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Harry Hill's First Episode of You've Been Framed (2004)

Well, no, they haven't... (Your previous post was already moved to Requests where it belongs, so I suspect this one will be removed)

By Yakkabakakkas

1 reply

435 views

DA 1 Augdavidhorman

50th Anniversary of London Weekend Television

Thats amazing. You win.

By kernow

5 replies

760 views

BA 2 Aug - 3 AugBail

Thames Telethon 1985

How did they get round the network shows?

Interesting comments considering this was a month before the first Children in Need which, although different to what we're used to now, ended up doing exactly what Clive describes every year...

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By JamesM0984

23 replies

2,003 views

IS 2 Aug - 7 AugInspector Sands

Barry Chuckle has died, aged 73

He died peacefully in his sleep

Anything on Talking Pictures is by definition in a poor slot.

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By TIGHazard

125 replies

6,836 views

BR 5 Aug - 26 DecBrekkie

Interactive services memories

Channel 998 is the default, though it seems now for some reason to have recently started broadcasting in HD.

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By Curto21

24 replies

1,857 views

NJ 7 AugNeil Jones

Trouble at Vintage TV?

Pulled from Freeview, Freesat, and temporarily Sky and Virgin

View TV Group are now planning to relaunch Vintage Music as a TV channel next year, initially launching on Sky, so there was some truth in the previous talk of Vintage TV returning to Sky: The...

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By VMPhil

51 replies

15,130 views

KE 7 Aug - 16 Deckernow

"Hardest-working" presenters

The personalities who are or were ubiquitous at one point

I don't think Mark Austin has been mentioned yet - anyone else remember when he used to do both the Evening News and the News at 10:30 every night?

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By Revolution

49 replies

3,198 views

WO 8 Aug - 3 SepWoodpecker

Matt Berry’s Television Themes

Featuring LWT, Thames and Open University

Yeah that's beautiful, as is Blankety Blank, particularly towards the end with the guitar section.

By VMPhil

9 replies

1,262 views

WH 9 Aug - 26 OctWhataday

I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! 2018

Oh yes, you're right, I had it in my head that was the year the Made In Chelsea guy got kicked out abruptly.

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By cmatthews13a

415 replies

21k views

JA 9 Aug - 9 Decjames-2001

Dragonarchive

is he coming back to youtube or not

If you'd looked at the About page it says: This appears to now be the new Ident Central website. You can make contact there if you must.

By HAR10110289

5 replies

410 views

NJ 11 AugNeil Jones

Audio description adverts

BT Sport have one too

By A former member

2 replies

411 views

DV 12 Augdvboy

Pacific Quay Productions

New endcap?

Yes - if you go and look at the Teams drop down you will see the various BBC Studios teams and their official names. These can, optionally, be added to a BBC Studio logo.

By Steve in Pudsey

2 replies

595 views

NG 17 Aug - 18 Augnoggin

Worst ever tv related problem you've ever had?

Mine is The Weakest Link.. in the middle of Bob the Builder.

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By Curto21

74 replies

3,754 views

RO 19 Aug - 28 AugRory

BBC FOUR

BBC 4.1

Animation 2018 had a sting used to introduce the shorts. Mind you some of them are weird, I did like the badger one,

By A former member

8 replies

1,912 views

:-( 19 Aug - 2 DecA former member

Stefán Karl Stefánsson dies aged 43

LazyTown star dies after long battle with cancer

I'm sad, too, having transmitted loads of Lazy Town shows over the years. Robbie Rotten was such a wonderful character and Stefan a brilliant actor - playing a sympathetic villain and putting everything...

By Caly123

3 replies

710 views

TC 21 Aug - 24 AugTonyCurrie

Lorraine

Here it is:

By cmatthews13a

4 replies

537 views

IT 24 AugIttr

Missing programs

Catch up

The Fire Stick is a strange beast though as it doesn't come with a bunch of preinstalled apps as you'd expect, you have to jump on the Amazon Store to "buy" the ones you want even though they're free....

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By Jemima

12 replies

656 views

NJ 24 Aug - 26 AugNeil Jones

ITV’s LittleBe

Split from Childrens TV

To be honest, it's more likely to be a Presentation Scheduling/Media Planning error. Playout (especially for a non-reactive channel like ITVBe) wouldn't 'schedule' these.

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By This Is Granada

72 replies

7,382 views

DB 24 Aug - 12 Feb 2019dbl

Roy walker back on Catchphrase

At the Edinburgh TV festival

I remember Sky One used to show the US Strike it Rich in a morning slot during the early 90s....although I recall they might have changed the name to "Beat the Bandit" or something like that? They...

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By A former member

19 replies

1,576 views

XI 25 Aug - 27 AugXilla

Michael Barrymore

Could he return to our screens?

Not in the States (bear in mind I'm talking about the US original here from 1986 which was called Strike it Rich). Same Apple-II based system that TTD used. Was confirmed by a Kline and Friends staffer...

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By Worzel

45 replies

2,284 views

TT 26 Aug - 7 Septtt