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Likes: bad puns, old tv, comedy, music. Freeze Derek Nimmo and animate the vegetables. Dislikes: bad karma. Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?
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Had to get past CAPTCHA to read that Guardian article.
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Christmas Ident Calendar Day 5 extra. BBC TV channels almost didn't broadcast over Christmas in 1978 because of strike action. It was resolved at the very last minute. Here's a BBC news report on what happened, with behind the scenes footage of the BBC1 symbol being put together.
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Christmas Ident Calendar Day 5 extra. BBC TV channels almost didn't broadcast over Christmas in 1978 because of strike action. It was resolved at the very last minute. Here's a BBC news report on what happened, with behind the scenes footage of the BBC1 symbol being put together.
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Si Rupert Murdoch n'avait pas existé...
Dailymotion video by Ash67
www.dailymotion.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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It's notable that TVE in Spain has gone a step further than the others and appears to have withdrawn from the European Broadcasting Union itself, not just the song contest. That will seriously damage the EBU's finances. Exactly the right thing for them to do.
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's notable that TVE in Spain has gone a step further than the others and appears to have withdrawn from the European Broadcasting Union itself, not just the song contest. That will seriously damage the EBU's finances. Exactly the right thing for them to do.
The Shipping Forecast will now be preceded by the musical interlude “Heiling By”
I'd hate to be a boat owner after this passes.
Imagine all the information that could be be useful for your navigation but which would ALSO be potentially useful to those guiding small boats across the Channel.
Will the Shipping Forecast cease broadcasting? That, after all, makes crossings easier.
Imagine all the information that could be be useful for your navigation but which would ALSO be potentially useful to those guiding small boats across the Channel.
Will the Shipping Forecast cease broadcasting? That, after all, makes crossings easier.
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The Shipping Forecast will now be preceded by the musical interlude “Heiling By”
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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: hands across the Saturday morning years from Dick and Dom.
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
20 YEARS AGO TODAY: hands across the Saturday morning years from Dick and Dom.
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THE SUPERB 'ARGO' CHICKEN. CONTINENTAL. DELICIOUS. APPETISING. WHY DON'T YOU TRY ONE.
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
THE SUPERB 'ARGO' CHICKEN. CONTINENTAL. DELICIOUS. APPETISING. WHY DON'T YOU TRY ONE.
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#OTD - 2nd December 1953
The BBC Television Service introduced the Bat Wings ident, designed by Abraham Games, after two years of development. Games was paid 200 guineas for the design, 70 guineas for an on-screen clock, and a 15 guineas retainer.
The BBC Television Service introduced the Bat Wings ident, designed by Abraham Games, after two years of development. Games was paid 200 guineas for the design, 70 guineas for an on-screen clock, and a 15 guineas retainer.
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#OTD - 2nd December 1953
The BBC Television Service introduced the Bat Wings ident, designed by Abraham Games, after two years of development. Games was paid 200 guineas for the design, 70 guineas for an on-screen clock, and a 15 guineas retainer.
The BBC Television Service introduced the Bat Wings ident, designed by Abraham Games, after two years of development. Games was paid 200 guineas for the design, 70 guineas for an on-screen clock, and a 15 guineas retainer.
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Just a reminder that BFI Members’ booking for the BFI Southbank Magic Rays of Light season opens today at midday. Booking for everyone else opens on Thursday at the same time.
More details and links here:
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
More details and links here:
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
Magic Rays season: members' booking - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Just a reminder that BFI Members’ booking for the BFI Southbank Magic Rays of Light season opens today at midday. Booking for everyone else opens on Thursday at the same time. You c...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Just a reminder that BFI Members’ booking for the BFI Southbank Magic Rays of Light season opens today at midday. Booking for everyone else opens on Thursday at the same time.
More details and links here:
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
More details and links here:
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
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TO AUSTERLITZ!
(because it’s the 220th anniversary)
(because it’s the 220th anniversary)
December 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
TO AUSTERLITZ!
(because it’s the 220th anniversary)
(because it’s the 220th anniversary)
Ok, so how about - they won their last game against all odds.
Austria Salzburg midfielder Matthew Collins and his dad this past weekend
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Ok, so how about - they won their last game against all odds.
Apparently he’s very good in the air.
Austria Salzburg midfielder Matthew Collins and his dad this past weekend
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Apparently he’s very good in the air.
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6pm on this day in 1976, what could possibly go wrong?
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
6pm on this day in 1976, what could possibly go wrong?
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Genuinely think this is all we need for a psychopath test. Show kids the Muppets, if they laugh, feel empathy and love them they can carry on, if not they get put in to some kind of machine. Humanity will be saved.
Just found out that I work with someone who doesn't like The Muppets x
December 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Genuinely think this is all we need for a psychopath test. Show kids the Muppets, if they laugh, feel empathy and love them they can carry on, if not they get put in to some kind of machine. Humanity will be saved.
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first posted this ten years ago (over *there*) and it’s haunted my notifications ever since
“David, who shall we invite to the wedding?”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
“Bono. Ono. Eno.”
“I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
first posted this ten years ago (over *there*) and it’s haunted my notifications ever since
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As I’ve said many times, I wish Belinda Carlisle would host an antiques show called ‘Ooh Baby, Do You Know What That’s Worth?”.
November 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
As I’ve said many times, I wish Belinda Carlisle would host an antiques show called ‘Ooh Baby, Do You Know What That’s Worth?”.
Burck…burrrck…Burck Burck…
(In tribute to his other joke) ;-)
(In tribute to his other joke) ;-)
He's m ng ist
He’s check ice
He find ou
naught ice
Norman Collier is comi town
He’s check ice
He find ou
naught ice
Norman Collier is comi town
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Burck…burrrck…Burck Burck…
(In tribute to his other joke) ;-)
(In tribute to his other joke) ;-)
Loving the publicity machine surrounding the release of Stranger Things 5. A by-product of this is WSQK - the local radio station in-universe which has a real counterpart created by Global - until Jan. No real adverts, but in-universe ads for local Hawkins jobs, PAMS jingles and local hourly news.
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Loving the publicity machine surrounding the release of Stranger Things 5. A by-product of this is WSQK - the local radio station in-universe which has a real counterpart created by Global - until Jan. No real adverts, but in-universe ads for local Hawkins jobs, PAMS jingles and local hourly news.
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Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
July 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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Because this is from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are *Dead*, and is about acting, this is making me think about the ending of the Sopranos (which I watched yesterday). Cos it’s meta: a “character” sometimes just stops being on stage, on your TV, in a series, in a play.
Exit.
And that’s death.
Exit.
And that’s death.
“--it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back...”
--Tom Stoppard
--Tom Stoppard
November 30, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Because this is from Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are *Dead*, and is about acting, this is making me think about the ending of the Sopranos (which I watched yesterday). Cos it’s meta: a “character” sometimes just stops being on stage, on your TV, in a series, in a play.
Exit.
And that’s death.
Exit.
And that’s death.
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RIP Tom Stoppard.
Hardly his most important work, but I remember having my mind blown by learning he had rewritten most of the dialogue on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, one of the funniest movies ever made
Hardly his most important work, but I remember having my mind blown by learning he had rewritten most of the dialogue on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, one of the funniest movies ever made
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard.
Hardly his most important work, but I remember having my mind blown by learning he had rewritten most of the dialogue on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, one of the funniest movies ever made
Hardly his most important work, but I remember having my mind blown by learning he had rewritten most of the dialogue on INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, one of the funniest movies ever made
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Fantastic. “Niven laughed so much he had to be taken to hospital.”
Happy 77th anniversary of the release of Scott of the Antarctic, whose filming in the Swiss Alps caused frostbite among the crew. Thankfully, Sir John Mills was on hand to... er, set light to his farts
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fantastic. “Niven laughed so much he had to be taken to hospital.”
I’m actually a fan of John’s work.
You will also enjoy reading this article if you like Dick.
You will also enjoy reading this article if you like Dick.
Brand new on Dirty Feed: what happens when The Dick Van Dyke Show starts questioning its own worth.
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I’m actually a fan of John’s work.
You will also enjoy reading this article if you like Dick.
You will also enjoy reading this article if you like Dick.
“Calm down, get a hold of yourself!”
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“Calm down, get a hold of yourself!”
Think once
Think twice
Think any of the functions persuant to Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.B, Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.C, and/or Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.D.
Think twice
Think any of the functions persuant to Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.B, Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.C, and/or Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.D.
Before Neil Kinnock become leader of the opposition, he stole Paul Daniels rug ...
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Think once
Think twice
Think any of the functions persuant to Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.B, Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.C, and/or Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.D.
Think twice
Think any of the functions persuant to Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.B, Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.C, and/or Chapter 1, Clause XI.2.D.
Twinkle C D little wool
How I J K, 3 you full.
Q R S the world for the high,
And one for the diamond Y and sky,
Now baa know my have you any C
Next time yes sir what with me.
How I J K, 3 you full.
Q R S the world for the high,
And one for the diamond Y and sky,
Now baa know my have you any C
Next time yes sir what with me.
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Twinkle C D little wool
How I J K, 3 you full.
Q R S the world for the high,
And one for the diamond Y and sky,
Now baa know my have you any C
Next time yes sir what with me.
How I J K, 3 you full.
Q R S the world for the high,
And one for the diamond Y and sky,
Now baa know my have you any C
Next time yes sir what with me.