Phil

I always thought the original 91 clock background looked nicer (why was half the screen black on the newer one?) i0.wp.com/rewind.thetv...

It’s worth listening to the title theme just to hear George singing the line “I’m finding out pursued by evil looking dudes, it’s getting hot for me like tofu when it deep fries”

According the to the Virgin EPG, Channel 4 +1 are showing a 16 hour episode of Our Welsh Chapel Dream which started at 5:55am and will finish at 10pm tonight. That’s one hell of a dream.

“Be careful, this might explode” Just a quickie. I don’t know how it’s possible, or maybe it’s just me, but the current series of Would I Lie to You is one of the funniest series they’ve ever done. For the …

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My fav part was Lee mimicking the rabbits ears through the sunroof

I’ve only just watched last weeks WILTY and I really want everyone to watch it because the rabbit story had me actually crying with laughter. I don’t think I’ve laughed at something so hard in a while. This series of WILTY has been brilliant

Fascinated by the Wiki photo for House of Games, which for some reason features only two guests (one is Suzi Perry I think, not sure the other one) and standing as far away from Richard as possible (COVID era?)

After clicking through to your timeline of Simpsons on UK TV - mad that they were so popular when they were only on Sky. Did kids consider Bart more of a cartoon pop star at the time because of Do the Bartman if they couldn’t watch the show?

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This cracked me up something rotten youtu.be/wbZ4v79egwY

Saw “Man on the Run” in cinema on Thursday night, I thoroughly enjoyed the film, but if you can’t go five minutes without checking your phone, why have you come to the exclusive one day cinema premiere of a film that’s going to be on Prime Video?

Every time I see something that says “reseal for freshness”, I just think of “No Michael, it seals OUT the freshness”.

Would have been worth trying a 30 min version for the 7.30pm slot IMO

This is years before social distancing of course…

Still on a breakfast TV nostalgia kick, I remembered that Breakfast once had a set with a gap in the sofa that got complaints because the presenters supposedly looked like they hated each other

I watched this clip the other day and he is mentioned as reporting from Washington, but as far as I’m aware he doesn’t actually appear.

Thanks Russ, with the classic news backdrop.

He does feature prominently in the 1987 IBA Yearbook, which unfortunately went to press during his brief stint on the sofa

There are a few stories in this book (e.g. Rick & Sharron) that make me wonder why testing out chemistry is sometimes not seen as important enough to do!

Thanks Steve, luckily someone’s put that online. Yes they probably were trying to be as up to date as possible, not knowing he’d be off the sofa so quick

He did go on to have a career working for Seven in Australia, and most recently Al Jazeera. But there’s hardly any trace online of his time at TV-am.

“The somewhat non-charismatic in-house junior newsreader, Adrian Brown, was initially touted as the next big thing. “It’s wonderful, and a great challenge for me,” he smiled, on learning that he had inherited Owen’s role. “I’m looking forward to it enormously. Nick is an excellent bloke and both he and Anne have been very helpful and kind while I have been finding my feet.” But the chemistry wasn’t there; nor was there much trace of a screen presence. Brown lasted only eight weeks before being humiliatingly demoted back to the news desk.” — Morning Glory: A History of British Breakfast Television by Ian Jones https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/kshare?asin=B009Q5O6J6&id=hobfwbxim5dendfw5d4dxruf6e

Picture of Anne Diamond and Adrian Brown in TV Times

After reading “Morning Glory”, a bit fascinated with the fate of Adrian Brown, TV-am’s replacement for Nick Owen who lasted 8 weeks. There seems to be no footage online of him on TV-am at all, either as newsreader or his stint on the sofa. Just this cutting from TV Times.

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I note they’ve based these on what they looked like in the pilot, which is a bit odd because most of them, esp Joey, look completely different in the pilot

I think things started to go downhill when Google rebranded the cleverly-named Froogle to the boring Google Shopping.

Some of us are speculating that a revamp of the inside is still in the works, given the cover and website use a new typeface which is nowhere to be seen inside the actual mag

I like to watch YouTube videos with the auto generated subtitles on, sometimes just to see what it thinks people are saying, and have noticed it's started putting "[snorts]" in whenever someone sniffs or something. I really would like to know who thought this was necessary.

confused by this - Genome indicates there was a news summary on BBC2 at 5:30pm, but not sure why it’s using Newsnight branding. I know Newsnight Afternoon was a thing around this time but it’s not billed as that

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Cereals asking you to try them with warm milk. Is this a new thing?

Design nerds, here's the new @radiotimes.bsky.social logo as revealed at their covers party this evening.