Mark GJ
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Current project: Auntie's Favourites - The stories behind the BBC's 200, um, 250 Most-Broadcast Programmes.
Current progress: Glacial
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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
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BLOG UPDATE! I've gone and made a full rundown of the fifty TV programmes that have been broadcast most frequently throughout 2025. With the bonus added prize of revealing which FOUR television programmes appeared on all four BBC channels in 2025. brokentv.uk/2025/12/28/t...
Catching up on the cup highlights before bed, and a moment to appreciate how brilliant Burton Albion's club badge is.
January 11, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Catching up on the cup highlights before bed, and a moment to appreciate how brilliant Burton Albion's club badge is.
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Recent intriguing find: 17 minutes of an edition of Dance Energy from the 24th November 1991, a youthful alternative to TOTP focusing predominantly on RnB/Club music with performances/segments throughout
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January 10, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Recent intriguing find: 17 minutes of an edition of Dance Energy from the 24th November 1991, a youthful alternative to TOTP focusing predominantly on RnB/Club music with performances/segments throughout
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@lookoutwales2.bsky.social
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Breakdown: 1975. Great new documentary on Netflix about New Hollywood films of the mid 1970s (Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, Spielberg, et al) how they reflected the political issues of the time, and how they predicted our current ones.
January 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Breakdown: 1975. Great new documentary on Netflix about New Hollywood films of the mid 1970s (Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, Spielberg, et al) how they reflected the political issues of the time, and how they predicted our current ones.
While we've still got extra time to come in Newcastle v Bournemouth, I'll take this opportunity to stake that a penalty shoot-out should *only* be allowed in a Saturday 3pm kick-off if it's the FA Cup final. Otherwise they should only be permitted in evening kick offs.
January 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
While we've still got extra time to come in Newcastle v Bournemouth, I'll take this opportunity to stake that a penalty shoot-out should *only* be allowed in a Saturday 3pm kick-off if it's the FA Cup final. Otherwise they should only be permitted in evening kick offs.
The First Universal Rule of Soft Play Centres: when it's time to leave, your child will immediately become invisible.
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
The First Universal Rule of Soft Play Centres: when it's time to leave, your child will immediately become invisible.
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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: modernist journalist and Sloane Ranger commentator in chief Peter York examines the modern state of opening titles for Did You See...?
Did You See... ? Peter York on opening titles (BBC2 10 January 1986)
Feature by Peter York on the semiotics of the opening title sequence. Taken from 'Did You See... ?', BBC2 10 January 1986.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: modernist journalist and Sloane Ranger commentator in chief Peter York examines the modern state of opening titles for Did You See...?
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LOOK AT THAAAT! Week 58 brings a host of fiftieth anniversaries: a major TV play, a failed post-Python pilot, a pivotal newsroom incident and one of the most unnecessarily great title sequences of all time.
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Week 58: 10th – 16th January, 1976
“There’s a car going up the B3351.”
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January 10, 2026 at 10:20 AM
LOOK AT THAAAT! Week 58 brings a host of fiftieth anniversaries: a major TV play, a failed post-Python pilot, a pivotal newsroom incident and one of the most unnecessarily great title sequences of all time.
open.substack.com/pub/historyo...
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As a 24 year old living in the London area the time, you’d come downstairs in the morning and the doormat would be piled high with nothing but record deals. Blokes with asymmetrical haircuts would be throwing them out of the windows of taxis in Soho at anyone they saw.
January 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
As a 24 year old living in the London area the time, you’d come downstairs in the morning and the doormat would be piled high with nothing but record deals. Blokes with asymmetrical haircuts would be throwing them out of the windows of taxis in Soho at anyone they saw.
January 9, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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NEWS: Anyone paying for an X account should have their hard drive checked. So no change there etc
Backlash in UK against Elon Musk's Grok AI explained
Backlash in UK against Elon Musk's Grok AI explained
Technology editor Zoe Kleinman explains the row over changes made by X to it's Grok AI image edits, after the UK government called it "insulting".
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January 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
NEWS: Anyone paying for an X account should have their hard drive checked. So no change there etc
People asking "are you on the internet?" before telling you about something you need to go online for.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
People asking "are you on the internet?" before telling you about something you need to go online for.
Going to be hilarious if he does a Morrissey tomorrow and cancels his tour because someone hurt his feelings.
Everything's terrible, except for it's the 8th of January, and in just a couple of hours Peter Bleksley kicks off his absolutely bonkers tour of the UK and Ireland.
I needed to map it to see if there was a rhyme or reason to his route, but no, it's just as maniacal as it seemed.
I needed to map it to see if there was a rhyme or reason to his route, but no, it's just as maniacal as it seemed.
January 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Going to be hilarious if he does a Morrissey tomorrow and cancels his tour because someone hurt his feelings.