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Local Hero - happy 25th birthday from loiswakeman 367 days old

Good grief - I'm losing my grip - another complimentary post about the Beeb! Tonight, Mark Kermode and Bill Forsyth are visiting the location of possibly ...

Gibbons, where are you when we need you? from loiswakeman 388 days old

[ ... ] TV licensing authority asking to cancel the licence once the digital switchover happens - but honestly, I should be asking for them to do it now ...

Public service broadcasting? from loiswakeman 424 days old

From Ceefax, Saturday: Hole in the Wall Dale Winton hosts, as celebrities try to squeeze themselves through different shaped holes. First, I checked ...

Pecking the liver of Justice from loiswakeman 577 days old

While I drank my afternoon cuppa just now, I watched a TV ad for InjuryLawyers4U - a piece I found rather nauseatingly self-righteous, urging us to ...

PSB - wots that then? from loiswakeman 589 days old

[ ... ] TV to make more of it. What PSB, I ask? Apart from the odd Attenborough documentary here and there, the Beeb and its "competitors" are stuffed ...

Lies, damn lies and statistics from loiswakeman 652 days old

Although I didn't ever formally study stats at university, I like to think I have a reasonable appreciation of their simpler points. So, I am always ...

No news is good news - or, would you employ this man? from loiswakeman 666 days old

BBC lunchtime news is appealing to the great unwashed for "their stories" in a rather weedy attempt to be relevant and cutting edge. Yeah, whatever. As ...

Recycling is good for the planet.... part II from loiswakeman 676 days old

Another jolly wheeze from the Beeb that I have noticed, to make our licence £££s go a bit further: Find a documentary programme being aired later in ...

It's enough to make you sick from loiswakeman 687 days old

On the BBC lunchtime news, there was a piece about the current norovirus outbreak. The presenter blithely pointed to this garish CGI graphic of a red, ...

M-M-M-Max Headroom lives on the Beeb from loiswakeman 710 days old

[ ... ] TV? As a diehard analogue viewer, it might be my aging technology: I am sure they are pinching some of the signal to try out digital ...