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…and finally

"Is it really the end of the series?"

So on this final evening, one very last thank you from me for making it such a brilliant place to run. Best wishes to everyone for the future and kudos to Rob and the team for keeping the conversation going.

As a few are ending their posts with a closing video, I'll do the same and leave you with Phillip and Sarah. Maybe replace Sarah's "letters and phone calls" with "posts and mocks".


Lights out later this evening, in a couple of hours.

And if anyone does have any comments or suggestions about the forum, you're too late!

Cheers, Asa

TV Forum: New for (the middle of) 2020

That was typical the day before it closed - "This experiment was automatically created by Google". How kind of them, I've switched it off!

Saturday Night Takeaway 2021

I caught up with the rest and it was a great show - On Air Dares was a lot of fun and the End of the Show was a technical (and timing) triumph.

The little touches like the strikethrough on the credits were great. No-one needs to do stuff like this, but the fact they do is nice.

…and finally

Thanks again for the recent messages, and farewell to those who have recently posted for the final time! It's been a blast.


Ahh, the days of MHP Chat! Yes, it seemed very much transmitter talk and ITV in the 70s. That was its audience, it just wasn't where my interest lay. I remember talking about how cool it was to see BBC One play out the 90sec N24 countdown one night and barely getting a response. And Darren giving a few of us a ticking off for pestering an announcer (maybe Dan Austin?) to play a certain ident!

Thank You Asa!

That's a huge amount of generosity from people here to raise £1000 in just 24 hours, and then keep going to the next milestone and beyond. Just fantastic. So many lovely messages on the JustGiving page too. Thank you.

One very proud administrator (or "Web Master" as I like to be captioned )

Saturday Night Takeaway 2021

I bailed out after part 1 last night, will catch the rest of it but wasn’t fussed at the time to keep watching. Intrigued at this whole Stephen Mulhern bit though.

As everyone says, when you’ve got a victim who’s just so savvy, it doesn’t really work. A fine line between a bubbly character and someone over confident. Rewarding someone who ruined her husbands clothes and the pizza incident with the same prize as the Happiest Minute lot was a little odd. Of all the emails last year from viewers putting forward their family/friends, was hers really the best option? Quite funny seeing Ross somewhat stuck in the roof though.

Overall they’ve done incredibly well to put the show together but I think everyone, Ant & Dec especially, will love having the audience properly back next year.

Thank You Asa!

This was a really nice idea. Thank you Rob, Brekkie and Simon. And I agree, a lovely sentiment from David.

It's a illness that has sadly touched my family in a devastating way so any donation to the charity would be fantastic. Thank you to everyone who has already donated. But it is tough for a lot of people right now so obviously do not worry if you can't.

Digital Spy axes General Discussion forum

Didn't take long for some of the posts in this thread to be headache-inducing.

Thread closed.

Digital Spy axes General Discussion forum

Administrators banning political discussion. Just who do they think they are?



Some of the replies in that linked thread are headache-inducing. Pushing away some members is probably a blessed relief for the team. I feel for the guys at AVForums, they may be wondering why their registration count has suddenly jumped today.


In fairness, that would be a rather pointless move.

TV Forum: New for (the middle of) 2020

Thanks all. A bittersweet birthday this, isn't it? Lack of logo overnight was me uploading it to the wrong place. You'd think I'd know where to put things by now.


Sadly there's no phantom kudoer, it was just a bug on the search results. Older posts can be given kudos back to around 2010 I think, which a few people have randomly done.

Post counts can drift a bit for a few reasons - the search system is different from the rest of the site although it should really pick up all posts. I think pre-crash members had their post count restored so that may be slightly out too. After the close I'll update the counts to reflect the actual number of posts available.

There's now a link on the right hand side of forum pages to order by most replies within the first 24 hours. This is a good gauge of just some of the big topics we've discussed over the years. Turns out a lot of people had things to say about Oneness on that New Years' Day (and apparently Piers Morgan more recently ).

https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/24-hours/
https://tvforum.uk/thenewsroom/24-hours/

BBC Select to return as a brand

Once could be seen as a bit of a rogue accident, but twice? This is on it's way everywhere isn't it. A change for the sake of it and a worse one at that - looks childish against the current one. We're going to end up with years and years of both logos - there's still the occasional outing of the 2002 BBC One logo!

Such a shame.

BBC News July 2019 Regional News titles AEP

Ballyboy, enough now. Your requests are becoming nothing more than spammy.