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Mark GJ

@brokentv.uk

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#RetroTV #Comedy #UKTV #Film #PopMusic #RetroGaming #RetroTech #PopCulture Current project: Auntie's Favourites - The stories behind the BBC's 200, um, 250 Most-Broadcast Programmes. Current progress: Glacial https://brokentv.uk/

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 7h

Luckily for me, I'm still cool and up with the current trends. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to upload a new MIDI file to my MySpace page.

Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 7h

THEORY: People who use the dismissive term "6 Music Dads" haven't listened to it since 2008.

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 7h

I loved MTV Europe when my family first got Sky, that heady mix of good early 90s pop and half the adverts being German brands trying desperately to be trendy. It's an injustice that Pip Dann was never chosen to host #TOTP.

Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 7h

SATURDAY.

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 21h

They don't write them like that any etc.

Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 21h

It's real! Woof!

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 21h

Howling #totp

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 21h

Wicky-wah-wah-woeful. #TOTP

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 21h

NARRATOR: And nobody did care. #TOTP

Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 21h

Oof. That's one hell of a downgrade.

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sonofajoiner @sonofajoiner.bsky.social · 22h

I don't deserve this kind of shabby #totp treatment

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

Play the song at no 57 that week you COWARDS. #TOTP

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

Ow I turned my ankle on the cobbles ow ow ow *runs away*

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

And now: the same songs just not necessarily in the same order. #TOTP

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is making a surprised face .

ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is making a surprised face .

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

What happened to his hat? #TOTP

Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

Deeper Underground is their one good song WHO WANTS TO FIGHT ME #TOTP

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

Let's see if this one sneaks through.

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

Looking at the charts for that week, they could be playing Jayou by Jurassic 5. They're only at no 56, but still. Better than what we've had, and if they'll play songs going down the chart all bets are off. #TOTP

Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

And now Another Level #TOTP

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

"What's been in a famous TV advert this summer?"
"The Brazil team in an airport one?"
"Great, I'll get the drum machine and copy of Protracker."
#TOTP

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 22h

The 90s adolescent dilemma between staying on the dancefloor for a slow dance with your crush at the end of the school disco and having to listen to this drek all the way through. #TOTP

Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 23h

Watched the lot yesterday. After the disappointing This Time, it was a real return to form. And effectively a comedy sketch show by stealth. Lovely stuff.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 23h

Coming soon! Channel Premiere Series beginning Sunday 26th October at 9:10pm
⭐ WHO DO YOU DO? (1972) A comedy sketch and songs show, featuring #FreddieStarr #PeterGoodwright #KarenKay #SandieShaw #JoanTurner #LittleAndLarge #JanetBrown and many more! #TPTVsubtitles

Who Do You Do Promo? Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what was special about the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat"?

Short version: it had two days in the studio, while every other episode only had one.

Long version: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Fawlty Towers, "Basil the Rat": the Major spots the offending creature in the bar.

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 2d

Despite minor user inconvenience, it'd be handy if it required a BBC.co.uk login to access, and maybe a CAPTCHA every few pages of results. Though I'm not naive enough to expect the Beeb to have spare resource to put all that in place. (PROVE ME WRONG, TIM DAVIE.)

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