“Give me a second, I’m just risking burning the house down in order to take a photo for Wikipedia”

With the original scary looking version of Digit Al.

Can someone tell the Open University to makes its URLs a bit snappier

Having “happy birthday” sung to you by the Royal Albert Hall and the BBC Concert Orchestra, not a bad life is it?

Blows my mind the voter turnout on these local elections. I of course have no solution to the problem, either. But surely something has to be done?

One of the first examples of using “as seen on TV” to market a product in-store?

I see it's that time of year when I get a heart attack every time I see an ad for Mother's Day and then realise it's the American one.

Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)

In the trailer for “Wrestling with Trump” on Channel 4, I’m pretty sure performance has been misspelled as “perfomance”

Good morning. youtu.be/i7JRcaA5lkM?...

Thanks, Outlook. Not seen this screen before, but then, I have an empty inbox once a blue moon.

Thinking about the famous "Copter" Flash game, that only existed because someone made it for a tie-in website for the fictional company Seethru, from the turn of the millennium BBC Two "dot.com drama" Attachments. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachm...

Fingers crossed for a sequel to the IRA sketch!

if i buy this will i be as happy as the guy staring at a garbage bag half filled with his shit

Do you need to know every single promotional appearance Michael Buble made for his 2009 album Crazy Love? Then Wikipedia has got you covered.

The unavailability of American Gladiators in the UK that @dirtyfeed.org is rightly annoyed about reminded me of a similar situation with Have I Got News for You US. I wrote some thoughts I was just going to post on here, but it turned into a full blown blog. vmphilblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/h...

Paul McCartney on the lyrics to With a Little Help from My Friends. “It just doesn’t scan”.

I loved The Big Bang, I feel it's not widely remembered though.

In 1982, ITN exclusively broke the news of the discovery of Barnsley.

this month is the 40th anniversary of the release of "GTR" (ill-fated supergroup w/Steves Howe and Hackett). which also means it's the 40th anniversary of this review of it, by JD Considine in Musician

I shall hereby name this desk the coffin desk.

‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! Light’ should be called ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!’

What a great story www.paulmccartney.com/news/the-los...

Oh hey it’s that clip I made go viral yonks ago, randomly turning up on my Facebook feed. Pretty sure it’s the same video I captured too

Just found this iMac ad from 1999 where they’ve clearly tried to make a US plug socket look like a UK one and it’s just… bizarre. youtu.be/moYdjS05Arc?...

Worth following the NASA Johnson page on Flickr… www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

On Channel 4 currently is a documentary from 2019 about Cadbury - the reduced sugar bar that is the focus of the programme has been discontinued since 2023.

How brilliant is this concept kit, Lego Fawlty Towers! Incredible detailing throughout. beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

The best media April Fool jokes are the ones that get inadvertently poleaxed by real events.

Is this an early example of phone hacking? An amusing story about the Points of View answering machine I found in a 1997 issue of 405 Alive magazine - www.bvws.org.uk/publications...

🟥 REWIND | All this fuss about who has what it takes to present an early morning radio show. Back in the day, TV announcer/director David Allan would finish his evening/late night shift on BBC One and head over to Broadcasting House to do the early shift on BBC Radio 2.

The first day I started my diet was today - but with an important nuance: - it was not today.

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

BBC Radio 2 The Scott Mills Breakfast Show Now Playing Queen Another One Bites The Dust

Who will Channel 5 get to play him in their drama?

Anyone fancy an oddly specific Ministry of Sound poster?

When BBC Two axed Flog It, I didn't expect them to still be showing repeats of it eight years later. In fact the one on now is so old it's not even in HD

60 years ago today the earliest surviving full edition of BBC Look East was broadcast. Not only an astonishingly rare survivor among 1960s regional news magazines, but on *VT* too! Back in 2024 I took a delve into the episode on Twitter, so I thought now seemed appropriate to repeat it here… (1/17)

I don’t know what this photo was promoting, but it’s probably funnier without context. ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/64...

Paul McCartney and the past: a playlist. quantick.substack.com/p/64-to-83

I see iOS in 2026 has introduced album art colour matching, catching up with *checks notes* iOS in 2016.

==The Fred Bonfield collection in the Transdiffusion archives== Finally for this ad hoc set (more after our dinner, probably!) the set-up at Television House for Mitch, Associated-Rediffusion's station clock, showing the camera and the lighting rig. The spinning adastral has blurred.

==The Fred Bonfield collection in the Transdiffusion archives== Even in times of analogue photography, a skilled photographer knew when what they'd caught was out of focus. Fred clearly spotted an issue and had another go. Redvers Kyle smiles tolerantly at him. This will be Television House.

Anyone who thought the Huw Edwards drama was “too soon” or “why did this need to be made” needs to watch it.

Steve: did u guys get a good pic of me Dave: ya dont worry Steve: which pic did u use Mark: dont worry about it

It’s Wednesday, it’s 4pm, it’s… Wednesday 4pm Liiiive

I note the AI Michael Parkinson podcast quietly stopped after just ten episodes. Perhaps this AI thing isn't the future after all eh?