Phil
vmphil.bsky.social
Phil
@vmphil.bsky.social
Posts mainly about TV, media, technology and miscellaneous topics. Merseyside, UK.
So good they named it twice
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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My absolute fav. The caption, the pose. The setting.

Cliff, shit, just remembered we need one more picture for the calendar. Fuck it just grab the Custard Creams and riff with it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I know they're losing but this seems a bit extreme
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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45 years ago I made a pitch for the Director-General job. Didn’t get it – mind you, I was only 13. But I did get a reply from Ian Trethowan, who was DG at the time. All these years later I’m proud to work for the BBC.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Throwback to when I added more sound fx to make this worse.
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Eno diary, 20 Nov 1995: "On TV, Princess Di going on about duty and the nation and the man in the street - all concepts outside the range of my understanding. Why should one feel duty? What is ‘The Nation’? Who is the man in the street?"
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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'scuse me pls but what the hell is this new Clarks logo??
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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the macos 26 "TV" app gave me the world's greatest loading spinner. thank you macos 26
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Successfully had our office lights changed to warm white. So much better to work under especially on these dark nights.
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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🔴 NEW — Extra : Miscellaneous ITV
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Extra : Miscellaneous ITV : Generic ITV1 ident
In the early hours of Sunday 16th November 2025, what appears to be a generic ITV1 ident was played out before the sport on ITV4.
theident.gallery
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The DVD/BD of How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) actually looks pretty impressive. Three audio commentaries! fabulousfilms.com/products/how...
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
The Guardian: "the funniest comic creation in Britain". The Independent: "the best Partridge-related project in years". The Financial Times: "moronically hilarious". The Irish Times: "It's aha-mazing ...
fabulousfilms.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Very sad to hear. The presenting trio of Clarkson, Needell and Wilson in the mid-90s were great fun and a forerunner of what was to come.
Quentin Wilson, former Top Gear and 5th Gear presenter turned motoring and EV campaigner, has died aged 68 after a short illness.
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Is it possible for me to admit that I have serious nostalgia for this era of ITV, despite knowing the idents (and the generic Leeds continuity announcements for viewers in the north) were poor as anything?
#OnThisDay 1999: ITV introduced its “Hearts” ident package at 9:25am, following GMTV. However, Carlton, Scottish, Grampian, and UTV chose not to adopt the new branding. Channel Television used the same visuals but replaced the standard jingle with its own version.
November 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Is it just me or are iOS updates getting obscenely large, file size wise? 12 GB for a .1 update?
November 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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The recent news on the closure of Pop and Tiny Pop (as linear channels) has brought me again to this TV Live Forum post by @vmphil.bsky.social about the former channel's launch in 2003 as Toons n Tunes, and it's funny to think how cheaply run it was then compared to now
November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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So many artistic treasures in the Louvre, but none as priceless as this
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
November 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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In a whole ad break on C4 only 1 of the commercials filled the screen. Pretend 4:3 (it's retro!) seems to be particularly 'creative' right now, but there's still a lot of crap ads in deep letterbox from people who think they're making movies.

I'd guess none of them watch television.
November 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Whoever designed the new Office, sorry, Microsoft 365 icons didn't think about what they'd look like as a desktop shortcut.
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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This is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen.
October 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I looked up a video of this and I so wish this was still a thing. youtu.be/aFsOhJgCSpw?...
October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM