Zadie Smith telling it like it is.

Off to bed to dream about Gnoard

A couple of photos from Tom Baker’s recent MBE Investiture ceremony. Louise Jameson was there too to show her support on Tom’s big day. Photos: Olly Mc. #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor #TomBaker #LouiseJameson

Bonnie’s on The Adventure Game!

Bond in Heaven, call it WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD - Reports to St Michael (M), wings indistinguishable from jet pack, Q makes jokes about 'cloud computing', tangles with femme fatale Pearl E Gates, "but how did you know she was a demon, 007?" "simple, sir, she gave me the horns" etc

buttondown.com/cooray_smith... New on psychic paper, for paid subscribers, but why not become one and get full access to the archive?

Bob (fact! a recording star in Japan prior to all this) sang the theme for the pilots. There are words for the middle bit too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=41IS...

Happy birthday to Sesame Street, which began exactly 56 years ago on the NET network. Possibly the most important programme ever created by American television. Such trippy pre-titles. It really is a product of the late sixties. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMA...

🎭 PantoSplaining is here! 🎭 It's out now, and it's in-vision so you can see the poster (with visual aids) as you listen. open.spotify.com/episode/1GzP... youtu.be/ovYesOJsi88?... ..or wherever you get your podcasts! Just search PantoSplaining!

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

"For the cover we need something that really sums up this taut WW2 thriller..." "Um... do it in a big Star Trek font?"

Just check in on Bluesky this morning...

The last book my Dad and I shared before he died. Brilliant look at a great album

The news is out.

Instead of the TV tonight I listened to Sophie Ellis Bextor’s Kitchen Disco and it was bloody brilliant! Late to the party as always.

And so it was that throughout the lands, as news readers named Watson and Crick as the discoverers of the DNA helix, a rousing chorus of “Rosalind Franklin” was directed towards the news.

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One of those evenings when I wish it was 20 years ago and I wasn’t buried with responsibility

One of my favourite pop facts is that the oboe on Tanita's stupendous Twist in My Sobriety was played by Malcolm Messiter, whose dad Ian invented Just a Minute. #totp

Goodier rocking a Partridge blazer #totp

Is Gloria Estefan singing live on this performance of 123 on #totp?

Amazed this didn't trigger a copyright issue

I love Graeme’s protest here as he’s vaporised

Love Harry's Game. Bleak, but atmospheric and evocative.

There was a press conference about how Trump was making Americans healthy, and a man standing close enough to smell him collapsed and the picture cut to a test card. SACK THE WRITERS. TOO RIDICULOUS.

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Much better!

Amazing.

I see your mum's here.

My TV Crime Penguin Postcard series is now available as a choose-your-own quintet. Get your bunch of fives here: colemandesign.co.uk/tv-crime-pen...

Just digging through old emails on a regular Wednesday morning

Sporcle doing its best to rage bait me today.

Why haven’t the Dormeo mattress people teamed up with Dolmio pasta sauce people? I reckon there’s a strong crossover market between people who like spaghetti and those who like sleep. Marketing basics, innit.

ITS A COYOTE! CHASING A ROAD RUNNER!

Interesting programming choice on U&Eden tonight showing the same six episodes of One Foot in the Grave 3 times in a row.

This is brilliant, since there's no definite explanation of what it is or who made it - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_G...

I am pleased to say Howard Goodall’s site has full and frank details on all the themes. www.howardgoodall.co.uk/works/tv-and...

'ENTER THE NEW Dr WHO' - it's Troughton, he'd enjoy it.

Paging @danacea.bsky.social

Mid Morning Matters launched 15 years ago today. I am old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ug...

Spectacular. "...as you know, the sponge you use in your bath was a living creature. The Sponge People of the Morass are highly developed animals of the same species. Very deadly."

The anniversary of Christmas Wrapping gets earlier and earlier each year.

Harold D. Craft Jr.'s 1970 PhD thesis, "Radio Observations of the Pulse Profiles and Dispersion Measures of Twelve Pulsars". Page 215 I am getting some Unknown Pleasure from this....

Still annoyed that the cover of that copy of Where Love Lives looks nothing like any of the covers of Where Love Lives in previous existence (yes they've probably done a new one to support the ad's release). Grumps.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Edge Of Darkness, named the fourth greatest TV drama of all time by the BFI and recipient of six Baftas, begins. Prestige TV well before The Sopranos became the very first drama series (we'll land that job at the Guardian one day)

The Best Of The Outbursts Of Everett True By A.D. Condo

To all who celebrate

"I was reminded of my childhood cough medicine" is peak Footage Detectives

New John Lewis Xmas Ad. Not that anyone cares but I really dislike it 1. Clumsy edit on the original WLL 2. The slow cover version is just SHIT 3. What's being said here? You can't enjoy house music with your family? Only sanitised cover versions bring you together? www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1bR...

Exciting! #youaintseenmeright