It’s turning into a miserable Christmas.
Goodnight Major Clanger.
We’ll be the judge of that, Gill. The Christmas Radio Times isn’t something that should need calling attention to, least of all...
This is no great surprise, but the choice of replacement is completely wrong. You don’t get a camp parodist to front a...
Half-way through this clip you’ll find Michael Grade doing a brilliant guest spot in an episode from the first series of French...
It’s all over for the nation’s favourite bargain bin-cum-high street emporium. Well, unless the government decides to buy Woolworths on behalf of...
The air is thick with them, the internet perforated by them, the press carpeted in them. But enough about rumours concerning the...
A pre pre-Christmas message from Rolf:
Here’s a bit of textbook Poppery. Mr Duffy in a black poloneck mimes into a cigarillo-microphone in front of various easels boasting...
…so said John Winston Ono O’Boogie Lennon, shortly before releasing an album entirely comprising the sound of himself and the missus shouting...
By way of a slight return to this, how might the feature film fantasies of today’s pop elite manifest themselves on screen?...
Outlook: grim.
In the mid-80s any artistes worth their salt did a longform feature film that, ahem, ‘dramatised’ their latest hits, roped in a few guest...
In Sunday’s Observer Miranda Sawyer insisted the absence from the Radio 2 schedules of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, and their replacement...
Sir Jim’ll points at the credit roller for an edition of Top Of The Pops which boasts, among others, The Shadows, Beatles Band...
It seems that giant effigies of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand are to be burned this Saturday. Edenbridge Bonfire Society is the...
It’s now 1992, and Dan Rather is wondering whether it’s “hasta la vista” for George Bush. “This is the hour of prayer”...
It’s that man again. But for what wheeze is he trying to comandeer the resources of the nation?
TV Cream has learned that following the suspension of renowned outspoken and unpredictable broadcasters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross for being outspoken...
Back to 1984 this time, and Dan Rather’s waiting for us in an impressively-staffed, multi-screen CBS studio. But first, the ubiquitous plugs....
Welcome to the hitherto-titled Digi-Cream Times blog, now with added new-nameness and general all-round gumption. You’ll see that all the archives have...
Advance notice of a new TV Cream pet project, which you’ll be able to hear from 1st November. Yup, a good two...
To help hurry along the fortnight until polling day in the United States, here’s the first in a thankfully short series of...
With the future of genuine digital radio stations in doubt (as opposed to all those ‘pretend’ ones that you can get through...
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...
What glittering occasion could possibly have brought these three stars together?
In the flurry of excitement earlier this week accompanying the launch of the government’s economic rescue plan, one piece of small print...
Courtesy of blog denizen John Rivers and the good people of Harper Collins, TV Cream has five copies of Lord Denis Norden’s...
“Have you *seen* the latest viewing figures?!”
A press release arrives at TV Cream from drownedinmedia.com, bearing news that “legendary Broadcaster [sic] and five times Sony Award winning DJ,...
Chris Hughes has unearthed striking proof of the existence of The Second Book of Jigsaw Puzzles (Jigsaw as in the Clive Doig-devised...
Michael Parkinson has launched his own website. For a man who hitherto never wasted any promotional opportunity to remind you he’s a...
It feels like there are a million things wrong with this clip, especially the opening 60 seconds or so. Ideally it ought...
Now there’s a title that’s likely to get this blog’s search queries shooting up. 1) Harold Wilson and Dick Crossman cook up...
There’s no way to embed this, unfortunately, but here’s a chance to enjoy the sight of Petula Clark singing across a faux-dinner...
It’s the Dr Who silly season, with stupid stories being lobbed into the ether to keep the freaks in a heightened state...
Noel Edmonds was mouthing off in the press the other day, in an attempt to whip up interest in his wretched one-off...
Anyone who listens to Adam and Joe on 6 Music will know the name Chris Salt. He was the deserving winner of...
This new book “by” Biddy Baxter comprising pieces of correspondence from the history of Blue Peter is a charming concept, but somewhat...
Excuse the Daily Express-style headline, but apparently Glynn Christian has just been given a lifetime achievement award for…well, being Glynn Christian. The...
It’s 1972. Any suggestions as to the record Roy has just broken here?
Hello, I’m John Dunn, and it gives me enormous pleasure to introduce the TV Cream Mystery Voice Challenge. Those ferrets of frippery,...
The final one from David Pascoe: Exhibit F: Simple As That AKA: Macca says Just Say No Two quick ones to finish...
There’s a tribute to the great man over on your new-look Off The Telly.
Do they mean a rather pompous opinionated rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-even-more-riches lollygagger who sued the BBC because he hasn’t got a sense of humour and...
Just what is going on here…and who’s the bloke on the floor?
TV Cream has been lucky to come into possession of an exceedingly rare sound archive: nothing less than composer Simon May’s demo...
David Pascoe writes: Exhibit E: Check My Machine AKA: Macca does dubstep “I figure that in time they’ll get around to more...
There are only a couple of months to go until the first transmitter is turned off and digital TV begins seeping across...
Property magnates, alliterative abbreviations and one-time-linkers-of-children’s-cartoons, Dick and Dom, have been sacked from Radio 1. That’s not the reason for this post....
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