Here’s where Russell T Davies has been going wrong. Bailing out after three and a bit series? Pah! JNT was there for,...
SONG: TUG OF WAR DEFINITION: The money’s run out. THINGS TO KNOW: a) The title track off the eponymous album, it flopped...
Aubrey Singer, whose death was announced today, was your archetypal old school BBC mandarin: stubborn, garrulous, indiscreet and decidedly eccentric, but was...
It’s been a while since Sir John Major MP offered up one of his arcane utterances for public enjoyment, so it was...
As alluded to in this week’s Digi-Cream Times mailout, the Radio Times has undergone a revamp and accompanying price rise. In her...
Not enough thought is going into solving what has become the annual Dr Who mid-season blues. Simply dusting down an old monster...
In the future, everyone will pose for photos like this.
Jonathan Ross was very generous about the latest TV Cream tome this morning, even going to the extent of regaling guest Paul...
Paul Gambaccini turned up on the Today programme the other morning. He’d be invited on because, obviously, a matter of supreme import...
Tel essays the first Eurovision supergroup: A couple of visitors to the verdant pastures of Shepherd’s Bush Green: Tel tries the old...
What with all the camp shouting, garish costumes, grotesque gurning and the feeling that you’re watching the same thing over and over...
Frostie admires his favourite view.
Not having noticed Nicholas Owen slip gracefully from his berth at ITN Towers, it was something of a shock to see that...
Any excuse will do, it seems, for a media-led Smiths/Morrissey anniversary. At least Sean O’Hagan in yesterday’s Observer chose one that held...
There’s a fantastic bit in Andrew Collins’s new book – one of many – wherein he details the time he and Stuart...
Mrs Thatcher buys some cheese, 1979: 1981: the Gang of Four step out. Inside the Press Association’s results room, 1964: 1959: SuperMac...
Five years ago Creamguide decided to undertake an audit of a previously uncatalogued and largely unclear inventory. Sure, the programme had been...
Shirley Williams and her nancies: Simon Cadell, Robert Powell, Steve Race, Barry Cryer (with beard!), Denis Quilley, Richard Attenborough and Bamber Gascoigne.
Hello, I’m Lovejoy, of Lovejoy Antiques. I’ve broken off from doing a bit of “divvying” to introduce this fantastic quiz, all about...
SONG: GOODNIGHT TONIGHT DEFINITION: Paul goes disco. Wings go to pot. Literally. THINGS TO KNOW: a) It was a top 5 hit...
The London Marathon on Sunday afforded a rare and welcome sighting of that once all-conquering beast, the Epic TV Signature Tune. The...
Ahead of this year’s round of elections, a swingometer-arced doff of the hat to the lord of results night raconteurs, David Dimbleby:...
“…they surely do!”
As Troy McClure cried: “SPIN-OFF! Is there any word more thrilling to the human soul?” By way of a break from rifling...
Currently vying with Sir Alan Sugar for the role of the nation’s favourite craggy curmudgeon, Andrew Lloyd-Webber hasn’t always had it so...
Here it is; the first, and perhaps only, self-evident purpose of this blog: correcting all the errors in last night’s Digi-Cream Times...
“I could never resist a photo opportunity.”
Following on from this, ten instances of bands boasting both half and other half. 1) “I got Paul McCartney out of Wings”...
Chris Hughes has mailed Creamguide with his recollections of the 1992 general election: “BBC Parliament’s forthcoming re-run has already brought back grim...
Ahead of Monday’s screening of Election ’92 on BBC Parliament, a few choice images from “the dirtiest campaign in history” (copyright every...
The fact Paddy McAloon is once again going through the wars thanks to illness is unwelcome news indeed. Aside from essaying numerous...
“Take Emlyn Hughes. Please.”
SONG: BEAUTIFUL NIGHT DEFINITION: A post-Anthology Paul feels the urge to pick up his old bass. And then pick up a million...
Ahead of Greg Dyke’s one-off BBC4 documentary on Lord Reith next week, here are five other format ideas, any or all of...
“You should see my Denis Healey.” “I couldn’t possibly,” replies Yarwood.
Now here’s a photo and a half: The date: 26th June 1989. The occasion: Simon Bates departs from outside Broadcasting House to...
Given Russell T Davies’s penchant for reviving more and more Dr Who clutter from the old days, despite saying he’d do no...
It’s pretty much accepted that Peter Kay has jumped the shark. But when precisely did it happen? Here are ten contenders for...
Comic Relief: it’s not the same as it was.
There’s one thing above all else which BBC4’s 1997 week has confirmed, and that’s the way the decade is destined to be...
Broadcasting House is 75 years old this week. The official opening of the second greatest building in the world (after BBC Television...
By way of doffing a Dog On Wheels-sized cap to BBC4’s superb 1997 Week, five of the best programmes of that year:...
SONG: TAKE IT AWAY DEFINITION: Paul invites a few mates round to his parlour for a singalong and, thanks to the help...
26th June 1979: the Beeb’s battery of newsreaders past and present gather to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first television news...
Yet again the proper release of MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS on DVD has been delayed. This has become something of a bugbear...
It seems that when Douglas Adams took over the role of Dr Who script editor in the late 1970s, he made great...
On PM the other day, Eddie Mair quizzed the leader of Essex County Council as to the sincerity of his desire to...
“Welcome to what one could, if so persuaded, be minded to term a palace of pixellated pleasures, a factory of facile fun-seeking...
Whole books have been written about Radio Times graphics, but it’s unlikely anything hailing from the last 12 months would find a...
SONG: COMING UP DEFINITION: Paul achieves his ultimate dream: performing in a band entirely made up of himself. Oh, and Linda. THINGS...
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