TV Cream
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5734“Ah, list o’ Bond, I’ve been expecting you” – part five: 0010-001
TV Cream concludes its countdown of the 50 greatest moments from the James Bond films… Read numbers 0050-0041 Read numbers 0040-0031 Read...
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“Ah, list o’ Bond, I’ve been expecting you” – part four: 0020-0011
TV Cream continues its countdown of the 50 greatest moments from the James Bond films… Read numbers 0050-0041 Read numbers 0040-0031 Read...
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“Ah, list o’ Bond, I’ve been expecting you” – part one: 0050-0041
Welcome to TV Cream’s countdown of the 50 greatest moments from the James Bond films. A word of warning at the outset....
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“Ah, list o’ Bond, I’ve been expecting you” – part three: 0030-0021
TV Cream continues its countdown of the 50 greatest moments from the James Bond films… Read numbers 0050-0041 Read numbers 0040-0031 0030:...
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“Ah, list o’ Bond, I’ve been expecting you” – part two: 0040-0031
TV Cream continues its countdown of the 50 greatest moments from the James Bond films… Read numbers 0050-0041 0040: “She should have...
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“Cut the crap, bring back Greg!”
We’re probably a little late – the BBC hasn’t made anyone redundant for a few days and the fervor has diminished –...
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“Didn’t they do well?!”
Welcome, friends, to TV Cream 4.0 or 5.0... maybe 3.0. We're not sure! Anyway, as you can see, we've had a bit...
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“Jimmy Tarbuck doesn’t tell jokes, he just refreshes your memory”
A recent slightly aimless wander around our local branch of Waterstones, brought us nose-to-nose with a brilliant book that we'd not only...
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“Now pay attention 007…”
Wondering why TV Cream is looking very 007-ish today? Actually, you’re probably not – it’s obvious! But this is to tip you...
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4182“Number 10? Maggie’s Den!”
Are you enjoying the re-runs of Bob’s Full House on Challenge as much as we are? (That’s every Saturday at 8pm) In...
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“Stephen!” “Just coming!”
It’s the couplet that’s sending the most search queries to this blog. It’s the neologism that’s very very very very slowly gaining...
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“Tickle on the what?!”
Our friends at Revelation Films have furnished us with three copies of the early 1980s, cup-of-tea-with-mum favourite TICKLE ON THE TUM -...
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235“I impress young women with the theme to Button Moon”
It’s a Sunday night, so time for another excerpt from the big buff-coloured folder entitled ‘TV Cream Failed Pet Projects’. This one...
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“SMALLBRIIIIIDGE!!!”
We promised this a while back, but now they’re finally here. Three copies of NEVER THE TWAIN series 1 & 2 on...
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Advance notice to view
This time next week a rather special, erm, “event” should have just finished on this blog, and as such, absolutely nothing of...
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Alphabet’s treat
Another update from the TV Cream Relocation whiteboard: the A-Z section is now complete. Every programme review from the old TV Cream...
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Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Ah, autumn! The nights draw in, the thermostat goes on, the back garden becomes increasingly despoiled by decomposing foliage and, regular as...
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B’Bye Television Centre
A short video we made. Sniff…
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3738Bob says can you set the video, please?
We’re still glowing from Monday night’s THE SECRET LIFE OF BOB MONKHOUSE on BBC4. And “oodles” of thanks go to TV...
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Bring them back now
It’s TV Cream’s 10th birthday this month, and as part of the commemorations it’s chastening to take a look back at another...
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Cell! Cell! Cell!
In a further unnecessary tweak to TVC, we’ve just released a mobile version of the website, which you should see if you...
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Chance would be a fine thing
As the drive to release every single TV show ever on DVD reaches its latter days, TV Cream is delighted to announce...
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Change, m’dear
Welcome to the hitherto-titled Digi-Cream Times blog, now with added new-nameness and general all-round gumption. You’ll see that all the archives have...
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Chocky’s DVD Challenge
Helloooo Matthew! See me now, in my dry-ice-and-disco-light forcefield as I loiter around the foot of your bed. I'm here to tell...
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Christmas 2012: Logged!
Call The Midwife on TV Cream? What madness is this? No, we’re not trying to claim fifties-flavoured epidural incidents as the right...
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Clemens time
The man who did the whole Pandora's Box thing an entire 12 years before Dr Who (and in exactly the same Saturday...
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Closet Reading Competition Results Service
The entries are all in, the judges have deliberated, the recounts have been demanded, the barrel's been scraped, and the results of...
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Competition answers
For anyone still riled by last week’s riddles: 1) Look, or rather point, West, for matters ship shape and bootlace fashion. Shoestring...
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Competition tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!
Hello, I’m Lovejoy, of Lovejoy Antiques. I’ve broken off from doing a bit of “divvying” to introduce this fantastic quiz, all about...
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Competition tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime
Courtesy of blog denizen John Rivers and the good people of Harper Collins, TV Cream has five copies of Lord Denis Norden’s...
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Competition tiiiiiiiiiime!
He's the man who, upon being approached by a beggar asking for 50p for a bed, told the vagrant: "First send round...
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Competition tiiiiiiiime
This week’s mailout revolved around a quiz inviting you to identify the names of five programmes scheduled for transmission next week, from...
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Creamguide live blog!
Welcome to another minute-by-minute live blog following all tonight’s thrilling Creamguide action, as it happens. What will fate hold in store for...
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Did you once see this man and/or woman?
Opening up the lever arch file marked Photos That Need To Be Added To The New TV Cream Website, our attention was...
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Dowling’s treat
With Tim Dowling having been brought in to now ruin Radio Times every week with his sideways-look-at brand of box-out fun, TV...
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End of an error
For anyone still signed up to the Creamguide Yahoo Group mailing list, you’ll just have received the last ever Digi-Cream Times weekly...
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Facts amazing
Provisional plans for this week’s Digi-Cream Times mailout, due on Thursday, including a free cover-mounted dreidel in the shape of Alan Sugar’s...
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For imediate distributon no Embargo
A press release arrives at TV Cream from drownedinmedia.com, bearing news that “legendary Broadcaster [sic] and five times Sony Award winning DJ,...
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For those of you reading in black and white…
…this one is in Technicolour. In the unlikely event of anyone not having been able to see the images that made up...
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Free Steve Berry!
Has Steve Berry-TV Cream (his full name) been taken captive by a Dr Who monster? Perhaps not. The fictionally-named Hilton Fitzsimmons looks...
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Friday, Saturday and Sunday night at the Mill
Another bit of news from the TVC parish pump. This weekend the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham is staging a celebration of...
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Going all the way, sir?
News reaches TV Cream of an “On The Buses event in Elstree and Borehamwood on Saturday the 28th of June 2008.” Following...
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Great news for all readers inside!
After months of talks at the very highest level (floor 17 of TVC Towers), TV Cream is proud to announce there's great...
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Great news for all readers!
Hi pals! Ever wondered what TV Cream would have looked like if it had been published in the 1970s as a weekly...
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Hello, I’m Daley Thompson
...and I've just read about some exciting news. It says here on my computer that TV Cream is planning on doing another...
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If it’s music you’re after
Advance notice of a new TV Cream pet project, which you’ll be able to hear from 1st November. Yup, a good two...
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Ignore this
…it’s just a test post.
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Index, linked
We’re going to be updating the whole of TV Cream very soon. However, in the tidying-up that’s been going on around that,...
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It’s a bank holiday, so TV Cream is making a list
About 14 or 15 years ago, Kevin Greening did a thing while standing in for Danny Baker on Saturday morning Radio 1....
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It’s the ‘legendary’ Creamguide Christmas issue!
For the last 11 years (and, look, that’s the 11th Dr Who, Dr Who Mike Smith!) TV Cream has been emailing out...