Hi, does anyone remember a childrens' game show from the 1990s? I think it was called "Terror Towers" or something like that. Contestants would work their round a haunted castle solving puzzles to win eyeballs. The contestants with the most eyeballs won the game.

Is it my imagination or is there a huge lack of many of the old favourites this year? No Elf, no Santa Claus the Movie, no National Lampoons Christmas Vacation...

Have they all been bought up by streaming services and Sky etc?

I’m from America so don’t get to see any of the adverts of what’s coming out.

Any older shows coming back for a special this year?

I've had the slightly sad realisation they are dead.

Whilst I say dead, that's not to say if I scroll through freeview I'm not putting on cats does countdown or I'm not watching bot Mortimer would I lie to you clips. But how many new successful panel shows has there been in the last 10 years?

Growing up I loved a panel show, particularly mock the week as it was my first taste of 'stand up', and considering it was mostly focused on political news you never really associated the comedians as political commentators as on HIGNFY.

However I also had a shower thought how completely bonkers they are to describe to Americans. A bunch of random comedians and tv personalities in a shiny studio all facing the audience and not each other talking about topics in different formats. I particularly remember Netflix making one with jimmy car and American guests and it did not land at all.

8 out of 10 cats seems to now be exclusively countdown which I now realise was completely held together my the amazing Sean lock. I don't foresee any truly remarkable episodes to made since his loss.

Would I lie to you did have the power of casting truly anyone on the show not just comedians and is inherently timeless for repeats. But definitely not a show I would tune in live for or particularly watch on catchup.

Never mind the buzzcocks is a thing again..apparently..? The league of the own also feels dated.

The only fairly recent and loosely panel format success I can think of is taskmaster.

They used to all be a fixture in the tv guide and it will be a sad day when they fall away.

Talking about the investigatiom re workplace culture in the BBC Mark Lawson writes

"This process would need to be extremely lucky or incurious to identify no further targets for internal discipline and external media scrutiny; possibly, this time, including executives who have previously escaped by putting themselves in charge of supervising punishments. The BBC may soon face further chaos"

Watch this space. 👀

Is anyone watching this show?

He seems to come across as really unlikeable, is he putting on the ADHD thing just to annoy everyone around him?

It's like he is a nightmare client for his builder friend to have to put up with.

He speaks to his partner really rudely for someone who just lost a wife.

I get that a part of that may be in a jokey way, but it becomes grating and old very quickly.

I watched the first series, and it didn't get to me as much.

It's become tradition in our house to spend Christmas Eve watching a marathon of festive specials of our favourite shows.

Here's the list for this year so far, what would you add to it?

• Bottom - Holy
• Limmy Show - Christmas special
• Black Mirror - White Christmas
• Inside No.9 - The Devil Of Christmas
• Knowing Me Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge
• Peep Show - Seasons Beatings
• Father Ted - A Christmasy Ted
• League of Gentlemen - Christmas special
• Charlie Brooker - Screenwipe Christmas special
• Extras - Christmas special
• The Office - Christmas special
• Motherland - Christmas special

Hear me out on this one. S4C did the whole second channel thing some years ago where they used it to broadcast events such as the Eisteddfod and Senedd sessions. It ultimately disappeared.

What if S4C tried the whole second Welsh language channel again but they use it to broadcast children's programmes in Welsh only. It would be great if the young children could watch these shows throughout the day as it helps them speak the language. Especially when the Welsh language is becoming more important to the government as they want more and more to learn the language.

I am aware that they broadcast children's programmes from 6am to about 11-1130. Usually during the school week there's an hour of children's programmes but that's about it then. I know they can rewatch these shows in S4C/CLIC and BBC iPlayer but what about those who just want to watch Freeview.

Opinions on this? Could it be a reality if people pushed for it?

does anyone know if the new series Patience is a remake of Astrid & Raphaelle (which i loved) or a rip off?

This randomly popped in to my head last night while I was lying in bed

Anyone remember a show (on channel 4 I think it was), that followed three families living with, and raising pets

At the end of the week they had to decide: do they eat the pets that they helped raise, or do they give up meat. I remember family saying that they'd eat the chicken regardless

What is this?

This sort of programme is usually right up my street, but I got bored of Gregg's "OMG look at how that machine makes SO MUCH LUVLY cheese!" that he would say ad infinitum.

The new hosts are so much better and it's a lot more technical and engaging.

Hello everyone. I am looking for a advert from a few years ago that went something like "juicy succulent chicken." I have been looking for it like mad but I can't seem to find it.

I only know it is a male husky voice, so if anyone could point me in the right direction I would be grateful!

Christmas present to myself. I only ever caught snippets of it when it was aired on TV so looking forward to seeing the whole thing.

Hello there, Itv at this time of year do a part of the programme which has William Hanson an etiquette expert come on and rate people’s Christmas trees. I find it very tacky and tasteless to have someone come on and slag off people’s tastes at Christmas. A tacky expert on a tacky programme with a tacky idea. William Hanson has become tacky he’s always moaning about how awful something is he did the same at Halloween on his Podcast just pontificating how tacky it is. Your tacky! he is the sort of person who would come to a fancy dress party in a suit. I find them ironically rude and tasteless in attitude no one likes a snob.

Hello, Yesterday I spoke about William Hanson and when we went on This Morning. I was thinking more about him as a professional and as a person. Today I would be interested to know if you like him or hate him and why. I am not a fan he seems pretentious and pompous, and sadly he seems like someone who’s running away from insecurity. Most people don’t know this but he has a lot of confidence issues. I think he’s being pretentious to avoid that. He is like the real life Mrs Bucket scoffing at things he views as inferior. I hope that he’s just playing a character and he really isn’t like that in real life.

Are any of the Ghost Story for Christmas episodes actually Christmas themed? I am looking to watch one that is Christmas themed, or set at Christmas, even just a few scenes featuring Christmas decor. Are there any episodes like that? TIA :) Merry Christmas!!

Feeling really nostalgic this Christmas and remembering a tape I used to watch a lot as a kid of a programme my parents must of taped of the telly in the late 80s / early 90s but no luck finding on the Web.

It was essentially like an extended TOTP2 Xmas special with all the big Christmas classics up to the mid-late 80s, interspersed with christmas themed clips from various TV shows: definitely stingray, something with I think Jasper Carrot in an off liscense. Fairly sure it was the BBC as no ad breaks on it.

Does anyone at all remember this or did I dream it?

So my brother and I both remember a sketch where an academic discusses a literal comedy formula written on a blackboard. The punchline being when applied to "the Vicar of Dibley" the formula shows that it isn't funny.

My brother thinks it might have come from "the story of the twos" - I think it might have been a Fast Show special.

Any ideas?

just finished the 6 seasons of Lovejoy, it's great escapism like someone said. i wonder if there are any similar shows like it? thanks in advance

I’m rewatching Balls of Steel and series 1 episode 4 has disappeared from Channel 4’s streaming. It’s also not on YouTube or Dailymotion. Anyone know why it’s disappeared?

For me, the shapes from mister maker used to scare me, as did a few other characters from tv shows. According to my parents I was also scared of the muppets and teletubbies which is weird as I never remember having that much of a fear of them (which would also be weird as I loved night garden) - let me know your thoughts!

For me, The PG tips monkey scared me to the point where I even ran out the house a couple times. I was also scared of a few of a few other ones with puppets in them but I can’t remember what they were. there were probably a few others aswell but I genuinely cannot think of the top of my head what they were. Let me know your thoughts! :)