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/@seb321 Cheers - when I get to the end of that dreaded first draft I'll let you know!
@seb321 Sorry, just seen this. Currently at 171,626 words, approx 409 pages, and still only about 76% done on the first draft.
"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."
@planetf1 For me, it's offset by a 'niceness of food' axis. But anything less than 4 for a place we've not used before: no sale.
