2026-10-02 20:04 UTC
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@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social 2026-10-02 20:12
Of course, given the history of British broadcasting and celebrities there are problematic #TOTP episodes that are no longer shown, or are heavily censored. Some presenters and artists are now known to have been engaged in illegal activities. There are also songs that don't meet current standards of decency or other factors. The Wikipedia link in the previous toot lists most of these.
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@Two9A@hachyderm.io 2026-10-02 20:08
@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social And here I was thinking you guys really like Time-based One Time Passwords. [I kid, as a viewer of TOTP myself when I was wee.]
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@ravensrod@mstdn.social 2026-10-02 20:58
@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social I watched the first broadcast, the Stones headlining . a few weeks later it was Sony and Cher. watched for years but eventually stopped. 2006 I was at a freinds when it came on towards the end of it's run. While the opening credits were running I tried to remember why I stopped watching. Then the headline acts were announced, the Stones and Cher and I remembered. Stopped watching cos they had the same artists on every week.
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@kim@fedi.social 2026-10-02 22:50
@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social At some point in the early 1990s (so well before you could look these things up on the internet) I accidentally discovered that TOTP was broadcast with full teletext subtitles of all the song lyrics. It immediately became essential family viewing, as we found out what the words to whatever we'd been hearing on the radio that week actually were. I can't help thinking the BBC should have made more of an effort to draw attention to this amazing feature.