Amazing amount of live TV on all channels today, including Channel Four live from 8am to 9pm

I bought that 1000 Clowns track at the time and helped it get to that all important number 23 position, then haven't listened to it in the 27 years since. Still like the flute in it, at least #totp

Kula Shaker still having hits in 1999 probably a bigger surprise than Shaun Ryder still being alive

The one week everyone was pleased to see Boyzone go straight in at number one

They’re remaking Lovejoy?

Pleased with the latest Word Nerds production

"Hello, my name's John, I'll have a Today newspaper please"

Had a dream Francis Rossi was banging on our door because he was walking past and started having a heart attack and wanted us to call an ambulance

Used to read absolutely everything when I was a kid, from my sister's My Guy to my mum's Best

My laughter on this

Today is the 34th consecutive year the Brits have been on ITV, and I can't think of many longer-running relationships on TV. Can only think of the Festival of Remembrance and The Lord Mayor's Show as events that have been covered by the same channel for longer

John Kearns' rabbit story on #WILTY really was quite something

Will Wyatt says in his book that they discovered this lot because they phoned up Grandstand and asked them to film them

Mark Goodier will grow into that suit. 6000 calories a day for ten years should do it #totp

Painter Man is a fucking banger, and love that the "video" is just them all playing air guitar to it #totp

Love Goodiebags' "great result!" at the news Vanessa Paradis is number one in Canada #totp

This is just some old bloke rambling in a pub and the rest of Faithless nodding and going "yes very interesting" #totp

The Offspring who are definitely here tonight #totp

What am I like I'm mad me #totp

Gary's Gang .. file under "Bands that don't look as cool as they sound" #totp

Who was it who always used to post "I can never remember where Cast are from, I can't quite place their accents" and then waited for the reply guys to wade in? #totp

Had great fun with this, aside from Phil Collins and Michael Bolton, the soundtrack of my last few months in primary school and the triple bill of Black Box, Technotronic and Beats International is fantastic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Had a great day today in our old stomping ground of W12 visiting Access Services and meeting the people responsible for signing, subtitling and audio describing so many of our programmes. They do an incredible job with so much care and attention and really are the unsung heroes of TV

The 1990 Yearbook includes the greatest interview in the history of music journalism

Had a great day today in our old stomping ground of W12 visiting Access Services and meeting the people responsible for signing, subtitling and audio describing so many of our programmes. They do an incredible job with so much care and attention and really are the unsung heroes of TV

What's a line delivery you'll never forget?

In The Lift With... Beverley Knight and Matthew Parris

Thrilled to see @mikewhalley.bsky.social in the Big Long List Of Credits on the Winter Olympics

@philcreighton.uk got it right a while ago when he suggested the Observer now has too many commenters without the context

I know it's supposed to be a different kind of paper, but this is the nearest thing in The Observer today to a football match report, and what actually happened is reduced to half a sentence

The 60th edition of The Year of Listing Dangerously goes In Remembrance of Squat Thrusts Past, explores the late blossoming of the sitcom punk, looks down on Ken and Deirdre's legendary bust-up and asks: where were Leslie Phillips's socks when the lights went out? open.substack.com/pub/historyo...

Ian is a wonderful writer and this site should be in your bookmarks immediately

Was in the lift with Don Letts quite recently, fact fans #totp

My other half was born in 1980 and when I first met her I wondered if she'd been named after that Cliff song, but no, she was going to be called Caroline but her dad thought it would take too long to say #totp

46 years after that 1980 episode of #totp was moved to Friday at eight for the Winter Olympics, it was shown on Friday at eight during the Winter Olympics

#TOTP Fact! The New Radicals got the idea of their USP from the titles to The Saturday Show.

This could have been posted etc etc

Good news! This is the last showing of this performance! Bad news! We get to see the next single ten trillion times instead!

Incredible that someone can be in a band with Victoria Beckham and still have the worst solo career

That wasn't wine that was Taboo #totp

This probably happened ages ago, but congratulations to the genius at Doctor Who Magazine who has finally decided to put the picture captions on the pictures and not in a huge list on the side of the page

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Remembered all but four bottom placed sides, three of them from the past decade

When you just paid for fruit.

Can't help but think the description of Pocket Money on the Wikipedia page for Big Break could be a bit shorter

Can't help but think the description of Pocket Money on the Wikipedia page for Big Break could be a bit shorter

I wonder if tonight's 9.45 is the latest a new episode of Casualty has ever gone out in its thirty year history

Scott Mills the first Radio 1 DJ to do the show for nearly a year as Chris Cowey said he thought all the others were too gruesome to appear #totp

I would also like to express my fondness for, er, that particular record