History
The site originally appeared as The Arkhive in 1997, before adopting its current name the following year. The site, founded by Phil Norman, mainly consists of highly opinionated reviews of hundreds of programmes shown on British television (but not necessarily made in the UK), mainly during the 1970s and 1980s, though some earlier and later shows are also featured. In addition, the site features a selection of nostalgia-based articles relating to other areas of popular culture, such as pop music, film, comics, and so on.
The site is a collaborative effort. The writers include Steve Berry, Chris Diamond, Chris Hughes, Ian Jones, Graham and Jack Kibble-White, Suzy Norman, Jill Phythian, Matthew Rudd, Ian Tomkinson, Simon Tyers, Steve Williams and TJ (Tim) Worthington. Some of the site's contributors were also involved with "Off the Telly", a more academic television review and analysis site. Many of the participants have also been involved in journalism and/or written books. Graham Kibble-White wrote about television for the Daily Mirror and has been cited by the press as an expert on television. Jill Phythian has appeared as a talking-head on TV list shows.
TV Cream also operates email lists; the number and details of this have varied with time. "Creamguide" provides subscribers with a weekly mailout listing forthcoming TV programmes of interest. Creamguide is currently the only regular email; past emails include the monthly "TV Cream Update" (usually referred to as "Creamup"), a well-researched magazine-type mailing examining nostalgic subjects in some depth; and a weekly film guide.
In 2009, TV Cream moved from its previous domain of tv.cream.org to a new redesigned site at tvcream.co.uk. The new-look site became the home for redesigned (and in some cases updated) versions of features from the previous site, and additionally gave the opportunity for new features to be introduced; the new-look site absorbed the TVC blog, which had previously been run separately from the main site, and also allowed links to content of interest on sites such as YouTube and Spotify to be featured more prominently.
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