Dr Who is back this weekend, and TV Cream is adopting its default setting of celebrating the series without actually talking about...
The phrase “bittersweet comedy” used to turn up in listings mags and continuity announcements with alarming regularity, usually accompanied by a presidential...
BIG BUDGET LOW KEY play-along-at-home TV whodunnerin, parachuted into Saturday night primetime and promptly chuted further and further back in the schedule...
THE PINNACLE of Potterism.
More details have emerged about the script Richard Curtis is writing for the next series of Dr Who. At a press conference...
THAT FAMOUS theme tune was called "Impending Menace"
SYBIL FAWLTY lives one floor below the snooty one off PLEASE, SIR! and one floor above someone who looks and sounds like...
"ECCENTRIC" BITCHY old maid BARBARA WOODHOUSE found brief early 80s fame as a result of this semi-documentary poke around her dog owner...
One of the many benefits of upgrading TVC to this new site is that, whenever we're done cutting and pasting something from...
A departure from Mike Leigh, centring on the social mores among a firm of stockbrokers. Obsequious junior partner Alan (Richard Kane) is...
Get ready to miss the point, Mr Lawson!
Brian Clark’s sequel to 1975’s The Saturday Party. Peter Barkworth has recovered from his redundancy, and now owns a country restaurant. When...
By Beryl Bainbridge. Two ‘singles’, Rosemary Leach and Michael Gambon, are ‘introduced’ to each other by well-meaning friends, but the encounter doesn’t...
By Brian Clark. Stockbroker Peter Barkworth is made redundant but goes ahead with his planned Christmas party anyway, bringing a different air...
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