Noel Edmonds – TV Cream

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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It's Saturday Night

104. A reliable tent pole for Saturday evenings

1994 saw the end of a number of Saturday night fixtures. Most notably, in June came the final episodes of...

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It's Saturday Night

97. NTV brings you … empty rooms!

With a number of veteran series ending, what would take their place in the Saturday night schedules? Ironically, their initial...

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It's Saturday Night

88. The feel of Saturday night

Elsewhere, LWT was taking steps in the right direction, nurturing talents such as Brian Conley and Hale and Pace. While Conley’s 1989 Brian...

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It's Saturday Night

77. Taking on Blind Date would be a real challenge

1988 brought with it the prospect of fresh new challenges. For the BBC, there was the continuing and ever accelerating reform...

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It's Saturday Night

73. There’s such a passion for nostalgia right now

While comic impersonators enjoyed pretty much a monopoly on Saturday evening comedy programmes, series like Summertime Special provided a platform for a...

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It's Saturday Night

64. Things Look Very Precarious

With the arrival of Casualty, Saturday evenings had taken on a surprisingly grim aspect, yet the real world could also violate the...

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Your Wednesday Night In...

Your Wednesday Night In… October 1989

Wednesday, 17th October 1989 PICK OF THE DAY 9.30pm AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, BBC1 “Hello? BBC, yes. You want me...

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It's Saturday Night

26. Whatever they do, we can do it better

The BBC’s head of variety, light entertainment group, Jim Moir took Noel Edmonds out for several lunches during 1982, to help the presenter shape...

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It's Saturday Night

25. Back then it was radical stuff

A balmy early summer’s evening in 1982 saw the stars gathering at Thames Television’s Teddington studios. As the celebrities arrived and dutifully filed...

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It's Saturday Night

19. They were big in the States and we noted that

It’ll Be Alright on the Night producer Paul Smith took the decision to introduce the format to American television, and while in the United...

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It's Saturday Night

15. Older men, doing school boy tricks

“Nothing on television so exercises the critics as the game shows,” wrote Laurie Taylor and Bob Mullan in their book Uninvited Guests: Intimate Secrets...

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Pop

Noel On 45!

BBC Records And Tapes – arguably the definitive Cream-era record label – existed primarily to release music from BBC television and radio...

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Your Friday Night In...

Your Friday Night In… June 1983

Friday, 17th June 1983 PICK OF THE DAY 7.50pm DID YOU SEE?, BBC2 “Yes I bloody did, thank you!” Journalist and journeyman...

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TV: M is for...

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, The

SUBLIME HERALD of the weekend

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TVC Trumps

TVC Trumps #02: Noel in the 21st century

This week’s categories: Transparency in accounting; Referencing table sauces; Trendy terminologist; Thank God they are…; Investment advice

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Cream over Britain

Creamguide Review of the Year: 2016

Let’s put the full-stop on these godawful last 12 months and get on with our lives with this ‘reprinting’ of the Creamguide Review...

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TV: W is for...

Whatever Next!

NOEL’S Blue Jam-style post-Whirly Wheelgate ‘soft launch’ reinvention with a low-key top-of-the-week start-of-the-evening game show based on… well, nobody was quite sure...