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Was only a few years ago when giving this a rewatch that I found out Boomerang UK (where I first saw the show) was still airing it well into the mid 2010s, which puzzled me as I thought it left the channel much earlier, but unsurprising in that regard that it was in the graveyard shift by then

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 14h

Never would I have expected that mango bubble frappe would be mentioned in probably the most deranged (in a good way) sketch in SNL UK so far, but here we are... youtu.be/q_mY7dJnR_0?...

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The Man Who Names Paint | SNL UK

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 19h

archive.org/details/chan... Second upload of today is some continuity and ads from Channel 4 in January 1997, with promos for TFI Friday and The Fragile Heart alongside ads for Toys R Us and Comet, where you're certain to get a Sky Analogue subscription should you spend £299 on anything there

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Channel 4 - Continuity and Adverts - January 1997

Leading out of Brookside and into Wanted, what's there of the edition here is elsewhere on this account.Thanks to MrHammadmossop1988 for this.All copyrights to Channel 4

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 21h

archive.org/details/bbc-... A quickie clip from BBC Two in March 2000 is the first upload of today, between Ready Steady Cook and Shopping City, featuring a BBC One trail for Ground Force

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BBC Two - Continuity - 24th March 2000 (damaged)

Leading out of Ready Steady Cook and into Shopping City. Apologies for the quality as this was from a damaged tape.Thanks to MrHammadmossop1988 for this.All copyrights to BBC

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As much as I can appreciate the effort behind this branding for the channel given what preceded it, I always felt that the squares look following the circles was a better case of pres evolution than I imagine this would've been to people familiar with the Lambie Nairn era at the time

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Funny really on how the fake Rovers Return bar within the Corrie set in Granada Studios is pretty much the only vestige of the soap in the area, given that the rest of it was demolished nearly a decade ago

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Kee The Tom and Jerry Guy @drummerfromfife.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I found a porn tape once. Found it near the local police station of all places. The wife was pissed I didn't show it to her before I threw it out. I don't know what I was expecting given the end label. She finally saw it once we found it online. It was what you'd expect!!

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Can't have been the only one that initially saw the adult content label as a typical mistake from the powers that be of this site before getting into 2 minutes in the video...

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Makes his complaint on his relatively short car journey pointless then :/

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

archive.org/details/sky-... A partial advert break from Sky Livingit (previously Livingit, Living 2 and Living TV 2) during Jerry Springer from the following year is the second one, featuring an ad for Sightsavers and a promo for Sky Movies about what's to offer for Sky HD customers

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Sky Livingit - Adverts - 25th March 2011 (partial)

During the Jerry Springer show. I believe this is the first continuity video that has surfaced from this particular iteration of the channel as I couldn't find anything else off it (before this) besid...

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

archive.org/details/vlc-... Two pluggings of my earlier Internet Archive uploads now, this first one being an assorted bunch of ads, promos and bumpers from Sky Movies Comedy in November 2010, featuring promos for Raising Hope on Sky One and Chekhov comedy shorts on Sky Arts 2 amongst others

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Sky Movies Comedy - Continuity and Adverts - November 2010

Various junctions, adverts and trailers from Sky Movies Comedy from around November 2010. I don't know what films that are leading out of or leading into on this particular recording so if anyone know...

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

25 years later this month of the public release of Windows XP, and granted that you haven't begun crumbling into dust at the realisation of that, you could use the time while you can to be reminded (or hear for the first time) of their installation music youtu.be/oNXzMBA9VU4?...

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Windows XP Installation Music

YouTube video by Bennerman1k94

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm more envious about the shelf organisation there to be fair :P

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If anything, putting aside the CGI cartoony gore, the concept of them doesn't look anything different from, say, Curious Cow on Nickelodeon from the same era youtu.be/s5dX3HHQB88?...

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Nicktoons Tv 2004 Curious Cow

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reminded myself recently of the Petey and Jaydee shorts that were shown on the first 2 years of the original BBC Three, and given what's said of the revived channel's incoherent schedule now, I'd argue the former is still an odd scheduling choice years later youtu.be/vDIn275iEFo?...

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BBC THREE - Promos and continuity; 30th November 2004

YouTube video by [bluefrog]

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Slightly odd watching this and realising that Ringo himself has passed the age Awdry was in this clip and after he died as of this year, yet the former hasn't aged a day physically at all in the years following

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Pete Prodge @peteprodge.com · 08/10/2026

Script for reboot of W1A has been leaked.

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

archive.org/details/york... A glimpse of Yorkshire Television from the night before Christmas in 1996 is today's upload, including ads for Yorkshire Tea and Boxing day sales from HomeWorld, plus promos for Emmerdale and the short lived Quayside soap that lasted all of 4 and a half months

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Yorkshire Television - Continuity and Adverts - 24th December 1996

Leading out of Emmerdale and into The Bill, with one partial ad break inbetween the episode of the latter.Thanks to MrHammadmossop1988 for this.All copyrights to ITV

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Always a fun coincidence when you catch promos on archivist YouTubers you're subscribed to that are the same to ones you uploaded to your own Internet Archive account @neilsmiles.com

A screencap of the same part of said promo from an upload of the channel on my Internet Archive page from a week and a half earlier

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Kee The Tom and Jerry Guy @drummerfromfife.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All the uncertainty around Cartoon Network now that Paramount is running the show, I have a thought or two: Yeah, CN isn't in a great position and hasn't been for a while but you know what I'd rather do? I'd rather focus on the good the channel gave us over the past 30 years...

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Cartoon Network Fall Bumper

ALT: Cartoon Network Fall Bumper

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Glad to be reminded as of early yesterday morning that I've reached the point in my life where the amount of good sleep I get is determined on my nose being stuffy or not through the night :/

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Feel like I'm in the minority when I say that I only really liked the theme song of this show when seeing it by chance via repeats and glossed over the rest of it back in the day, but I stand by it

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not forgetting that he also fronted the continuity links on the CBBC on Nickelodeon strand for it's first year, which seems unfathomable to think of a similar strand existing now (this being an upload of mine from last year) archive.org/details/cbbc...

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CBBC on Nickelodeon - Continuity - 17th January 1997

After Playdays and around Noddy's Toyland adventures (note Otis incorrectly mentioning Fireman Sam after it finishes!) and Pingu, before leading into Hairy Jeremy.Presented by Otis the Aardvark (puppe...

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Surely the second CBBC puppet now too to have 2 shows presented/co-presented by them, much like how Otis did with Insides Out and Clever Creatures in the yellow and black era

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For as much as I've come to remember the set that preceded the circles as one with a load of flaws years later, I've always thought that the montage of idents from their last night the day prior was well compiled (16:43 in the video below)

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BBC One - 6th October 2006 (last day of Rhythm & Movement idents)

Billy Hicks

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Slightly depressing to know that this is yet another case of channel rebrands I remember from my time that enter the 2 decades old mark as of this week :(

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BBC ONE - Continuity, Saturday 7th October 2006

This is from the 10am junction of that the day, the first screening of the circle set of idents, that replaced the unpopular dancers.

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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 05/10/2026

Ah, Boxing Day

A (slightly edited*) headline from The Guardian: 'Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from Turkey'

(*the original included the words 'UN climate summit host')

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From what I've seen on YT uploads of the channel and the editing out of regional ITV frontcaps when airing their soaps (Emmerdale in this instance at 1:04), it'd be intriguing to know on whether it was a deliberate choice or just the copies they had youtu.be/1GtZnjLYQjY?...

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[720p/50] | God Channel handover to Sky Soap | Mid-1990s

YouTube video by Sticky tape 'n' rust

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And the last is an acknowledgement of both the launches of UK History and the short lived CNX from October 2002 as if the two have any similarities to each other

A section of an Evening Standard article on the launch of CNX and UK History from the 30th October 2002

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An early article on Challenge TV from February 1997 is the second last on what I've found so far from the site

An article on the Challenge TV from not long after it's launch on February 1997

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alongside this, a look at the last programmes scheduled for Play UK in September 2002 with an acknowledgement of the channel's demise at the end of it

A bit of Play UK's final schedule from the 29/30th September 2002

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still trawling through the site, and came across this article on the launch of Cartoon Network Too from April 2006 (with seemingly no mention of the ungodly startup time), and a nicely timed competition from the main channel to go with it

An article on Eddie Echo (children's section of the Daily Echo) on the launch of Cartoon Network Too from April 2006, and how you can celebrate national pet week with Doctor Dolittle 3 on DVD

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Advertising board I saw on my walk today: "Why aren't iPhone chargers called Apple Juice?" Looking forward to the next one being on why Safari isn't called iBrowse :P

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As a celebration of 50 years of BBC Saturday morning shows, a re-plugging of an upload of mine in variable quality from April featuring 23 mins of a Live and Kicking edition from the 8th April 2000, during Steve and Emma's tenure on the show archive.org/details/live...

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Live and Kicking - 8th April 2000 (incomplete) : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

23 minutes of an edition of Live and Kicking from the 8th April 2000 (second to last of the 7th series and near the end of Steve and Emma's tenure on the...

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I definitely imagine there would've been a source switch for when it cut to TVX/The Adult Channel (the switchover would've had a slight blip in the picture for the former on Living's part), but can't be certain

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In UK Living's case when they took the TVX transponder later on, I remember reading that both were based in the same suite so whoever was in charge as the TX controller had a bizarre mix of evening talk shows, overnight porn and pre school shows (as part of Tiny Living) to deal with

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Frankly feels funny to think that out of the 4 channels, Men and Motors is the only one to have it's archive content and brand repurposed online via One Media iP, and the external studio space for Good Life/Breeze's live programming has stood for longer than the channel itself

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David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To 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.

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Barely started noodling around with the site and already found this ad, so clearly I'm making good use of it whilst I can :/

A Guardian advert for the UKTV Preview Channel on Sky Analogue for the remainder of the UKTV channels (Horizons, Arena and Style) bar UK Gold from the 5th November 1997

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kind of crazy how at one point in the early 00s, repeats of Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation shows (Joe 90 excluded) could be seen on BBC Two (Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet), on Sky One/Sky One Mix (Stingray and Captain Scarlet) and even Boomerang (Thunderbirds)

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

archive.org/details/mbc-... Something different for today's first upload as it's some continuity and ads from MBC (later MBC1) from October 1996, featuring a fast paced promo showing the studio of the channel and ads for Great Escapes and Contour Pillow marketed as "As Seen on TV" products

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MBC - Continuity and Adverts - October 1996

Mostly around prayers in the first half, though the latter half of this video is around a documentary on Mecca before leading back to another set of prayers at the end; this was recorded via the Yorks...

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's also a camcorder quality YouTube video showing how both sets shared the space from late 2003 as well youtu.be/GTOkDKHHjnM?...

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Central Studios Birmingham Gas St ITV

YouTube video by mayhem278

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perhaps it was due to alterations of the studios there at the time for the ill fated Crossroads revival the following year? For that matter, Central News didn't last long in CITV's former studio space in GS (Studio P) before sharing with the latter again in Studio A later on

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Still remarkable on how a studio swap of Central News and CITV 2 years earlier resulted in probably the best set of the brand's lifespan before it was all paired back in the last few years of the Gas Street era

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Following the sad news of Tony's passing confirmed an hour ago, I figured this TVF post of his below would be worth a plug again

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Only found out recently that both later went on to present Games Republic for The Computer Channel/.tv after their stint on L&K/Going Live. Which even then for such a successful double act on Saturday morning shows is a bit of an unconventional career turn youtu.be/tcNA4uG26I8?...

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Games Republic [.tv] Technology Channel (Episode 1 pt 2) 1999

YouTube video by Mr B

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

archive.org/details/chan... The second and last of today's uploads is continuity and ads from Channel 4 2 months later between Untamed Heart and Pond Life, featuring ads for Toy Story on Disney Videos, Asda and Renault, and promos for Mystic Pizza and Shopping for the Film on Four strand

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Channel 4 - Continuity and Adverts - 18th December 1996 : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Leading out of Untamed Heart (1993) and into Pond Life (the premiere showing of the Glastonbury episode if you're wondering, alongside the following one as...

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

archive.org/details/york... Today's first upload is continuity and ads from Yorkshire Television from the 14th October 1996, surrounding Corrie and World in Action, including a charming animated one from Tetley and a definitely not mouth-watering one for Magnum ice cream

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Yorkshire Television - Continuity and Adverts - 14th October 1996 : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

During and after Coronation Street, and leading into World of Action.Thanks to MrHammadmossop1988 for this.All copyrights to ITV

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Tola @tolagemeda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good to know that the consensus behind the menu designs of BBC1 and 2 in the 80s to late 90s was to be creative with them, especially for those of us only familiar with the post 1997 branding were to look at it with awe in years time

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