Given my big University dissertation was about Brookside so pleased to see it briefly back - Sinbad, Billy Corkhill, Barry Grant, Tinhead, Sheila and Bobby. Even Phil Redmond 😍🥲
Quite liking the fact there's multiple people streaming the Oasis gig on TikTok while the BBC are doing a live stream outside the actual venue and not the gig itself.
Strange new world.
So good to see Pulp at Glastonbury. And so full of memories. I remember when I put Glastonbury on TV for the first time in 1994 - I was head of arts at Channel 4 - and they were the best thing on. And Jo Wiley was one of our presenters! Great days…..So stupid of C4 to let it go.
I think she was pretty central to Treasure Hunt becoming the hit it became. Previous adjuicators had been pretty stern, she brought fun and life into the studio end to match that of Anneka Rice.
Sad to learn of the passing in December 2024 of Wincey Willis. She was something of a female trailblazer on TV, and we still enjoy the occasional bout of Treasure Hunt, with Wincey keeping track of Anneka Rice.
Biggest audiovisual spectacle of the year #Eurovision2025 is still in stereo, in 1080 HD (likely interlaced), in SDR and Rec.709. This event just screams for HDR, WCG and Dolby Atmos, if not 4K. Opinion piece I wrote 6 months ago, so far without effect 🙁
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@JakubKrupa@flightradar24 G-INTV is actually the BBC one (which is on most jobs shared pictures and cost with ITN for ITV News). Sky’s is G-UKTV. ITN used to have one with the great reg of G-OITN.