Category: Nonsense
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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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BrokenTV’s Sitcom Swingometer Spectacular! Part 3: Hi-De-Hi, Red Dwarf and The Young Ones
Welcome back to day three of our ongoing (and, many might argue, entirely pointless) mission to see how Britain’s sitcom characters of fore might vote in the 2024 General Election (whilst offering a rare non-job-stealing chore to ChatGPT and CoPilot). So far, we’ve heard from Dad’s Army, Hancock’s Half Hour and Are You Being Served?…
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BrokenTV’s Sitcom Swingometer Spectacular! Part 2: Drop the Dead Donkey, Peep Show and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
So, for anyone who missed yesterday’s Part One of this new series, here’s the premise. What would happen if a load of characters from old British sitcoms were allowed to (a) exist in real life, (b) were all still alive today, and (c) decided to cast a vote in the 2024 UK General Election? Well,…
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Forgotten ITV Franchise Spin-Off Products of the 1970s: Number One
It’s true. With each franchise famously having “a licence to print money”, many ITV franchise holders decided to diversify. Many of them failed to capture an audience – ATV’s Celebrity Square Crisps suffered by having the face of Arthur Mullard expensively printed on each individual crisp, and the less said of IBA Engineering Information Porridge…
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Twelve Surprising Windows 95/98 Desktop Themes for British TV Programmes
YES. Back in the dial-up days of technology, there was Windows 95 and a bit later, there was Windows 98. Groundbreaking at the time, nowadays a curious glimpse into the technological past. People used to survive using a 800×600 resolution? But one of the best things about Windows 95 (and a bit later, Windows 98)…
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I Challenged Six AI Image Bots To Generate Images For Newspaper Headlines from The Day Today. Here Are The Results (Part Two)
Continuing this occasional series, this time with added Dall-E, which no longer requires people to sit in a waitlist for months before getting access. Hooray! My prediction is that it’s absolutely going to storm it, going by how good the Outpainting feature is. That was able to turn this classic photo: Into this: Bodes pretty…
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I Challenged Six AI Image Bots To Generate Images For Newspaper Headlines from The Day Today. Here Are The Results (Part One)
For the uninitiated, The Day Today was a 1994 BBC2 comedy series parodying contemporary news coverage, a programme that has remained resident in the collective consciousness of all British comedy fans ever since. A TV adaptation of Radio 4 series On The Hour, The Day Today would provide terrestrial TV debuts for Chris Morris, Armando…
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