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40.5K1It's Saturday Night124. It’s about rejection now
If a Saturday night without the Generation Game seemed unusual, what about one minus Blind Date? In November 2001 it had been...
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39.2K1It's Saturday Night123. King of trash, that’s me
By the start of 2002, Saturday night television had become fashionable again. One of the biggest TV audiences of the year...
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39.2K1It's Saturday Night122. This Time, You Decide
After Popstars, our expectations of the TV talent show changed forever. This became evident from the next series ITV launched on a...
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39.3K1It's Saturday Night121. I’m sure the tune was in there somewhere
Pop music had always played a part in Saturday night television, right back to the days of Juke Box Jury in the...
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39.6K2It's Saturday Night120. I mean who on earth thought that was a good idea?
“What was that tactics truck? I mean who on earth thought that was a good idea?” This is Wayne Garvie speaking in...
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39.7K1It's Saturday Night119. Better For You, Better For All Of Us
The Saturday night schedules by which all the others are judged are those of BBC1 in the 1970s. From Doctor Who to Dick...
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39.1K1It's Saturday Night118. 200 black boxes are strapped to the back of a cross-section of the nation
One show that managed to complete its run on Saturday evenings was a new vehicle for now ITV-contracted Brian Conley. Like his...
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38.6KIt's Saturday Night117. The penalty shoot-out is the greatest ever endgame
Come the start of the millennium, Saturday night light entertainment seemed to be a dying genre. All the formats and stars that...
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38.3K7It's Saturday Night116. Don’t Get Mad, Get Even
A familiar Saturday institution finally came to an end in 1999. Gladiators had been an ITV staple since 1992, but seven years later...
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1.7K2RIPNicholas Parsons: “Never get complacent about your success”
In 2015, TV Cream was fortunate enough to talk to Nicholas Parsons on the eve of the 71st series of Just A...
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37.5K1It's Saturday Night115. Waxing An Ape Is My Ambition
The script was already written. Three weeks after Noel’s House Party took its leave, a new series was to begin on Saturday...
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37.3K3It's Saturday Night114. It was of a standard frankly well below what the public would want
The 1997-98 series of Noel’s House Party offered the BBC no respite from its recent run of bad form on Saturday nights. It...
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36.9K5It's Saturday Night113. There’s nothing that makes people scream, ‘Did you see that?’
The 1998 summer line-up was uninspired on both channels, not helped by the World Cup interrupting proceedings for over a month. It...
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36.1KIt's Saturday Night112. I award the city state of Milton Keynes 100 credits!
By the start of 1998, Saturday night television was in a state of stasis – no new hit programmes had come through...
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7.9K2Cream over BritainCreamguide Review of the Year: 2019
Time now for our review of what everyone’s calling the worst year ever, but what year hasn’t been recently, eh? But it’s...
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7.4K1RIP2019 in memoriam
Ron Smith (?/24-10/1/19), Judge Dredd artist Dianne Oxberry (28/11/67-10/1/19), Simon Mayo breakfast sidekick, 8:15 From Manchester presenter, BBC North West weather presenter...
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35.5KIt's Saturday Night111. The worst programme currently on terrestrial television
Crime Traveller never clicked with the Saturday night audience. A better attempt at light-hearted drama followed in May with the...
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7.7K4The 2010s Christmas Logs2019
“We shouldn’t actually be talking to each other…” We’ve all got some people we only ever see at Christmas – so it’s...
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35.0K2It's Saturday Night110. He gives us our spirit of unity; we’d all like to strangle him
Compared to ITV’s hapless attempts at finding a new hit in 1995 and 1996, the BBC was the very model...
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5.1KCream over BritainChristmas Creamguide 2019: Week Two
Hullo there! Welcome back to the second part of your Christmas Creamguide with the last knockings of this bloody awful decade and...
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5.0K3Cream over BritainChristmas Creamguide 2019: Week One
Hullo there! It’s the Christmas Creamguide and it’s the twentieth time we’ve done it! Maybe one day we’ll get good at it,...
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16.9K5What We Just WatchedWhat We Just Watched For Christmas 2019 – Part Three
The third and final part of our tinselly TV-athon finds Chris selecting a vintage festive show for Ian and Graham to watch....
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16.5K1What We Just WatchedWhat We Just Watched For Christmas 2019 – Part Two
Day two of our Yuletide watch-and-chat-about-it, with Ian, Chris and Graham – yes all three of them – converging to look at...
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16.7K1What We Just WatchedWhat We Just Watched For Christmas 2019 – Part One
FORMAT SHAKE-UP! In a first for the modern era of WWJW, Graham, Ian *and* Chris all sit down together to begin a...
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34.6KIt's Saturday Night109. Building the excitement and tension to a crescendo
With ITV accused of broadcasting “juvenile rubbish” on Saturday nights, what would they offer up next? The hugely intellectual Man...
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34.4K1It's Saturday Night108. The programme has done extremely badly and will be dropped after this series
ITV was still floundering with early Saturday evenings. The first new show of 1996 was Beadle’s Hotshots, a format which...
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34.1K2It's Saturday Night107. Congratulations, you have got the fucking Gen Game
“Here I go again! I should have been a channel swimmer, I’m always going backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards....
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1.6K2RIPClive James, on television
The artist formerly known as Vivian James was initially more famous for writing about television than appearing on it, with his column...
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33.5K2It's Saturday Night106. Welcome to the new Saturday night
The boost the lottery had given the BBC was felt throughout the Saturday night schedule. When Noel’s House Party and Casualty...
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33.0K4It's Saturday Night105. It is in the cutlery drawer
With The National Lottery Live, BBC1 was now the place to be on a Saturday night. Regardless of the merits of...
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17.2K1Creamguide (Films) CommentariesCreamguide (Films) Commentaries: The Conjuring 2
Chris, Craig and Jack are back to round off your, undoubtedly over commercialised Halloween festivities, with Jack Rolfe from Howard’s Way yelling...
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32.5K2It's Saturday Night104. A reliable tent pole for Saturday evenings
1994 saw the end of a number of Saturday night fixtures. Most notably, in June came the final episodes of...
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17.0K1Creamguide (Films) CommentariesCreamguide (Films) Commentaries: Theatre of Blood
Chris, Craig and Jack alight upon the oeuvre of Vincent Price, via the incomparable “Theater (although we insist upon spelling it...
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32.0K1It's Saturday Night103. A litre of gin, ecstasy and crack cocaine
The pilot for Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush taught Chris Evans and Will Macdonald one very clear lesson: “We had a...
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16.9K1Creamguide (Films) CommentariesCreamguide (Films) Commentaries: The Boys in Blue
After a short break Chris, Craig and Jack are back Back BACK. And what better way to celebrate than anything other than...
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31.6K2It's Saturday Night102. Like a cup of cold sick
Saturday night television remains the only night of the week not to have been commandeered by a traditional soap. With...
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14.8K5What We Just WatchedWhat We Just Watched – Episode Sixteen
In the last of this particular run, Ian and Chris attend a colour-coded middle-management olympiad. This instalment includes: ‘Pluck’. If you don’t...
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14.7KWhat We Just WatchedWhat We Just Watched – Episode Fifteen
Chris and Graham settle down to two shows, and then talk about them. In detail. This instalment includes: Our nightly nibble on...
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15.6K2What We Just WatchedWatch What We Just Watched!
If you’ve ever wanted to watch a full-length cartoon featuring two bland middle-aged men chatting about two old shows from the corners...
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14.7KWhat We Just WatchedWhat We Just Watched – Episode Fourteen
TV Cream’s view-a-thing-and-then-chat-about-it podcast returns for an epic three-week residency! This instalment includes: Judith Chalmers If you don’t want to listen to...
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30.7K7It's Saturday Night101. To allow such bilge on TV is an insult to the audience
Meanwhile, one of Davro’s protégés was at last making waves over on ITV. Brian Conley had appeared in a number of...
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30.7K3It's Saturday Night100. The humour of Beadle comes through humiliating people!
Also joining Big Break on Saturday evenings in 1992 was a former Sunday night staple, That’s Life! Esther’s show was taking up...
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29.4K2It's Saturday Night99. If this doesn’t work out, we’re both snookered!
Since winning New Faces in 1976, Jim Davidson had been a constant staple of ITV’s light entertainment output. Almost immediately after...
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30.1K1It's Saturday Night98. You’re BBC, you shouldn’t be here
ITV also came up with a new Saturday night banker in 1991. Michael Barrymore had already established himself a big success...
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30.3K3It's Saturday Night97. NTV brings you … empty rooms!
With a number of veteran series ending, what would take their place in the Saturday night schedules? Ironically, their initial...
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30.3K5It's Saturday Night96. If there is an air of spontaneity about it, it’ll be genuine
While the BBC was pulling up the drawbridge on traditional sketch show talent, the crop of comedians at ITV weren’t...
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30.2K6It's Saturday Night95. A Double Order of Talent
1991 remains a pivotal year in the history of Saturday night television. It was the last time various genres of...
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30.3K7It's Saturday Night94. Oh Man, There Go All My Women Fans
In the early to mid 1980s, the US drama Knight Rider tapped into a period in which adventure series featuring high...
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30.5K1It's Saturday Night93. The characters and situations are real
Given the growing success of Casualty (which by 1990 was entering its fourth year and pulling in audiences in excess...
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30.8K3It's Saturday Night92. That’s the last thing I was expecting, Jim
In 1990, the BBC managed to trade in one master game show host for another. Bob Monkhouse had been presiding over...
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