Be seeing you.
Farewell to the guv’nor. Superstars, July 1983: the man grills Brian Hooper while Stuart Matthews, David Wilkie, Lynn Davies and Conrad Bartelski look...
A salute to a few TV Cream heroes who have died this year. There’s a higher quality version over here.
His finest hour.
It’s turning into a miserable Christmas.
Goodnight Major Clanger.
Outlook: grim.
There’s a tribute to the great man over on your new-look Off The Telly.
This is truly sad news. Bill Cotton was one of the absolute greats: a shameless showman, a true populist, a scheduling wizard,...
Checking out for the last time…
Sophia: In Sicily, we never went to the doctor. We went to the Widow Caravelli. Whatever you had, she had a cure....
It’s not proving a good year for legendary TV executives.
This is really very upsetting.
Devastatingly sad news.
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.
It’s 11th February 1982, and Princess Di drops into ITN to discuss the running order of News at 5.45.
At least he lived to see Space 1999 fail to come true.
January ends with a distinct lack of instant sunshine.
No joke, this time.
It’s hard to recall a year like this, where so many stars of a particular generation passed away. Fate and misfortune robbed...
By way of a belated tribute: HALF A DOZEN VERITY VICTORIES… 1) DR WHO She didn’t want any BEMs – Bug Eyed...
“Just don’t let me see any Bug Eyed Monsters!”
Here’s the great man securing royal patronage for the drawing of big heads on little bodies.
Ten reasons to remember Ronnie Hazlehurst: 1) The multi-part mini-symphony that was his music for The Two Ronnies, from the glorious “bah!...
Patricia Hodge, Elaine Paige, Stephanie Cole and Dennis Waterman enjoy a last glass of Medium Dry Sherrin.
This month’s edition of the TV Cream Update, due to be sent out from the site this weekend, boasts as its main...
A real loss. And only a few weeks after being mooted as a writer for the next series of Dr Who. (Mooted...
Erstwhile regional nabob, music hobbledehoy and professional Phil Redmond-hater. Here’s the man, in his occasional ‘Anthony H Wilson’ guise, in fine form...
Giving it the lobster no more.
A big gossip columnist of the 20th century, and an even bigger gossip columnist of the…ah.
This is from 1987, when George did a turn on Yorkshire TV’s anniversary special The Birthday Show (at 7pm on a Saturday...
The sometime Footlights stalwart, professional friend of John Cleese, creator of Week Ending, producer of Just A Minute and I’m Sorry I...
Aubrey Singer, whose death was announced today, was your archetypal old school BBC mandarin: stubborn, garrulous, indiscreet and decidedly eccentric, but was...
This hails from when the Oldie Magazine gave Ken Livingstone (moustachioed, therefore pre-Blair) an award for “servives to the homeless and secretarial...
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