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Bluesky hydration break time. (Not filmed today sadly)

OK so what’s our collective description of this heat-induced, school-closing equivalent of a snow day? We can’t have sun day as already have those once a week

Nerdily-fascinated to know how many people just paid for a TV licence using the on-screen QR code during the England game. If second half is as exciting as first then it could be a good use of time

Another opportunity to post this hilarious semiotic analysis of this phenomenon: velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

TBF to Starmer, I think the scripts let him down and the Disney deal was just never a good fit.

After a few “throw your hat in the ring!” messages... 1. I don't want to join any political party 2. I’d rather wire my nipples to electrodes (& not in a good way) Tho the geekdom of this pop-culture politics piece is a mix of flattering, funny & scary www.focaldata.com/blog/pop-cul...

If you love the facts that appear below videos on old eps of Top of the Pops then this cultural preservation project is for you

So we used to have a broadcast news system that enforced standards through rules and elite consensus. You want access to the delivery pipe for fun stuff? You have to give space to boring news stuff. Rebuilding the boring news slot on TikTok could be good for democracy but oh boy the implementation!

Good news (literally) but which providers allowed through this new PSB funnel will be key

Traffic chaos in the countryside last night

Not a good week for tech platforms after under-16 social media ban. Potentially huge for EU states. Expect to read a lot about US Congress’ Section 23 of the Communications Decency Act 1996 which says “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or…

Oof wouldn’t like to be in crisis comms at TNT. Fair bit of rugby rage at this happening in last few minutes of Prem semi final

Want the real life stories behind Disney hit Rivals? Of course you do so giddy-up and click below for tales of TV times when truth was even stranger than fiction. Such fun to be asked to write this for the FT; thanks Janine

Doomscroll respite for those who need it

Impressive score on the boo-ometer of history for Trump at the Knicks but does it beat George Osborne at the Paralympics?

This is the most blatant - and stupid - non-denial denial I can remember Good luck to Hackney Council with their investigation... www.londoncentric.media/p/hackney-lo...

Are goats being sacrificed in this office in the centre of Hackney? www.londoncentric.media/p/hackney-lo...

If usage of this was just confined to helping people like me remember who that person is I’ve just bumped into at a work do and think I met at a neighbour’s dinner six years ago but can’t quite place then this might be great. But it’s unlikely to be is it

Ian Hislop at Private Eye’s inspiring Paul Foot Awards: “This is always the best night of the year for me, because it encourages me to believe that when people say they can’t afford to pay for journalism, I say you can’t afford not to, because you will pay really badly in all sorts of other ways”…

Sometimes absence speaks volumes

TikTok Shop vendors will transmogrify animals into any household item in a bid for bizarre purchasing entertainment

Just think, in 60 years’ time we could be going to a museum to see a young Harry Styles’ Deliveroo notifications www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Is he going to claim he was a doctor in this one too? Meanwhile over on Stephen Colbert’s final show he had…

Endangered emperor penguins are on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme sounding like rave Daleks and someone needs to sample them now

Here’s the news we’ve all been waiting for: It Takes Three as BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing will be hosted by trio of Emma Willis, Johannes Radebe and Josh Widdicombe

With US companies buying up British broadcasters & BBC’s future under scrutiny due to charter renewal, what happens to British TV & culture if America pulls back production to Hollywood & BBC defunded? James Graham, Marina Hyde & Giles Winn on the crucial questions UK TV is facing at the moment…

Current Channel 4 chief executive Priya Dogra and her predecessor Alex Mahon’s statements (Mahon left C4 last summer) about the Married at First Sight rape allegations

Morecambe & Wise script up for auction www.comedy.co.uk/tv/fyi/1097/...

Select committees can sometimes be slightly dull but Tuesday’s Culture, Media & Sport one on BBC charter review has a great line-up. Looking forward to hearing Marina’s take on it in next week’s The Rest Is Entertainment

Punctuation isn’t coming home

BBC shows The World Tonight and Newshour among shows hit by industrial action next week. Just as well there’s not much news to cover

Many hot takes on Wes Streeting’s resignation but the Daily Star’s one from its leadershipometer lettuce is my favourite 🥬 www.tiktok.com/@thedailysta...

The best SNL UK sketches rated. Lose 15 minutes of your life to re-watching the joy www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

In light of this and the rat virus outbreak Mr Owl and Miss Pussy-cat reveal they will be travelling by pea-green plane for the foreseeable future

In so many ways Eins, Zwei, Drei is the brilliant bonkersly-British Eurovision distraction we need right now

Too shy to join, but still curious.

Going snooker loopy for the return of Big Break to the BBC www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Expect your local WhatsApp groups to upsize their pothole complaints to sinkholes after this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

There’ll be many hot takes about Rivals season 2 (out Friday Disney+) but mine is predicting a run on rubber chickens following a scene involving Spitting Image’s The Chicken Song youtu.be/k2Ej-FYsLIg

Need something joyous this morning? Here’s all the love that was in the Albert Hall for Sir David Attenborough as we sang Happy Birthday to him last night at BBC Studios’ epic event. As BBC chief content officer Kate Phillips said, he’s “a cultural icon woven into the fabric of our national life.”

BBC announces some of the plans for this year‘s Strictly Come Dancing and confirms all the judges will return (so as expected none of them have got the hosting gig) with details of who the new hosts are to be “confirmed in due course”

Nick Robinson reveals Today staff asked Amol Rajan if going on Celebrity Traitors: “He consistently said, ‘No, I’m not’. Which suggests maybe he was just doing a bit of practice lying before heading to that castle… Frankly he wasn’t very good at it so we’ll see him in about a week’s time I suspect”

Another absolute peach from SNL UK. Aimee Lou Wood & George Fouracres’ Mario & Princess sketch shows UK version can compete with & beat its US counterpart on humour, without punching down. Bravo Sky; looking forward to another season youtu.be/6RfwUPDIOHs

If Succession ever comes back the episode inspired by this is going to be wild

I’ll name that TV reboot in 3. Alison Hammond will be great but I bet they also thought of Liza Tarbuck for it

Violence against women is at ‘breaking point’, says writer of John Worboys drama Jeff Pope, whose upcoming ITV drama Believe Me tells the story of survivors of the so-called ‘black-cab rapist’. Pope says police should change how sexual assault cases dealt with www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Might give hope to Martin Lewis, who’s campaigned on this issue as his face has been used repeatedly in scam ads leeching off his trusted personal brand & popularity www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

It’s….ITV’s new reality show The Vardys

How a live streaming app that’s rivalling TikTok helped lead to a new BBC thrift shop show hosted by Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page. Plus, finding new funding pots for YouTube channels substack.com/@theindiehus...