Is there a scale which goes below zero? Because you’ll find the answer somewhere past there.

not in the fucking mood. not this week.

The Pitt season 2 episode 2. Robby’s being a massive prick. which, it turns out, is hugely appropriate to the episode… www.thespoilist.com/the-pitt-sea...

This might be one that foxes the TV-knowledgeable, though I hope not - if I wanted to see 2012's special Whatever Happened To Harry Hill, is it possible that some kind soul has hoiked it up on the internet somewhere?

The Pitt season 2 episode 2. Robby’s being a massive prick. which, it turns out, is hugely appropriate to the episode… www.thespoilist.com/the-pitt-sea...

Oh my word. Thank you Rachel Talalay.

Although The Who never got their gig moved to Kilmarnock because the polis shat the bed about the behaviour of the fans visiting it.

That feels like a very limited, yet completely filling, menu to be honest

Another shining weekend for the liberal leanings of the Scottish media then. I set a resolution for this year to stop vocally disparing of, or even giving a pair of fetid dingo’s kidneys about, the behaviour of the nation’s press. Let them all burn as they deserve. Looks like I was right to.

oh no. Sounds like Plan 9 is closing in Aberdeen. Scottish comics instituion. End of an era.

Three. They’re up to three, so far. Probably four by the end of the weekend though.

Train reading

The editor in chief of Press Gazette in his newsletter today on the next round of phone hacking cases: "It may sound like a technicality, but there also must become a point where the current generation of journalists and editors stops paying the price for sins committed many years ago."

A reminder that STV brought the launch of their pointless radio service forward a day just to make sure it beat strike action. So screw them, and solidarity with the journalists and staff on the picket line today.

Mutes “will return in Avengers Doomsday” until the end of time itself.

Well, it’s taken me the best part of six months to get past gold level, but I’ve finally finished off the clown...

That’s except for viewers in Scotland, who have a double bill of Bannockburn and the Making of Bannockburn.

Ratfink on Sky Sports saying nobody wants to see anyone lose their job and that’s not true. I’d happy watch McNamara lose his job perpetually until the end of time.

Since everyone’s talking about Metropolis now it’s 2026 (and Lang’s version is vague on the setting, it’s only really the Moroder cut which places it in that setting), probably should point you to some idiot wanging on about the film again…

Oh, the Sound of Music is on later. Hopefully the Daily Record has the right photo for its listing this time…

Not that Scotland has a shallow talent pool or anything, but Sanjeev Kholi is the presenter of STV’s Hogmanay show, and a guest on BBC Scotland’s show which is on at exactly the same time.

It's Hogmanay here in Scotland, and that means another year without Scotch and Wry or Rikki Fulton. A retrospective is in order, so here's a look back at The Last Television Show Of The Year, links to the classic sketches, and the power of a sad "hullo..." to make a country laugh.

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I will not be remotely sad to see the back of this year. It’s been the worst of my life. Losing my sister, relationship, job and home in short order put me right on the brink of doing something permanent. That I’m still here is down to some very good people, whom I owe more that they will ever know.

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Just a reminder to folk visiting Edinburgh next year please try your best to boycott the Elephant House. It's gone from a nice normal cafe with views of the castle to a mad tourist trap with a giant picture of Jakey R on the wall. It's like if everything wrong with Edinburgh's tourism was a cafe

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Sophie Aldred's on Celebrity Mastermind tomorrow. Someone's specialty subject is "The actor Sylvester McCoy". I don't think I'll stop laughing until well into the new year if it isn't her.

Come for the chart of shifting party support, stay for the fury at the fact we're going to have one of the most consequential Scottish (and definitely most consequential Welsh) elections since devolution, yet the Westminster media can't stop speculating about PM Farage in 2029 long enough to care.

No, really, please, don’t apologise.

If you haven't already read this, now is the perfect time.

A century years ago production was underway on what is, undoubtedly, one of the most important and influential films ever made. Built, lost, rebuilt and remixed - this is the story of Metropolis 100 years on, and how it shaped a century of cinema. By me for @thespoilist.bsky.social.

A century years ago production was underway on what is, undoubtedly, one of the most important and influential films ever made. Built, lost, rebuilt and remixed - this is the story of Metropolis 100 years on, and how it shaped a century of cinema. By me for @thespoilist.bsky.social.

Free for all. A Christmas Wishlist. @ Psychic Paper. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...

Merry Christmas everyone. I have to share this. Toni Storm is an incredible human being. She found out my neighbors kids are huge fans of hers and she recorded this video for them. She’s unhinged and she’s THE BEST! 😂