When I was just a little girl I asked my mother, what will I be Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Here's what she said to me: No.

Blimey, Madame Web is on Netflix. Skip to about thirty seven minutes in if you want to see if my assertion in this that there's a good twenty odd minutes where it actually turns into a halfway decent horror film is in any sense correct. timworthington.org/2025/03/17/i...

Really looking forward to Doctor Who And The Jocks And The Geordies.

This was an absolute revelation at the time, absolutely stuffed with things I'd never seen, beautifully compiled

Fun At One - the story of comedy at BBC Radio 1. If you spent your evenings listening to Mark Radcliffe, Lee And Herring and Collins And Maconie's Hit Parade, this book is for you! Paperback (30% off code GIFT30) or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/fun-at...

The Wizard Of Speed And Time - orientation-troubling satire slash love story slash just plain wilful oddness about a special effects, well, wizard's determination to get his movie about a man running across America very very fast against the wishes of the industry. timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...

It's a shame that streaming has left little room for the sort of curated genre-specific compilations of obscurities that were tailor made for CD, like this collection of hapless sixties pop hopefuls playing at being 'psychedelic'... timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...

Adam And Joe's Fourmative Years - where Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish take a trip through Channel 4's archives - is exactly how you should do a clip show. Context, jokes, rarely seen footage and honesty about the quality or otherwise of the shows themselves. timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...

Lydia Mizon joins me for a chat about Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, Adam And Joe's XFM Podcast, Through The Dragon’s Eye, Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia by Cuban Boys and more... timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...

What makes a really good ending? I think I know, and here are ten of my favourites... timworthington.org/2019/07/20/h...

Fun At One - the story of comedy at BBC Radio 1. If you spent your evenings listening to Mark Radcliffe, Lee And Herring and Collins And Maconie's Hit Parade, this book is for you! Paperback (30% off code GIFT30) or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/fun-at...

The Wizard Of Speed And Time - orientation-troubling satire slash love story slash just plain wilful oddness about a special effects, well, wizard's determination to get his movie about a man running across America very very fast against the wishes of the industry. timworthington.org/2025/06/05/l...

It's a shame that streaming has left little room for the sort of curated genre-specific compilations of obscurities that were tailor made for CD, like this collection of hapless sixties pop hopefuls playing at being 'psychedelic'... timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...

PLAY CHESS appeared in the BBC's Christmas 1980 morning schedules with an unfathomably menacing (though beautiful) title sequence. It's got real 'old-school Soviet' vibes.

Adam And Joe's Fourmative Years - where Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish take a trip through Channel 4's archives - is exactly how you should do a clip show. Context, jokes, rarely seen footage and honesty about the quality or otherwise of the shows themselves. timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l...

Three cheers to Lydia for celebrating the Cuban Boys when nobody else does. Our star burnt blindingly brightly but only for about a fortnight.

Lydia Mizon joins me for a chat about Spice Girls Impulse Body Spray, Smashie And Nicey: The End Of An Era, Adam And Joe's XFM Podcast, Through The Dragon’s Eye, Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia by Cuban Boys and more... timworthington.org/2024/03/03/l...

If you know me, and I mean, like, at all, you know that I have a pretty high tolerance for bad media. Poor movies, comics, TV, all that. So you know things must be bad when you know I'm sitting here at twenty five to one in the morning watching Alien vs Predator

What makes a really good ending? I think I know, and here are ten of my favourites... timworthington.org/2019/07/20/h...

Well At Least It's Free - my first collection of writing, including some at-the-time reactions to Russell T Davies' Doctor Who and the booklet from the unreleased Hardwicke House DVD. Paperback (30% off code GIFT30) or Kindle from here! timworthington.org/books/well-a...

Another huge influence on me - a small scale fanzine with big design ambitions, but more importantly the first place that I had seen something as mundane as television production treated like it had a story to tell. Also Andrew Pixley's first venture! timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...

Still haunted by the story in this - timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l... - about seeing a live touring version of Bullseye on Christmas Day with Jim Bowen in no mood to host it and not caring if the festively tipsy audience knew it...

As we're already starting to get a few decorations in shops - and also starting to get people complaining about it - here's me, Bob and Georgy on some of the old-skool - and indeed old *school* - signs that Christmas was on its way... timworthington.org/2023/12/24/t...

We really didn't know how lucky we were with radio comedy in the early nineties, with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Lee And Herring up to all kinds of nonsense on several BBC Radio stations at once. Here's an attempt at explaining how great it was. timworthington.org/2019/12/16/l...

Well At Least It's Free - my first collection of writing, including some at-the-time reactions to Russell T Davies' Doctor Who and the booklet from the unreleased Hardwicke House DVD. Paperback (30% off code GIFT30) or Kindle from here! timworthington.org/books/well-a...

Another huge influence on me - a small scale fanzine with big design ambitions, but more importantly the first place that I had seen something as mundane as television production treated like it had a story to tell. Also Andrew Pixley's first venture! timworthington.org/2018/08/25/t...

Where's the *atmosphere* in New Bullseye? It's like the audience think they're in a school assembly.

Still haunted by the story in this - timworthington.org/2021/11/24/l... - about seeing a live touring version of Bullseye on Christmas Day with Jim Bowen in no mood to host it and not caring if the festively tipsy audience knew it...

As we're already starting to get a few decorations in shops - and also starting to get people complaining about it - here's me, Bob and Georgy on some of the old-skool - and indeed old *school* - signs that Christmas was on its way... timworthington.org/2023/12/24/t...

We really didn't know how lucky we were with radio comedy in the early nineties, with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Lee And Herring up to all kinds of nonsense on several BBC Radio stations at once. Here's an attempt at explaining how great it was. timworthington.org/2019/12/16/l...

Always loved how the video for Love And Pride by King appears to take place in a 2000AD-inspired post-apocalyptic landscape where there is nonetheless free and limitless access to a trading bloc-sized quantity of hairspray.

One day, if you’re all very good, I’ll tell you what it was like to be the only kid in primary school with the Rednex CD-ROM computer game.

Music for that other room in the student union that the girls off your course you only knew by sight danced into in a sort of Bacardi Breezer-hoisting rave conga line. #totp

In our house we used to go 'SCHWSSSSSS' very loudly as a sort of witty parody of the phasing on Never Ending Story. You had to make your own entertainment in those days. #totp

I Feel For You straddles about eight different mid-eighties genres at once and still sounds like it was recorded yesterday. #totp

ARE WE BEING SET UP? #Niche #TOTP

Shakin' Stevens with Here's To The Future off Doctor Who And The Delta And The Bannermen. #totp

Sir Prancelot

Why's Murray Head come dressed for a series one edition of Whose Line Is It Anyway? #totp

I'm not sure there are electric eyes that you *can* ignore. #totp

Now The Human League are borrowing a synth from the Orm And Cheep theme. #totp

In Sentences I Never Thought I'd Hear Myself Saying news, this isn't actually as good as the Bruce Willis version, is it. #totp

Is “brining” a typo or a suggestive reference to The Land and The Sea?

Probably will advertise the book during this one. #totp

Bizarrely we had to study Hard Habit To Break for Music GCSE. From a book of Chicago sheet music with a photo of them on the front that looked like the Neighbours cast photo from the BBC1 continuity slide. #totp

Something Outa Nothing really was based very closely on Warning Sign, wasn't it.,#totp

Warning Sign is brilliant apart from that guitar apparently on loan from the Take The High Road theme. #totp

Keeping things low-key with my Christmas tree this year. No lights, no decorations. Also it’s not in my house. It’s somewhere in a forest, probably, so I’ll just leave it there and think about it occasionally.