Along with deelyboppers, the epitome of ghastly-but-fun fashion nonsensista that the 1980s retched out...
Farewell to the guv’nor. Superstars, July 1983: the man grills Brian Hooper while Stuart Matthews, David Wilkie, Lynn Davies and Conrad Bartelski look...
Taking a cue from Five-Centres’s speculation on the likelihood of a docudrama about the Marchioness, it’s time for another bout of fantasy...
Forget your Specials, Police, Blur, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and whoever is reforming (again) in the next 12 months. Now that...
What’s to look forward to this year on a notable numerological bent? For starters there’s a slew of TV stations-cum-channels who are...
The BBC has revealed the name of the person to take over from David Tennant as owner of the most famous trans-dimensional...
Gazing into the TV Cream crystal ball, bought from the boot of James Burke’s car one foggy afternoon in 1996, what does...
A salute to a few TV Cream heroes who have died this year. There’s a higher quality version over here.
TV Cream continues its exclusive serialisation of the memoirs of the Radio Times TV editor. PART TWO: JULY-DECEMBER 2008 2nd July I...
“What more do you need?” One aspect of Christmas Day television seems to be rather rarer throughout the rest of the year...
It’s December 25th 1985, and, in one of the best bits of harmless nonsense ever undertaken in the name of festive telly, Terence jets off to Denver...
After a short interval, during which a blue screen might well have afforded readers more entertainment than what otherwise appeared on this...
His finest hour.
A few years ago, TV Cream was fortunate enough to publish a series of extracts from the diary of the TV editor...
Hooray for the fantastic year enjoyed by Adam and Joe – in particular, the growing ubiquity of STEPHEN! and the success of Song...
TV Cream’s second podcast is now available to download. It’s 70MB and lasts around 45 minutes. Already you can see that heed...
LONG-RUNNING PROMOTIONAL campaign for the Guinness family and, for most of its existence, the only place you'd see 80-year-olds on children's telly.
Ah, 1990. Over-bright primary colour back projection? Check. CSO turning cut-out people upside down? Check. Archivery spliced with juvenilia? Check. Ugly blokes...
TV Cream’s second podcast will be available to download in just a few short days, and conveniently for the time of year,...
It’s turning into a miserable Christmas.
Goodnight Major Clanger.
We’ll be the judge of that, Gill. The Christmas Radio Times isn’t something that should need calling attention to, least of all...
This is no great surprise, but the choice of replacement is completely wrong. You don’t get a camp parodist to front a...
Half-way through this clip you’ll find Michael Grade doing a brilliant guest spot in an episode from the first series of French...
It’s all over for the nation’s favourite bargain bin-cum-high street emporium. Well, unless the government decides to buy Woolworths on behalf of...
The air is thick with them, the internet perforated by them, the press carpeted in them. But enough about rumours concerning the...
A pre pre-Christmas message from Rolf:
Here’s a bit of textbook Poppery. Mr Duffy in a black poloneck mimes into a cigarillo-microphone in front of various easels boasting...
…so said John Winston Ono O’Boogie Lennon, shortly before releasing an album entirely comprising the sound of himself and the missus shouting...
By way of a slight return to this, how might the feature film fantasies of today’s pop elite manifest themselves on screen?...
Outlook: grim.
In the mid-80s any artistes worth their salt did a longform feature film that, ahem, ‘dramatised’ their latest hits, roped in a few guest...
In Sunday’s Observer Miranda Sawyer insisted the absence from the Radio 2 schedules of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, and their replacement...
Sir Jim’ll points at the credit roller for an edition of Top Of The Pops which boasts, among others, The Shadows, Beatles Band...
It seems that giant effigies of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand are to be burned this Saturday. Edenbridge Bonfire Society is the...
It’s now 1992, and Dan Rather is wondering whether it’s “hasta la vista” for George Bush. “This is the hour of prayer”...
TV Cream’s first stab at a podcast is now available. And you can listen to it here… [podcast]http://tv.cream.org/spodcast/musicscene.mp3[/podcast]. Or download from here....
It’s that man again. But for what wheeze is he trying to comandeer the resources of the nation?
TV Cream has learned that following the suspension of renowned outspoken and unpredictable broadcasters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross for being outspoken...
Back to 1984 this time, and Dan Rather’s waiting for us in an impressively-staffed, multi-screen CBS studio. But first, the ubiquitous plugs....
Welcome to the hitherto-titled Digi-Cream Times blog, now with added new-nameness and general all-round gumption. You’ll see that all the archives have...
Advance notice of a new TV Cream pet project, which you’ll be able to hear from 1st November. Yup, a good two...
To help hurry along the fortnight until polling day in the United States, here’s the first in a thankfully short series of...
With the future of genuine digital radio stations in doubt (as opposed to all those ‘pretend’ ones that you can get through...
With things continuing to get worse, it’s become clear that not only is the government part-nationalising certain TV programmes, it’s also part-nationalising...
What glittering occasion could possibly have brought these three stars together?
In the flurry of excitement earlier this week accompanying the launch of the government’s economic rescue plan, one piece of small print...
Courtesy of blog denizen John Rivers and the good people of Harper Collins, TV Cream has five copies of Lord Denis Norden’s...
“Have you *seen* the latest viewing figures?!”
A press release arrives at TV Cream from drownedinmedia.com, bearing news that “legendary Broadcaster [sic] and five times Sony Award winning DJ,...
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