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Postman Pat and the slow death of the postal service

🙋Note from Jan '26: This post began life as so many things did after an exchange on Twitter. The related tweets are lost like tears in rain. I tweaked the post a bit, and updated the YouTube embed after the earlier one was removed. Postman Pat has moved on

Media policy explained for the under-6s

CBeebies, the BBC’s preschool channel, has now completed its switch from BBC Television Centre, London to Media City, Salford. There’s probably more interest in the moves of things such as BBC Breakfast (also to Salford) and Question Time (to Glasgow) but I think there’s something quite fascinating

A favourite ‘Six Feet Under’ clip, perfect for you Rapture watchers

We finished watching ‘Six Feet Under’ last night. I’ll celebrate by sharing this rapture themed clip with you. Incidentally I’m landscaping my garden today, so I’m going to look pretty stupid if the rumours are true. SHARE THIS: * Share * * Twitter [https://theplan.co.uk/a-favourite-six-f

A local media thought experiment: “The Bearwood Question”

So local TV is back on the agenda, offering more questions than answers. In the Guardian Media Talk podcast Matt Wells questioned Jeremy Hunt about the ability to deliver “local” in any meaningful way through broadcast television. TV, in its traditional broadcast sense, is territory based: signals h

Owning conversations: the commercial TV back channel for #xfactor

Twitter’s a funny place. The folk I follow on there are passionate champions of free speech one day, insisting that my local councillor can make racist jokes for example, and the next they’re all “this isn’t the place to talk about popular culture – I will unfollow you if you tweet about xfactor you