Don’t touch the figs, but do touch my latest @setthetape.bsky.social piece on I, Claudius for its 50th anniversary:

Rome, W12 – Quinquaginta Annis Of I, Claudius

Ask a dozen people what they consider to be the ‘Golden Age of Television’, and you will most likely end up getting a dozen different opinions. A standard answer to the question tends to be the era…

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JL2 The Haunted Windmill. A fun collection of stories, set in an alternative reality that feels like a comic strip version of DW. There's a charm & innocence (though still plenty of peril & pointed humour) to this world that makes even the coziest '60s stories look like Blade Runner. A nice treat.

Are we done, now? Can we... can we go? #TOTP

Bowie can do funny and cool. Jagger can do funny and cringe and back round to funny again. #TOTP

Bowie and Jagger should've done more comedy videos. #TOTP

Is it an emotional support guitar? #TOTP

Too much leaning on someone can lead to a red box. #TOTP

RIP Gerrit Graham. A fantastic, fearless and brilliantly original actor. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Gerrit Graham, Actor in ‘Phantom of the Paradise,’ Screenwriter and Grateful Dead Collaborator, Dies at 77

Gerrit Graham, actor in "Phantom of the Paradise" and many other films and TV shows who co-wrote a song for The Grateful Dead, died Tuesday.

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Diana Dors, the people's prince charming's fairy godmother. #TOTP

Soft focus, is Captain Kirk about to fall in love with them? #TOTP

She took a slap in the face from a piece of scenery like a pro. #TOTP

Trumpet player is the star. #TOTP

Not now, I'm busy being unfunny on the internet! #TOTP

When did the '70s end? 82? 83? #TOTP

"Damn, these boys are good!" #TOTP

I swear she was a barmaid at the Spoon in Ilford. Very angry, chain smoker, married her boyfriend's dad. #TOTP

You let Duffy do an ad read?! #TOTP

Wanted for crimes against hairmanity. #TOTP

Hate it when the timeline shifts and suddenly everyone's like "Oh, yeah, Black Box Recorder, great", even though they never existed a minute ago. #TOTP

How come she's the only one who gets earplugs? #TOTP

Chyron: yes it's shit, please keep watching, it'll be over soon. #TOTP

Isn't this that other 3000 songs? #TOTP

KEYTAR! #TOTP

Blimey, commanding Deep Space Nine fucked him up. #TOTP

Craig David unplugged. One day, hopefully. #TOTP

Waterproofs on, it's a Middlemiss episode. #TOTP

That weird quick-jittery singing style, like he's freezing his bollocks off. #TOTP

Sorry I'm late. That's a lie. #TOTP

Death is incompetent and must be removed from office immediately.

Nope. Unacceptable. Stop it. FFS. RIP the utterly marvellous and sublimely wonderful Stephanie Cole.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 19h ago

Coronation Street and Tenko actress Stephanie Cole has died