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Laurie Holloway

By | January 10, 2025

Extremely sad to hear about the passing of Laurie Holloway at 86, those of us of a certain age will know him for his absolutely iconic foot-tapper theme tunes such as Game For A Laugh, Beadle’s About, Blind Date, but as is tradition we always like to illustrate with something a bit more obscure and… Read More »

Who doesn’t want it the least?

By | January 3, 2025

We’re three episodes into The Traitors and it’s as entertaining as it ever is, we’re three missions in and they’ve done a bold thing of tying them into the game a bit more – one involving the Traitors having to sabotage in order to murder which is a great added frisson except the producers will… Read More »

Poll of the Year 2024

By | January 2, 2025

Using the new fangled (it’s been here all the time) sticky post feature to annoy you into voting, the 20th running of our annual poll is now open! Details under the cut, you’ve got until the evening of Sunday 12th January to vote.

French Gladiators

By | December 28, 2024

Alright let’s get this bit out of the way – you need a VPN and you need to sign up for a TF1 account – you should be able to figure out how to do the latter, it doesn’t ask for an address but it will ask for a ZIP Code, 75000 for Paris will… Read More »

The real spirit of Christmas

By | December 24, 2024

It is of course giving, and our current favourite Youtube channel MisterDoc has been uploading some incredible finds recently – the first ever You Bet! Various interesting Krypton Factor specials, and we can’t wait to see this sometime over Christmas, the first (of apparently many!) episodes of Body Heat – the 90s Mike Smith physical… Read More »

Is there anything missing?

By | December 20, 2024

Alright Gang, we are actually less than a fortnight away from the 20th Annual Academy Awards Poll of the Year, is there anything from broadcast television obviously missing from this list? Sad that it’s just one or two scroll clicks from top to bottom.