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Tara Conlan
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Journalist writing about media for the Guardian & others since all this was just Gracie Fields. taraconlan.com
Thanks for sending me down a wormhole, leading to these realisations:
a) bird-related subjects feature heavily in successful novelty songs
b) rose-tinted nostalgia forgets most 70s/80s dancing was rubbish, I mean, look at these examples
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Expect a sudden application from a rep for The Muppets for White House press accreditation
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Seems not first time he’s used this moniker or is he helping publicise Adolescence writer Jack Thorne’s forthcoming timely BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies?
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Creator AI comedy is on the rise. Interested to see how Ryanair responds vm.tiktok.com/ZNdWVVQdm/
October 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Which Joe Marler has been practising
October 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The traditional Traitors’ name misspelling joy has begun
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
BREAKING: Morning
September 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Excited about this Bagpuss opus but for those unfamiliar with the show it was a 1970s stop-animation, fictional precursor to The Repair Workshop but without an allegedly-problematic key presenter and with TikTok-voice singing mice. A golden age of TV? You decide www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
September 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This afternoon I discovered a new contender for BAFTA’s TV moment of the year (👏🏻 BBC News) and also I must learn to predict the future to make sure I’m not on wi-fi when a national emergency strikes (no I didn’t get the alert either)
September 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Pt 2
August 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Doomscroll respite: bird on agapanthus outside my window pt 1
August 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM