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TV Cream’s Christmas Carol Concert

Christmas is a time for giving. For caring. For sharing. It’s also a time for deafening cacophonies of entire junior schools simultaneously...

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Christmas Creamguide: week two

All the stars have been invited to come along and rip off a leg 24th-30th December 2016 Back! Back! Back! And welcome...

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Christmas Creamguide: week one

Only the opening titles will be festooned with tinsel 17th-23rd December 2016 Merry Christmas! And welcome to the eighteenth annual Christmas Creamguide,...

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Snow On The Logo pt 5: Buster

Hi readers! Now for a chortle! In the last of our week of Christmas covers, it’s Buster comic’s festive frontages from 1967-1996!...

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Snow On The Logo pt 4: The Beano

It’s the complete run of Beano Christmas covers from ’67 to 96! Have a menacing time! Tomorrow: Buster!

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Snow On The Logo pt 3: Look-in

La-la-la-la-la! Now, alas, despite national appeals, we couldn’t get the full Look-in run right up to 1993 of Christmas covers. But nonetheless…...

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Snow On The Logo pt 2: TV Times

Our flick through the double-issues continues! Today, there’s so much more… Tomorrow: La-la-la-la-la-Look-in!

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Snow On The Logo pt 1: Radio Times

Welcome, welcome, one and all to this year’s TV Cream Christmas initiative as we present the complete guide to the Cream-era covers...

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Merry Christmas Creamguide!

Here is the news: It’s Christmas! How do we know? Because the Christmas Creamguide is wending its way down the nation’s chimneys....

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Creamvote play-offs! Doctor Who vs World in Action

A curly-haired, scary man in space vs a curly-haired, scary man in space, in… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! This’ll be too...

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Creamvote play-offs! Magpie vs Grandstand

Two, indeed, for joy… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Pitching Thames TV’s Blue Peter-beater against BBC1’s World of Sport-retort… This poll will...

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Creamvote play-offs! Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? vs The Sweeney

Oh! What happened to you? TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Seriously, though, what did become of the people, we used to be....

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Creamvote play-offs! Rainbow vs Weekend World

High above the streets and houses… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! And, sorry, but another of our tracks has been deleted by...

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Creamvote play-offs! Blockbusters vs Treasure Hunt

Break-out the hand jive for… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Due to the Only Connect-esque rules of engagement, these are the only...

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Creamvote play-offs! Blankety Blank vs Grange Hill

Egads! Lord Terrence of Woganshire in a duff-up with the boy Tucker Jenkins, you say? It must be… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable...

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Creamvote play-offs! Screen Test vs Top of the Pops

More battling tunes in… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Our second-play-off features the militaristic miasma that is Screen Test vs the Phil...

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Creamvote play-offs! The Prisoner vs Tomorrow’s World

And we’re back! It’s the play-off phase of… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Over the next eight weeks we’ll be battling 16...

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Creamvote #15 The most unforgettable quiz show theme

The heats end here! It’s the final week in the prelim rounds of… [deep breath] TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Yup, after...

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Creamvote #14 The most unforgettable kids’ entertainment show theme

The penultimate week (of the opening rounds, sigh) of… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! The handsome chap has it, surely? Don’t let...

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Creamvote #13 The most unforgettable sci fi theme!

Foregone conclusion! It’s… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Yes, Dr Who is going to win this. It can’t not. But let’s try...

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Creamvote #12 The most unforgettable pop show theme!

Let’s get ready to POP, it’s… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Still! We’re still doing this! An exciting line-up, indeed, with Cheggers...

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Creamvote #11 The most unforgettable drama theme!

Here’s excitements, a double duo of drama (we phrase it like that for the alliteration) going into battle for this week’s… Herge’s...

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Creamvote #10 The most unforgettable game show theme!

So much better than last week’s, it’s… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! And here’s fun! Yes, ver Blank and ver Letters (we...

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Creamvote #9 The most unforgettable kids’ drama theme!

It continues… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Let’s be clear, we fully expect Alan Hawkshaw’s roughly rubbed güiro to steal the day,...

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Creamvote #8 The most unforgettable factual theme!

This week, time for a little edutainment as we battle four factual TV titles. Which will you decide is the most melodic?...

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Creamvote #7 The most unforgettable pre-school theme!

Welcome, welcome, welcome home to our battle of the TV themes initiative. After our Christmas break, we return with another round that...

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It’s the double-sized Christmas Creamguide number 2014!

Of course, Christmas isn’t Christmas without your quality TV listings guide. The one that covers telly with genuine enthusiasm – instead of...

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Crackers, nuts and rugby union

The art of the Christmas TV schedule Everyone knows how massive Christmas telly is. That’s why the TV listings magazines come out...

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Creamvote #6 The most unforgettable sports theme!

Look at his face! Just look at his face! Because it’s week six of… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Here we are...

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Creamvote #5 The most unforgettable kids’ factual show theme!

[Looks up from some busy work] Hullo! Welcome to this week’s… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! This time, we’re voting on the...

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Creamvote #4 The most unforgettable sitcom theme!

So many questions! And an exclamation! It’s the fourth ever-lovin’ week of our quest to find… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! And...

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Creamvote #3 The most unforgettable emergency services-related theme!

Welcome! Welcome to week three of… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! This time around we’re pitting four 999-flavoured compositions against each other....

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Creamvote #2 The most unforgettable news theme!

It’s week two of the electrifying electoral eclectica the nation has dubbed… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! We’re in the process of...

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Creamvote #1 The most unforgettable political show theme!

Welcome! To the opening salvo of what we’re calling… TV Cream’s Most Unforgettable Theme! Over the next umpteen weeks, we’re going to...

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An A-Z of BBC2’s first 50 years

TV Cream offers its own string of bunting to be hung at BBC2’s 50th birthday party: a courageous* inventory of what we...

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The Burst of Creamup

Cheers! That was Derek Griffiths downing a celebratory glass of Vimto as the printing press whirls on The Burst of Creamup! What...

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Dimbleby’s exit poll: what’s behind the BBC’s election selection?

We learned this week something of the BBC’s plans for covering the 2015 general election. Given it’s still over a year until...

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Christmas Creamguide 2013

It’s out today! The new Christmas Creamguide is now winging its way through the email chimneys of all our subscribers! And, as...

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U-turn (off) if you want to: 10 TV shows that summed up Thatcher

Her favourite programmes were Miss Marple, anything with Paul Daniels, and the Fairy Liquid adverts. Oh, and this. But that was about...

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Increasingly Desperate Dan

Gulp! Looks like The Dandy could be brandishing that doom-laden “EXCITING NEWS FOR READERS INSIDE!” banner across its front cover quite soon....

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A Waltz for Sir Richard Stilgoe

To honour Giscard O’Hitler’s recent, much deserved knighthood, we’ve recorded a very special song. Listen to it by clicking on the link...

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Schedules revisited: silver jubilee

The TV schedules for the silver jubilee in 1977

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“It gets a little hairy up at the old scoreboard…”

Now look, the Eurovision Song Contest is a TV programme, not a music competition. A TV programme, right? And that's why TV...

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20 small tales of Television Centre

On Thursday, May 17, BBC4 brings us a superb, 90-minute documentary, Tales of Television Centre. Here are 20 brilliant things about it....

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Big Noely is Watching You

Veteran entertainer and business executive Noel Edmonds, 63, popped up on YouTube the other week to deliver an unexpectedly tart state of...

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20 people to follow on Twitter who actually have something interesting to say

(As opposed to 100 people on Twitter who are famous but who have absolutely nothing interesting to say, or famous people who...

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TV Cream’s predictions for 2012: which do you think will come true?

Time for a shake of the office snow globe and see if the patterns of the swirling flakes elicit any information as...

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It’s the double-sized Christmas Creamguide number!

Something special landed on the metaphorical doormats of Creamguide subscribers late on Thursday night… The [we won’t say “legendary”, that’s for others...

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