Frank Sidebottom / Chris Sievey, RIP

Terrible news from Twitter, sadly confirmed by the Manchester Evening News, one of our favourite comedians (and host of our 100th favourite TV show of the last decade) Frank Sidebottom has died after losing his battle with cancer. As an off-kilter comic in the 1980s, the most...

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ITV Sport don’t do books…

…but if they did, they’d be… well…. ...

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BrokenTV’s World Cup Waygoose: Part Four

So, the World Cup is GO. The coverage so far does seem very good, with ITV Sport proving when they really put their minds to it, they can still cover a World Cup as well as they did in the 1980s. Having Adrian Chiles as the main anchor certainly helps – we can’t imagine any...

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BrokenTV’s World Cup Waygoose: Part Three

Previously on BrokenTV’s World Cup Waygoose: we assumed that after a couple of fairly boring official World Cup posters (from 1966 and 1970), the poster for the 1974 tournament in West Germany would be especially dull. Pretty much something like this: Were we right, or were...

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BrokenTV’s World Cup Waygoose: Part Two

Previously on BrokenTV’s World Cup Waygoose: we explained what a waygoose is, then started out trying to take an earnest look at the history of official World Cup Finals Posters, but ended up with nothing but lies and increasingly hamfisted doctored imagery. And now, BrokenTV’s...

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BrokenTV’s World Cup Waygoose: Part One

Yes, ‘waygoose’. It’s a word! Look, it means “An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office”, and was included in the 1914 Webster dictionary. Hey, we wanted to make the headline at least moderately alliterative, and that was the best we could find. ANYWAY, welcome...

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We Love You, Stewart Morris

Further to yesterday’s update, and with thanks to Louis Barfe of the excellent Cheeseford, here’s another brilliant clip of Stewart Morris at his angry best. “Cue the piper! PLAY, YOU BASTARD!” ”Is there any way of getting these old age pensioners to PLAY?” Really,...

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Shut Up, Network!

Really, we know we’ve blogged this before, but it really should become an annual event, that we put up at the time of year that Eurovision comes around. A swearier version of Dinner For One, if you like. It’s that video of legendarily short tempered BBC producer Stewart Morris,...

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