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YouTube video by Martin Stevenson Foxkids Closing/Sky 2

The videos online of it definitely prove that it broadcasted in the evenings only(it shared a transponder with Fox Kids, which then began timesharing with National Geographic channel after the original Sky2 ended), so you're not wrong
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We got the channel in July '04 during it's last months with that branding so I'm slightly familiar with it (it would've been renamed to Sky Mix from September that year, and Sky Two in late 05). The brief 90s version of the channel (and tombstone era of Sky) I didn't know of until years later though

YouTube video by VideotapeFTW Sky One Mix promos

To be honest, my first thought when seeing that being listed there was that it surely couldn't be as good or extravagant as this one for Sky One Mix from 23 years ago
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Inital schedule in question
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Rather oddly the inital schedule for the final hours of Max has already been canned in favour of Road Wars, a double bill of Monkey Life, Big Cats and Shark with Steve Backshall as the last programme

YouTube video by Swimace Pancake Day - Maid Marian

As far as I'm concerned, this is really the only worthy song to put on when making your pancakes today as it is every year...
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Also STV/SMG kids output related, I only found out recently that Cre8 from the long gone UK feed of Discovery Kids was produced by them too, though I don't think it was on the channel described below despite that
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Watch On Safari | Stream Free on STV Player Four intrepid explorers take on some scary animal challenges.

Even more so that the STV version is still available on their streaming site (and I'm fairly sure was all on YouTube at one point when they had a channel alongside other STV made shows before it was all removed)
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Slightly amazing and weird in hindsight thinking about it now, that the 2000 STV iteration of On Safari is *just* as old now as the original TVS version here was 7 years after the STV version was first shown

One of the oddest list of credits I’ve ever seen. I didn’t realise ITV employed 3 different commentators all called Martin Tyler!

Something I only realised when watching the video back earlier is that the advert for NTL mentions the ITV Sport Channel (and ITV Sport Select) as one of the new sport channels available... this was recorded nearly 4 weeks after it ceased broadcasting
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Though in fairness they did improve on the issue shortly before the October 1997 rebrand
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I'm like that with the menu layouts throughout most of the 91-97 era with both channels (bit of an unpopular opinion I know) as it did feel a little cluttered text wise in places

PlayJam - Sky Digital - 19th October 2001 : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive A bit of the Sky interactive service PlayJam from the 19th October 2001, no gameplay sadly, but includes a nice set of instructions on how to play their...

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Second and last upload of today is some PlayJam from the 19th October 2001 with sadly no gameplay, but still plenty to enjoy, including a set of instructions on how to play Blackjack and a PlayStation joke.

The fact on ham being flammable on egg may not be reliable :/

BBC One - Continuity - 19th October 2001 : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Leading out of BBC News at Six and into UK Today.Thanks to MrHammadmossop1988 for this.All copyrights to BBC

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First upload of today is a bit of BBC One continuity between News at Six and UK Today from the 19th October 2001, with the promo for the following Saturday night serving as a reminder that Saturday night schedules even then had it's share of meh shows as well as good ones

YouTube video by VideotapeFTW Play Away S8E5 (1978) - FULL EPISODE

Certainly from what I've seen of Play Away online (those that have surfaced at least), his presenting style certainly isn't any different from Mallett at his peak at times
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YouTube video by Phillip Moss How we made a Comedy Series for the BBC using Virtual Production

Partly because amongst other reasons, it's a *damn* excellent example of how to utilise virtual production for creating shows (not just comedy) during times where physical production isn't feasible; the video of how it was made with the technique is definitely worth a watch
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YouTube video by Ident Circle All age of outrage BBC and ITV parodies so far 2021

5 years later this year (how?!) since the full first series of Age of Outrage was screened (after a pilot the previous year) and its definitely not hard to say that it's probably my favourite sketch comedy of recent years
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Those following on with the Discovery Channel continuity I posted last week will also know that this comes from the same recording as that (and Fox Kids) as well
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Prime TV - Continuity - 23rd September 2001 : Tola G : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive During and after Neelam Ghar (with a bit of the news bulletin Khbarnama at the side), addmittedly unsure of the name of the third programme afterwards...

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Today's upload is some continuity from the little known Prime TV from the 23rd September 2001 around the likes of Neelam Ghar (gameshow) and Khbarnama (news bulletin), providing a glimpse into international multichannel TV at it's prime*

*I'll get me coat :(

Channel 4 holding slide for POB GOES TO THE HOSPITAL The punchable Gove-faced arsehole is pictured waving at the camera

I assume a cameraman got sick of the unhygienic puppet's flobby antics and lamped the fucker

The last 2 hours of Sky Showcase (with an hour long Magnum P.I and a double bull of Highway Patrol) from the early hours of the 24th February

And if you're wondering on Sky Showcase on the other hand...

A screenshot from the TV Guide website of the final hour of Sky Max ( a double bill of The Simpsons), a promo loop for the revived Sky One and the first programme of the channel (Attenborough's Journey)

I know we're not expecting a send off for Sky Max in 2 weeks time (nor does it probably deserve one), but I find it ever so amusing that the only time they schedule The Simpsons is literally in it's last hour

Yeah it was popular for a while in its earlier years (hence why it got it's own BBC3 show), then the novelty died out shortly afterwards, though that didn't stop the original game itself from still being on the BBC website until early 2010. Not that anyone cared by then anyway

Unpopular opinion/hot take: Celebdaq was probably the blandest show on their original lineup of programmes. Even during the time the show and the original game itself were around, I always felt that it wasn't really worth bothering with

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

Today, TV Live remembers Terence Burridge, the webmaster of TV Whirl, who passed away a year ago today.

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YouTube video by BritishTVFan2005 Nickelodeon UK - Continuity and Adverts - 21st April 2003 (Footy Week)

For what it's worth though, the YouTube duplicates of some of my uploads do seem to display them in proper 4:3 regardless despite it being converted in that way
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I can only really apologise for how the aspect ratio looks with most of them on other devices (apart from mine it seems), as the majority of them were MPG files converted to an MP4 format

Anjuman TV - Adverts - 18th May 2001 : Tola Gemeda : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive During a showing of Dupatta Jal Raha Hai (1998). Apologies for the picture and sound problems throughout the second ad break of this video (though that sums up...

Yep it indeed was as Sky had a small amount of Asian/Pakistan channels that were exclusive to their service at the time (Anjuman TV as another example below)
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