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Gavin
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Principal Video Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery, (previously BT Sport, BBC, Ulster Television and OBs - been making telly happen for 35+ years), RTS & SMPTE member, Alfa Romeo owner. Views mine & no one else’s!

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Music is a funny old thing - it never ceases to amaze me how random songs & lyrics can resonate with you and suddenly mean something in your life…
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Buy this - you will not regret it!
December 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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In just a few hours Dick Van Dyke will be 100 years old.
Dick Van Dyke! 100!
Here he is chatting with Sid James (filming Carry On Up The Khyber) on the Chitty Bang Bang backlot.
December 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Just spotted that BBC2 are showing Get Carter tonight at 11pm, so if you're a fan of seeing Alf Roberts get chucked off a car park you're in luck.
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Stanley Baxter and Ronnie Corbett as the Ugly Sisters in panto, Kings Theatre, Edinburgh, 1967.
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Thank you for your patronage this evening for the musical debacle that was #totp
December 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I do hope nobody told him he was about to drink a lit candle #totp
December 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #totp
December 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
You’d think that if Allan Clarke had been “singing” this Hollies song for 19 years at this point he should be able to mime it properly #totp
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Old joke:

Wet wet wet are playing Glasgow Barrowlands

Big woman screaming at front: "Marti, Marti....take ma body"

Guy next to her: "Look hen, Burke & Hare widnae take your body"

#TOTP
December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Not super smiley Melvin Pillow & Wet, Wet, Wet - please make it stop #totp
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Things have really taken a turn for the worse #totp
December 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I can’t quantify just how much I detest “The Only Way Is Up” #totp - hated it in 1988, still holding firm in 2025
December 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Stanley Baxters death is hard for those seeking to explain his magnitude. Theres no one with who to compare him for younger people.
No M&W, Ronnie Barker, Dick Emery, Benny Hill - no equivalent entertainer.
We have presenters & stand ups now but nothing on TV like Stanley Baxter.
That's all gone.
December 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Heart is another top drawer banger from the Pet Shop Boys.. LOVED the video for this one, can’t explain why 🤪 #totp
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Less BROS, more DROS #totp
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It’s the number twos now #totp
December 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Eddi Reader can’t even be arsed to attempt to mime #totp
December 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If you love Enya, you can be her next door neighbour in Killiney.. This is “two doors down” from her home, however you’ll have house envy as she lives in a castle #totp
Mount Mapas House Victoria Road Killiney Co. Dublin | Lisney
lisney.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
7 years ago, Tiffany played Cottingham Civic Hall just outside Hull & she was surprisingly still really good #totp - yes dear reader, I was there
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Pet Shop Boys are an incredible act live - if you’ve never seen them perform, I urge you to go & see them.. you won’t regret it #totp
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Not that long ago, I had a dream where S’Express’ Mark Moore asked me to do some work for him and the payment was in the form of tabs of E taped to playing cards.. god knows where that one came from!! #totp
September 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Jeez just when you thought it can’t get any worse, you get the 1988 Xmas #totp with Anthea Turner yelling all the time
December 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I can’t watch the rest of #totp this evening as I’ve just shot the television in an Elvis homage, as Cher has appeared AGAIN
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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On the plus side if Will Smith does this at twice the speed it'll be over in half the time #totp
December 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM