Today is TV Cream’s 20th birthday. Twentieth! To mark the occasion, we’ve made a big video and we hope you will enjoy...
It's now a quarter of a century since the twin kings of US late night television, Carson and Letterman, had their best...
Twelve instances of pith and moment. Get well soon, Danny Baker, from all of us at TV Cream!
"Hello and welcome to the quick draw game that everyone can play!"
Well hello everybody, TV Cream is here To enthuse your muse and bend your ear. There's a job to do, it won't...
At last, the true story behind a much celebrated chapter in British Television can now be told. Exclusive to TV Cream (and...
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...
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...
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...
This being the week of the BPI Awards, here’s a helping from 1980 back when it was still the Radio 1 Daily Mirror...
Forget your Specials, Police, Blur, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and whoever is reforming (again) in the next 12 months. Now that...
It’s December 25th 1985, and, in one of the best bits of harmless nonsense ever undertaken in the name of festive telly, Terence jets off to Denver...
Ah, 1990. Over-bright primary colour back projection? Check. CSO turning cut-out people upside down? Check. Archivery spliced with juvenilia? Check. Ugly blokes...
Half-way through this clip you’ll find Michael Grade doing a brilliant guest spot in an episode from the first series of French...
Here’s a bit of textbook Poppery. Mr Duffy in a black poloneck mimes into a cigarillo-microphone in front of various easels boasting...
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...
It’s now 1992, and Dan Rather is wondering whether it’s “hasta la vista” for George Bush. “This is the hour of prayer”...
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....
To help hurry along the fortnight until polling day in the United States, here’s the first in a thankfully short series of...
It feels like there are a million things wrong with this clip, especially the opening 60 seconds or so. Ideally it ought...
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...
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...
At long last, Reggie Bosanquet’s venture into the world of disco makes it onto the blog. It’s an extraordinary aural creation, notable...
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...
Here’s a brilliant clip from an edition of the Today programme in 2001, wherein John Humphrys receives a telephone call from an...
Surely the most stirring title sequence ever:
Here’s a fantastic clip from the fantastic RDA, a show that deserved so much more of everything (acclaim, audience, recommissions…). It’s John...
Graham Kibble-White has, perhaps in an effort to leaven the mood, suggested a trawl of title sequences that cheer you up. And...
Inspired by a comment left by Steve Norgate on the post below, here’s a collection alternately wistful, melancholic, mournful and touching efforts...
By way of an epilogue to this week’s mailout, here’s Elvis and co doing a heartbreaking version of Shipbuilding on…what exactly? Razzmatazz?...
And you thought John Tusa talking about drug addicts was depressing. Here’s the worst Christmas Day line-up of programmes mustered by BBC2,...
It’s Christmas on BBC2. Cary Grant is “not going back to Yale.” “Not geing beck?” replies his posh compadre. It’s the first...
Hmm. In retrospect he probably wished he’d chosen a different turn of phrase. Here’s Brucie confessing “I do feel it is time...
Here’s a concertinad account of events 20 years ago this very night and the following morning, including Nicholas Witchell pontificating shiftily on...
It really is a long time now since what were, arguably, the National Lottery’s glory years on TV. Here’s the draw in...
Here’s a cheery thing: the scariest opening titles ever shown on television, courtesy of Once Upon A Time…Man. Perhaps realising the complete...
Here’s the Mighty Atom in superb spirits and full-on “Brucie” mode, to wit: a) terrifying limb-wiggling and prancing; b) topical gags, in...
In last week’s TV Cream Times my colleague Steve wondered whether the characters of Malcolm and Jamie in The Thick Of It...
This could well be the single finest Top Of The Pops turn of all time: the Pet Shop Boys doing ‘Can You...
An especially potent piece of television, this, what with an appearance from the ubiquitous Pain family (“four internationally known celebrities,” cracks Noel)...
Of all the guest hosts to stand in for Wogan during his thrice-weekly residency on the verdant Shepherd’s Bush Green, one of...
As Troy McClure cried: “SPIN-OFF! Is there any word more thrilling to the human soul?” By way of a break from rifling...
Chris Hughes has mailed Creamguide with his recollections of the 1992 general election: “BBC Parliament’s forthcoming re-run has already brought back grim...
The fact Paddy McAloon is once again going through the wars thanks to illness is unwelcome news indeed. Aside from essaying numerous...
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...
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