A few people have a spot of flu. Is it worth carrying an umbrella in case the sky falls on your head?...
“A group of people snivelling at a dog’s funeral. Daft I call it!” Meanwhile, further on: “Should children call their parents by...
Greetings! Wogan here. Unfortunately I am not my usual, full-chested, stout-lipped soul. I have had a brush with the law. Well, the...
It seems some of those much-hyped and secretly-wished-for “rogue elements” ((C) The Daily Express, The Daily Mail et al) slipped into Saturday’s...
It seems some of those much-hyped and secretly-wished-for “rogue elements” ((C) The Daily Express, The Daily Mail et al) slipped into Saturday’s anti-G20...
BBC Parliament has spent the evening reliving events from precisely 30 years ago, when Donald MacCormick stood on a gantry high up...
BBC Parliament has spent the evening reliving events from precisely 30 years ago, when Donald MacCormick stood on a gantry high up...
The nation’s most ubiquitous Wiganite has a new book out. It has much in common with his previous publications: a breezy (i.e....
Do you see Britain old and worn? On the brink of ruin? Bankrupt in all but heritage and hope, and even those...
It being the week for retreading the path of La Passionara of Privilege, and what with the 30th anniversary of her arrival...
Thanks to those few people who took up TV Cream’s challenge and devised a Sunday night line-up for BBC1 that captured some of...
Thinking more about Sunday Night Telly (TM), particularly in light of some of your comments, it’s clear that it was once, more...
TV Cream is now on Twitter. So far the updates mostly comprise drink-soused dispatches from The Phoenix on Charing Cross Road in...
Taking a cue from Five-Centres’s speculation on the likelihood of a docudrama about the Marchioness, it’s time for another bout of fantasy...
What’s to look forward to this year on a notable numerological bent? For starters there’s a slew of TV stations-cum-channels who are...
Gazing into the TV Cream crystal ball, bought from the boot of James Burke’s car one foggy afternoon in 1996, what does...
TV Cream continues its exclusive serialisation of the memoirs of the Radio Times TV editor. PART TWO: JULY-DECEMBER 2008 2nd July I...
After a short interval, during which a blue screen might well have afforded readers more entertainment than what otherwise appeared on this...
A few years ago, TV Cream was fortunate enough to publish a series of extracts from the diary of the TV editor...
This is no great surprise, but the choice of replacement is completely wrong. You don’t get a camp parodist to front a...
By way of a slight return to this, how might the feature film fantasies of today’s pop elite manifest themselves on screen?...
It seems that giant effigies of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand are to be burned this Saturday. Edenbridge Bonfire Society is the...
TV Cream has learned that following the suspension of renowned outspoken and unpredictable broadcasters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross for being outspoken...
With things continuing to get worse, it’s become clear that not only is the government part-nationalising certain TV programmes, it’s also part-nationalising...
In the flurry of excitement earlier this week accompanying the launch of the government’s economic rescue plan, one piece of small print...
There are only a couple of months to go until the first transmitter is turned off and digital TV begins seeping across...
Anthony Howard is one of those people who has already lived forever. He’s impossibly permanent. Every time there’s yet another political scandal,...
It’s pretty clear we’re heading into another period of belt-tightening, sock-pulling, sleeve-rolling, penny-counting austerity. Already the news bulletins are full of talk...
BBC4 is bringing back The Frost Report for a one-off special at Easter. It’s one of those ideas that sounds great in...
Let’s see. Bumbling mumbling Professor Phil Redmond, the Cardinal Richelieu of Croxteth, goes on record to complain about the BBC scrapping Grange...
The latest annual batch of secret papers declassified under the 30-Year Rule* makes, as ever, for great reading. They always do, by...
Chris Hughes has pointed out that new designs for every coin are being introduced next year, and wonders – rightly – why...
If ever there was a time for the sentence “If ever there was a time for a country-wide poster campaign promoting discretion...
Tucked away at the very end of last night’s epic excursion through the 1967 devaluation crisis on BBC Parliament was an edition...
You might have already spotted this, but on Sunday 18th November BBC Parliament is doing another of its as-it-happened themed anniversary evenings,...
It’s apocryphal nowadays to assume the whole country was watching TV 25 years ago this very day, entranced as the titanic yellow...
David Dimbleby is presumably feeling more gutted than most at the moment, seeing as how the election’s been cancelled and his chance...
Phil Redmond was on BBC News 24 earlier, droning on about his plans to “save” Liverpool’s Capital of Culture celebrations. Unsurprisingly, the...
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...
In a week or so’s time, BBC Parliament is going to be repeating Election ’87. Fair enough, it’s 20 years (and a...
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...
A moment’s pause to recall an age when, rather than seeking to assemble a government of “all the talents”, a Prime Minister...
“…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,...
It’s been a while since Sir John Major MP offered up one of his arcane utterances for public enjoyment, so it was...
Ahead of this year’s round of elections, a swingometer-arced doff of the hat to the lord of results night raconteurs, David Dimbleby:...
Ahead of Monday’s screening of Election ’92 on BBC Parliament, a few choice images from “the dirtiest campaign in history” (copyright every...
On PM the other day, Eddie Mair quizzed the leader of Essex County Council as to the sincerity of his desire to...
There is but a year until TV-am’s 25th anniversary , so what better time to start pencilling in a few putative signings...
An opportunity seems to be presenting itself for British acting talent to go on winning awards for ever, solely off the back...
One thing above all else can be guaranteed to unfold in 2007: a bumper load of anniversaries. For starters it’s 25 years...
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