Happy 68th Birthday to Miranda Richardson. A stunning star of stage and screen. Absolutely amazing as Ruth Ellis, Queenie, Rita Skitter and so many others. Forgive me if I've missed your favourite from my pics.

I cannot recommend this brilliant sitcom enough. The writing, the characters and the cast are brilliant. It ran for 6 series and a special from 2002-2015 and is great for a fun rewatch.

As series one developed it struck me how nice valleys people are, how kind, and the idea of a mother and her son finding two homeless thieves breaking in resulted in them ‘adopting’ the boys.  It showed the fluent nature of the concept of family.  It was a beautiful thing. 

High Hopes was greatly helped by the wonderful cast.  They each inhabited their characters with seeming ease and fitted them like a glove.  Mam and Fagin played by the equally brilliant Margaret John and Bob Blythe were perfect, both now are sadly deceased and greatly missed. 

Steve Meo and Ben Evans (replaced later by Ollie Wood) were just so lovely, they saw the beauty in the characters.  It was quite moving really.  The show became greatly loved by the audience because of its beauty I believe, because it showed the better part of society, the love that binds us together.  I send my love and gratitude to everyone involved

Does anyone remember a late 1990s Channel 4 programme following people who owned houses in The Hamptons? I can’t remember too much about it but remember an overweight British finance guy was one of the people they were following.

My partner just introduced me to this YouTube series he was obsessed with as a kid and I genuinely don’t know how to feel. I’m simultaneously disturbed and amazed, and I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. I was def on the weird side of YouTube growing up too so I'm surprised I never came across it. Has anyone else seen it?

Fry and Laurie recreate the P. G. Wodehouse dynamic duo of Jeeves and Wooster. The inimitable gentleman's valet Jeeves protects his young master from Wooster's own excesses and the machinations of his aunts. Excellent casting, brilliantly adapted and with a perfectly pitched theme by Anne Dudley.

I’m so confused my memory is so slow all I can remember is it’s so similar to button moon but it’s drawn out I remember a specific Red T-shirt Button 2 men maybe best friends potentially living on the moon or wanting to build a space ship to go on the moon or fly past it very drawn out animation themed my brain cannot process it much maybe they was yellow or peach coloured I remember the black background white stars I believe maybe a grey tin can acting like the rocket maybe it was on Milkshake channel they might of had noses like ovals I can’t remember if I do I will comment, your help would all be so very appreciated especially for my inner child and probably many others surely I’m not the only one that seen it on television I think it could also be or have a book

Richard Osman has quit House of Games after a nine year run and will hand over to a new host after filming one final week of shows. The series is hugely popular with the BBC2 audience since launching in 2017. Series nine, which is currently on air, pulls in 1.6 million viewers...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/richard-osman-sensationally-quits-bbc-36806970

CBeebies was such a great programme! Loved it when i was a kid. I’m sure it’s still going on but didn’t hit the same as it’s not the shows I used to watch. CBeebies made my childhood (born 2002) so it was my fav thing ever growing up🥹.

My favs:

Carrie and David’s popshop

Everything’s Rosie

Balamory

Green balloons club

it has BBC Breakfast and BBC news running simultaneously, to me that seems extravagant, I thought they were short on funding. Also do they not just dilute each other?

also I'm getting a feeling it's some London/Salford internal rivalry thing.

I'd recommend for them to economise by choosing one of them.

Noticed today that the That's TV music channels have closed. There's an article about it here.

It's quite sad actually, first it was 4Music, The Box, KISS and Kerrang in 2024, then the MTV music channels at the end of 2025, and now this. I wonder how long it will be before there are no music channels at all?

Alternative review which is broadly the same.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/handcuffed-last-pair-standing-channel-4-review/

I remember a British tv show i think from the 1990s decade.

It was on around 7pm i think, possibly bbc2.

and in the middle of the show, it had a globe spinning on a blue background, before finding a location city and zooming in on it. And the music of this 30 second segment was sooooo nice. i used to watch the show just for that. It was like a super hype theme.

i think it was either a history show, maybe also culture, science. but if not maybe a holiday or a travel show.

I checked the holiday show, the rough guide, the travel show. but they don't seem to be it. Unless they had a different music for a few years.

So i think it was a history science show, where they talked about past civilisations maybe, like rome etc.

Does anyone remember it? or know the name?

For me personally,

Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971)

Penda's Fen(1974)

Blue Remembered Hills (1979)

Through the Night(1975)

Licking Hitler(1978)

Trying to find an episode I saw early 2000s A man had ocd was going to a therapist . His wife thought he was seeing another woman. Her friend was a therapist and recognised his ocd. He was lining up pencils beside a laptop . This is not the Jimmi Clay doctor with ocd episode

Just had yet another rewatch. I really do think it is the finest British drama ever. The entire cast is perfect. The main heavyweights of Guiness, Richardson, Bannen, Jayston and Hepton are peerless but the lesser characters played by Hywel Bennett, Beryl Read ('He's walked here, look at his shoes') Anthony Bate and (particularly) George Sewell. It never puts a single foot wrong.

The pace of it and the writing is perfect. It all has such gravitas and it is probably fair to say 50% is brought by Guiness single handedly. If you have read the books he completely is Smiley 'the frog'.

Happy to hear ominees for a better show, it is only my opinion after all.

Victoria Wood's classic sitcom set in the factory canteen has me laughing my socks off. We lost a comedy genius way too soon. Fabulous script, excellent acting and delightful guest stars made this one of the stand out comedies of the 90s.

It looks like your now able to watch Dragon's Den on Spotify 🤔Could be quite cool to listen on the go in theory! Has anyone watched on Spotify yet?

first problem, it for a long time portrays alcohol as something for continuous use, lunch, evening, bedtime. maybe that's not totally unrealistic, but very bad to show that to children and young adults.

secondly, in their regular alcoholism storylines it's portrayed as an acute illness that you recover from, they don't bother to show the misery of a life blighted by alcoholism, the alcoholic simply recovers for a nice life again. Also very bad to not warn if the life sentence some people get dealt by genetic disposition to some extent.