The tables are turned: a collection of anagrams of Richard’s name.
Hello! I’m Muriel Gray. You might remember me from such Channel 4 hit shows as Switch, The Media Show and The 100...
Look, it's Bernard Manning carrying a steak for his mum. Tell us about your mum, Bernie! "My mother? She wouldn't hurt a...
Following on from this, ten instances of bands boasting both half and other half. 1) “I got Paul McCartney out of Wings”...
The new edition of Radio Times features Ol’ Miserable Bastard, aka Michael Parkinson, whinging on yet again about how the world will...
One of the new series announced as part of BBC4’s spring season received curiously little attention from the press. Everything You Always...
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...
Yes, it's them again. And that's because Neil and Chris's titular classic celluloid caper from the late 1980s has prompted a bumper...
Last year in one of the many non-TV-related editions of the Digi-Cream Times mailout (in other words, all of them) the suggestion...
By way of a slight return to our thoughts of a few days ago, we've swept a few BBC2 Theme Night idents...
Surely giving children the chance to pick up the phone and talk directly to their heroes was one of the most brilliantly...
John Rivers gets in touch with Creamguide to say: “When giving to charity this week, think not only of Children in Need,...
(advance apologies for sounding like a particularly smug version of the Guardian’s Media Monkey) Last night’s special event at the British Film...
News that the pilot of Last Of The Summer Wine almost failed to get made at all has been filed eagerly in...
Opening yesterday’s Live Earth concert in London, Genesis greeted the thousands of fans in Wembley stadium and the tens of thousands watching...
By way of a slight return to this slight return, some more information about those endless David Jacobs productions. They’re all true,...
Inspired by a couple of tunes somebody has added to the TV Cream Spotify playlist, plus watching The Spy Who Loved Me...
There’s nothing the media likes more than a story about on-screen channel idents, preferably when there’s a sum of money involved they...
Now that Evan Davis is off to the Today programme – albeit for 12 months – vacancies are open for the position...
Michael Parkinson has launched his own website. For a man who hitherto never wasted any promotional opportunity to remind you he’s a...
Past-it celebrities, forever patronisingly referred to as “veteran personalities” by press releases, have a tendency to throw money at vanity projects as...
You can’t keep a good phone-in down. “We’re going to bring Popmaster back,” announced Ken Bruce on air this morning. “We’re not...
Noel Edmonds was mouthing off in the press the other day, in an attempt to whip up interest in his wretched one-off...
…this is old news.
This blog update, like its subject, is being shoved out late on a Sunday night in the hope (and expectation) that nobody's...
Given that time-travelling sitcom Ashes To Ashes begins this week, here are five endings, or “solutions”, that will certainly be more entertaining,...
Journalist Michael Parkinson, pictured here being a journalist back when he was still one of us, has been making the headlines again...
Yet again the proper release of MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS on DVD has been delayed. This has become something of a bugbear...
The Beeb seemed to take on the guise of an absent-minded Charlie Drake-esque professor in the late 70s, putting things down then...
It's 25 years this month since the very first official Pets' single hit the shelves - a fitting moment to doff a...
We present half a dozen tepid Tarrant try-outs, hailing from that mighty chasm stretching between Tiswas and Who Wants To Be A...
What's got Sir Jim'll so perturbed that he feels the need to brandish Mr Cigar in such an atypically belligerent fashion? Could...
To herald the news that Mars Bars are no longer to be marketed to the under-12s (a situation which will clearly lead...
Very simple, this. What are the laws governing the appearance of railway carriages in a TV Cream-era programme?>
Chris Hughes has unearthed striking proof of the existence of The Second Book of Jigsaw Puzzles (Jigsaw as in the Clive Doig-devised...
Here’s a shamelessly predictable thing – but then, when has this blog been anything else? A tupperware sandwich box of leftover Simon...
Whole books have been written about Radio Times graphics, but it’s unlikely anything hailing from the last 12 months would find a...
Everyone’s talking about them: Graham Norton, Steven Moffat (writer of “the scariest Dr Who episode ever – since the last one I...
Another presenter is leaving Blue Peter. Given it’s just a few months since the last one quit, and the fact it’s the...
By way of doffing a Dog On Wheels-sized cap to BBC4’s superb 1997 Week, five of the best programmes of that year:...
Hearing Blur’s ‘Sunday Sunday’ on the radio earlier today served as a reminder of how rare it is – still – to...
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...
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...
Paul Gambaccini turned up on the Today programme the other morning. He’d be invited on because, obviously, a matter of supreme import...
Introducing a brand new feature… …dedicated to noting all appearances by the great man in the public eye, be they online, on...
It's been a while, but he's back. TV Cream's Stilgoe Watch has been reactivated after more than two years of lying dormant.
Friday’s edition of The Now Show on Radio 4 was blessed, and that is the right word, by an appearance from none...
NOISY SKETCHATHON for kids with a "parents eh? Cuh!" theme
It’s been a while since the self-styled Bunty Bagshaw got herself in the papers for another “indiscreet remark”. Well, all of a...
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...
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