BLOG UPDATE! I've gone and made a full rundown of the fifty TV programmes that have been broadcast most frequently throughout 2025. With the bonus added prize of revealing which FOUR television programmes appeared on all four BBC channels in 2025.
https://brokentv.uk/2025/12/28/tv-unwrapped-2025/"Okay, the ad opens with a shot of a breakfast table. A Weetabix box is the focal point."
"Yes."
"It opens, and a team of anthropomorphic Weetabix leap out and start singing a song about how Weetabix is good for you."
"Ah, lovely."
"Also, they're all cockney football hooligans."
"...sorry, what?"
The Vic Reeves section is the most interesting of the lot, with tales of him finding solace in GameBoy title Pipe Dreams (aka Pipemania) once Bob had gone home from Manchester filming (presumably) The Weekenders.
ARCHIVE THING D'JOUR: Nov 1991's debut issue of Zero-spinoff Game Zone features celebrity tales of console favourites from the likes of Vic Reeves, Betty Boo, Danny Baker, Jonathan Ross and Dannii Minogue. Written by the mag's own Jane Goldman, who'd go on to be pretty well-known herself.
With today marking exactly 60 years since
#MatchOfTheDay first aired, here's a stupidly detailed look at the genesis of the series. Including, obviously, a full table on the Grandstand/MOTD/Other naming conventions of each men's international tournament since 1950.
https://brokentv.uk/2023/06/29/paging-dr-clitterhouse-its-the-100-most-broadcast-bbc-programmes-of-all-time-16-and-15/
Paging Dr Clitterhouse! It’s The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (16 and 15)
“We interrupt this programme to bring you a football game.” 16: Match of the Day (Shown 4055 times, 1964-2021) Well, here’s one that was always going to appear, and one where I pr…
IMPORTANT DATES IN VIDEOGAMING HISTORY THAT NOBODY EVER MENTIONS: 4 April 2005, the opening titles for Dick & Dom's Ask the Family feature the covertape from Your Sinclair issue 53 (Full game: Samurai by CRL, playable demo: Scramble Spirits by Grandslam).
"Under life skills, you've just put 'telling the difference between the tone of voice of a podcast host reading out an advert, and the tone of voice when they're talking normally, when skipping forward through a podcast'."
"This is correct, yes."
MODERN- DAY CURSE: May all your answers on Pointless be preceded with Alexander Armstrong saying "Let's see what happens when we say...".
TFW when you pop into your favourite takeaway to collect the food you'd ordered and happen to notice this in the window. 🤔
10 of the Funniest Jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe 2024, you say?
