...and I've just read about some exciting news. It says here on my computer that TV Cream is planning on doing another...
One thing that TV Cream has been waiting for almost as long as the release of Let It Be on DVD is...
Word reaches TV Cream that Stephen Fry's Dr Who script, which seems to have been in various states of conjecture and completion...
Farewell to the man behind Captain Pugwash, Sir Prancelot, Mary Mungo & Midge and Ark Stories (lest we forget, once voted one...
Journalist Michael Parkinson, pictured here being a journalist back when he was still one of us, has been making the headlines again...
When it comes to the penmanship of the crystal bucket's finest, you'd surely have to take diaries over memoirs any day. The...
After months of talks at the very highest level (floor 17 of TVC Towers), TV Cream is proud to announce there's great...
We did the sounds a short while ago, and the politicians just before that. But what about those particular whiffs or combinations...
The kindly uncle to Valerie Singleton's stern schoolmistress on The Money Programme, and The Normal One alongside The Grumpy One and The...
Opening up the lever arch file marked Photos That Need To Be Added To The New TV Cream Website, our attention was...
Uh oh! Here's the Emergency Reassuring Dad's Army picture, and that's just to let you know that, with the recent annoying, persistent...
Mollie Sugden has died, aged 86. How you remember her depends on where you came in: 1) the 60s, when she stickybeaked...
Wimbledon got moved from BBC2 to BBC1 on Monday night, and will probably get moved again on Wednesday evening. As is the...
Another update from the TV Cream Relocation whiteboard: the A-Z section is now complete. Every programme review from the old TV Cream...
The pianist, composer, arranger and forever gregarious host of MY MUSIC has died. He was 88. Notable among the man's many accomplishments...
One of the many benefits of upgrading TVC to this new site is that, whenever we're done cutting and pasting something from...
Look, it's Bernard Manning carrying a steak for his mum. Tell us about your mum, Bernie! "My mother? She wouldn't hurt a...
Patrick Dowling, co-creator of The Adventure Game and producer of Vision On and Take Hart, has died. He was 89. The man...
The fifth volume of Clive James's memoirs will be published later this year. It will be called The Blaze of Obscurity, and...
...another TV Cream blog-based tribute to Sir Macca. Except now we're on the new TVC, we can doff a Broad Street-sized hat...
These are confusing times. TV Cream's jettisoned its reassuring yellow-on-black livery and appalling screen grabs from old VHS tapes for a brand...
"If it's true history repeats itself, where are those 1950 prices? As I said to my wife..." Well, it's wonderful to be...
Surely giving children the chance to pick up the phone and talk directly to their heroes was one of the most brilliantly...
It’s another bank holiday, and the enterprise TV Cream Towers launched on the bank holiday before last still isn’t finished. Unlike present-day...
Meet Pudsey Bear mark 1. Save for this photo, he seems to have been airbrushed out of history – perhaps wisely. Presumably...
Last week’s Creamguide concluded that, historically, and ignoring everything since c.1997, ITV’s regional efforts have outshone those of the BBC. And one...
News that the pilot of Last Of The Summer Wine almost failed to get made at all has been filed eagerly in...
…and we’ve just got one thing to say about the current health of the economy and the public’s opinion of elected politicians. Take...
And they were up for four awards. Sure, they were runners-up in three categories, but nobody remembers you if you came second....
Science!
Early on Saturday 9th September 1995, TV Cream hurried down to its local record shop to be sure of buying a new...
Melvyn’s plaything has been axed. Surely nobody will mourn its demise. It’s been a joke for years, shoved out at the arse end...
A few people have a spot of flu. Is it worth carrying an umbrella in case the sky falls on your head?...
The last ever series of Last Of The Summer Wine began the other week. Or did it? The Beeb simply says it’s...
BBC4’s Saturday night parade of female-fronted song-and-dance archivery felt like it accomplished two things. First, it highlighted how you don’t see any...
It’s 14th January 1976, and the country’s streets and fields are in a shocking state. The call goes out for a) a...
“A group of people snivelling at a dog’s funeral. Daft I call it!” Meanwhile, further on: “Should children call their parents by...
… He said it after playing Orville’s Song on Pick Of The Pops. Yes, Alan Freeman, music lovers. Whether you adored him...
Nominations for our musical stepladder have dried up, understandably, so in a shameless attempt to revitalise interest, there is now a Spotify...
The Apprentice is losing its lustre. ITV continues to struggle to find new hit shows. An obvious synthesis suggests itself. Next spring,...
Time’s up.
About 14 or 15 years ago, Kevin Greening did a thing while standing in for Danny Baker on Saturday morning Radio 1....
Inspired by a couple of tunes somebody has added to the TV Cream Spotify playlist, plus watching The Spy Who Loved Me...
To celebrate reaching a half-century of graphical archivery, here’s that official new Countryfile presenting line-up in full:
Hello, I’m Norris McWhirter, and I’ve just popped out from a meeting of the Freedom Association to tell you that TV Cream...
Commercially manufactured noises have already been dealt with. What about those non-musical, non-vocal sounds that should be recognised for somehow forever embodying an...
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...
In 1985 That’s Life! was in its imperial phase. It had an immovable berth in Michael Grade’s aromatic Sunday night line-up of...
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