Because everyone forgot to tell them not to, Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them –...
For the fifth year running, ITV’s major commission for winter Saturday nights in 2004 was a musical talent search with a...
This week, variety artiste Mat Ricardo stays indoors in Southend to watch an array of variety acts, assembled for him by TV Cream...
As one veteran broadcaster rejoined the BBC, an equally venerable TV star was making his way out of TV Centre. Michael...
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...
For a man so associated with Saturday night television, it’s surprising to realise that Bruce Forsyth actually didn’t appear regularly on a...
Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them – 20! recommendations for you to watch, listen to...
This week, Rose Ruane stays indoors in Glasgow, where she watches the 1974 documentary Dave Allen: In Search of the Great English...
One thing the failure of Boys and Girls proved was that there was little point in attempting to surf the zeitgeist...
Another from our lockdown podcast series. Miles Chapman stays indoors in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. There, he watches episode one of TV’s original...
In the early 2000s Frank Skinner joked that, if they could get rid of Ant and Dec, David Baddiel and himself...
If things weren’t bad enough! It’s a whole new podcast from the Creamguide (Films) Commentary gang. Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin get...
Another episode of our lockdown podcast series. This week, Billy Kirkwood stays indoors in Crookedholm, Kilmarnock, to watch an episode of the...
After the success of Pop Idol, Ant and Dec had turned around a career with ITV that had looked like it...
While we remain in lockdown, TV Cream will be bringing you these regular 20-30 min emergency transmissions in which we ask someone...
The identity of the programme that replaced Cilla in the prime 7pm slot in Autumn 2002 shouldn’t have come as much of...
If a Saturday night without the Generation Game seemed unusual, what about one minus Blind Date? In November 2001 it had been...
By the start of 2002, Saturday night television had become fashionable again. One of the biggest TV audiences of the year...
After Popstars, our expectations of the TV talent show changed forever. This became evident from the next series ITV launched on a...
Pop music had always played a part in Saturday night television, right back to the days of Juke Box Jury in the...
“What was that tactics truck? I mean who on earth thought that was a good idea?” This is Wayne Garvie speaking in...
The Saturday night schedules by which all the others are judged are those of BBC1 in the 1970s. From Doctor Who to Dick...
One show that managed to complete its run on Saturday evenings was a new vehicle for now ITV-contracted Brian Conley. Like his...
Come the start of the millennium, Saturday night light entertainment seemed to be a dying genre. All the formats and stars that...
A familiar Saturday institution finally came to an end in 1999. Gladiators had been an ITV staple since 1992, but seven years later...
In 2015, TV Cream was fortunate enough to talk to Nicholas Parsons on the eve of the 71st series of Just A...
The script was already written. Three weeks after Noel’s House Party took its leave, a new series was to begin on Saturday...
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...
The 1998 summer line-up was uninspired on both channels, not helped by the World Cup interrupting proceedings for over a month. It...
By the start of 1998, Saturday night television was in a state of stasis – no new hit programmes had come through...
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...
Ron Smith (?/24-10/1/19), Judge Dredd artist Dianne Oxberry (28/11/67-10/1/19), Simon Mayo breakfast sidekick, 8:15 From Manchester presenter, BBC North West weather presenter...
Crime Traveller never clicked with the Saturday night audience. A better attempt at light-hearted drama followed in May with the...
“We shouldn’t actually be talking to each other…” We’ve all got some people we only ever see at Christmas – so it’s...
Compared to ITV’s hapless attempts at finding a new hit in 1995 and 1996, the BBC was the very model...
Hullo there! Welcome back to the second part of your Christmas Creamguide with the last knockings of this bloody awful decade and...
Hullo there! It’s the Christmas Creamguide and it’s the twentieth time we’ve done it! Maybe one day we’ll get good at it,...
The third and final part of our tinselly TV-athon finds Chris selecting a vintage festive show for Ian and Graham to watch....
Day two of our Yuletide watch-and-chat-about-it, with Ian, Chris and Graham – yes all three of them – converging to look at...
FORMAT SHAKE-UP! In a first for the modern era of WWJW, Graham, Ian *and* Chris all sit down together to begin a...
With ITV accused of broadcasting “juvenile rubbish” on Saturday nights, what would they offer up next? The hugely intellectual Man...
ITV was still floundering with early Saturday evenings. The first new show of 1996 was Beadle’s Hotshots, a format which...
“Here I go again! I should have been a channel swimmer, I’m always going backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards....
The artist formerly known as Vivian James was initially more famous for writing about television than appearing on it, with his column...
The boost the lottery had given the BBC was felt throughout the Saturday night schedule. When Noel’s House Party and Casualty...
With The National Lottery Live, BBC1 was now the place to be on a Saturday night. Regardless of the merits of...
Chris, Craig and Jack are back to round off your, undoubtedly over commercialised Halloween festivities, with Jack Rolfe from Howard’s Way yelling...
1994 saw the end of a number of Saturday night fixtures. Most notably, in June came the final episodes of...
Chris, Craig and Jack alight upon the oeuvre of Vincent Price, via the incomparable “Theater (although we insist upon spelling it...
The pilot for Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush taught Chris Evans and Will Macdonald one very clear lesson: “We had a...
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