edition... yikes! IYKYK

A timeline comparing an original 2004 off-air recording of TV Burp to a 2026 repeat. 5 missing sections, around 71 seconds in total.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sad to report the new Pulp concert film on MUBI features the double whammy of AI-slathered archive footage - check out that abomination below - and inexplicably auto-tuned vocals, for a singer whose entire vocal style is the polar opposite of auto-tune. Horrible. (There's a clip from Dr Who though.)

...before a camera flash triggers his regeneration.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really enjoying the Troughton era Doctor Who Production Diary. Had no idea that "The Paradise Of Death" started life in 1966, nor did I know Michael Craze (Ben Jackson) suceeded Olaf Pooley (Professor Stahlman) as lodger in the marital home of Michael Gough and Anneke Wills. THIS IS THE STUFF!

A picture of some text on a page. Go buy the book, it's incredible value for money.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Name your fav dance scene.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Golden Cobra is a little gem. Get on it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Keep my BBC Four out your f**king mouth!"

Some BBC channels and radio stations may well have to close, director general says

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Always thought Coco had the look of Joan Sims #TOTP

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching the Big Brother Group Chat and GK Barry appears to be cosplaying as a fencing champion crossed with a space station scientist in Blake's 7

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If there's one thing in this life guaranteed to make my arse clench with utter cringe it's getting Classic Series Doctors to perform "iconic" New Series speeches

Peter Davison. My 14th favourite Dr Who.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We used to be a country etc

Jasper Carrott: Sweet and Sour Labrador.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

100% "Let's just put the wrong story to fuck with the Dr Who fans and drive up engagement"

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I respect our British culture. DO YOU?

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Those bastards at Channel 4 have ruined my long running Frasier/Meglos time loop gag by leaving a two day gap between Goodnight Seattle Part 2 and The Good Son. Killjoys.

The current Channel 4 repeat run of Frasier ends Saturday at 10.05am. For two days. The song is ending, but the story never ends.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every Season 17 should begin with a tongue-in-cheek all-female regeneration #BakeOff #GBBO #DoctorWho

It's the end for Prue Leith. But the moment has been prepared for...

A new era for Bake Off. Dr Who remains out to tender.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That last caption with Nick... fuck. #70Up

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

70 Up: The Victorians was a perfect example of how not to present archive TV. Heavily edited, horrible yellow text badly positioned, cack-handed AI restoration resulting in a distracting mixture of smeary eyelids and foreheads and pin sharp wrinkles and facial hair. Thankfully 70 Up is much better.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Would love to know how they decide what is and isn't likely to offend sensitive audiences in 2026. I've just watched a random episode with tea and there were jokes about bestiality, rape and one character calling the other a "bender". But a sketch *about* racism? Careful now...

BBC removes 11 Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Considering replacing my #DoctorWho The Collection Limited Edition Blu-rays with the Standard Editions in an effort to reclaim some valuable shelf space. Has anyone else done this and if so how easy did you find it to sell the LEs? Don't want the faff of trying to sell them individually. Decisions!

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every time that Vodafone ad with Roman Kemp is on I just think of red jacket guy from The Wedding Singer

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/09/2026

Hands up who wants some fun research into The Young Ones? Brand new on Dirty Feed: the truth about Colin Baker's appearance, or rather non-appearance, on the show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/evil...

Rick with his hands in the air, from The Young Ones, "Bambi"

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Might become an #FPL content creator

My Fantasy Premier League team "Dial M For Madeley" are currently ranked 17,997 out of 10,885,713 players.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't tend to eat a lot of chocolate but I'm a fucker for this beauty

Ritter Sport Rum Raisins Hazelnuts, 100g bar

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

RIP Stephanie Cole OBE. Seemingly forever typecast to play ladies of a certain age and yet all those performances prove she was one of the most versatile, nuanced actresses in the business. She'll be missed.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder if I've accidentally slipped sideways into a parallel universe

BBC News feed on BBC Two, a few moments ago. Main headline along the bottom of the screen: "King: AI controls needed 'before it is all too late". To the side: "Ready for war? War may be coming - but are we psychologically prepared?". Video shows an AI generated image of a Neanderthal man with sharpened sticks.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just submitted my 'Doctor Who' tender bid.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks to tonight's #Taskmaster I now know that the weird spitting under the tongue thing I've been able to do at will since I was a child is called "gleeking" and apparently it's a very rare... well, I say talent...

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Early RTD sketch idea for surprise Rani bi-generation in "The Interstellar Song Contest" leaked #DoctorWho

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it?

June Edwards (Julie Walters) watches on as her husband is hand-cuffed and shown into a police car.

Train robber Ronald "Buster" Edwards (Phil Collins) looks back at his wife, for whom he gave up his freedom and returned to England to face the music.

...as the police depart, and she is alone once more. Julie Walters is bloody brilliant.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For anyone following the repeats, Red Dwarf V (Back To Reality) is on BBC2 tonight at 10pm. No sign of Series VI in the immediate future: next Thursday it's a rare and seemingly one-off repeat of That Mitchell And Webb Look (Series 1 Episode 3, for some reason). The whole lot's currently on iPlayer.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Only half an hour through 70 Up and I've already had to dry my eyes twice. Such incredible, affecting television.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As of today I'm officially bespectacled, which is good timing cos this thing's arrived and it's a bloody brick! (Does this mean I have to change my profile picture?)

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

GENESIS FANS KLAXON! Almost 50 years on, here's some very watchable Super 8 footage from the Wind & Wuthering tour captured by Bill Wilson, only 14 at the time! The close shots during Afterglow/I Know What I Like are brilliant. Imagine what else could be out there... www.youtube.com/watch?v=luvt...

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Genesis - Live in Hartford, CT (February 25th, 1977) - Super 8 Film

YouTube video by Classic Rock Media Archive

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Met an old friend on our way home from the shops

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sure nice of the BRIT Awards rights holders to "licencese" footage of the Texas/Wu-Tang collaboration #TexasAtTheBBC

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

OH FFS THEY'VE ONLY GONE AND SCHEDULED PREDATOR RIGHT AFTER COMMANDO, PLEASE LET ME SLEEP TONIGHT FILM4

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very much enjoying reading all these with the song His N Hers by Pulp playing along in my head

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