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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1h

No idea why that video has a "graphic media" warning attached. Not all people trapped in a burning building scenes are the same.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1h

Absolutely love hearing John Cleese slagging off Fawlty Towers. Especially "The Germans", one of the most famous episodes.

(Taken from the Series 1 DVD commentary.)

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2h

Considering what I’ve written about Fawlty Towers over the years, you would hope I might be able to get which episode is from which series correct in my posts.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2h

The latter point is especially odd because they were ALREADY making changes to the pilot before TX, in order to change Polly from being a philosophy student to being an art student, so it all could have been done at the same time.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2h

The theme tune for Fawlty Towers is a different recording for:

a) the pilot,
b) the rest of Series 1, and
c) Series 2

And I wonder why. I guess it's slowed down a bit from the pilot to the rest of Series 1? But if they cared that much, why didn't they paste the new theme onto the pilot before TX?

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 10h

I seem to recall when I wrote that piece, it had gone on to be associated with LOADS of politicians. I should write about the subsequent ones!

John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 10h

Oh, do!

It’s a fucking lame excuse.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 14h

Ah-ha, and Astrid Frank and Gabrielle Drake were both in Au Pair Girls four years previously!

John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 14h

ORDERED THANKS

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 15h

Sorry, what's this, I got the Gabrielle Drake alarm flashing?

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Steve Williams @skillagesteve.bsky.social · 18h

Still feels exciting to have written the iPlayer billings for things like this, the equivalent I suppose of writing the Radio Times billing or the TV trailer in the old days

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 18h

In fact, I’m going to have to be a little more careful about what I publish for various boring reasons, but it does give me more chance to write some stuff about other things.

I have a great piece about Kempton Steam Museum’s use as a TV location over the years which I might finally write!

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 18h

The Christmas Day episode of EastEnders in 1977 got 80 million

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 18h

(I'm not going to talk about my new job on here, but: I'm going back into the fun side of television again, but in a more editorial capacity than before. Can't wait.)

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 18h

Leaving my current job at the end of November, and somehow I only have seven shifts left in the next six weeks due to taking holiday etc. Not sure this has ever happened before, not sure it ever will again.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

I have very particular feelings about loving the smooth motion-look of video*, for instance, which is actually a completely separate discussion in many ways - you can shoot like that single-camera on location if you like, of course!

* film/video are outdated terms now, but useful shorthand.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

One of the *extraordinarily* difficult things about this topic is that it's actually about five different things, and everyone has different feelings about each version of what we're talking about.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

If you're bored this Sunday, you might like some of my recent Fawlty Towers writing.

The cut ending to Gourmet Night: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/luck...

Fawlty Towers parodies over the years: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/herr...

Behind-the-scenes of Basil the Rat: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Polly with a pencil in her hand, taken from The Builders

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

Cheers Ben, thank you!

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

There wasn't much to say about it in the end - it probably should have been another footnote - but I did feel I needed to cover it: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/basi...

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

If you're bored this Sunday, you might like some of my recent Fawlty Towers writing.

The cut ending to Gourmet Night: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/luck...

Fawlty Towers parodies over the years: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/herr...

Behind-the-scenes of Basil the Rat: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

The problem with this showing up in the Discover tab is that all the people who don't know me won't get the joke.

John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

I think I might write something about Fawlty Towers.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

I think I might write something about Fawlty Towers.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

Waiting for Kunt and the Gang to do a song about how H from Steps was stabbed.

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