I’ve been inspired to write a blog post about trying to feel less chained to social media and the advantage of the Bluesky app not having an unread count. vmphilblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/m...

I knew my 2021 model car had MW, but i didn't realise until today that it also has LW. it's a bit weird that the only radio I own that has a LW band is my car

So my parents are now getting AI greeting cards and, well, gross. But if I say anything I’m a killjoy. The modern world, eh

I would like to speak to the person who put the heart reaction next to the crying laughing reaction.

I've written a blog post about the excellent Dunblane documentary on BBC Two last night and a fascinating unbroadcast clip from Good Morning with Anne and Nick that they showed during it. vmphilblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/d...

I always thought the original 91 clock background looked nicer (why was half the screen black on the newer one?) i0.wp.com/rewind.thetv...

It’s worth listening to the title theme just to hear George singing the line “I’m finding out pursued by evil looking dudes, it’s getting hot for me like tofu when it deep fries”

According the to the Virgin EPG, Channel 4 +1 are showing a 16 hour episode of Our Welsh Chapel Dream which started at 5:55am and will finish at 10pm tonight. That’s one hell of a dream.

I’ve only just watched last weeks WILTY and I really want everyone to watch it because the rabbit story had me actually crying with laughter. I don’t think I’ve laughed at something so hard in a while. This series of WILTY has been brilliant

Fascinated by the Wiki photo for House of Games, which for some reason features only two guests (one is Suzi Perry I think, not sure the other one) and standing as far away from Richard as possible (COVID era?)

This cracked me up something rotten youtu.be/wbZ4v79egwY

Saw “Man on the Run” in cinema on Thursday night, I thoroughly enjoyed the film, but if you can’t go five minutes without checking your phone, why have you come to the exclusive one day cinema premiere of a film that’s going to be on Prime Video?

Every time I see something that says “reseal for freshness”, I just think of “No Michael, it seals OUT the freshness”.

Still on a breakfast TV nostalgia kick, I remembered that Breakfast once had a set with a gap in the sofa that got complaints because the presenters supposedly looked like they hated each other

He does feature prominently in the 1987 IBA Yearbook, which unfortunately went to press during his brief stint on the sofa

After reading “Morning Glory”, a bit fascinated with the fate of Adrian Brown, TV-am’s replacement for Nick Owen who lasted 8 weeks. There seems to be no footage online of him on TV-am at all, either as newsreader or his stint on the sofa. Just this cutting from TV Times.

I think things started to go downhill when Google rebranded the cleverly-named Froogle to the boring Google Shopping.

I like to watch YouTube videos with the auto generated subtitles on, sometimes just to see what it thinks people are saying, and have noticed it's started putting "[snorts]" in whenever someone sniffs or something. I really would like to know who thought this was necessary.

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.