Take my money Lego. Take my money.

@franticplanet.bsky.social and @danmckee.bsky.social will be delighted at me searching Canadian TV listings for the Canadian appearances of Montreal lad Lionel Blair on the kind of cheap 70s Canadian telly SCTV mined.

Looking through guests on CBC's Celebrity Cooks with Bruno Gerussi - British guests - Frankie Howerd, Theodore Bikel (he lived in Uk in the 40s/50s), Barry Morse, Cleo Laine, Donald Pleasence, Noel Harrison and yes - Lionel Blair. Weird seeing Peter Cullen pre-Transformers listed as a celeb.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=63eA... If Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn came from Canvey Island and Eastbourne

Ireland's data centres nationally are already using energy at 4 times the PROJECTED European average for 2030. If we're serious about energy conservation the very first thing we have to do is reintroduce the moratorium on building any more of them. #spéirgorm

I love when Murdoch Mysteries has Canadian actors play British characters because their accents aren't awful, but they are just off enough that you can tell they use the same dialect coach on set (the guys all sound like they swallowed a bullfrog, it's so weird)

I am actually fascinated by the existence of a category of English art that simply can’t cross the English sea. I often think of The Jam as a band you’ve never heard an Irish person name as one of their favourites. Simply too English

Toronto Star ad for the CBC airing of Titanic (CBS, 1996), made in Vancouver and so nebulously billed 'as our own'. Even if it fails Canadian content.

Redmayne's role as Lili was supposed to go to a cis woman initially. They changed it to a cis man after Jared Leto got his award for playing a drag queen that he decided was trans so he'd have an excuse to "method act" and sexually harass his cast mates.

An Easter gift: after a long break, NZ Pete has dropped another huge blog post full of gorgeous matte paintings. nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com/2026/04/matt...

Hmm, Ellar Coltrane (like Nico Tortorella) is no longer seemingly non-binary. One fancy photoshoot where they donned a dress, they were they/them, and then a few years later, they give up the ghost and go back to he/him.

TIL an Ian Levine track is in Police Academy (1984) in the Blue Oyster scene @chinnyvision.bsky.social @johnrain.co.uk @danmckee.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJj... Record Shack his company @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social @garybrannan.bsky.social @thasceles.bsky.social

Actually i can tolerate a cis playing a trans character but they do gotta take the HRT and if its a cis man playing a trans woman we will have to take your balls as reparations

#beyondfriday Rip Torn, the American Brian Blessed.

#beyondfriday Rip Torn is kind of playing my dad here.

Reminded this happened. Gielgud and Richardson on SCTV youtu.be/HbxaeYI795M?...

God Mad Jezza looks SO MUCH like Karloff now. Pity Karloff was Asian cos..

Found another NBC special show. By RTE but not UK stations. The 1978 UK shot NBC version of Amahl and the Night Visitors with Teresa Stratas and Willard White. SHOWN IN 1986 after Jimll Fix It

There is actually something deeply heinous about trans journos prioritizing breaking dubiously true anti trans stories about our conditions and the ways forward over more considered work. Harnessing the vitality of fear as a money making scheme and knee capping our ability to act is actually evil

The transgender fear monger of record strikes again 😌

Following Erin Reed is self harm regardless of how smart you think you are. Either you fall for her mongering and are harming yourself with fear, or you don’t and are harming yourself with endless irritation

Those Ethel Cain pics should be on the wall of every lusty male college student.

KCET ad for Playhouse 90 - Catholics (CBs/HTV, 1973 - reaired as a PBS Encore Special in 1979) Shows how CBS' doomed 70s Playhouse 90 revival was more at home on PBS than CBS.

political attack, and obscures what the scheme actually does. Irish Equity calls on the Department to adopt an honest name and call this scheme what it actually is – a version of labour activation, or a version of a CE scheme. 6 of 30

Anyway, I'll be posting this in reply to every out of context GIF I see on here until it stops. That should do it.

KHJ (briefly twinned with Thames for a weekend, LA's vehicle for Space 1999) in Columbo -Stitch in Crime (NBC/Universal, 1974) In 1979, their Thames weekend aired Morecambe and Wise, Robin's Nest, Chalk and Cheese, OUT, Sweeney, Hollywood and Danger UXB among others. @danmckee.bsky.social #itvcore

Olivia (1983) #bbccore

The Skin (1981) #bbccore

Julian Pettifer in Rosebud (UA, 1975) @bobfischer.bsky.social @andrewtsmith.bsky.social Note the proper BBC logo and Julian Pettifer but ' BBC TV News Special'. @danmckee.bsky.social I'm guessing Roy Clarke might have worked on this bit. #bbccore

Home Before Midnight (1979) #bbccore

The Magic Roundabout (BBC) in Stardust (EMI, 1974) #BBCCORE Also, correct TVE van in Spain

Too Much - The Life of Doris Duke (CBS, 1999) #bbccore

A weird American idea of the BBC documentary department in the Natasha Lyonne-Angeline Ball picture The Auteur Theory (Singa Home Entertainment, 1999) #bbccore @danmckee.bsky.social

-Radio Times (BBC TV and Radio) ad and Evening Standard ads in Run A Crooked Mile (NBC, 1969), later aired on BBC. #bbccore

Beyond the Doors (1984) - 'Connections' #BBCcore

Percy's Progress (1975) has two things common with The Conjuring 2. 1. A fake Nationwide (here Worldwide, but with Michael Barratt and Bernard Falk) 2. Scenes set in the US filmed in the UK and scenes set in the UK filmed in the US (at least in the US version) @terwillikerinst.bsky.social

@danmckee.bsky.social #BBCcore The Tamarind Seed (ITC, 1974) #ITVCore The Colditz and On the Buses board games @franticplanet.bsky.social @terwillikerinst.bsky.social Proof Blake Edwards was fully Anglicised.

John and Yoko - A Love Story (NBC/Johnny Carson Productions, 1985) #bbccore

Deadly Strangers (1974) #bbccore Judging by the music, Sleepy Shores, Hayley Mills is watching Owen, MD.

Not With My Wife, You Don't (Warner, 1966) #bbccore

#BBCcore - BBC news (on a Space 1999 set) in Yesterday's Hero (1979)

Love it has a Central endboard to prove despite being mainly a First Choice/CTV production, it was a Central production.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: US drama whodunnit Murder In Space is aired on ITV, viewers invited by Anneka Rice to deduce the murderer. After that the two Ronnie Barkers suggest some Walkers Crisps, TV Times asks who Pia Zadora is, and News At Ten ruins the mood.

Like they got a discount off a Lynsey de Paul waxwork from Louis Tussauds, 1978 www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

There is surely a story somewhere about how ANY of this was allowed, and I'll find it out one day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJuH...

Yes. For the audience’s and the industry’s sake, YES.

Dead Domain suffered through it. It seems like the only ones watching it is leftist content makers... youtu.be/EGdNh2kcd_w

Over on twitter they're doing discourse about Ethel Cain having a small penis and fetishization and trans bodies and I'm like hold on...back up...before we even get to that...a soft penis tells no tales

The Good Life on CBC North www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2K...