“Stupidly, I very nearly cried…”
I take great – if possibly misguided – pride in being pretty much the same person now as I always was. Me when I was nine and when I’m 31 are rather too close to being the same person. When people tell...
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Sitcom Recording Leaflets: New Yes, Prime Minister
As regular readers of this site will know, I have lots of little obsessions – and one of the more obscure ones is the leaflets that used to be handed out to the audience at sitcom recordings. I’ve...
View ArticleBEST. ADVERT. EVER.
I have posted this on Twitter. I have posted this on Tumblr. But I will not rest until I have forced as many people as possible to watch this. Stay right to the very end for the best bit.
View ArticleSelf-Righteous Twitter Rant #782332
Robert’s Web. Safely one of the worst television programmes I have ever seen. Not that that’s my main point here, but I’ll take any chance I can get to slag off that wretched show. No, my point here is...
View ArticleBlackadder II: Extended Theme
Every so often, a DVD release gives you a lovely surprise. Sometimes, that surprise may be quickly skipped, with most people not even noticing it. Take, for instance, Blackadder II – and specifically,...
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Ludicrous Faces Masterclass: Chris Barrie
This may be the most pointless thing I have ever done. But also one of the most enjoyable. Ladies and gentlemen, I present the final image of each episode of The Brittas Empire, or: Chris Barrie...
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A Few Notes on a Tour of BBC Television Centre, 28th January 2013
I often ponder what my ideal job would be. Perhaps it would be working in TX for BBC One in the 90s, at TV Centre. Or working in BBC VT in the 80s, at TV Centre. Or being a BBC cameraman in the 70s, at...
View Article.faxmachine
Yesterday, I bought the domain name for my upcoming internet radio show: 80track.fm. There’s only a holding page there at the moment, though TV pres geeks should recognise the font used for the logo....
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See ya, YouTube
I’ve been uploading things to YouTube for a few years now. Hardly a heavy user, mind you, and I was never eagerly chasing views: it was mainly just a place to store small bits of video easily that I...
View Article# Serving the South West… #
Last Wednesday was Pirate FM‘s 21st anniversary – and to celebrate, they dug out a bunch of their old JAM jingles from their 1992 launch. I wish I’d managed to record the whole day, but sadly I only...
View ArticleA post about JLS. Really.
Never let it be said that Dirty Feed isn’t topical. To, erm, celebrate JLS splitting up, here’s some audio from their appearance on The Chris Moyles Show back in 2011, where they sung the show’s...
View ArticleOn Television.
From a piece on the Red Bee Media blog, “Is the Golden Age of TV Here To Stay?”: “What’s behind the rise of the Golden age of television and how are consumer habits tuning into it? There has been much...
View ArticleFour Channels
Here’s something rather silly I’ve put together. Anyone up for a bunch of 8-bit versions of popular TV and film themes, taken from a load of BBC Micro games? I CAN TELL YOU ARE, HELLO YOU. Some of the...
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The Voice of Ephemera
One day, I will get this jingle sung to the title of this post; something I love about running this site is detailing lovely pieces of television ephemera. Recently, I got a great email from Paul...
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Gypsy Creams
If you’ve been wondering why Dirty Feed has been updating even less than usual recently, that’s because I’ve been busy redesigning Gypsy Creams, my darling girlfriend’s site based around 1960s...
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A Few Notes on an Audience Screening of That Puppet Game Show, 20th July 2013
Yesterday, I went to the third audience screening of That Puppet Game Show – BBC One’s great Autumn Saturday night entertainment hope, co-produced with The Jim Henson Company. Official synopsis time:...
View ArticleNoise to Signal: A Brief Retrospective
In September 2005, me and a group of friends set up a site called Noise to Signal. Its initial inspiration was pretty much “Ganymede & Titan, but talking about other media things other than Red...
View ArticleWonga.com: “No Hidden Charges”
I’m sure nobody reading this needs a rant about what a dreadful company Wonga is. You can get that better elsewhere, and it’s not my speciality. I do feel moved to comment on one of the ads in their...
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Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era
“On the 22nd Nov 93, an event was to happen of such earth-shattering proportions that it was to shatter the earth to its very proportions…” Or maybe that should be 4th Apr 94. For that was the day...
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“Historical” Pics
Two images of the Golden Gate Bridge. On the left, a fake picture posted by the Twitter account @HistoricalPics. On the right, the real picture which it took me all of two minutes to find.1...
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