Five episodes of Spitting Image have been “snuffed out by the fun police”, due to the legal wrangle with StudioCanal over the show’s foul-mouthed version of Paddington Bear, who presents the satirical The Rest Is Bulls*it - says the bear formerly known as Paddington www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiEx...

ChatGPT accused of acting as ‘suicide coach’ in series of US lawsuits

Just when you thought online safety regulation making an impact another horrific aspect hoves into view. The Online Safety Act applies to “services that allow users to post content online or interact with each other” so surely also applies to Sora @ofcom.bsky.social ? joinspread.com/post/eddd8cf...

Nick’s ‘reverse meerkat’ reaction is prime candidate for TV moment of the year

Uncloaked revealing if you want to discover results during the next series of Celebrity Traitors, scout T-shirt makers used by the celebrities & Claudia

The BBC is making a play in the US. Can it find a market?! 🦋 www.cjr.org/analysis/bbc...

David Attenborough’s new BBC series Kingdom breaks ground by using TV drama techniques, such as cliffhangers and drone and moving-camera shots, to immerse viewers “into the action” like hit Netflix drama Adolescence did. Attenborough wanted to do the series as… www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch... Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!

The old skool cultural reference in this headline reveals much about the sub/backbencher that wrote it but here’s an explainer for those that don’t remember Schnorbitz www.comedy.co.uk/people/berni...

There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

When life provides the perfect publicity shot for the inevitable TV drama about a real-life crime

Are celebrities damaging their reputations on The Traitors? Media Writer @taraconlan.bsky.social shares her thoughts on The Media Club with @mattdeegan.com. Listen and watch now: 📺 https://youtu.be/oQDh0xzvy24 🔈 https://podfollow.com/themediaclub #Podcast #Traitors

This story is well worth shelling out for. Subscribe to @londoncentric.media for the full story - you’ll never look at snails in the same way again

Welcome to headline-writing Blankety Blank in which, during the run up to the autumn budget, you will continue to see the phrase: ‘Rachel Reeves is coming for your…’ followed by a noun that is financially dear to you

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Wow... So glad we're fucking up the climate for this shit

Creator AI comedy is on the rise. Interested to see how Ryanair responds vm.tiktok.com/ZNdWVVQdm/

'As the A.D.F.’s influence in Britain has grown since Mr. Trump’s re-election, Mr. Farage has suddenly started speaking out against abortion.'

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

The traditional Traitors’ name misspelling joy has begun

Amandaland gets a Christmas special: www.comedy.co.uk/tv/fyi/913/a...

Suspect Have I Got News For You Multiverse error will follow usual BBC pattern of investigate, apologise, review, CMS grilling, new role to ensure doesn’t happen again. Or could it be subsumed into scope of James Stephenson, announced yesterday in role created by Gaza doc mistake review? Again tho..

Here’s the clip (which I will once again note for out-of-context reposts, is a total bullshit conspiracy/fake news).

Absolutely astonished @hignfy.bsky.social just stated that Multiverse will be running the government's digital ID scheme An incredibly basic failure of fact-checking fullfact.org/technology/d...

I regret to inform you that doing the thing I was putting off forever did not take very long and was not very hard.

39% out of creative industry freelancers out of work and just 13% feel secure in their job, Bectu’s Big Survey reveals. Around a third have no savings & just 48% have a pension. Concerning now but also for the future bectu.org.uk/bectu-big-su...

Ed Miliband’s Strictly audition tape revealed

Been following Tilly Norwood for a few months to track the trajectory & the PR storm has boosted numbers; she’s on 32.4K followers so attractive for collabs but the comments (apart from those from other AI artists) are mostly not so pretty

the funniest joke you’ll hear involved with the Bonesaw Fringe

Incredible scenes at sold-out 02 last night as Barack Obama was quizzed (brilliantly) by David Olusoga about why we are where we are socially, politically & economically. Biggest cheer was when he said: “Integrity character & honesty matter”. Only referred to current president as his “successor” &…

Interesting The Hack (written by Jack Thorne, starring David Tennant, Robert Carlyle & Toby Jones & produced by Mr Bates vs The Post Office alumni) selling well globally after Mr Bates struggled to sell abroad, as ITV said didn’t appeal to international audiences; but perhaps it paved way for this?

Kimmel is up on YouTube

Alan Partridge has become a “Trojan horse” to talk about “taboo” subjects that make people anxious, Steve Coogan has said www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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This story highlights the risks AI-generated summaries pose to public trust in journalism. The NUJ said: “With misinformation and disinformation rife online, tech giants have a crucial role to play in ensuring they do not amplify false news stories.”

One of many reasons why Threads inferior to Bluesky www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI slop & disinfo may be on the rise but there are beacons of hope & pioneering publishing. Happy 1st birthday and congrats Jim

Nick Clegg says at the RTS Cambridge Convention that Peter Mandelson got him & a few others together when the US/UK tech deals began to be talked about & Clegg told Mandelson it’s “all one way traffic” & a lot of it “seems to be mutton dressed as lamb” & deals the tech companies would be doing…

Lisa Nandy at the @rtsmedia.bsky.social Cambridge Convention says BBC’s a “light on the hill” but says, “People have to be able to trust not just what they see and hear” but in the institution, “and that is why I will never let up on insisting on the highest standards in workplace culture and…

Greggs has dropped its first range of homeware for its comfort-eating fans and it’s not the wurst collab I’ve ever seen tbh beanbagbazaar.co.uk

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All stories about this should be read with the terrific discordant percussion and piano sounds of the Succession theme tune in the background

Excited about this Bagpuss opus but for those unfamiliar with the show it was a 1970s stop-animation, fictional precursor to The Repair Workshop but without an allegedly-problematic key presenter and with TikTok-voice singing mice. A golden age of TV? You decide www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

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This afternoon I discovered a new contender for BAFTA’s TV moment of the year (👏🏻 BBC News) and also I must learn to predict the future to make sure I’m not on wi-fi when a national emergency strikes (no I didn’t get the alert either)

If you only read one thing today make it this: Martha’s Rule now in operation in every acute hospital in England www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Obviously don’t want us to have so many storms we get as far down list of new storm names as Wubbo but a part of me does just for the larks of such a terrific sounding name www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Doomscroll respite: bird on agapanthus outside my window pt 1