Jonathan Bufton

Seems an odd way to do it, but maybe my expectations of revamps have been shaped by the 90s when it happened every few years. The Observer changed their logo end of last year and the old one is still printed on some of the sections each week…

New look, yay! Masthead harks back to the glory days - fab. Listings inside same design as since what, 2010? Which when you think about the changes in TV viewing since then is less good.

It had Chloe Annett in the shower, I was easily pleased

Hit me Paul Shane one more time

Slightly baffled by the ill-fitting “BAM BAM BAM BAM” welded on the end of the live version of It’s Not Right by Whitney…what were they thinking? #totp

In the TOTP timeline I am 15 and currently logging on excitedly to see what everyone thought of the new series of Red Dwarf, and being completely baffled by some of the vitriol…

No and this is the issue. Whatever their ambitions, it doesn’t stack up when you put them side by side.

Wow! Love the headline

(I did enquire what the loyalty discount mentioned is…there was no reply)

The Observer app costs £15.99 a month. It’s unclear whether it lets you do something as unfashionable as actually read the paper. Given the Guardian never really built up the Obs name outside of Sunday print, that is what people associate it with, so it could be an uphill struggle for Tortoise.

It looks as though any Sunday print subscribers have been moved over, but if you had a digital sub or got Editions through a print sub to another day, that’s it.

Guardian Editions app announces end of Observer support from 25th Jan

Speaking of the Guardian, looks like the Observer ties are being severed in the Editions app (which basically allows you to read the paper as a big PDF on tablet or phone) after this Sunday. I love the “hostage message” vibes from this

Guardian today. Whisper it…but has the “as I was saying” myth finally been put to bed?

Yep. Ended up down a Wikipedia rabbit hole with that too!

Madness Thing by Leilani has been tucked away in a corner of my brain, unheard for 27 years, but somehow ready for complete recall the moment it was repeated on #totp last night. #whenyourboyfriendcomeshomeearlytofindyousuckingonacurlywurly

I’m amused by the simultaneous “wow it’s ten years ago let’s reach into the vaults” and the fact everyone still has the photos in their phones suggests it’s perhaps not the nostalgia trip it once would have been…

And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.

Concentrating on his application for DG

I went to a meeting with a former TOTP producer wearing a TOTP t-shirt. It went unmentioned…

Great find!

I was a BA at Radio 2 at this same moment in time & the pay was absolute shite so good on her 😁

A random bit of banter from the Radio 1 Zoe Ball breakfast show immortalised on last week’s #totp repeats. This is Broadcast Assistant Zoe Alpass after she was told she could have a pay rise if she managed to get on TV. I have no idea why I remember this stuff

You can see why they never updated the logo. Those letters are absolutely huge!

Northern and LNER the main (non-checking) culprits here!

If I buy a ticket at a ticket office I’ll generally be asked to show the digital railcards, but it’s fairly rare I’ll be doing that these days either…

I don’t know if it’s the advent of digital railcards, but I hardly ever/virtually never get asked by a ticket inspector to see my railcard when the ticket is checked. When they were on pieces of card it was every time.

I always thought it was whore as it matches what he said about having hip hop people on the album…I do love how when the caller says “hi it’s Mark, hi” you can hear how nervous he is that he’s about to drop that question!

I wonder if anyone on the phone has a nice question for Peter Andre…

Had a listen into BBC Radio Cornwall, who just came out the 6pm “stay the fuck home” bulletin with “Pray”…