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/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.
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).
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?
BLOG POST: It's exactly 55 years since Star Trek debuted on British TV, so here's my write-up on the show's BBC broadcast history, from the book I still haven't bloody finished:
https://brokentv.uk/2024/07/12/the-joint-165th-most-broadcast-programme-on-bbc-tv-also-200th/
The Joint-165th Most-Broadcast Programme on BBC TV (also 200th)
What? Eh? Weren’t we done with this? Okay, the blog has been quieter than planned of late, and that’s because I’ve been stupidly doubling the number of entries in the book version…
GREAT GAME OVER SCREENS OF OUR TIME: 1. Balance of Power (Mindscape, 1986, PC). That's me told, eh?
