"Worse than 4 The Cause....UB40!" #totp

That 4 The Cause performance reminiscent of the California Dreaming sketch on The Sketch Show #totp

Billie hawking the Pops format at some TV conference at Cannes the musical equivalent of doing a corporate for Nabisco #totp

It's not in The Nation's Favourite but there was some other article about Radio 1 at the time where they mentioned they discussed whether Chris Moyles could have that Sarah McLachlan song as his Record of the Week as ballads weren't allowed #totp

OK. Forget autobiographies, chat show anecdotes, newspaper columnists, forwarded joke emails, The Royle Family, anything to do with the Thickes or the Wilsons, and any blue/red confusion. I have just one question: can anybody locate a clip of Family Fortunes where somebody answers “My cardigan”?

A quiet time on Dirty Feed, and will be for the rest of the year. Busy with a new job and learning how to drive, I won't have time for much else. I did write these two short pieces about The Golden Shot which you may enjoy: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/what... www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/that...

Wikipedia strikes again!

Wikipedia strikes again!

Sad to hear of the death of Richard Darbyshire from Living In A Box. Remember the feature on songwriting in Smash Hits where one of the others in the band said "Richard tries to get a 'yahoo' in every song, including the ballads". That's my kind of songwriter!

Funny how "sources" always talk in dreadful tabloidese

Six-and-a-half years ago, while researching something else at Caversham, I happened across a little fact and thought, "Oh, that's interesting, I must do something with that some day..." Today is that day! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ab Fab back on iPlayer with snazzy new synopsis by the Word Nerds

One of the camera crews outside NBH today was proudly using a 90s Anglia News umbrella

CAN YOU BLOCK A FONT?

Only three pre-recorded programmes on BBC1 today, Bargain Hunt, Inner Circle and The Wheel

The thing about that Robbie performance is that it wasn't a surprise because pictures from it had been in the papers, and one of the flaws of this era of #totp is that anything interesting was flagged up in the press ages in advance

I remember it irritated me intensely at the time that Jen couldn't even get through the first line of this performance without having to take a breath

My other half started at uni around this time and apparently everyone was blubbing over this when they were missing their boyfriends back home

"Hi, Missy Elliott? We're trying to launch Mel B as a serious R'n'B artist. Could you feature on her debut single to add some credibility please?" "Sure, how much do you want?" *sound of coins on table* "How much credibility can we get for £27.43?" "Four lines over the intro" "That'll do"

Lutricia McNeal's third hit #totp

HE'S A SPORTS PA! #totp

The other great thing about Knocked It Off, apart from it being the stupidest record ever made, is that it is clearly his Swap Shop theme played at 33rpm

Mike Read's on holiday / his replacement is BA Robertson #totp

That second #totp was from the weekend I went back to university, so it was the end of the last summer when I had no responsibilities at all. Radio 1 played Relax by Deetah a million times so I have such fond memories of it

That Pulp performance is the best thing on #totp all year, wonderfully staged and directed. Also the most exciting thing ever shown at number 29

There is an osteopath in one of the flats at the Barbican, which I keep meaning to book a session with just so I can go into one of the flats at the Barbican

OH WOW IT'S THE SPECIALLY DESIGNED WEATHER MAP AS BILLED IN THE TV TIMES

This really is the book I have been waiting for all my life

As ever, this could have been posted at any point this evening (apart from when Five were on)

So what, John Kettley is a weatherman #totp

It may be Halloween but that's the way Bates starts most days #totp

THERE HE IS #totp

I know there are many similarities between the work of Armando Iannucci and John Morton, but there are enough differences for me to really like Armando's stuff but not really like John Morton's stuff very much at all

YEEEEEESSS

Jamie presented that second episode from Pres B #totp

In the immortal words of Andy Crane, goodbye to Northern Ireland

No Creamguide tonight because we're on our mini-break, but with a fair wind there should be one on Saturday morning

The Glasgow Herald report on this suggested Tony Currie on STV filled in what happened in the missing reel, but in fact he just made it up

THE ANGELUS KLAXON

Went on NI Railways today which I think means I have been on every train operating company in the UK (besides Eurostar)

Three days, three Northern Ireland papers, day one

Off to WD Flackes country in the morning

"A book, Farmhouse Kitchen 12, is available now from all good booksellers, priced... 1p"

Once again, well done to the EFL Highlights on ITV for suggesting the only coverage of the EFL Cup on that channel this week is the highlights show at midnight, and not the two live matches

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Keith Harris, Roy Castle and Delia Smith pop by Saturday Superstore. All three form part of a Pop Panel of which Elton John is an incidental member and cover is arranged when Harris decides Cuddles knows more about music than Orville.

A few updates to my Parallel 9 blogs with the upload of a high quality stereo version of show 1 without a timestamp across the top. All screengrabs and links are now updated. There’s also a few new clips from CBBC continuity that have popped up on YouTube. jonabuft.blogspot.com/2022/09/they...

If you enjoyed Real Good Time by Alda, you may also enjoy Girls' Night Out by Alda, which is the same #totp

That Alda single was the only CD I ever had that was see-through #totp