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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 18h

Still feels exciting to have written the iPlayer billings for things like this, the equivalent I suppose of writing the Radio Times billing or the TV trailer in the old days

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 18h

And another 60 million for the omnibus

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 18h

Certainly no sign of it in Television's Greatest Hits

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 18h

This is one to file alongside Danger Mouse getting 21 million viewers in 1983, as debunked by @dirtyfeed.org

Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 19h

“Abigail’s Party, a single play written by Mike Leigh, was watched on BBC2 by 18 million people [in 1977] and we all talked about it the following day. Well, those days are over" - Jimmy Mulville

'Those days' being almost HALF A CENTURY AGO. And it was BBC1. And 16 million watched by most accounts.

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 19h

The FA Cup draw today was the first draw for a "proper" round of the FA Cup not to be on FTA TV since the second round draw in 2000

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 1d

Record Breakers

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 2d

HIGNFY got a bit of a nerve laughing at Ed Vaizey for falling for the Archbishop of Canterbury/Bernard Manning hoax because he read it on the internet, given what happened last week

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Drivelcast @drivelcast.bsky.social · 3d

"We've got this idea for the staging. We all start off sat on thrones and..."
"Forget it, your single's going down. You can borrow some chairs from the canteen, but you can fetch them yourselves" #totp

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extremerice.bsky.social @extremerice.bsky.social · 3d

"Yeah, Billie, you might as well record a performance of your next single while you're here, it's bound to be an equally big hit" #TotP

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 3d

The keyboardist from The Supernaturals surely the least famous panellist on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, though you can see what a card he was

Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 3d

Keytarist has come as Hopkirk (Deceased) #TOTP

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Mark GJ @brokentv.uk · 3d

It's real! Woof!

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 3d

People slag off Des'Ree's ghost toast, it wasn't even the worst lyric of 1998

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 3d

Howling #totp

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 4d

Watched that this morning, it was a really hard round I thought (although about the only one I got was the pointless Leslie Jones)

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 4d

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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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 5d

20 YEARS AGO TODAY: the winner of Dick & Dom's Forfeit Auction has to take dictation, a vehicle for Ian Kirkby to show off his tremendous Eric Morecambe impression to an audience that for the majority will likely have no idea who Morecambe is.

Dick and Dom in da Bungalow - Forfeit Auction, Dictation Kid

More messy fun from Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow - This is from the Forfeit Auction, a regular fixture of the Sunday show where various messy tasks would be auctioned to the highest bidder. Here, the task is The Dictation Kid - sadly, the winner doesn't seem to take well to being drenched in mushy pe

www.youtube.com

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 5d

Some of the comments on this article

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 5d

Not every programme has a "season finale", especially one where the next series starts next week

The Guardian promoting the "season finale" of The Repair Shop

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 5d

Not every programme has a "season finale", especially one where the next series starts next week

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 6d

Best ever World Cup theme

Jonathan Bufton @jonabuft.bsky.social · 6d

I love that there was one week in UK chart history where Destiny’s Child were outsold by the theme tune to ITV’s World Cup coverage #totp

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 6d

Cathy McGowan, Simon Bates, Frank Skinner #pointless

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 7d

Happy memories of the Mitchell and Webb sketch Coverage Of People Deciding Whether To Live In The Bahamas Or Dorking

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 7d

Although my mum learned in her mid-thirties and she is the biggest worrier on the planet, and I went through the lessons thinking if she could, anyone could

Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 7d

I didn't learn until I was 24 and now I haven't driven for ten years I really don't think I could do it again

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