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th 2 Jul 2026	Tour de France highlights start 7pm Saturday on Channel 5.
fr 13 Feb 2026	Mackenzie Crook's new comedy Small Prophets like Detectorists is gentle (so far), charming, whimsical and clever. We love the main character Michael Sleep working in a DIY Superstore amusing himself by talking total bollo to the customers. Streamable or old school BBC2 10pm Monday nights ... it's something to look forward to.
sa 11 Oct 2025	The wonderful Magda from Lead Balloon moonlighting as Dr Marion Boyle in Alan Partridge last night (05:34).
we 18 Jun 2025	Life Skills No. 65: It often surprises people that hot dry weather is the poorest for tv and radio reception. If your DAB portable is blipping and burping try moving the aerial to an inconvenient position, it may help it may not. Sometimes turning the radio a little helps.
we 27Nov 2024	The Beeb is not being helpful with the red button, today the market info has gone away to make it nicer for us ... don't think so.
fr 1 Nov 2024 red button	1974 the BBC started the world's first teletext service Ceefax. It didn't survive the 2012 digital switchover but a similar text service is available on the red button if the tv is not connected to the Internet and despite a threat to end it in 2020. Journalistic standards are slipping with clumsy copy and pastes from the web but it does make a less brutal way to get the news.
fr 18 Oct 2024	Even allowing for it's always longer than you think we're still surprised that Detectorists is ten years old! It's gentle humour is still endearing and tonight Radio 4s Screenshot will be celebrating the anniversary.
we 2 Oct 2024	Custom made for David Mitchell (he's one of the six! executive producers) the second episode of Ludwig on BBC1 tonight like episodes one and three criminally under employs Sophie Willan in a wig and glasses. Thankfully Alma's Not Normal returns for series two Monday BBC2.
we 26 Jan 2022	A bit surprised that today's channel moves on Freeview have included the return of BBC 3 though it won't be doing anything useful until Tuesday 1 February.
su 29 May 2022	Recently BBC 4 has broadcast documentaries that are minimalist, charming and don't have a celebrity(ish) presenter mouthing like they know about the subject plus by happenstance are Scottish, try Prince of Muck and/or The Hermit of Treig,. The Hermit opens with Ken Smith (the hermit) walking 54 miles round trip to post a letter. Surely we thought their must be a post box closer than twenty seven miles but perhaps pillar boxes are joining telephone kiosks and one day will be as redundant as the Tardis' police box.
mo 11 Apr 2022	To match Gentleman Jack striding about in a manly manner the drama matches with a straight ahead pace that we like. As far as we can see the Beeb don't yet have a broadcast date for series two ... turns out it was last night.
sa 23 Apr 2022	We were pretty sniffy about new Freeview channel W but it is repeating sitcom My Family though seemingly the ones without Nick. Don't expect any better from Talk TV going live Monday on channel 237, ironically just about where Russia Today was. Judging by the promo they reckon we're all gagging to hear Piers Morgan's views about the royal family ... sadly they might be right.
tu 29 Mar 2022 Channel W	Freeview tv channels seem to continually change. Yesterday channel 25 which was once ITV4 (for Le Tour and now on channel 26) became W. Despite the promo W seems to be mostly some progs off of ITV and the same mix of emergency service and property shows just like most of the other channels.
tu 8 Feb 2022	We'd forgotten that BBC 3 returned at the beginning of the month but stumbled across it last night. Not surprisingly it's very dayglo but not last night's prog The Instagram Effect.
fr 18 Sep 2020	New to Freeview Sky Arts is on channel 11 which was Pick. Pick is now on channel 34 and no, we don't know what was on channel 34 before.
th 30 Jan 2020 red button	The BBC red button text service didn't switch off today. After a petition from the National Federation of the Blind the decision will be reviewed in the spring ... though the red button itself doesn't seem to know this yet.

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