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Fucking hell, do they film Benidorm on top of an asbestos landfill?

Sports, Doctor Who, random films and docs. Actually I watch a fair bit of TV now, in bits and bobs. It helps that the BT TV comes with in-built recording, so if there's something on which looks interesting, I can set it to record, then get to watch it 5 or 6 months down the line when I have the spare time and will.

This is a game for the very patient. If you want non-stop action try Scavenger Hunt Bingo .......... oh wait.

I am down to just watching Doctor Who and election results.

Doom River for Andy Williams on this day 5 years ago, aged 84.

Well, it's certainly going to be interesting for 2018. But I think if you ignore current survivors, you could have gotten 18 hits so far with decent research with a decent team like this: Mark Sims (joker) Glen Campbell Errol Christie Sara Coward Smith Hart Steve Hewlett Connie Johnson Bruce Langhorne Lisa Magill Tracy McGiffin Colin Meads Peter Skellern Jimmy Snuka Mario Soares Steve Sumner Joost van der Westhuizen Paul van Zandvliet John Wetton Of course, this is all within hindsight, and there's certainly more hits to come, but it may not be as hard as some people suspect, they just have to put the right names down for their team...

Ive not seen this film for a very long time.

CA, I haven't had a TV for a decade. My two closest neighbours don't have one. *yeah, I watch things but downloaded to phone and watched on that.

Dr. Seuss overcooked the Green Eggs and Ham on this day 26 years ago, aged 87.

Am I the only person who rarely watches television, and then only for sports or to have it on to distract a six year old?

My conscious is in that seagull on the right.

Urbain Le Verrier, who predicted/discovered Neptune using mathematics, died this day 140 years ago (66).

She has never been any good since she left No 73.

I don't know: Sandi Toksvig might be more chummy to the contestants, but she's just not got the good old atmosphere of a public court martial like the old WGS series did...

As a 15-1 episode winner, I must have shaken the bloke's hand. It's not something that lingers in the memory.

Oh, if you must... Old(ish) folk who seem Deathlisty (but haven't been on it): 1917 –Diana Athill 1919 –James Lovelock, 1920 – Michael Anderson (Dam Busters)), Liam Cosgrave, John Paul Stevens, 1921 – Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, Carol Channing,Monty Hall 1922 – Lyndon LaRouche, George Blake, 1923 –Roy Dotrice, Glynis Johns, Franco Zeffirelli, Gen. Chuck Yeager, Judith Kerr, Freeman Dyson, Edwin Bramall, Sumner Redstone, 1924 –Eve Marie Saint, William Russell, Christopher Tolkein, Kenneth Kaunda, Tony Britton, Gloria Vanderbilt 1925–David Graham, Barbara Bush, June Whitfield, George A Cooper, Jacques Delors, Bernard Hepton, Mikis Theodorakis, Richard Baker 1926 –, David Attenborough, Mel Brooks, Gudrun Ure, Valery D’Estang, Roger Corman, Stanley Baxter, Glyn Houston, Norman Jewison, Alan Greenspan, Leonard Fenton, Charlotte Rae 1927 – Sidney Poitier, Hubert de Givenchy, Harry Belafonte, Rosalyn Carter, Albert Uderzo, Fenella Fielding, Geoffrey Palmer, June Brown, Ken Dodd, Freddie Jones, Barron Hilton, Jerry Stiller 1928 – Walter Mondale, Desmond Morris, Jim Lovell, Tom Lehrer, Burt Bacharach,, Hans Blix, Ennio Morricone, Noam Chomsky, Mark Eden, Frank Borman, Bernard Cribbins, Tommy Docherty, James Watson, Peter Wyngarde, Peter Firmin, Jean-Marie le Pen, Berry gordy, Monty Norman, 1929 – Patricia Routledge, Len Deighton, Sir Roger Bannister, Max von Sydow, Joseph Jackson, Bob Newhart, Barbara Walters, Bob Hawke, Imelda Marcos,, Stirling Moss, Winnie Ewing, Christopher Plummer, Mohammed Al-Fayed, Betty Boothroyd, Stuart Hall, Peter Higgs, John Nettleton, Rip Torn, Joan Plowright, John Woodvine, Vera Miles, Lennart Johansson, PJ Hammond 1930 – Tippi Hedren, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Hackman, Robert Wagner, Rolf Harris, Clint Eastwood, Ross Perot, Bernie Ecclestone, Warren Buffett, Sister Wendy Beckett, Douglas Hurd, Shirley Williams, Windsor Davies, George Soros, Eileen Derbyshire, Andre previn, Sandra Day O’Connor, 1931 – Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Don King, Mikhail Gorbachev, Rupert Murdoch, William Shatner, Norman Tebbit, Jackie Mason, Kenneth Cope, Mario Zagallo, Regis Philbin, Ian Holm, John le Carre, William Goldman, Lionel Blair,Ken Bates, Raul Castro, Michael Lonsdale, Virginia McKenna, Billy Bingham, Brian Glanville, Claire Bloom 1932 –Piper Laurie, Williams, Dennis Skinner ,Bill Roache, Donald Rumsfeld ,Petula Clark, Little Richard, Roy Hattersley,Nigel Lawson, Des O’Connor, Bernard Ingham, 1933– Kim Novak, Yoko Ono, Duchess of Kent, Michael Caine, Ruth Ginsburg, Philip Roth, Willie Nelson, Sian Philips, Joan Collins, Joan Bakewell, Cormac McCarthy, Julie Newmar, Roman Polanski, David McCallum, Michael Hesseltine, Michael Aspel, David Bellamy, Dickie Bird, Derek Martin, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Biddy Baxter, Quincy Jones, Dickie Davies, Ron Saunders 1934: Tom Baker, Barry Humphries, Ralph Nader, Annette Crosbie, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Manson, Alan Bennett, Richard Chamberlain, Russ Tamblyn, Eileen Atkins, Jean Marsh, Jonathan Miller, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Giorgio Armani, George Chakiris, Albert II, Slyvia Sims, Timothy West, Wendy Craig, Jane Goodall, Gloria Steinem, Pat Boone, John Standing, 1935: Julian Glover, Derren Nesbitt, Erich von Daniken, Donald Sutherland, Ron Paul, Jerry Lee Lewis, Julie Andrews, Johnny Mathis, Woody Allen, Jack Charlton, William Freidkin, Topol, Michael Jayston, James Bolam, Johnny Briggs, duke of kent, Barry Cryer, Mahmoud Abbas, Melvyn Hayes, Bamber Gascoigne, Jim Dale, Mary Berry, Michael Eavis, Dalai Lama, 1936 – Alan Alda, Clive Swift, Dean Stockwell, Sepp Blatter, Ursula Andress, FW de Klerk, Engelbert Humperdinck, Albert Finney, Ken Loach, Kris Kirstofferson, Richard Wilson, Robert Redford, John McCain, Dick Cavett, Joe Don Baker, James Burke, Winnie Mandela, Diana Rigg, Bill Wyman, Brian Blessed, Tommy Steele, Uwe Seeler, Glenda Jackson, Pope Francis.

I know what you mean, but LOL at the idea of a 94 year old dude being a shock death anyhow.

Hmm, let me give what I originally thought with the hits so far: Mary Tyler Moore: I thought she was a bad pick, goes to show that people you think are bad picks may not be bad picks after all Joost van der Westhuizen: He was reaching the point that ALS usually gets sports people, so he could kind of be viewed as a cert, but not necessarily since we had people like Stephen Hawking still alive after 50 years of diagnosis David Rockefeller: Very old, his death wasn't surprising at all Ian Brady: A case of whether he was lying about his illness or telling the truth about it. Turns out he was telling the truth in the end John Noakes: Had Alzheimer's for a while, wasn't surprising Peter Sallis: Was in a retirement home for the last couple of years, surprised he wasn't dead earlier Errol Christie: A dead cert from the beginning, though the other dead certs are somehow still alive Glen Campbell: More of a cert than John Noakes imo, but still wasn't guaranteed Bruce Forsyth: Kind of a cert, had a nasty aneurysm 2 years ago, and may be one of the deciding hits for the DDP Jerry Lewis: I thought he would become another bedblocker Jake LaMotta: How did he last so long? He should've been dead years ago. I'll give my thoughts on the surviving candidates later...

Donald Moffat and John Franklyn-Robbins

Unless I've read it wrong, this poor woman isn't to blame for her condition.

Tipping up old huns #3, Johnny Hubbard made the match yesterday, but the most used words were 'recent scare' and 'frail', "very frail". One for this or next year....