Thanks to @emilyoram.bsky.social for adding me to her starter pack, and I would love all my new followers to check out the snazzy Coming Soon selection on iPlayer, with ace copy by the Word Nerds which we had to keep shuffling around to make sure it worked everywhere www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/grou...

Vividly remember the 1988 #totp from the time as I had just come back from holiday in Majorca and had never heard Doctorin' The TARDIS until then, and I was absolutely baffled by it

Looks like they are going to do this, so I am now reversing my opinion and suggesting this will be the best World Cup ever

Took to the final episode of the decade but the Boy Wunda was surely the least charismatic performer on #totp in the nineties

"Even better than the first Berni Flint single" is the sort of Tony Blackburn endorsement you want, especially if you're Berni Flint #totp

Still the greatest

Anyway Erasure are great #totp

Like the bloke on the bongos in Artful Dodger coming out to dance in the chorus, like having Liquid Gold back on #totp

This does remind me that the last ad break on TVam used to have really long adverts in it as they offered huge discounts to companies wanting to make announcements to their staff, so you would sometimes see two minutes of the MD of Fads reflecting on another successful year

Hope the teams will walk out to the Record Breakers challenge music for every match

My pet peeve are the Wikipedia pages for TV shows which are endless lists of production information without a single sentence on what the programme is actually about

Also note it's standard for the BBC to put shows out to tender, but people notice this stuff much more when it happens to Doctor Who.

Pleased to see the triumphant return of the News at 5.45 on ITV tonight, a week or so before the triumphant return of the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1

Like "Dyson Hoover", I suppose

I remember reading at the time that both channels were desperate to sign up Andi Peters for the Sunday show and there was a huge bidding war for his services

Saturday Kitchen celebrating its 20th anniversary though it's not the 20th anniversary of the actual show but the anniversary of the current incarnation after the original production company and personnel defected to ITV for a lookalike show that died on its arse and was axed within six months

This Somebody Answer The Phone thing might be the worst song we've ever seen on #totp

A reminder neither of tonight's episodes of #totp have been edited, and are only 25 minutes each (as is next week's) due to fundraising updates for the Children's Promise appeal being dotted around the BBC1 schedule genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/se...

This is great fun

A reminder neither of tonight's episodes of #totp have been edited, and are only 25 minutes each (as is next week's) due to fundraising updates for the Children's Promise appeal being dotted around the BBC1 schedule genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/se...

This is a really good get for iPlayer, I think www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Bob's departure also means Paul Gambaccini is now Radio 2's longest serving presenter and the only one on the station in the 20th century

Lee says in his book that he was booked to do a pilot for a replacement for They Think It's All Over as it was being axed, only to find that the replacement was going to be They Think It's All Over which they had decided to un-axe

Harry signed up to this series because the week before he'd done a sparsely attended gig in Peterborough and thought "right, no more Peterboroughs" and promptly took the first TV offer he got

First episode 10.30pm, final episode 1.20am

In May last year, Alan Yentob died. Five years before that, I was fortunate to have the chance to interview him for my book The Long Game. Now, I've been able to use much more of that interview in a piece for the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine. Here are some thoughts on all of that:

Fond memories of this issue as I brought it with me on a trip in sixth form purely so I could strike up conversation about it with a cool girl I'd taken a shine to

I've just compiled my annual list of BBC football commentary assignments for this season. Where does YOUR favourite rank? And if you're a commentator, are YOUR invoices correct? forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/c...

Ricky Martin here, hoping he can top up his performance fee with an extra £250 if a dancer falls over #totp

"Look, he's got us on a technicality, our hands are tied" #totp

That first episode, though #totp

No Charge on here sounded like it was being played off a wax cylinder, though the surface noise was more interesting than the record www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Tonight's second #totp is from a pretty pivotal week in the show's history as it was on BBC2 because of Children in Need and got a lower audience than TOTP2 did two days earlier

This is still happening, and it's Stephen Bush, who I don't follow but who seemingly everyone else I follow does

How this man didn't immediately collapse of embarrassment and vow never to appear on television again is one of the great mysteries of our age

"There will still be programmes from Pebble Mill, I really must emphasise that"

@jonabuft.bsky.social Just to let you know, I saw the end of an episode of The Bill from 2000 on Drama yesterday and the cast included Karl Collins (who was a regular at the time) and Pete Lee Wilson! Wonder if they chatted about the pilot for series 2 of Parallel 9 in between takes

This Geri song is basically a worse version of the One Man and His Dog theme tune #totp www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wx7...

I love the way this song just deteriorates into repeatedly shouting the title at increasing volume, it's how all songs should end really

I see Chris Cowey's credit changed to Series Producer on the second one, presumably the result of some snotty memos going around that he didn't qualify to be billed as executive producer #totp

That Children's Promise song was put together by Mike Ingham, the football commentator, which sounds like a bit of Wikipedia vandalism but is absolutely true #totp

"I'm joined today by the tree, which has until now made no comment on the controversy."

This is a great picture www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

New Blog Post That I'll Do A Proper Promotional Post For Tomorrow As This Took Way Longer Than I'd Planned And I'm Knackered: brokentv.uk/2026/05/18/t...

Those worrying about the non-appearance of a grand tradition will be pleased to know there have been a couple of "they should give Eurovision to ITV/C4" posts on DigitalSpy

Something I will never understand on Twitter and now BlueSky is people tagging in news organisations as if they might have missed it. And yes, the post they're tagging them into is a link to an article from one of them

The person in Britain least likely to let us down.

REETA CHAKRABATI DO NOT LET US DOWN

Thing is, I don't really see how it's much different to our entry, tbh