Whose nose do you suppose? And the answer is…
One last batch of Radio Times billings to identify, this time from May 1988: 1) Tonight’s contest is between Sandbach School from...
What’s the odd one out in this list – and why? Window cleanerMillinerBillstickerCostermongerPost Office engineer
Here’s Mary Whitehouse in 1967 talking about her favourite programme. But what is it? “Already there are some programmes serving a very...
Three quick questions today: Who was the first voice to be heard ona) Radio 1b) Radio 5c) Radio 5 Live?
Slightly more tricky, perhaps: what was unusual about the closing titles from the final ever episodes of: a) Seaviewb) Jossy’s Giantsc) That’s...
Which of these is not a song by Paul McCartney? a) Oo Youb) Bogey Musicc) Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggaed) Bip Bope) Electricity...
One final set of questions. Who uttered the last words to be broadcast on:1) TV-am2) Thames Television3) The Big Breakfast4) Mark Radcliffe’s...
Straightforward one, this: What has just happened here?
Everyone can remember what Mrs Thatcher’s favourite bands were*, but today’s questions invites you to cast your mind even further back: What...
Here’s fun. Can you identify the programmes hiding behind these Radio Times billings, all hailing from July 1986: 1) “Time for another...
True or false? 1) LL Cool J’s real name is Archibald Foster-Ffitzsimmons and he is heir to the Foster-Ffitzsimmons biscuity dynasty. 2)...
What perpetually ill-advised thing is about to happen here?
Simple one today: When did New Doctor Who jump the shark?1) The first time David Tennant went “Hoh yessss!”2) The first time...
40 reasons to cherish the 40-year-old Radio 4: 1) That bit on Today just before the 8.30am news when they have a...
As the Radio 2 family for the next decade continues to gather, and Old Father Tel begins the slow task of clearing...
A word for every episode. Literally.
Over three decades ago now, the future BBC Director General and then MD of Radio Ian Trethowan accused Sir Jimmy Young of...
The weekend has only a few hours left to live. Monday is trying to make itself heard. You’re trying not to listen....
Last night’s edition of Howard’s Way on BBC4, after climaxing with someone running in slow motion down a gangplank, slipping onto the...
Every time someone at TV Cream Towers watches an old episode of Blankety Blank, a familiar, hoary question soon surfaces: who would...
The last ever series of Last Of The Summer Wine began the other week. Or did it? The Beeb simply says it’s...
BBC7 is spoiling us at the moment; not only are Sundays boasting repeats of Stilgoe’s Around but as of yesterday, for the...
You know that a bandwagon is really starting to roll when the likes of Gareth McLean haul themselves on board. Typically, he...
Maybe it’s stating the obvious on a blog like this, but there’s little that’s as evocative as the smell of a back...
Now here’s a photo and a half: The date: 26th June 1989. The occasion: Simon Bates departs from outside Broadcasting House to...
There’s a fantastic bit in Andrew Collins’s new book – one of many – wherein he details the time he and Stuart...
In which Ian MacDonald and Bob Monkhouse apply their skills for content analysis to a classic TV theme. But what's the signature...
Jonathan Ross was very generous about the latest TV Cream tome this morning, even going to the extent of regaling guest Paul...
As mentioned the last Digi-Cream Times (the last proper one), Big Ben has been silenced for some repairs meaning Radio 4 has...
The fifth volume of Clive James's memoirs will be published later this year. It will be called The Blaze of Obscurity, and...
Last Saturday’s episode of Jekyll found our hero(es) taking a short train journey – but doing so in a carriage more suited...
Property magnates, alliterative abbreviations and one-time-linkers-of-children’s-cartoons, Dick and Dom, have been sacked from Radio 1. That’s not the reason for this post....
What will 2008 bring? If these people know – and there’s surely nobody more qualified to know – they’re certainly looking cheery...
Wimbledon got moved from BBC2 to BBC1 on Monday night, and will probably get moved again on Wednesday evening. As is the...
Excuse the Daily Express-style headline, but apparently Glynn Christian has just been given a lifetime achievement award for…well, being Glynn Christian. The...
Seasoned listeners to the Today programme will be familiar with sports presenter Garry Richardson’s waspish wit and laconic delivery of even the...
It’s a bit embarrassing to think TV Cream once named this man as our number one media mover and shaker: Not only...
In Sunday’s Observer Miranda Sawyer insisted the absence from the Radio 2 schedules of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, and their replacement...
Here’s a particulary notorious breed, known for its distinctive bellowing, dopey expression, ponderous countenance and advanced stupidity. Standing next to it is...
It’s 40 years since Tharg the Mighty, a gentleman alien from Betelgeuse with a penchant for eccentric phraseology, first shared with us Earthlets...
The Today programme is 50 years old on Sunday, and to celebrate their website has rightly gone to town. Of particular note...
It’s taken roughly five months, but here we are: the entry about nothing. More precisely, the entry about search referrals. Never before...
The London Marathon on Sunday afforded a rare and welcome sighting of that once all-conquering beast, the Epic TV Signature Tune. The...
TV Cream doesn’t normally have anything to do with the 1950s, but seeing as they’re being put on trial by BBC4 this...
Enough of the grouching. Ten good things about the 1950s: 1) QUATERMASS AND THE PIT The first two were rubbish, but this,...
It’s pretty much accepted that Peter Kay has jumped the shark. But when precisely did it happen? Here are ten contenders for...
To continue the theme, back when Channel 4 turned 10 in 1992, Broadcast magazine drew up a list of what it believed...
It’s the last blog entry on Channel 4’s birthday*. By way of a follow-up to that 1992 list of the station’s supposed...
BBC4’s Saturday night parade of female-fronted song-and-dance archivery felt like it accomplished two things. First, it highlighted how you don’t see any...
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