Here’s TV Cream to the power of ten. For uber-viewing pleasure, watch the high quality version.
He’s the man of a thousand faces, every one a different version of open-mouthed, wide-eyed exuber-ism. But what particular historical epihanies are...
Tony Currie, historian extraordinaire of Radio Times, TV curator, theme tune specialist and all round good sort, has a new venture: UK...
This is truly sad news. Bill Cotton was one of the absolute greats: a shameless showman, a true populist, a scheduling wizard,...
Checking out for the last time…
At long last, Reggie Bosanquet’s venture into the world of disco makes it onto the blog. It’s an extraordinary aural creation, notable...
It’s a bit embarrassing to think TV Cream once named this man as our number one media mover and shaker: Not only...
David Pascoe writes: Exhibit D: Rudolph the Red Nose Reggae AKA: Macca does country festive? I won’t detain you for long with...
You know that a bandwagon is really starting to roll when the likes of Gareth McLean haul themselves on board. Typically, he...
In this week’s Radio Times, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett are interviewed about their “ground-breaking” titles for the BBC’s Olympic coverage. In...
1) A dapper David Coleman gives his chequered suit an outing in Mexico, 1968: 2) Olive off of On The Buses turns...
It’s 50 years since the first Carry On film was released, and amidst all the justified retrospection and ribaldry, the fact that...
Is that really the erstwhile younger-one-who’s-charged-with-all-the-risky-stuff-on-Tomorrow’s-World and guest on one edition of Celebrity Squares in 1994, Howard Stableford, leaving a comment about...
More from David Pascoe: Exhibit C: Daytime Night-time Suffering “I really think that’s all right, that one. It’s very pro-woman.” AKA: Macca...
For anyone still signed up to the Creamguide Yahoo Group mailing list, you’ll just have received the last ever Digi-Cream Times weekly...
Sophia: In Sicily, we never went to the doctor. We went to the Widow Caravelli. Whatever you had, she had a cure....
Yesterday saw the last ever edition of The Sunday Programme on ITV, and with it the end of political shows on the...
It’s not proving a good year for legendary TV executives.
Now here’s a subject fit for blog treatment. Yes, it’s 10 years to the month since the press launch of OnDigital. Here’s...
Here’s a shamelessly predictable thing – but then, when has this blog been anything else? A tupperware sandwich box of leftover Simon...
Exhibit B: Little Woman Love AKA: Macca does sexy Nowadays there isn’t a hair out of place on that dyed barnet and...
Here’s a fine curtain-raiser to the weekend: the best piss-take of Right To Reply there’s surely ever been, right down to the...
This seems to be something of a mismatch. It’s a format that anybody could present, and has no obvious schtick with which...
Haven’t had one of these for a while. Any ideas as to what the occasion is here?
This is really very upsetting.
Many thanks to David Pascoe, who’s put virtual pen to paper and come up with a definitive guide to Paul McCartney curiosities....
The official BBC Beat The Teacher quiz book, published in 1985, contains some uncomfortably difficult questions. Were these really the type of...
Courtesy of Chris Hughes, Jill Phythian and Jon Peake (who, in an alternative universe, would be the current Blue Peter team), here’s...
Here’s a brilliant clip from an edition of the Today programme in 2001, wherein John Humphrys receives a telephone call from an...
Anthony Howard is one of those people who has already lived forever. He’s impossibly permanent. Every time there’s yet another political scandal,...
A plug for an album by Adam and Joe, which is available on iTunes from Monday. It’s a collection of their ace...
Ahead of the nation’s largest simultaneous ejaculation, when Billie Piper returns to Dr Who tonight, the TV Cream Matrix Databank has been...
Surely the most stirring title sequence ever:
That holy trinity of pop anecdotage, Paul Gambaccini, Tim Rice and Jonathan Rice, have this to say about 1986 in their book...
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...
Next Tuesday at 8pm on BBC4 there’s a repeat of Michael Cockerell’s documentary on Margaret Thatcher’s rise to power, and if you...
There’s already a thread about this on NotBBC, but it’s just too good a subject to pass over by way of a...
It’s always fun seeing dramatisations of life at the BBC, and last week’s Mary Whitehouse knockabout was no exception. But they’re all...
Here’s a fantastic clip from the fantastic RDA, a show that deserved so much more of everything (acclaim, audience, recommissions…). It’s John...
I know this isn’t strictly to do with normal TV Cream matters, but this blog has been flying the flag for Macca...
One final set of questions. Who uttered the last words to be broadcast on:1) TV-am2) Thames Television3) The Big Breakfast4) Mark Radcliffe’s...
Which of these is not a song by Paul McCartney? a) Oo Youb) Bogey Musicc) Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggaed) Bip Bope) Electricity...
Three quick questions today: Who was the first voice to be heard ona) Radio 1b) Radio 5c) Radio 5 Live?
Here’s Mary Whitehouse in 1967 talking about her favourite programme. But what is it? “Already there are some programmes serving a very...
What’s the odd one out in this list – and why? Window cleanerMillinerBillstickerCostermongerPost Office engineer
One last batch of Radio Times billings to identify, this time from May 1988: 1) Tonight’s contest is between Sandbach School from...
Whose nose do you suppose? And the answer is…
Which of these are not episode titles from This Life? a) Milly Liarb) You Can’t Make An Omelette Without Breaking Eggc) Apocalypse...
The production team for This Is Your Life used to have a code-name system in operation, to help disguise the identity of...
Match up the Eurovision winning song with the correct country: 1) Diggy-Loo Diggy-Ley2) Ding-Dinge-Dong3) A Ba Ni Bi4) La, La, La5) Insieme:...
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