Now look, the Eurovision Song Contest is a TV programme, not a music competition. A TV programme, right? And that's why TV...
On Thursday, May 17, BBC4 brings us a superb, 90-minute documentary, Tales of Television Centre. Here are 20 brilliant things about it....
Veteran entertainer and business executive Noel Edmonds, 63, popped up on YouTube the other week to deliver an unexpectedly tart state of...
(As opposed to 100 people on Twitter who are famous but who have absolutely nothing interesting to say, or famous people who...
Time for a shake of the office snow globe and see if the patterns of the swirling flakes elicit any information as...
Something special landed on the metaphorical doormats of Creamguide subscribers late on Thursday night… The [we won’t say “legendary”, that’s for others...
75 reasons television is one of the greatest things in the world.
Yes, it’s back! Seeing as we’ve reached bank holiday time once more (for three quarters of the UK at least) and given...
Many of us here at TV Cream Towers have been just as shocked as you at recent events in the news. We...
TV Cream's tribute to a trans-coastal titan of the sunshine season.
Following on from yesterday’s concrete doughnut-shaped disappointing news, here’s our endpaper-style guide to the glories of Television Centre. Click on the above...
There as many opinions about the BBC as there are people who watch and listen to it, which is how it should...
Arise, Sir Brucie! It’s the one bonus we’ve all been waiting for.
So there you have it. If you don’t recognise any of the looky-likeys then ask us in the comments below and we’ll...
Bonsoir! There’s been a mighty wind at our backs today, so much so it’s blown us right off course, and into La Belle...
Noswaith dda! Thanks, everyone, who’s been following our regal sky procession so far, and joining in all the fun – and it...
Hello! Our airship has now docked safely in Liverpool having set off from Carlisle at around 8am (bloater of a night out,...
Hello! This morning, TV Cream’s podcasting team of Ian, Chris and Graham (in that order) began a very special odyssey in order...
We’re super-excited about the return of ‘mega-dudes’ Adam and Joe to BBC 6 Music this Saturday (Cornballs, you’re never allowed to go...
The decennial national census is almost upon us.
The third and final slice from our knapsack of nuptials
Somewhat buried amongst the Lennoxes and lollipop ladies of the New Year Honours list was the name of David Butler, one of...
So mote it be… As New Year’s Eve is upon us again, TV Cream has picked up the baton dropped by now...
You can always trust the typing pool. Just days after we'd mentioned how TV Cream's very own Peg and Kathleen were already...
We're dipping into our ottoman of listings paperwork to see how radio and telly covered Royal Weddings of the past.
We accept The Apprentice doesn't fall into TVC's remit, however, we're suckers for business bullshitting no matter what the decade. So let's,...
What was it Karl Marx said? History repeats itself, and each time is worse than the last. Or something. Here are the...
Dick and Dom are returning to Saturday morning telly next year.
Sad news from our Northern desk: one of the country's most iconic bits of telly signage has been "retired". Yup, the giant...
With the Guv'nor about to visit these shores and the TV schedules set for some papal staples, we look back to the...
TV Cream is lifting the hinged lid of the wooden ottoman housing its record collection to investigate examples of how to, and...
Aside from attracting a slew of search engine referrals from browsers belonging to readers of the Daily Express, TV Cream has another...
So, inexorably to the history of those World Cup records. No doubt you'll have seen this dissected and deconstructed elsewhere in the...
Let's face it, the quadrennial battle twixt BBC and ITV come World Cup month has kept us all mightily entertained these last...
There's a panic on at Television Centre. The schedule for Easter Monday evening has been mislaid, and a new one needs to...
Precisely 10 years ago, some folk from this parish decided to watch a whole 24 hours of telly on each of the...
The BBC is the greatest institution in the world. But it can also be one of the most the maddening, as the...
Excitingly, the Beeb has just published its draft guidelines for covering the 2010 general election. Disappointingly, they don't contain any information about...
...who exactly? It's currently moneybags at dawn in the US over the future of the talk show establishment. But who would be...
Yes, within days of the last decade being put to rest, we're dredging it all up again. Our effort to compile a...
It's December 1984 and, in the pages of Radio Times, Noel Edmonds is depicted standing before one of London's most familiar landmarks,...
Once upon a time, nowhere was the notion of the “family of BBC faces” more played up at Christmas time than on...
Yes, yes it could. Great as the latest volume of Michael Palin's diaries are, and they are very very great, he doesn't...
It's worth recalling just how preposterous was TV-am's pitch for breakfast television. Five of the biggest names of the small screen (well,...
Hello, I'm Bob McKenzie. I'm here to remind you to watch BBC Parliament on Friday 9th October for what should prove to...
Yup, that's the message TV Cream is issuing to the suits at ITV and Channel 4 as they search for a new...
Talk of the Citizen's Charter serves as a reminder that we are fast approaching a hugely significant anniversary. That's right: it will...
Here's an image that ought to be added to that photo library collection marked 'GENERIC 1980s': people "rushing" to submit their applications...
And they were up for four awards. Sure, they were runners-up in three categories, but nobody remembers you if you came second....
Early on Saturday 9th September 1995, TV Cream hurried down to its local record shop to be sure of buying a new...
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