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Cream over Britain

Creamguide Review of the Year: 2020

Well, here we are on New Year’s Eve, and remember all the excitement when we saw the back of 2016, eh? In...

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2020 in memoriam

Paula Tilbrook (16/1/30-1/12/19, made public 15/7/20) Betty Eagleton in Emmerdale, Open All Hours Rocky Sharpe (26/11/52-5/12/19, announced 6/1/20), Replays leader Neville Buswell (20/1/43-25/12/19,...

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The 2020s Christmas Logs

2020

“Age rubs one out day after day, like an Indian rubber on a faded pencil sketch” Christmas Day telly has always had...

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What We Just Watched

What We Just Watched For Christmas 2020 – Part Three

It’s the last part of our festive trilogy of podcasts. Today, Graham dials up Chris and Ian, as they watch one final...

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What We Just Watched For Christmas 2020 – Part Two

Day two sees Ian, Chris and Graham sit at the end of their various fat pipes to discuss another Christmas TV show...

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What We Just Watched For Christmas 2020 – Part One

BACK, BACK BACK! Chris, Graham and Ian are reunited – via [Clive James voice] the latest, cutting-edge Sinclair satellite technology! – to...

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Cream over Britain

Christmas Creamguide 2020: Week Two

Hullo there! Welcome to the second part of your bumper Christmas Creamguide, which includes all the programmes for the rest of 2020,...

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Cream over Britain

Christmas Creamguide 2020: Week One

Hullo there! And welcome to the 21st annual Christmas Creamguide! We thought we’d be really struggling for new content this year but...

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“Desdemona? Looks more like Des O’Connor!”

A tribute to Des O’Connor We’re celebrating the career of one of the showbiz greats who we don’t think ever got the...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Steven Moffat

In the final episode of this run – we’ll be back for Lockdown II – Steven Moffat stays in his study and...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Chris Hughes & Ian Jones

This week, in our penultimate episode – two guests! Chris Hughes and Ian Jones – who you may have heard on TV...

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A bit of business

‘Life sung a pretty song’ – our 15 favourite Bucks Fizz tracks

This week’s TV Cream Stays Indoors podcast features old pals Graham, Chris and Ian rewatching Trouble at the Top: Bucks Fizz: Making...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With David Bodycombe

Puzzle author, games consultant and format developer David Bodycombe stays indoors in south west London and watches a playlist which gathers together...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Jill Phythian

Jill Phythian (this is she) stays indoors in Walthamstow, north London, to watch the feature-length pilot episode of Manimal (which you can...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Nick Abadzis

Nick Abadzis – writer and illustrator of the fantastic Laika, among other things – stays indoors in New Jersey, across the Hudson...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With John Grindrod

John Grindrod stays indoors at his partner’s in Milton Keynes, and watches an episode of the 1992 BBC2 documentary series, Signs of...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Ingrid Oliver

Ingrid Oliver stays indoors in a flat in Ashford with no outside space, and watches the first episode from series four of...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Roger Highfield

Roger Highfield, Science Director of the Science Museum stays indoors in Greenwich to watch episode one of the ATV children’s sci-fi serial...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode Five

They are back for the last time this lockdown and with a monster episode too! Two-and-a-half hours of four men who should know...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Karen Bartke

Scot Squad’s Karen Bartke stays indoors in Glasgow to watch episode one of Neil Gaiman’s BBC2 series Neverwhere and then tells TV Cream...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Tommy Boyd

Back in the 1990s, Tommy Boyd was the face of Children’s ITV. During his stint, his enthusiasm for Steven Moffat’s debut drama,...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Bob Fischer

This time around, Bob Fischer stays indoors in Yarm, North Yorkshire, where he listens to the 2017 Radio 3 documentary, Between the...

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Epilogue: Why Haven’t You Written a Series of Articles on Tuesday Night Telly?

The success of Doctor Who – with another two series already commissioned before the end of the run – and the failure...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode Four

Due to an administrative oversight, Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them – 20! recommendations for...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With James Roberts

This week, James Roberts stays indoors somewhere in Guernsey, and watches an episode of the ‘offbeat’ 1992 BBC1 drama, Virtual Murder (https://bit.ly/TVCIndoors09)....

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132. The trip of a lifetime

While ITV remained committed to the Saturday night pop talent show, the BBC was finding that dancing could be a reliable...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Grace Knight

Grace Knight stays indoors in Glasgow, where she watches Sapphire & Steel, Assignment 2, episode one (https://bit.ly/TVCIndoors08) – and then tells TV Cream...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Tim Worthington

Tim Worthington stays indoors in Liverpool, watches the first ever episode of the Filmation cartoon series Space Sentinels (https://bit.ly/TVCIndoors07), and then tells...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode Three

Because everyone forgot to tell them not to, Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them –...

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131. It’s the Usual Nonsense

For the fifth year running, ITV’s major commission for winter Saturday nights in 2004 was a musical talent search with a...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Mat Ricardo

This week, variety artiste Mat Ricardo stays indoors in Southend to watch an array of variety acts, assembled for him by TV Cream...

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130. Saturday nights haven’t been this interesting for 10 years

As one veteran broadcaster rejoined the BBC, an equally venerable TV star was making his way out of TV Centre. Michael...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Paul Franklin

This week, double-Oscar-winning visual effects supremo Paul Franklin stays indoors in Blackheath, south-east London, to watch Part One of the 1977 Doctor...

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129. I’m so pleased to be back on television

For a man so associated with Saturday night television, it’s surprising to realise that Bruce Forsyth actually didn’t appear regularly on a...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode Two

Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them – 20! recommendations for you to watch, listen to...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Rose Ruane

This week, Rose Ruane stays indoors in Glasgow, where she watches the 1974 documentary Dave Allen: In Search of the Great English...

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128. Getting grief from the papers

One thing the failure of Boys and Girls proved was that there was little point in attempting to surf the zeitgeist...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Miles Chapman

Another from our lockdown podcast series. Miles Chapman stays indoors in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. There, he watches episode one of TV’s original...

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127. A name in search of a series

In the early 2000s Frank Skinner joked that, if they could get rid of Ant and Dec, David Baddiel and himself...

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Creamguide (Films) Lockdown Miscellany: Episode One

If things weren’t bad enough! It’s a whole new podcast from the Creamguide (Films) Commentary gang. Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin get...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Billy Kirkwood

Another episode of our lockdown podcast series. This week, Billy Kirkwood stays indoors in Crookedholm, Kilmarnock, to watch an episode of the...

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126. Win the ads

After the success of Pop Idol, Ant and Dec had turned around a career with ITV that had looked like it...

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TV Cream Stays Indoors With Samira Ahmed

While we remain in lockdown, TV Cream will be bringing you these regular 20-30 min emergency transmissions in which we ask someone...

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125. They lost what Popstars was all about

The identity of the programme that replaced Cilla in the prime 7pm slot in Autumn 2002 shouldn’t have come as much of...

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124. 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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123. 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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122. 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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121. 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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120. 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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