Well, here we are on New Year’s Eve, and remember all the excitement when we saw the back of 2016, eh? In...
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,...
“Age rubs one out day after day, like an Indian rubber on a faded pencil sketch” Christmas Day telly has always had...
It’s the last part of our festive trilogy of podcasts. Today, Graham dials up Chris and Ian, as they watch one final...
Day two sees Ian, Chris and Graham sit at the end of their various fat pipes to discuss another Christmas TV show...
BACK, BACK BACK! Chris, Graham and Ian are reunited – via [Clive James voice] the latest, cutting-edge Sinclair satellite technology! – to...
Hullo there! Welcome to the second part of your bumper Christmas Creamguide, which includes all the programmes for the rest of 2020,...
Hullo there! And welcome to the 21st annual Christmas Creamguide! We thought we’d be really struggling for new content this year but...
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...
In the final episode of this run – we’ll be back for Lockdown II – Steven Moffat stays in his study and...
This week, in our penultimate episode – two guests! Chris Hughes and Ian Jones – who you may have heard on TV...
This week’s TV Cream Stays Indoors podcast features old pals Graham, Chris and Ian rewatching Trouble at the Top: Bucks Fizz: Making...
Puzzle author, games consultant and format developer David Bodycombe stays indoors in south west London and watches a playlist which gathers together...
Jill Phythian (this is she) stays indoors in Walthamstow, north London, to watch the feature-length pilot episode of Manimal (which you can...
Nick Abadzis – writer and illustrator of the fantastic Laika, among other things – stays indoors in New Jersey, across the Hudson...
John Grindrod stays indoors at his partner’s in Milton Keynes, and watches an episode of the 1992 BBC2 documentary series, Signs of...
Ingrid Oliver stays indoors in a flat in Ashford with no outside space, and watches the first episode from series four of...
Roger Highfield, Science Director of the Science Museum stays indoors in Greenwich to watch episode one of the ATV children’s sci-fi serial...
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...
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...
Back in the 1990s, Tommy Boyd was the face of Children’s ITV. During his stint, his enthusiasm for Steven Moffat’s debut drama,...
This time around, Bob Fischer stays indoors in Yarm, North Yorkshire, where he listens to the 2017 Radio 3 documentary, Between the...
The success of Doctor Who – with another two series already commissioned before the end of the run – and the failure...
Due to an administrative oversight, Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them – 20! recommendations for...
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)....
While ITV remained committed to the Saturday night pop talent show, the BBC was finding that dancing could be a reliable...
Grace Knight stays indoors in Glasgow, where she watches Sapphire & Steel, Assignment 2, episode one (https://bit.ly/TVCIndoors08) – and then tells TV Cream...
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...
Because everyone forgot to tell them not to, Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them –...
For the fifth year running, ITV’s major commission for winter Saturday nights in 2004 was a musical talent search with a...
This week, variety artiste Mat Ricardo stays indoors in Southend to watch an array of variety acts, assembled for him by TV Cream...
As one veteran broadcaster rejoined the BBC, an equally venerable TV star was making his way out of TV Centre. Michael...
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...
For a man so associated with Saturday night television, it’s surprising to realise that Bruce Forsyth actually didn’t appear regularly on a...
Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin are back with another 20 – count them – 20! recommendations for you to watch, listen to...
This week, Rose Ruane stays indoors in Glasgow, where she watches the 1974 documentary Dave Allen: In Search of the Great English...
One thing the failure of Boys and Girls proved was that there was little point in attempting to surf the zeitgeist...
Another from our lockdown podcast series. Miles Chapman stays indoors in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. There, he watches episode one of TV’s original...
In the early 2000s Frank Skinner joked that, if they could get rid of Ant and Dec, David Baddiel and himself...
If things weren’t bad enough! It’s a whole new podcast from the Creamguide (Films) Commentary gang. Chris, Craig, Jack and Martin get...
Another episode of our lockdown podcast series. This week, Billy Kirkwood stays indoors in Crookedholm, Kilmarnock, to watch an episode of the...
After the success of Pop Idol, Ant and Dec had turned around a career with ITV that had looked like it...
While we remain in lockdown, TV Cream will be bringing you these regular 20-30 min emergency transmissions in which we ask someone...
The identity of the programme that replaced Cilla in the prime 7pm slot in Autumn 2002 shouldn’t have come as much of...
If a Saturday night without the Generation Game seemed unusual, what about one minus Blind Date? In November 2001 it had been...
By the start of 2002, Saturday night television had become fashionable again. One of the biggest TV audiences of the year...
After Popstars, our expectations of the TV talent show changed forever. This became evident from the next series ITV launched on a...
Pop music had always played a part in Saturday night television, right back to the days of Juke Box Jury in the...
“What was that tactics truck? I mean who on earth thought that was a good idea?” This is Wayne Garvie speaking in...
The Saturday night schedules by which all the others are judged are those of BBC1 in the 1970s. From Doctor Who to Dick...