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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Loving the photo on the Bank Hall station website which has a photo of a wonky sign. Maybe fix the sign before taking the photo lads www.merseyrail.org/journey-plan...

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Bank Hall

Everything you need to know about Bank Hall train station including timetables, ticket prices, maps, facilities and parking

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It should be on BBC One. I thought moving CBBC Sat shows from One to Two twenty years ago was a bad idea and I still do

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Dirk Maggs @dirkmaggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

(YES I UNDERSTAND WHY IT’S LIKE THIS NOW BUT THAT DOESN’T STOP ME FINDING IT RIDICULOUS)

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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 Parkinson had more set changes than this. Okay so admittedly, it was from brown, to shag carpet, to beige, but still!

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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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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Especially as it would probably attract an older audience who might not be able to discover these things on iPlayer. But then I'm still baffled at why things like Radio 2 in the Park don't get more of an outing on BBC One or Two

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unfortunately the uploader is incorrect - this is the fourth series. I love the theme tune on this series though.

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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

My memory is it felt really flat from TC9 though. Maybe if it had been from a bigger studio like in the past it would have been a better transition but they used Leicester Square itself quite a lot

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Liz Kershaw example in that article is outrageous. It’s one thing to fake a competition winner due to “a production problem”, it’s another to deliberately include a fake competition with all the contestants being members of the production team!

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wonder if it being on BBC One would have helped it at all or if it was too late by this point anyway.

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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

Haha yep, that and BBC Choice

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yes it was majorly disappointing. The only reason I was interested in at the time was because Griff doesn't seem to do much comedy or comedy-related stuff on TV nowadays, so I was intrigued as to why he was involved in it as a presenter. I'm still none the wiser.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have always wanted to know why 2012 Griff Rhys Jones-hosted C4 panel show "A Short History of Everything Else" was cut from hour long episodes on commission to half an hour long on broadcast. The edits were brutal.

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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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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I mean, by this point SMTV was still okay but all the presenters who came after Ant, Dec & Cat were absolutely nowhere near as good or came close to having the same chemistry. So sometimes I'd look in on the Saturday Show but it was a mess.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I do remember Remix, but as a late-afternoon highlights version of that morning's show.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You do seem to be on the money with that... but they're asking for emails which I find odd for a programme you're meant to dip in and out of. Apparently they also showed Remix at the same time so you could watch last week's show instead if you wanted! I'm guessing on red button?

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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

Dick and Dom had a rather better idea for their BBC One/CBBC channel simulcast by showing a different cartoon on each channel so you could choose which one you'd prefer

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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)

YouTube video by TV Bits

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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 · 09/09/2026

The reports from the time say that he was out of contract after the end of 2005, Paul told the Mirror there had been emails but he didn't think ITV cared about him enough. Part of me wonders if they wanted to save money by letting him go, or if it was indeed pure incompetence.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well nobody replied but, just for my own sakes, the answer is: Paul O'Grady moving his teatime show to Channel 4. Yes folks, according to "one insider", that was equivalent to Pearl Harbour.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeah, you think that after years of anticipating it, it wouldn't seem as surreal as it is, but it still is. The next day, Absolute were playing Bridge Over Troubled Water literally every ten minutes, which was a bit too much.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Then I had to go out to M&S in Warrington, and checked the BBC News website on my phone and saw she had died. I half expected them to make a tannoy announcement, because it's M&S (they didn't, maybe if it was a few decades earlier?).

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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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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Next year, this upload will be as old as the continuity was when it was first uploaded

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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

Also the other thing is, in the third photo, you can see light panels that were designed to be moved in front of the backdrop when it was dark. But on the first day, at 6am, they didn't use them, probably because they wanted to show off the backdrop. As I say, would have better to save it.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Interestingly though, I think GMB is a much better watch than Breakfast these days, particularly when comparing some of the presenters. It's interesting how things turned out.

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Phil @vmphil.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not many people would have been watching at 6am anyway, but now all the historical screenshots make it look like the studio was dark all the time. (Even though, again, I quite liked how it showed day literally breaking). Then there was the problem that the content of the show wasn't very good.

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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

You might like this John, check out this 1993 continuity upload by Neil Miles a few hours ago. Features a promo with all the hosts passing a '1' to each other www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuHA...

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BBC1 Continuity | 30th August 1993

YouTube video by Neil Miles

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