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BBC1The Eurovision Song Contest
Saturday, 20.00, BBC1

Jess Cully writes, “Nicki French was certainly our singer the last time the Contest was held in Sweden, but the host city then was Stockholm. The Contest is huge in Sweden and none of its major cities would be allowed to hog the Contest by hosting it twice in a row, hence the choice of Malmo this year. If Sweden wins it again in the near future, expect us to be either back in Stockholm or in Gothenburg.” Indeed, but even though we’ve not enjoyed it quite so much since the Beeb stopped making the scoreboard and got its logo on it every few minutes, we’re still there ready to enjoy the spectacle, and it seems like Graham Norton, for our money probably the best light entertainment presenter on TV at the moment, has been doing this forever.

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Telly

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TV Cream's TV A-Z
The main event, our huge A-Z OF TV SHOWS - starts with 'Allo 'Allo, ends with Zoom the Dolphin
A-Z of TV Presenters The Wednesday Play Play For Today
A-Z OF TV PRESENTERS is our guide to the men and women who are/were consistently class behind the microphone...
THE WEDNESDAY PLAY, the scheduling slot-named precursor to PLAY FOR TODAY and where 'Up The Junction' et al debuted
PLAY FOR TODAY, BBC1's strand of single-dramas which, even now, remains a byword for ‘serious television’. Plus every single PFT indexed.
Nationwide Saturday mornings Programmes for Schools and Colleges
It's time to go... NATIONWIDE as we get 'the good word' on this '70s teatime regional roustabout. "I dunno what a folly is..."
We chronicle the rise and fall of SATURDAY MORNINGS, from Zokko to Swap Shop to - gulp! - The Fun Factory, Get Fresh! and Dick and Dom...
PROGRAMMES FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, in which Wordy, Powka, David Hargreaves and co teach us what to with an apostrophe.
TiswasTomorrow's World Christmas Logs
"Saturday is TISWAS, never a day to miss, cos..." - well, we get into why in this look at the ace weekend morning show.
Well... this worked much better in rehearsal, but here's our history of TOMORROW'S WORLD, from Baxter to Stableford.
CHRISTMAS LOGS! Hooray! Deck the halls with our look at every telly Yuletide from 1970 up to the present day.
TV Cream's Noughties Time Capsule
Anyone remember the 2000s? Peep into our NOUGHTIES TIME CAPSULE, to discover what from that decade we'd save for posterity.

Films

Here's what's in our Film section...

TV Cream's Films A-Z
Our feature presentation, a blockbusting A-Z OF FILMS - from The Abominable Dr Phibes to Zulu Dawn
The Children's Film Foundation Cream Classics Directors' Directory
THE CHILDREN'S FILM FOUNDATION - much loved in Screen Test's observation round, and Phillip Schofield's 'Friday Film' slot...
CREAM CLASSICS is our compilation pack of essential TV Creamy films. Includes Alf's Button Afloat, obviously
And... Action! Meet the masterful men behind the lenses of our most favourite films in TV Cream's DIRECTORS' DIRECTORY
Hall of Fame Independent Producers  
Welcome to our cinematic HALL OF FAME! Here you will meet the likes of Susannah York! Terry-Thomas! And Marianne Stone!"
More A to Z-sequenced fun as we detail the varying fortunes of our favourite... INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS
 

Radio

Here's what's in our Radio section...

Radio 1 Jocks Radio 1 Shows Radio 2 Hosts
Who was "parachuted in as cornerstone of Bannisterisation process?" Discover that and more in our rundown of THE RADIO 1 JOCKS
Collins and Maconie, present and correct. Let's looks at RADIO 1 SHOWS. Warning: Contains The Big Holy One
"Today's Popmaster has no prizes whatsoever due to our current compliance guidelines" Say "hi" to the RADIO 2 HOSTS
Radio 2 Shows Radio 4 Programmes Radio 5 Shows
Friday night may be music night, but every night is RADIO 2 SHOWS night (mornings and afternoons too), so stay tuned to TV Cream
A special delve into Delve Special, The Archers, Broadcasting House and even Money Box as we look at RADIO 4 PROGRAMMES
More Collins and Maconie, plus Room 101 and a Normski-propogated dance music ‘news’ roundup in our list of RADIO 5 SHOWS
The Others    
Schhhhwwwff fff zzzz... "Steely Dan"... fszzzzzz... "Clive Doig and Jeremy Beadle"... ffzzzshww... "Here are all THE OTHERS". Click!
  
 

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