Chris Hughes has unearthed striking proof of the existence of The Second Book of Jigsaw Puzzles (Jigsaw as in the Clive Doig-devised...
Michael Parkinson has launched his own website. For a man who hitherto never wasted any promotional opportunity to remind you he’s a...
It feels like there are a million things wrong with this clip, especially the opening 60 seconds or so. Ideally it ought...
Now there’s a title that’s likely to get this blog’s search queries shooting up. 1) Harold Wilson and Dick Crossman cook up...
There’s no way to embed this, unfortunately, but here’s a chance to enjoy the sight of Petula Clark singing across a faux-dinner...
It’s the Dr Who silly season, with stupid stories being lobbed into the ether to keep the freaks in a heightened state...
Noel Edmonds was mouthing off in the press the other day, in an attempt to whip up interest in his wretched one-off...
Anyone who listens to Adam and Joe on 6 Music will know the name Chris Salt. He was the deserving winner of...
This new book “by” Biddy Baxter comprising pieces of correspondence from the history of Blue Peter is a charming concept, but somewhat...
Excuse the Daily Express-style headline, but apparently Glynn Christian has just been given a lifetime achievement award for…well, being Glynn Christian. The...
It’s 1972. Any suggestions as to the record Roy has just broken here?
Hello, I’m John Dunn, and it gives me enormous pleasure to introduce the TV Cream Mystery Voice Challenge. Those ferrets of frippery,...
The final one from David Pascoe: Exhibit F: Simple As That AKA: Macca says Just Say No Two quick ones to finish...
There’s a tribute to the great man over on your new-look Off The Telly.
Do they mean a rather pompous opinionated rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-even-more-riches lollygagger who sued the BBC because he hasn’t got a sense of humour and...
Just what is going on here…and who’s the bloke on the floor?
TV Cream has been lucky to come into possession of an exceedingly rare sound archive: nothing less than composer Simon May’s demo...
David Pascoe writes: Exhibit E: Check My Machine AKA: Macca does dubstep “I figure that in time they’ll get around to more...
There are only a couple of months to go until the first transmitter is turned off and digital TV begins seeping across...
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....
Here’s TV Cream to the power of ten. For uber-viewing pleasure, watch the high quality version.
He’s the man of a thousand faces, every one a different version of open-mouthed, wide-eyed exuber-ism. But what particular historical epihanies are...
Tony Currie, historian extraordinaire of Radio Times, TV curator, theme tune specialist and all round good sort, has a new venture: UK...
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…
At long last, Reggie Bosanquet’s venture into the world of disco makes it onto the blog. It’s an extraordinary aural creation, notable...
It’s a bit embarrassing to think TV Cream once named this man as our number one media mover and shaker: Not only...
David Pascoe writes: Exhibit D: Rudolph the Red Nose Reggae AKA: Macca does country festive? I won’t detain you for long with...
You know that a bandwagon is really starting to roll when the likes of Gareth McLean haul themselves on board. Typically, he...
In this week’s Radio Times, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett are interviewed about their “ground-breaking” titles for the BBC’s Olympic coverage. In...
1) A dapper David Coleman gives his chequered suit an outing in Mexico, 1968: 2) Olive off of On The Buses turns...
It’s 50 years since the first Carry On film was released, and amidst all the justified retrospection and ribaldry, the fact that...
Is that really the erstwhile younger-one-who’s-charged-with-all-the-risky-stuff-on-Tomorrow’s-World and guest on one edition of Celebrity Squares in 1994, Howard Stableford, leaving a comment about...
More from David Pascoe: Exhibit C: Daytime Night-time Suffering “I really think that’s all right, that one. It’s very pro-woman.” AKA: Macca...
For anyone still signed up to the Creamguide Yahoo Group mailing list, you’ll just have received the last ever Digi-Cream Times weekly...
Sophia: In Sicily, we never went to the doctor. We went to the Widow Caravelli. Whatever you had, she had a cure....
Yesterday saw the last ever edition of The Sunday Programme on ITV, and with it the end of political shows on the...
It’s not proving a good year for legendary TV executives.
Now here’s a subject fit for blog treatment. Yes, it’s 10 years to the month since the press launch of OnDigital. Here’s...
Here’s a shamelessly predictable thing – but then, when has this blog been anything else? A tupperware sandwich box of leftover Simon...
Exhibit B: Little Woman Love AKA: Macca does sexy Nowadays there isn’t a hair out of place on that dyed barnet and...
Here’s a fine curtain-raiser to the weekend: the best piss-take of Right To Reply there’s surely ever been, right down to the...
This seems to be something of a mismatch. It’s a format that anybody could present, and has no obvious schtick with which...
Haven’t had one of these for a while. Any ideas as to what the occasion is here?
This is really very upsetting.
Many thanks to David Pascoe, who’s put virtual pen to paper and come up with a definitive guide to Paul McCartney curiosities....
The official BBC Beat The Teacher quiz book, published in 1985, contains some uncomfortably difficult questions. Were these really the type of...
Courtesy of Chris Hughes, Jill Phythian and Jon Peake (who, in an alternative universe, would be the current Blue Peter team), here’s...
Here’s a brilliant clip from an edition of the Today programme in 2001, wherein John Humphrys receives a telephone call from an...
Anthony Howard is one of those people who has already lived forever. He’s impossibly permanent. Every time there’s yet another political scandal,...
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