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ARCHIVE TV ADVENT CALENDAR DAY ONE: 1st December 1969
The first episode of Broaden Your Mind’s (BBC2) second series, the sketch-based encyclopaedia of the air by The Goodies before they became The Goodies. Wiped after original broadcast, but here’s a full audio-only recording of the episode. UPDATE 2 DECEMBER: Spotter’s badge to Daniel James Webb for noting that the episode I’d posted was from……
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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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BBC100: The 100 Most-Broadcast BBC Programmes Of All Time (45-41)
Hello, everybody. Sorry it’s been a while since the last update to this list, but (amongst ploughing through forty years of Channel 4 viewing figures), this selection has required a little more research than most. Before hitting the list, a two bits of minor admin. Firstly: most people seem to be coming to the site…
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part Four)
Onto the last leg of our list. Which, for the record, doesn’t include The Last Leg. Lots of big programmes we’ve not seen yet on the list, and with only a few places remaining there’s not enough room for all of them. I’m starting to think we won’t see Murun Buchstansangur on this list at…
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part Three)
Into the top half we tumble. But first, here’s a rundown of the list so far: Right, into that top twenty-one. Dudes. 21: BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989)(21:00 Sunday 11 Apr 1993, 7.29m viewers) To be fair, any film that includes George “Seven Words” Carlin, Tony “Wolfie Smith’s Dad-in-Law After Peter Vaughan” Steedman and…
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part Two)
More Four. Here’s the next tranche, starting with two entries at joint-30th. =31: GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (1987)(21:00 Sunday 25 Apr 1993, 6.75m viewers) Kicking off a Robin Williams season on Four, this well-received comedy drama about a boisterous US Forces Jock who eschews the anodyne in favour of the raucous, much to the delight of…
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part One)
Yes, I know I’m only just over halfway through the list of the 100 Most-Shown Programmes On The BBC, but Channel Four is forty years old on Wednesday 2 November, and that’s an anniversary well worth marking. So, here we go with another ill-considered datagasm. Like in an instalment of the Terminator franchise directed by…
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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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