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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Roger Highfield

Roger Highfield, Science Director of the Science Museum stays indoors in Greenwich to watch episode one of the ATV children’s sci-fi serial...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode Five

They are back for the last time this lockdown and with a monster episode too! Two-and-a-half hours of four men who should know...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Karen Bartke

Scot Squad’s Karen Bartke stays indoors in Glasgow to watch episode one of Neil Gaiman’s BBC2 series Neverwhere and then tells TV Cream...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Tommy Boyd

Back in the 1990s, Tommy Boyd was the face of Children’s ITV. During his stint, his enthusiasm for Steven Moffat’s debut drama,...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Bob Fischer

This time around, Bob Fischer stays indoors in Yarm, North Yorkshire, where he listens to the 2017 Radio 3 documentary, Between the...

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Epilogue: Why Haven’t You Written a Series of Articles on Tuesday Night Telly?

The success of Doctor Who – with another two series already commissioned before the end of the run – and the failure...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode Four

Due to an administrative oversight, Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them – 20! recommendations for...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With James Roberts

This week, James Roberts stays indoors somewhere in Guernsey, and watches an episode of the ‘offbeat’ 1992 BBC1 drama, Virtual Murder (https://bit.ly/TVCIndoors09)....

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132. The trip of a lifetime

While ITV remained committed to the Saturday night pop talent show, the BBC was finding that dancing could be a reliable...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Grace Knight

Grace Knight stays indoors in Glasgow, where she watches Sapphire & Steel, Assignment 2, episode one (https://bit.ly/TVCIndoors08) – and then tells TV Cream...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington stays indoors in Liverpool, watches the first ever episode of the Filmation cartoon series Space Sentinels (https://bit.ly/TVCIndoors07), and then tells...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode Three

Because everyone forgot to tell them not to, Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them –...

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131. It’s the Usual Nonsense

For the fifth year running, ITV’s major commission for winter Saturday nights in 2004 was a musical talent search with a...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Mat Ricardo

This week, variety artiste Mat Ricardo stays indoors in Southend to watch an array of variety acts, assembled for him by TV Cream...

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130. Saturday nights haven’t been this interesting for 10 years

As one veteran broadcaster rejoined the BBC, an equally venerable TV star was making his way out of TV Centre. Michael...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Paul Franklin

This week, double-Oscar-winning visual effects supremo Paul Franklin stays indoors in Blackheath, south-east London, to watch Part One of the 1977 Doctor...

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129. I’m so pleased to be back on television

For a man so associated with Saturday night television, it’s surprising to realise that Bruce Forsyth actually didn’t appear regularly on a...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode Two

Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them – 20! recommendations for you to watch, listen to...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Rose Ruane

This week, Rose Ruane stays indoors in Glasgow, where she watches the 1974 documentary Dave Allen: In Search of the Great English...

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128. Getting grief from the papers

One thing the failure of Boys and Girls proved was that there was little point in attempting to surf the zeitgeist...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Miles Chapman

Another from our lockdown podcast series. Miles Chapman stays indoors in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. There, he watches episode one of TV’s original...

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127. A name in search of a series

In the early 2000s Frank Skinner joked that, if they could get rid of Ant and Dec, David Baddiel and himself...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode One

If things weren’t bad enough! It’s a whole new podcast from the Creamguide (Films) Commentary gang. Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin get...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Billy Kirkwood

Another episode of our lockdown podcast series. This week, Billy Kirkwood stays indoors in Crookedholm, Kilmarnock, to watch an episode of the...

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126. Win the ads

After the success of Pop Idol, Ant and Dec had turned around a career with ITV that had looked like it...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Samira Ahmed

While we remain in lockdown, TV Cream will be bringing you these regular 20-30 min emergency transmissions in which we ask someone...

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125. They lost what Popstars was all about

The identity of the programme that replaced Cilla in the prime 7pm slot in Autumn 2002 shouldn’t have come as much of...

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124. It’s about rejection now

If a Saturday night without the Generation Game seemed unusual, what about one minus Blind Date? In November 2001 it had been...

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123. King of trash, that’s me

By the start of 2002, Saturday night television had become fashionable again. One of the biggest TV audiences of the year...

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122. This Time, You Decide

After Popstars, our expectations of the TV talent show changed forever. This became evident from the next series ITV launched on a...

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121. I’m sure the tune was in there somewhere

Pop music had always played a part in Saturday night television, right back to the days of Juke Box Jury in the...

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120. I mean who on earth thought that was a good idea?

“What was that tactics truck? I mean who on earth thought that was a good idea?” This is Wayne Garvie speaking in...

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119. Better For You, Better For All Of Us

The Saturday night schedules by which all the others are judged are those of BBC1 in the 1970s. From Doctor Who to Dick...

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118. 200 black boxes are strapped to the back of a cross-section of the nation

One show that managed to complete its run on Saturday evenings was a new vehicle for now ITV-contracted Brian Conley. Like his...

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117. The penalty shoot-out is the greatest ever endgame

Come the start of the millennium, Saturday night light entertainment seemed to be a dying genre. All the formats and stars that...

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116. Don’t Get Mad, Get Even

A familiar Saturday institution finally came to an end in 1999. Gladiators had been an ITV staple since 1992, but seven years later...

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Nicholas Parsons: “Never get complacent about your success”

In 2015, TV Cream was fortunate enough to talk to Nicholas Parsons on the eve of the 71st series of Just A...

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115. Waxing An Ape Is My Ambition

The script was already written. Three weeks after Noel’s House Party took its leave, a new series was to begin on Saturday...

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114. It was of a standard frankly well below what the public would want

The 1997-98 series of Noel’s House Party offered the BBC no respite from its recent run of bad form on Saturday nights. It...

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113. There’s nothing that makes people scream, ‘Did you see that?’

The 1998 summer line-up was uninspired on both channels, not helped by the World Cup interrupting proceedings for over a month. It...

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112. I award the city state of Milton Keynes 100 credits!

By the start of 1998, Saturday night television was in a state of stasis – no new hit programmes had come through...

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Cream over Britain

Creamguide Review of the Year: 2019

Time now for our review of what everyone’s calling the worst year ever, but what year hasn’t been recently, eh? But it’s...

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