Welcome to another minute-by-minute live blog following all tonight’s thrilling Creamguide action, as it happens. What will fate hold in store for...
It’s the 250th post on this blog, and what better way to mark the occasion than have a pregnant Cilla sit on...
BBC7 is spoiling us at the moment; not only are Sundays boasting repeats of Stilgoe’s Around but as of yesterday, for the...
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Another presenter is leaving Blue Peter. Given it’s just a few months since the last one quit, and the fact it’s the...
The success of BBC4’s Curse Of Comedy series must surely betoken a recommission. In which case, where better place to start than...
It’s January 1979, and Barbara Edwards joins Bert and Mike to celebrate 25 years of the BBC’s weather forecasting…before promptly quitting, complaining...
What with the new series of Dr Who just a few ordinary days away, some people might be wondering just what all...
Introducing a brand new feature… …dedicated to noting all appearances by the great man in the public eye, be they online, on...
Ken goes out and about on Euston Road to do a bit of Video Show promotion.
Provisional plans for this week’s Digi-Cream Times mailout, due on Thursday, including a free cover-mounted dreidel in the shape of Alan Sugar’s...
Given that David Tennant regenerates in the second of next year’s special episodes, you’d think the hunt must be well under way...
Sharing a bill with Paul Scofield. Or, as he would no doubt prefer it: BRIAN WILDE and Paul Scofield
Only slightly overshadowed by the death of Captain Birds Eye.
As the new series of Doctor Who lumbers into view, talk falls once more to that ever-pertinent question: how will the schedulers...
For anyone still riled by last week’s riddles: 1) Look, or rather point, West, for matters ship shape and bootlace fashion. Shoestring...
Sunday’s Shoestring retrospective on BBC4 was a useful reminder of how there’s always been so much potential for a revival, were it...
It’s 11th February 1982, and Princess Di drops into ITN to discuss the running order of News at 5.45.
This week’s mailout revolved around a quiz inviting you to identify the names of five programmes scheduled for transmission next week, from...
Lew prepares for another quiet, unassuming day at the office.
Graham Kibble-White has, perhaps in an effort to leaven the mood, suggested a trawl of title sequences that cheer you up. And...
Last year in one of the many non-TV-related editions of the Digi-Cream Times mailout (in other words, all of them) the suggestion...
Inspired by a comment left by Steve Norgate on the post below, here’s a collection alternately wistful, melancholic, mournful and touching efforts...
Last night’s edition of Howard’s Way on BBC4, after climaxing with someone running in slow motion down a gangplank, slipping onto the...
By way of an epilogue to this week’s mailout, here’s Elvis and co doing a heartbreaking version of Shipbuilding on…what exactly? Razzmatazz?...
A few snaps from last night’s bash: 1) Introducing the hardline according to Noel Edmonds 2) Una paloma wanker 3) “Pebble Mill...
Past-it celebrities, forever patronisingly referred to as “veteran personalities” by press releases, have a tendency to throw money at vanity projects as...
BBC4 is bringing back The Frost Report for a one-off special at Easter. It’s one of those ideas that sounds great in...
Having no access to television does, perhaps inevitably, prompt you to spend a bit more time with the other things you hold...
Let’s see. Bumbling mumbling Professor Phil Redmond, the Cardinal Richelieu of Croxteth, goes on record to complain about the BBC scrapping Grange...
Quite possibly the greatest publicity image ever.
At least he lived to see Space 1999 fail to come true.
Given that time-travelling sitcom Ashes To Ashes begins this week, here are five endings, or “solutions”, that will certainly be more entertaining,...
January ends with a distinct lack of instant sunshine.
No joke, this time.
There’s nothing the media likes more than a story about on-screen channel idents, preferably when there’s a sum of money involved they...
Things That Have Long Since Disappeared But Still Make Good Subjects For Idle Conversation #375: defining days of the week with TV...
Dineage over Britain.
News reaches TV Cream of an “On The Buses event in Elstree and Borehamwood on Saturday the 28th of June 2008.” Following...
Obviously the best bit of each weekly Digi-Cream Times mailout is the last line, but this week’s was – hopefully – particularly...
By way of a slight return to this slight return, some more information about those endless David Jacobs productions. They’re all true,...
To mark the long-awaited return* of News At Ten: *Well, until Friday at any rate.
Enough of the grouching. Ten good things about the 1950s: 1) QUATERMASS AND THE PIT The first two were rubbish, but this,...
Not at all like the way Chris Evans used to spend every edition of TFI Friday reviewing what the press had been...
TV Cream doesn’t normally have anything to do with the 1950s, but seeing as they’re being put on trial by BBC4 this...
OK, here’s a bunch of LWT’s finest in 1984. Suggestions please as to: a) who these people are, and b) who these...
Seeing as how the revival of To The Manor Born was so crap, the Beeb needs to start thinking now about something...
How is TV Cream Towers like the Queen? One, Dr Who has got our phone number. And two, there’s now a TV...
What will 2008 bring? If these people know – and there’s surely nobody more qualified to know – they’re certainly looking cheery...
It’s hard to recall a year like this, where so many stars of a particular generation passed away. Fate and misfortune robbed...
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