Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Rumpole of the Bailey, Gangsters, Headmaster, Play for Tomorrow. Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted.
1 July – Launch of the BBC's Japanese News and Information Service. 3 July – Gerry Goldwyre wins the 1994 series of MasterChef on BBC1. 4 July – Debut of the comedy panel show Room 101 on BBC2, presented by Nick Hancock. Bob Monkhouse is the first guest to appear on the show.
BFI TV 100. The BFI TV 100 is a list of 100 television programmes or series that was compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), as chosen by a poll of industry professionals, with the aim to determine the best British television programmes of any genre that had been screened up to that time. [1]
22 February – The Police appear in an advert for Wrigley's chewing gum. 24 February – The BBC airs Going Straight. The sitcom is a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the real-life Slade Prison where Porridge had been set.
Martin (2015) My Wife and Kids (2011–2014; 2023–present) Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2015) Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2016) The Neighborhood (2020) Ruthless (2020) First Wives Club (2021) American Gangster: Trap Queens (2021) The Family Business (2021)
Regularly repeated on New Year's Eve in Germany and elsewhere, it is not seen in its entirety on British television until 2018. [2] 20 July - BBC Grandstand features live coverage from the first day of the 3rd women's Test between England and Australia at The Oval. [3] This is the earliest known live television broadcast of women's Test cricket.
21 May – Serena Martin wins the 1997 series of Junior MasterChef on BBC1. 23 May – The long-running Channel 4 game show Countdown celebrates its 2000th edition with a special retrospective programme. [48] 24–26 May – Channel 4 dedicates the Spring Bank Holiday weekend to sitcoms.
2 January – World of Sport premieres on ITV with Eamonn Andrews as its first presenter. 9 January – Sketch comedy show Not Only... But Also, featuring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, debuts on BBC2. [2] 12 January – Doctor Who begins premiering in Australia on the ABC by first being shown in Perth.