Hooray! This has been too too long coming, and demands to be at the top of any right-thinking person’s Christmas list. The...
It’s apocryphal nowadays to assume the whole country was watching TV 25 years ago this very day, entranced as the titanic yellow...
SONG: PIPES OF PEACE DEFINITION: Paul reconciles two world powers over Christmas dinner THINGS TO KNOW: a) It’s Macca’s one and only...
David Dimbleby is presumably feeling more gutted than most at the moment, seeing as how the election’s been cancelled and his chance...
February 1978: the new face of the Radio 1 breakfast show poses with The Broadcasting House Alarm Clock.
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.
Inexpicably lost down between the sofa cushions of the latest TV Cream Update, here’s Chris Hughes with… OUR TWENTY BEST TUNESRadio 2’s...
40 reasons to cherish the 40-year-old Radio 4: 1) That bit on Today just before the 8.30am news when they have a...
This weekend’s multiple anniversary commemorations have already got off to a sparkling start with an edition of Friday Night Is Music Night...
Phil Redmond was on BBC News 24 earlier, droning on about his plans to “save” Liverpool’s Capital of Culture celebrations. Unsurprisingly, the...
Paul Kennedy has written to TV Cream to ask: “Can you tell me if the tea-boy from a long lost lower Amazonian...
As fantastic as tonight’s rank-the-prime-ministers two-hour BBC4 marathon was, it did fall back one too many times on obvious archivery. How many...
ITV faces go on a motoring excursion to meet their public. Why doesn’t this sort of thing happen anymore?* *Because there aren’t...
In a week or so’s time, BBC Parliament is going to be repeating Election ’87. Fair enough, it’s 20 years (and a...
As you’ll hopefully have spotted on the site’s homepage, the TV Cream A-Z has had a complete overhaul. Basically, every single entry...
The new edition of Radio Times features Ol’ Miserable Bastard, aka Michael Parkinson, whinging on yet again about how the world will...
Ah, the dream breakfast line-up. Except it was on the fussily-named London Newstalk Radio (one of the many many convoluted rebrands of...
With the BBC having inexplicably slipped back into some kind of mid-1980s crisis of confidence with doubters and baiters on every side...
TJ Worthinton has forwarded a link to a suspiciously entertaining site listing something of occasional Creamguide interest: dementedly alleged Beatles cover versions....
SONG: WANDERLUST DEFINITION: Re-record, not fade away THINGS TO KNOW: a) It’s another “classic” moment from Give My Regards To Broad Street....
One of the most perspicacious aspects of TV Cream’s 10-year history has been its relationship with the Daily Mail. Back in the...
Auspicious birthdays don’t tend to come around very often; once a year is pretty much the average. Turning 10, however, is a...
Few people embody more of the essence of TV Cream than Rolf Harris, and few things embody more of the jet-setting glitter-bound...
It really is a long time now since what were, arguably, the National Lottery’s glory years on TV. Here’s the draw in...
This month’s edition of the TV Cream Update, due to be sent out from the site this weekend, boasts as its main...
…it’s just a test post.
As mentioned the last Digi-Cream Times (the last proper one), Big Ben has been silenced for some repairs meaning Radio 4 has...
A real loss. And only a few weeks after being mooted as a writer for the next series of Dr Who. (Mooted...
Here’s a particulary notorious breed, known for its distinctive bellowing, dopey expression, ponderous countenance and advanced stupidity. Standing next to it is...
Here’s a cheery thing: the scariest opening titles ever shown on television, courtesy of Once Upon A Time…Man. Perhaps realising the complete...
Friday’s edition of The Now Show on Radio 4 was blessed, and that is the right word, by an appearance from none...
Erstwhile regional nabob, music hobbledehoy and professional Phil Redmond-hater. Here’s the man, in his occasional ‘Anthony H Wilson’ guise, in fine form...
Here’s the Mighty Atom in superb spirits and full-on “Brucie” mode, to wit: a) terrifying limb-wiggling and prancing; b) topical gags, in...
To mark the man’s (inevitable) return to football presentation… 1) Des hooks up with Henry Kelly and the actor T.P. McKenna for...
It’s TV Cream’s 10th birthday this month, and as part of the commemorations it’s chastening to take a look back at another...
It’s 5th February 1989, and gathered for the first day of term at Isleworth are Uncle Rupert along along with Andrew Neil,...
Recent speculation concerning the future of Dr Who, both the identity of its lead and that of the person to take over...
…what exactly? When Neighbours defects to Channel Five, just what kind of programme will inherit that all-important pre-news teatime berth? There’s been...
Giving it the lobster no more.
The spirit of Channel 4’s late 80s/early 90s on-the-hoof marvel As It Happens has been reborn in the unlikely guise of BBC...
It’s May 1988, and the Beeb decide to publicise their new computerised forward-looking high-tech weather maps…by dressing their forecasters up in the...
SONG: NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS DEFINITION: Paul goes to Hollywood. Well, Cricklewood. THINGS TO KNOW: a) This was the smash hit single...
You can’t keep a good phone-in down. “We’re going to bring Popmaster back,” announced Ken Bruce on air this morning. “We’re not...
Can it really only be 10 not-long-enough years since Learner Driver From Hell Maureen Rees gave masterclasses in car maintenance as part...
In last week’s TV Cream Times my colleague Steve wondered whether the characters of Malcolm and Jamie in The Thick Of It...
One of the many things to fall by the wayside along with badly-printed jagged-edged Radio Times pages and Ice Magic have been...
A big gossip columnist of the 20th century, and an even bigger gossip columnist of the…ah.
David Pascoe has written in with a pertinent cutting. “Saw this in the Falmouth Packet a few weeks back,” he explains, “and...
In the spring of 2004, TV Cream compiled its own version of the Media Guardian’s annual Movers And Shakers list. Except it...
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