Historical clue formulations

• Stuff of little substance — 2025-10-27
• Stuff of little substance — 2021-10-18
• Written material of no consequence — 2020-12-28
• Trivial entertainment — 2018-11-19
• Boo-boo — 2012-02-16
• Last report on the evening news, typically — 2011-09-23
• More and more of news shows nowadays — 2006-12-27
• Cotton down — 1997-11-26