Neil Buchanan is not dead.

The much loved children’s TV presenter is the subject of a false rumour which has gained momentum on Facebook, with a group entitled ‘RIP Neil Buchanan (the art attack guy)’ which at the time of writing this has 21,236 members. It seems it might all have started with a false Wikipedia entry claiming Neil had died last month. An obvious April Fool, what with the equally obvious cause of death being joked of as an Art Attack (sigh), but even so it, just goes to show how viral information is on the internet and how little rigour we often apply to what we read.

Wikipedia has long been dogged by cases of false information (sometimes intentionally, sometimes lazily) and there’s a long established history of false obituaries, but I imagine that the news was most shocking to Neil himself.

Of course, you can also be resurrected digitally, as Bob Monkhouse proved to great effect in aid of prostate cancer awareness:

Oh, and don’t forget to join the Neil Buchanan is ALIVE AND WELL Facebook group…

In true Harry Hill fashion, today’s Back to the Future moment was Bill Turnbull announcing on breakfast news that the winds in part of the UK had reached 88 miles per hour. Great Scott!

Always genius, and could very well be the best thing on TV at the moment…

Here’s the Irn Bru Christmas advert, a Snowman pastiche and quite funny…

…personally I like the bit where he throws his nose away. (A carrot rather than an orange for contractual copyright reasons…)

I’m pretty fed up of hearing how amazing the Cadbury’s Phil Collins advert is by now. In fact I was fed up of hearing about it even before I’d seen it properly and had a chance to make up my own mind. It IS great but enough already. Having said that, you’ve got to admit that the Wonderbra pastiche is pretty inspired. Calm down, it’s only a bit of fun…

OK, so I’ve cracked. I didn’t want to post this but I’m going to. Did you know that Sony Bravia make quite nice TV adverts?

They’re all over the web already, and I can’t imagine anyone out there has missed them, but I thought I’d pull them all together here in one place. Once. Until they do another one of course…

The first one was “Balls” (No, really)

Then came “Paint”

Now it’s “Play Doh”

Check out the Fallon website for more Play Doh info, and you can watch them all in a nifty interface at higher quality on the official site…

Oh, and I also found this one: “Pyramid”, which hasn’t made it over here and has gone under the radar a bit…