"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy." I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time. madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...

The one bit of advice I wish I’d had when I moved to London was “watch the Met”. I have a mate who’s a copper and he said “it’s 80/20, 80% are fucking scum or lazy or feckless or clueless, and the other 20% are consistently fighting against it”.

"Who was Billy Butler's co-host on Radio Merseyside's Hold Your Plums?" "Er... Mike Woodin?"

Watching my guilty pleasure Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social and have just spat my drink out across the room

I’m reminded of that quote about soft porn, which I can’t properly recall so please forgive the paraphrasing: fans of porn don’t like it, and also haters of porn don’t like it

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

“I believe he is what the young people these days refer to as a ‘rapper’, your honour.”

“Hidden”

🤔

Separated at birth?

I volunteered to be my school’s librarian in the 1980spurely to fill the shelves with newly purchased Doctor Who novels. The mission was a success.

The Terminator 2

meanwhile at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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This is amazing

Going in - no idea what this is about, but people I know/like/both were involved in this restored release, and that’s good enough for me #ObjectZ

I'd hate to be working on the Microsoft Teams team right now.

Enjoy this terrifying description of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation that I found online. ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March...

PROTECT THE QUEEN

The very first episode of 'Joe 90' was released 57 years ago today. Your week won't get any better than this, trust me.

Unless of course you know Norwegian - the guys shooting at the dog at the start of The Thing are shouting spoilers in Norwegian as they do so (or so I’ve been told anyway, had to take that one on trust tbh)

This is GREAT (also I punched the air at the reveal of the ‘next time on…’ subject)

“Keir Starmer’s Donkey Field”

Post the most recent photo of you in your camera roll

I’m fighting the urge to go to this. Why am I doing that. I should totally go to this.

The Truman Show (1959) 3/4

What's your sign?

I heartily recommend this film to any fans of total bullshit My favourite bit is when policeman David Hasslehoff reassures an official he can solve the crimes because he’s a big fan of true crime stories. Not because he’s a fucking policeman.

Such a loss this was, such a terrible loss. RIP Trish

Remembering Trish Keenan on her birthday youtu.be/hQv1ox13WQc

The 'Riyadh Comedy Festival' reminds me of the story of Freddie Starr performing in the Middle East, under instruction not to swear or refer directly to Prince Hussein. He came on and said 'Which one of you fuckers is Prince Hussein?' and the curtain immediately came down.

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian” “Jimmy Carr?” “No, she went of her own accord”

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Monorail!

#watching Gone in completely blind, no idea what it’s about, who’s in it, who made it etc. Slightly distracted by wondering if the briefly glimpsed bearded bloke in the pre-titles bit is one of the Absolutely bunch

Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390

This is Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov. On this day, 42 years ago, he saved your life and the lives of everyone you love. He saved the world. Google his name.

Was undecided about ID cards, but then:

Severe weather latest

Right, let's cheer things up. Post a happy TV theme that you like. youtu.be/3na-qC5Y4gg

According to the front page of the Daily Mail, “Socialism rules” Can we have some then please

A moment of high drama in Doctor Who as the Master menaces a cherry bakewell

@richneville.bsky.social youtu.be/G1HlnEURM_A?...

Politics is now a choice between people offering real solutions to imaginary problems, or people offering imaginary solutions to real problems.

Just watched the last episode of that alien tv series thing. Y’know Limmy’s RIP/obituary joke he always does? Doesn’t half apply to this. HILARIOUS