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From The Times obit for Esther Rantzen. Nothing against Ms Rantzen but us dogsbodies trained for 9 months to “do the chores” and would like to see the obit writer survive “Red Light Fever” and operate the panel in a busy studio live on air or create believable sound effects for a convincing drama.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BBC asks BBC if they can make BBC programme.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 29/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Mocks 2/2 | Martin Anderson has produced an evolution of the existing BBC News globe branding. >> CLIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdvY...

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BBC News 2026 Refresh mock - Junction and Graphics

YouTube video by Martin Anderson

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 29/09/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Mocks 1/2 | Martin Anderson has produced an evolution of the existing BBC News globe branding. >> CLIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zd1...

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BBC News 2026 Refresh mock - Titles examples

YouTube video by Martin Anderson

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even though it's arguably the least popular of the BBC Saturday morning kids shows, I've come to believe that the theme for Saturday SuperStore is a banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AJm...

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The Assistants - Down At The Superstore | 1982 (Saturday Superstore tribute)

YouTube video by Put The Telly On

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Love the response from the producer though

The show's producer, Jimmy Mulville, subsequently blasted the unit's findings, telling industry website Deadline: 'The fact that two members of a 6 million audience took offence, which then triggered a year-long investigation by the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit, whom we’ve never met and sounds like something out of Kafka, is a total waste of the licence fee and is another example of the BBC’s paranoia about causing offence. HIGNFY is set up to be comically and intentionally offensive. My own definition of a cunt is someone who spends all day looking for problems that don’t exist.

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, fancy that www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p0...

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Zoe's talking about this on her radio show at the moment. Apparently they're having a reunion tomorrow.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@thetvroom.com do we know where the Radio 2 in the Park logo on the Wikipedia page has come from? I don't think this is an "official" logo layout, usually it's either "BBC RADIO" stacked in equal size, or just "RADIO". commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ra...

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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Probably the best Windows 9x defrag simulation I've seen thus far! defrag98.com It's a more legit simulation than I've seen before. So each time you load this up you get a new virtual drive that's differently fragmented, rather than just playing back a preset animation

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Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator

The classic Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter, free in your browser. Pick a drive, cue the HDD sounds, and relive 1998.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think I’ve just watched an ad for a cruise company that was entirely AI generated with no disclaimer to say so. I kind of hate this world

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TMi series 1 in Leicester Square was brilliant.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A typical chaotic SMTV opening sketch that pushes Ant over the edge. This feeling of watching some older kids basically having a laugh on TV is what made SMTV so great www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IrW...

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SM:tv Live: 21st April 2001 (CITV)

YouTube video by TV Bits

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Mark Simpson @marksimpson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It was because we didn't have the rights to Scooby Doo on the CBBC channel. I was pressing the buttons to make the "magic VCR" play out different things to different channels...

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh my god, I've come across a full episode of The Saturday Show Extra, which was broadcast live on the CBBC channel AT THE SAME TIME as The Saturday Show on BBC One IN THE SAME STUDIO! What a bonkers concept www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVfp...

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The Saturday Show Extra: 9th March 2002 (CBBC)

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

11 September 1967. Filming of The Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour began. It follows the group on a coach tour and features a number of musical interludes. It was broadcast on BBC1 on Boxing Day 1967 but was criticised by TV newspaper critics and in letters from viewers.

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Paul Hayes @paul-hayes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

70 years ago today a staff of 14 opened up the BBC's first ever East Anglian broadcasting HQ at St Catherine's Close on All Saints Green in Norwich, and what would later become known as BBC East was born.

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BBC East celebrates 70 years of broadcasting from Norwich

The BBC set up its first East of England regional service in a converted Georgian mansion in 1956.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was an odd day for me because I was on my own in work, and I didn't have the radio on, didn't look at websites, and had no idea that anything was happening until I got home and turned the TV on. Which is just bizarre in this day and age.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 08/09/2026

this mcdonald's has an interior design system i can only describe as McBanksy

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can you guess what this old quote was in reference to? "ITV are absolutely shell-shocked by the news. It's like the attack on Pearl Harbour - they were never expecting this."

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Controversial opinion time but I absolutely loved this set/design at the time. I thought it was a breath of fresh air compared to the artificial sunniness of GMTV. But, they should have waited until 7am to reveal the real backdrop.

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That Mitchell and Webb Look is all on iPlayer, and the first sketch in this episode is one of my favourites of all time www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Coverage Of People Buying A House And Then Living In It

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I got this on DVD out of curiosity and my memory is the first episode, which is essentially another Porridge, is great, but the rest are lacking mainly due to the 'sit' in this sitcom. I think if it had been Fletch in a more interesting situation, that might have improved it.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Is this kind of thing useful to anyone at all? It gets half of it wrong anyway. All I wanted was a video of it…

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Richard & Judy theme tune didn't need to go that hard… but it did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8_h...

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 31/08/2026

Fun fact: when Nelson Mandela died, ITN offered to stay back and do some special short bulletins for Channel 5. Channel 5 TX called the scheduler and asked. The scheduler said no. So the C5 news team went home. and C5 missed a chance to look relevant. I still find that utterly extraordinary.

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Ste Gordon @sgordonthe87.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No matter how many times I’ve read this line, it never fails to crack me up.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

After years of driving past it on the motorway I went to see the Dream sculpture today and came away feeling it's a bit unloved. Wrote a blog post about it here: vmphilblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/a...

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All I have to do is dream

After years of driving past it on the motorway, I went to see the Dream sculpture in person today. The sculpture of a girl’s head made out of dolomite is located on the former Sutton Manor Co…

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Wikipedia page makes a point that it was “filmed in colour”, well yes, everything was by 1985

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Dumb TV Marketing Dept: three and a half years after ditching regional ITV brand names for ITV1 because they are apparently too weak in the new multi-channel world, why not introduce a completely different brand to the channel between 9.25am and 5pm? Enter ITV Day. tvark.org/itv-day-iden...

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ITV Day Ident – Generic2

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Phil's Comfort Telly #23423 - Billy Connolly's World Tour of Scotland. He made loads of these World Tour travels show but the original is still the best. And he sings the feem toon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeqO...

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Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of Scotland - Irish Heartbeat (1994)

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Jeff Evans @jeffevanswriter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Correction: I can't add up! 28 years ago today, CD:UK, one of the longer lasting TV pop shows of the last few decades, began its 8-year run. From the days when Ant & Dec still had surnames.

Radio Times programme listing showing the series SM:TV Live and CD:UK from 1998.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I didn't realise that Top Ground Gear Force was shot without the film-look that all Top Gear films had applied to them, until I've seen this 50fps upload… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu75...

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Top Gear Ground Force - 24th March 2008

YouTube video by Top Rare

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Tom Worsley @tomworsley1984.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I got on a train home today from Coff's Harbour and due to it running late it was all a bit chaotic. Imagine my surprise when the man in the seat next to me was seemingly recording himself talking about the journey. He had a huge binder of notes...

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is the autotune on the new Pulp live album on purpose? As in, Believe by Cher on purpose?

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Radio 3 on (the AM only) Radio 5 is certainly an interesting scheduling choice.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 27/08/2026

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Not sure where the rumour about Newsnight facing the axe originated, but BBC DG Matt Brittin has dismissed it as "nonsense" in an interview at the #EdTVFest

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Ste Gordon @sgordonthe87.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I know the closing sting was accidentally played here at the end of the headlines, but a bit too much David Lowe oddly works.

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Ste Gordon @sgordonthe87.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I don’t mind the new red button Sky Sports Multiview option. (The missus doesn’t see the point.) Certainly been entertaining on the smaller screens…

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: it's not often television just loses a programme entirely but BBC1 finds a tape getting chewed up in the machine leading to, ironically, Heaven Can Wait being lost and the standby funk springing into action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUdd...

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BBC1 Breakdown - Heaven Can Wait (Tuesday 20th August 1996)

Here is a BBC1 Breakdown fault from Tuesday 20th August 1996. The BBC1 globe ident showed as planned but as the announcer tried to link viewers to the scheduled film, the globe ident continued…

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Enjoying the Magical Sitcom Tour on U&Gold (also Sky/Virgin OD). Funny and moving. But, slightly depressing how many TV related buildings have since been demolished. Maybe a good thing in the case of Slough though.

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 15/08/2026

All round to mine for some sick beats later.

Album cover: Holiday '73, Cliff Michelmore selects some of his favourite tracks

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 14/08/2026

Here is a comparison of how Red Dwarf, “Holoship” was first introduced back in 1992 on BBC Two network, and how network, Wales and NI introduced it last night. Forgive my poor editing done at 2am.

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Ste Gordon @sgordonthe87.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Even the balloon idents that were cobbled together later on are still better than Lens.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Looking back, some of the Discovery channels had some odd names at times. Home & Leisure (why not just Home?), Travel & Adventure (not just Travel?), Sci-Trek (well they realised this was silly a couple years in and changed it to Science)

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@dirtyfeed.org sorry to bring up an ancient post but it occurs to me that you could probably get someone to do a good Photoshop of the R1 DJs photo to remove the offending DJ. I appreciate if there wasn't budget to do that in 2015 then there definitely isn't now... www.dirtyfeed.org/2015/09/the-...

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The End of an Era: Yewtree Edition

On the 31st Aug 15, an event was to happen of such earth-shattering proportions, that it was to shatter the earth to its very proportions. Smashie & Nicey: The End of an Era was repeated on BB…

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

25 years ago today… ITV becomes ITV1. Then it was ITV again. Now it’s ITV1 again. youtu.be/BMPxegGzeiU

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ITV becomes ITV1 - Saturday 11th August 2001

YouTube video by Steve _G

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Masterpiece of graphic design

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