Particularly looking forward to 'Your Refrigerator'. 👍

Can't wait to get stuck in to my festive reading. 👀

I was just happily reading the paper only to look around and find I was sharing the house with Michael Myers.

THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT! EVERY ONE A MASERATI!

The best of my writing in 2025. Ben Elton on The Oxford Road Show, tracing the history of an old joke in Porridge, how the Daily Mirror slagging off Love Thy Neighbour ended up in the show itself, and Fawlty Towers recording schedules. What more could you ask for? www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/12/dirt...

Chilling with some friends on Christmas morning. Merry Christmas everyone!

Sorry to hear this news. The Appointment is a cracking film.

Thanks Vic. The Appointment is astonishingly good. RIP Lindsey and condolences to friends and family.

I saw this insanity *and* its repeat in the 70s, and that must make me a member of a very select club.

More Rock Opera madness. "Orion" from 1977. Melvyn Bragg has a hand in this one... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwv...

Go on. Treat yourself.

I'm watching University Challenge for the first time since Amol Rajan took over. He reads the questions like Violet Elizabeth Bott with a gun at her head.

I’ve finished work at last, so it’s time for a sherry and Carols from King’s. Merry Christmas, and here’s a festive image to put you all in the mood.

“Spike took a fancy to my work and we got on well,” Antrobus recalled in a 2015 radio interview. “He was very fatherly, really ... always telling me, ‘Look after your money.’ Then Spike asked me to work on The Goon Show.”

Well I'm at work on Christmas Eve and it feels all sorts of wrong.

Wish there were still TV programmmes interviewing French critical theorists

This is an outstanding match. #darts

This is great news.

We hope everyone enjoys tonight's profile of Doctor Who producer Innes Lloyd on BBC Four. We're pleased to announce we'll be publishing Innes' recently discovered memoirs. Innes Lloyd: Memory Box is edited by Charles Norton from Innes' surviving manuscripts and diaries, and will be released in 2026.

The BBC Scandal That Went Unnoticed Christian Kriticos for the Telegraph on the disastrous changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre. The article does an excellent job at detailing the issues at stake [gift link] www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...

Please let The Guardian know about us if you can: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Hey, anyone fancy a cry?

“Christmas is a time for war…” www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/doctor-... (£)

This video almost killed me, so if you do enjoy it, please leave a like or a comment etc. Many thanks!

The video version of our Christmas episode is now available on YouTube. Merry Christmas! youtu.be/9q6gjCkMBhw

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“Never cruel or cowardly…” on the 1976 version of The Making of Doctor Who, by Terrance Dicks, with exciting news for all readers: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

I love the fact that this very weird show has been covered by the mighty Phil and the excellent @squarewindowpod.bsky.social in the same week. It fills me full of Christmas cheer.

Russel Harty Goes Upstairs, Downstairs (known colloquially as "Russell Harty Fucke Uppe An Interviewe"): a Boxing Day treat nobody asked for, as Harty attempts to chat to the UD cast both in and out of character at the same time. It gets confusing. open.substack.com/pub/historyo...

I chatted with writer/director Ali Cook and VFX producer Dasha Sherman about their wonderful short film The Pearl Comb which has been shortlisted for an Oscar. If you get a chance to see the film do check it out youtube.com/watch?v=0lKP...

This is great stuff and has teed me up nicely for Richard's book which I'll start reading later tonight.

New! Richard Marson joins me for a look at the stories behind Jackanory, Play School, Swap Shop, Grange Hill, John Craven's Newsround, Blue Peter and more... timworthington.org/2025/12/15/l...

A bump for our Christmas special and Yuletide Felicitations to you all.

Happy Gauda Prime day to all who celebrate.

The clumsy transition from film to studio VT always ruins Bod for me. It takes me right out of the narrative.

Happy Christmas!

This is great fun.

1/3 Our Through the Square Window Christmas podcast is out today! With @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social, plus special guest Mark Gatiss, who picks his least favourite and favourite things about festive TV. So, what are they?...

At last, Seven Types of Ambiguity is in the public domain in the USA. There will be t-shirts, video games, and an HBO series "Empson" starring Matthew Rhys as a literary critic turned detective.

For no good reason, this idea popped into my head and I had to Photoshop it to get it out.

In the Observer! As with all interviews there was much more in here that's been cut out, including a lengthy piece on POSSESSED. Article should also be in Sunday's hardcopy.

I long for a tile on BBC iPlayer called something like Play-For-Today-niverse or whatever. And you click there are all 306 episodes just there for anyone to watch. And the 28 missing ones have been lovingly animated. Why is this too much to ask??

'Tells pop's neverending story brilliantly' DAVID QUANTICK 'Like a treasure chest of pop riches' SAMIRA AHMED 'Reminded me how much I loved the 80s' GIDEON COE 'A delightful, curious compendium' JUDE ROGERS ‘Downright unputdownable’ IAN WADE 'Invaluable for pop fans & pop historians’ DAVID STUBBS

Happy 9th birthday to the time my parents brought over wine in a plastic box because Mum was “increasingly wary of glass".

Incredible work from Hannah.

Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁 Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV. Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶 visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...

Devastated to hear of the passing of Sir Humphrey Burton at 94. What a career, and so well loved by his peers. Someone who for me was the beating heart of public service and changed television for the better. Here's my tribute to him on his 90th. cstonline.net/the-five-deg...

This week on Goon Pod with John from @world-of-telly.bsky.social we've been watching Spike's two appearances on THIS IS YOUR LIFE - the first one with impish, chaotic Spike; the second one with Spike much older and slower but still with that twinkle! Listen here: pod.link/1569929507

Fresh ep of @SquareWindowpod.bsky.social is a fab celebration of good and awful Christmas TV past. Featuring Mark Gatiss’s time-haunted pick of The Ghosts of Motley Hall. And me & @gkw.bsky.social celebrating the Woolworths adverts as a document of social history. podfollow.com/1838296345

One of the ultimate champions of the arts and music, both in radio and TV. RIP.