Category: Lists
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The Eighty-Three Roads To Wembley: Part Two
Back with the next stage of our wander down Wembley Way (briefly taking in Westgate Street, Cardiff), but first a quick whip-pan back to the 1940s. In the last part, we looked at how the billing for the first televised post-war Cup Final was advertised as airing from 4.05pm to 4.45pm, the Radio Times promising…
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The Eighty-Three Roads To Wembley: Part One
With the FA Cup Final set to kick off soon (this year, Man City v Chelsea, or “The Neutrals’ Nightmare”), it’s time for bloggers, posters and podcasters to begin the annual pissing contest of How Early Cup Final Coverage Used To Begin. It started as early as 10am! No, 9am! Well, of course, I remember…
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TV Unwrapped: 2025
You might remember around this time last year, I posted a long list of 2024’s top fifty television programmes. Except, of course, not in any order of quality, everyone else is doing that. I listed them by quantity. Basically, which television programmes were broadcast most frequently throughout the year. I mean, quality like Celebrity Traitors…
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So, What TV Programmes Appear Most Often on Christmas Eve?
Merry Excelmas! Here’s a quick post I thought of doing after exploring all the televisual fare on Christmas Eve this year, and wondering: are there any true mainstays on Christmas Eve BBC television? The big day itself has the regulars: The Queen, Top of the Pops, ‘stEnders. But the precursor to the big day? That’s…
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The Most-Shown TV Shows of 2024 and It’s Slightly Different but Also Still The Most-Shown TV Shows of 2024
Following this update the other day, of the most-broadcast TV shows of 2024, I felt compelled to consider programmes only broadcast on the ‘main’ traditional channels. So, without any additional commentary, here’s a similar list, but only looking at programmes broadcast on BBC One, BBC Two, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Pos Programme Airings…
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The Most 50 TV Shows of 2024
Yes, that’s not a typo. Or at least, not an accidental one. Lots of newspapers, magazines and websites are currently parading their list of The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024 (spoiler: you haven’t heard of at least 25 of them, and won’t have watched at least 40 of them). But sod the quality, we’re…
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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 of (now) The 200 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Ever (which also throws in full broadcast histories for BBCs Three, Four, Choice and Knowledge because…
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BrokenTV’s Sitcom Swingometer Spectacular FINAL DAY AND CONCLUSION
Well, the exit polls are in. By which I mean most people who’d looked at Part One hadn’t returned for subsequent parts, suggesting this idea didn’t really have the legs to run for the entire election cycle. Which is fair enough, one thing I’ve learned from writing up several days of AI-generated predictions of How…
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The Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes of All-Time: Post-Match Statstravaganza
Okay, now the Big Final Reveal is out of the way, and we’ve identified the two programmes broadcast more than any other on the main BBC channels, let’s get granular. After all, with so much lovely data to build statistical sandcastles with, we can pull that programme information into some other shapes too. For example,…
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The Two Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes of All-Time: The Grand Final
If this blog has a catchphrase, it must be “that took a lot longer than I’d expected”. And this one did. Not so much as down to getting together a programme history of the show in question, but more to do with checking the broadcast histories of the Top Two programmes. And O! The excitement.…
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