No idea how that rumour started, by the way*.

"The nation's population of middle-aged and slightly desperate women will go into official mourning tomorrow night, when unpopular-with-anyone-who-respects-acting, personality-free walking denture fixative advertisement (and all-round, do-anything-for-the-cash, work visa-clutching male strumpet) John ( Read more... )

...but for some strange reason the Beeb sent the terminally square-jawed Fiona Bruce (new hostess of The Antiques Roadshow on BBC 1) to interview the shy, and soon to be semi-retiring, Micro$oft multi-billionaire on behalf of The Money Programme for BBC 2 ( Read more... )

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Edit: Via boingfeed, how slacks were sold to men in 1970:


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'Today, BBC2 Northern Ireland will air its first local version of Sesame Street, the world’s most successful children’s television show. But this is no wholesale American export. The usual cast of Cookie Monster and Grover will be joined by two new, Celtic companions: Potto, a mop-topped monster, and Hilda, a curious Irish hare, who says, “That’s ( Read more... )