Opening yesterday’s Live Earth concert in London, Genesis greeted the thousands of fans in Wembley stadium and the tens of thousands watching...
Last Saturday’s episode of Jekyll found our hero(es) taking a short train journey – but doing so in a carriage more suited...
This is from 1987, when George did a turn on Yorkshire TV’s anniversary special The Birthday Show (at 7pm on a Saturday...
Radio 4 has been endlessly running the same trailer for its When John Met Paul effort. That’s a different When John Met...
This could well be the single finest Top Of The Pops turn of all time: the Pet Shop Boys doing ‘Can You...
An especially potent piece of television, this, what with an appearance from the ubiquitous Pain family (“four internationally known celebrities,” cracks Noel)...
A moment’s pause to recall an age when, rather than seeking to assemble a government of “all the talents”, a Prime Minister...
Petulant to the last, Michael “Mike” Parkinson has decided that, “after 25 years of doing my talk show”, he’s had enough. Nice...
“Steadily, triumphantly, all our favourites have returned in the rejuvenated time travels,” booms Radio Times of Dr Who. “Cybermen, Daleks, Macra…” Come...
There was a great bit on this morning’s Today programme when, as part of their coverage from the Glastonbury Festival, the lead...
The saviours of daytime radio, c. 1993.
A few retrospective comments from some good folk. “I thought,” emails one anonymous reader, “I’d dreamt the bit about Sarah Kennedy’s scotch...
And so… BEST RECORD: The very first one, ‘This Charming Man’. A close second was the new single by Crowded House, ‘Don’t...
Five years ago, the Digi-Cream Times (or Radio Cream Times as it was then called) devoted several editions to ripping off something...
“…I was listening to the news.” Obviously. The current profusion of anniversaries and turning points and do-you-recall-what-you-were-doing-when archivery is all very well,...
From guest contributor David Pascoe… SONG: BIG BARN BED DEFINITION: Meet the band! THINGS TO KNOW: a) It was the opening track...
The sometime Footlights stalwart, professional friend of John Cleese, creator of Week Ending, producer of Just A Minute and I’m Sorry I...
This time next week a rather special, erm, “event” should have just finished on this blog, and as such, absolutely nothing of...
On the set of Double Your Money in 1966. What a dilemma: ‘Ballet’ or ‘Bible’?
Everyone’s talking about them: Graham Norton, Steven Moffat (writer of “the scariest Dr Who episode ever – since the last one I...
It’s taken roughly five months, but here we are: the entry about nothing. More precisely, the entry about search referrals. Never before...
Of all the guest hosts to stand in for Wogan during his thrice-weekly residency on the verdant Shepherd’s Bush Green, one of...
More information about the conclusion to the present series of Dr Who has emerged. It appears that just before Martha is taken...
Here’s where Russell T Davies has been going wrong. Bailing out after three and a bit series? Pah! JNT was there for,...
SONG: TUG OF WAR DEFINITION: The money’s run out. THINGS TO KNOW: a) The title track off the eponymous album, it flopped...
Aubrey Singer, whose death was announced today, was your archetypal old school BBC mandarin: stubborn, garrulous, indiscreet and decidedly eccentric, but was...
It’s been a while since Sir John Major MP offered up one of his arcane utterances for public enjoyment, so it was...
As alluded to in this week’s Digi-Cream Times mailout, the Radio Times has undergone a revamp and accompanying price rise. In her...
Not enough thought is going into solving what has become the annual Dr Who mid-season blues. Simply dusting down an old monster...
In the future, everyone will pose for photos like this.
Jonathan Ross was very generous about the latest TV Cream tome this morning, even going to the extent of regaling guest Paul...
Paul Gambaccini turned up on the Today programme the other morning. He’d be invited on because, obviously, a matter of supreme import...
Tel essays the first Eurovision supergroup: A couple of visitors to the verdant pastures of Shepherd’s Bush Green: Tel tries the old...
What with all the camp shouting, garish costumes, grotesque gurning and the feeling that you’re watching the same thing over and over...
Frostie admires his favourite view.
Not having noticed Nicholas Owen slip gracefully from his berth at ITN Towers, it was something of a shock to see that...
Any excuse will do, it seems, for a media-led Smiths/Morrissey anniversary. At least Sean O’Hagan in yesterday’s Observer chose one that held...
There’s a fantastic bit in Andrew Collins’s new book – one of many – wherein he details the time he and Stuart...
Mrs Thatcher buys some cheese, 1979: 1981: the Gang of Four step out. Inside the Press Association’s results room, 1964: 1959: SuperMac...
Five years ago Creamguide decided to undertake an audit of a previously uncatalogued and largely unclear inventory. Sure, the programme had been...
Shirley Williams and her nancies: Simon Cadell, Robert Powell, Steve Race, Barry Cryer (with beard!), Denis Quilley, Richard Attenborough and Bamber Gascoigne.
Hello, I’m Lovejoy, of Lovejoy Antiques. I’ve broken off from doing a bit of “divvying” to introduce this fantastic quiz, all about...
SONG: GOODNIGHT TONIGHT DEFINITION: Paul goes disco. Wings go to pot. Literally. THINGS TO KNOW: a) It was a top 5 hit...
The London Marathon on Sunday afforded a rare and welcome sighting of that once all-conquering beast, the Epic TV Signature Tune. The...
Ahead of this year’s round of elections, a swingometer-arced doff of the hat to the lord of results night raconteurs, David Dimbleby:...
“…they surely do!”
As Troy McClure cried: “SPIN-OFF! Is there any word more thrilling to the human soul?” By way of a break from rifling...
Currently vying with Sir Alan Sugar for the role of the nation’s favourite craggy curmudgeon, Andrew Lloyd-Webber hasn’t always had it so...
Here it is; the first, and perhaps only, self-evident purpose of this blog: correcting all the errors in last night’s Digi-Cream Times...
“I could never resist a photo opportunity.”
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