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A continuation of the same content from the other place but with more of an upbeat nature here than the corrupted landscape of that other place.

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tolagemeda.bsky.social
31 years since they first aired it too believe it or not...
Screenshot of the earliest listing of the first episode of Fraiser on Channel 4 from the 20th April 1994
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
The recent news on the closure of Pop and Tiny Pop (as linear channels) has brought me again to this TV Live Forum post by @vmphil.bsky.social about the former channel's launch in 2003 as Toons n Tunes, and it's funny to think how cheaply run it was then compared to now
TV Live Forum post on a thread focused around Pop/Tiny Pop
November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
There was also a prototype logo made for the channel in the previous branding format that I believe only ever appeared in this document before it launched with the new ITV logo
A corporate document for ITV's multichannels with the 2003-2006 branding and with the 1998 logo including ITV4's inital logo on the bottom right corner
November 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Recent intriguing yet damaged find: 2/3 minutes of an edition of L&K from early 2000 (halfway through the 7th series) centering around The Simpsons from the brief time it was on the lineup to compete with SMTV Live in the ratings
@saturdaymornings.co.uk
@jamesthedog.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Also couldn't help but notice this under the listing of the Teletubbies episode shown earlier that day when looking on BBC Genome earlier on today...
A language warning for the Teletubbies ep "Ten Little Men Finger Play" on the TV listing for BBC Two (CBBC Breakfast Show) on Genome from the 4th January 1999
October 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Also on the same recording... a Pokemon GameBoy bag of Pikachu is what was deemed worthy of a prize giveaway to those who answered correctly to a Corrie related question on Yorkshire Tonight in June 2000 apparently
@miles-online.co.uk
@maxisherealso.bsky.social
@oocukkidstv.bsky.social
Neil Sean on Yorkshire Tonight from around June 2000 promoting a Pikachu GameBoy bag amongst other goodies for prizes The question for winning the prizes in the second picture for Yorkshire Tonight's competition on Corrie
October 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Don't think I've seen a better obituary for Windows 10 during yesterday than this one...
A Metropol post revolving around support ending for Windows 10, commemorating the service for its odd quirks and hindrances
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Worth noting that the edition of Taggart this ad break comes from (and a few others) was aired in 14:9 (when it wasn't as common place on analogue broadcasts I believe) compared to another later on in the recording which is 4:3
September 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
This forum post about Jobfinder (ITV Nighttime filler for most regions from 80s to mid 2000s) springs to mind...
September 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
With it being 20 years since ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations (and ITV itself now 70 as of today), I'm immediately drawn again to this TV Forum post from 4 years ago about the former
A post on TV Forum jokingly making light of ITV's supposed "50 channels" and their "creative" ideas on what programmes to show on each one of them
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
That feeling when the first programme BBC Four aired today in tribute to the narrator of said show is one that you literally found a few airings of on one of the tape files you were going through last week...

(This particular one was the Zookeeper ep if you're curious)
A screencap of the Mr Benn opening titles from a Nick Jr 2 airing (during the Nick Jr Classics block) from 2008
September 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Bit funny in hindsight now given that the brand itself is returning in the new year and doing away with Sky Showcase and Replay in the process.... (can't find the Digital Spy thread the first image refers to though but stil)
Pres Café post describing the changes to the Sky channels next year, with one rebranding and one closing Pres Café post confirming that Sky Replay (formerly Sky Two, Sky Mix and Sky One Mix) and Showcase are the channel's closing, coinciding with the renaming of Sky Max back to Sky One
August 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Saw the Pineapple Dance Studios mentioned on the bus map while out and about on Thursday, which reminded me of this legendary and underrated Digital Spy thread opener from 15 years ago
First post on the Digital Spy thread for the Pineapple Dance Studios docusoap on Sky One during 2010 (which was situated in the studios in Convent Garden, London)
August 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Bit of a curio I found when scrolling through the first few minutes of the tape earlier; the 1989 ITV Sport logo being used for the first rugby match in December 1998 (2 months after the 1998 rebrand) and the then new ITV logo in use for the other rugby match in the second image
Coverage of the England vs South Africa rugby game from ITV Sport, with the 1989 logo intact (as reported by GMTV on the 5th of December 1998) Coverage of the Scotland vs Portugal rugby game with the 1998-2006 ITV logo (as again reported by GMTV on the 5th of December 1998)
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Well this will "protect" the data of those who haven't used their Samsung account in 2 years when this is implemented I'm sure...
An announcement from Samsung via email regarding a new policy concerning inactive accounts
August 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
It was seemingly popular enough though to get its own channel the following year, not that it lasted long until it was replaced with Bravo 2 a couple of months later (the description of the channel's supposed "birth" on Bravo's website is too disturbingly funny for my own good...)
A description on how Bravo 2 came to life on Bravo's website circa late 2006 (dread to think on what the placenta taste like, and did Carlos even consent to that dance?!)
August 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Some more music channel tidbits from the same recording (from the late Box Plus network) - notably a snapshot of what the "Boxtops" segment looked like after The Box's September 2001 revamp and the others using the PresBox playout system after being introduced a year prior
@jamesthedog.bsky.social
One of The Box's segments "Boxtops" which centred around the top 10 music videos selected by viewers via phoning up or texting (this was what it looked like from the September 2001 rebrand) "21 Seconds" by So Solid Crew playing from Kiss TV from October 2001 The "On Top" segment from Smash Hits focusing around the most selected songs of the week Magic TV from it's early months in October 2001 (it had launched the previous month)
August 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Always thought it was funny how Smile made the game avaliable on mobile at one point (out of all their flash games they had) as it would've looked clunky and inconvenient as opposed to playing on computer
A section on the Smile subpage on the CBBC website on how you can play Bandit Bites through your mobile phone circa December 2004
August 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Near month on from this post, and the same has since sadly applied to Adam's archive (his videos not the account) who uploaded similar content (though this one isn't on him being caught out for it, but more so on his accord due to certain commenters)
@jonabuft.bsky.social
@jamesthedog.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
*Files this under "BBC television adaptations of well known books and novels you forgot existed until today"*
The BBC's 1999 adaptation of Pig heart boy, from a CBBC channel repeat from February 2002 (not long after the channel's launch)
June 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
(2/2)
How the lead up to the interview went according to the man himself, and the cringing embarrassment of watching back his appearance (hopefully some pride on the mentioning of TV Home and the forum though), as well as his description of his interaction with the late Martin Lambie Nairn
May 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Probably most notable for also having a certain Asa of TV Forum appear on the show on the wake of the then new personality two's in November 2001 much to the forum's hype...

(I had a lot of fun with the alt text here...) (1/2)
One TVF member seemingly wanting spoilers for the edition sooner rather than later... Another one reminding us all on how analogue TV was still common at the time on the cusp of digital, and having to put up with shoddy TV captures from Hauppuage TV cards and the like In an alternate universe, BBC Choice actually aired this instead of the edition focusing on the launch of the yellow two's and those watching were certainly up for a nasty surprise... Just wait until this member finds out what Gary Barlow looks like now compared to Asa then
May 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Nor any of these shows for that matter...
May 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
Very much already a fan of the adjustments made for Pres Café - the homepage in particular stands out more from its previous design (though the globe in the header with various images of idents is certainly reminding me of one of TV Forum's former headers...)
Former header for TV Forum from 2014-2020 Current header image for Pres Café
April 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
tolagemeda.bsky.social
And finally, the place where newsreaders wearing any black clothing was seen as extremely surreal by the forum's userbase (outside of funeral coverage of course).

But this was all, of course, forum terminology, banter and odd characteristics. Probably. (3/3)
The opening post on the infamous "newsreaders wearing black" thread from October 2005
March 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM