TV Times
The Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago has placed online a big fat book called the Encyclopedia of Television. You can browse the text and pictures using an A-Z index.
The good news is that the content is not just American. There is lots of British stuff: a quick look at 'B' revealed Bleasdale, Brookside and Blue Peter, among others.
There is no text search, but you can do that through Google, by typing this into its search box:
"your search phrase" site:www.museum.tv
Prints The Chaff
It's a great title and, as it happens, there's an exceptionally lively weblog running underneath it. Prints the chaff is the first blog I've seen aimed at squarely at newspaper editors. Lots of comment and gossip gathered from here and there.
It's solidly American, but that's what you'd expect when the author is a deskman on the San Jose Mercury News in San Jose, California. Should there be an accent on that Jose? Well, he doesn't use one, and he should know.