confused by this - Genome indicates there was a news summary on BBC2 at 5:30pm, but not sure why it’s using Newsnight branding. I know Newsnight Afternoon was a thing around this time but it’s not billed as that

Cereals asking you to try them with warm milk. Is this a new thing?

Design nerds, here's the new @radiotimes.bsky.social logo as revealed at their covers party this evening.

The work chat "okay" - which actually means, "I hate you because I'm lazy and wanted you to make a decision about this"

I’ve just turned on Channel 5 and they’re showing a clip from 8 Out of 10 Cats taken from a cropped vertical video upload by Channel 4. The world we live in.

I’m about halfway through “The Magic Christian” (the film that the Beatles had to finish the Get Back sessions in time for because Ringo’s in it) and, blimey. Liberal use of a clip of the actual Saigon Execution. The 60s sure were something.

Catching up on WILTY, I'm amused that Yinka Bokinni managed to get two mentions of Capital Xtra in and no mention at all of the place where she actually works at the moment (Radio 1)

Happy

Given so much BBC programming is made by indies, I almost feel like it would be worth introducing front caps to explain the show you’re about to watch was made by another company for the BBC, so people understand the BBC isn’t wholly responsible for things like this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dibley, Dinnerladies and Thin Blue Line would have only been a few years old when this was broadcast.

Not sure why people are being nostalgic for 2016. It was a bloody terrible year

Things That Will Only Ever Annoy Me: the credits font on Seinfeld being changed on the new HD versions. The old font is Univers. And yes Larry David was credited as Buck Dancer on intitial broadcast...

And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.

Sorry but you really need a taster or just how eye-popping this is. From 1971. NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE.

A random bit of banter from the Radio 1 Zoe Ball breakfast show immortalised on last week’s #totp repeats. This is Broadcast Assistant Zoe Alpass after she was told she could have a pay rise if she managed to get on TV. I have no idea why I remember this stuff

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Opinion | Live announcers: an essential part of PSB channels. cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23786/opinio...

I have a Pure Elan Connect+ Internet radio and I can’t seem to get streams from major broadcasters like BBC, Bauer, Virgin to work tonight. A local independent station, In Demand, does work.

The Beano Book 1961

Even stranger is the version on streaming has a signed copy as the cover art, and the track listing is always one song behind.

@ukpres1.bsky.social I feel duty bound to bring this to your attention, if nothing else. As seen on after-hours TV in Melbourne, ten months after *those* Thames closedowns.

"Her task will be to commission shows with global appeal but a local angle."

I keep saying Millionaire Hot Shots instead of Millionaire Hot Seat, and I’m pretty sure this is because of CD:UK Hot Shots, despite that programme not being on air for 20 years. My brain is something else.

Watched Millionaire Hot Seat on ITVX. In the year of our lord 2026, why can't these services a) play in 50fps, b) not jump slightly back to the end of part one when part two starts, c) not jarringly cut off the music when it decides to autoplay a different show at the end instead of fading out?

Really loving the new Peter Gabriel song. Best thing about 2026 so far music.apple.com/gb/album/bee...

70 YEARS AGO TODAY: Angus Deayton is born. In 1986 he, Helen Atkinson-Wood and Geoffrey Perkins recruited Pamela Armstrong for a visual, if not exactly upgraded for the different medium, sketch from Radio Active.

Ski Sunday is back on telly and the tree is down, yep it’s definitely January

So glad to see the back of drones from the firework display. Good choice, London

Who spells telly as ‘tele’?

Good morning. I have to go into work today, so to cheer myself up, here’s some stills from the opening titles for A Bit of Fry and Laurie series 2.

This is actually on BBC Four tonight, 10.55pm. Coincidence or on purpose?

Well, that Elvis film was a… bizarre experience. Felt at times I was watching some surreal horror film than a biopic.

My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.

What a gag this is

Good the see U&Gold still have the 1997 era break bumpers on the Vicar of Dibley Christmas Lunch Incident!! (This screenshot is from 2017 but you get the idea)

Bit confused as to why “Stuffed” (BBC One, 9pm) is highlighted as an “RT Choice” programme in the Radio Times when the reviewer concludes that “Stuffed is ultimately a turkey”.

It was a great privilege to be able to watch this live as it first aired

This TV Burp clip is an absolute classic. Pretty much every line is gold All the more total munters for us, eh guys? youtu.be/a4YWDvaTb2Y?...

Watching a Transformers film on ITV2 which seems to change aspect ratio literally every time the angle changes, and there’s three different aspect ratios.

The chronology of the name of Adobe's free PDF reader program seems to be something like this: Adobe Acrobat Reader > Adobe Reader > Acrobat Reader > Adobe Acrobat Reader

I thought it would be a loop of just one instance of the word but it's actually said eleven different ways (I assume it's text-to-speech) which is amazing

There is no part of this that isn't both amazing and shocking. Full decision here: www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r... (PDF, contains strong language)

The sad thing about the MTV channels closing is that it ends my yearly tradition of watching their weird Xmas videos like this Slade one, taken from some TV show which has a caption about chart stats, and only the drummer can be heard live so goes OTT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5V1...

Sometimes YouTube comments are awful, then sometimes you get things like this.

Got the Radio Times today and already can’t wait for Christmas WILTY.

PUT. SMITH. AND. JONES. ON. IPLAYER. I'm sure I've been banging this drum since I created a Twitter account.

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits

Someone just broke Sky Sports News…

Nice to see the Charmless Man video in 4K (with visible film grain and no/little AI enhancement far as I can see) youtu.be/p1a_4CN4onA

Petition to have Peter Kay release a 7” vinyl of “Once Upon a Christmas Song” with a locked groove so it just repeats “over and over” infinitely.

Love the cameo of the BBC1 Christmas 1991 ident in the background behind Paul & Debbie