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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (50-46)
Into the fifty! And on the BBC’s actual 100th birthday too. Would’ve been nice to have wrapped up the whole list by this point, admittedly. But at least we’re in the top half of the table now. And into the next section of the list we go. 50: Racing (Shown 1741 times, 1946-2014) Here’s something…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (55-51)
So close to the half-century. And it only took me re-extracting ten years’ worth of data to correct a piddling technicality for one of the entries. But more of that later. On we go! 55: Animal Park (Shown 1639 times, 2000-2021) If you want an animal-based programme that seems as unstoppable as a rhino-led restaging…
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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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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (60-56)
Closing in on the half-century. Ready for another look at five formidable formats, regularly interrupted by ill-considered meanders down distraction avenue? Hopefully the answer is yes, else you’re in the wrong place. 60: Tomorrow’s World (Shown 1511 times, 1965-2003) As the trope has it, a series inextricably linked to a nation of pop kids who…
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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (65-61)
Here’s the next bit. I appreciate it’s been a while. Back when the last update came out, we had a different Prime Minister, a different Monarch. and a different Chelsea manager. So, that’s enough pre-ambling, on with the list. And it only took one Friday night spent looking through 1920s radio listings to see which…
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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…