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3–4 May – BBC1 and ITV air coverage of the 1979 General Election which is won by the Conservatives and sees Margaret Thatcher become the first female Prime Minister of the UK. [ 1] The election sees both the Conservatives and Labour include plans for a fourth channel in their election manifestos. Labour favours an Open Broadcasting ...
Release. 4 September. ( 1979-09-04) –. 30 October 1979. ( 1979-10-30) Prince Regent is a British period television series made and transmitted by the BBC in 1979. It depicts the life of George IV from his youth time as prince regent and his reign as King. It consists of eight episodes of 50 minutes.
By contrast, original British programmes are rarely seen on the major U.S. networks in modern times (in the 1960s the airing of UK-produced programs such as The Avengers and Fireball XL5 on U.S. network TV occurred frequently) and are usually broadcast only on the Public Broadcasting Service and on cable television, especially BBC America, with only a few purely British shows having gained ...
Antiques Roadshow is a British television programme broadcast by the BBC in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom (and occasionally in other countries) to appraise antiques brought in by local people (generally speaking). It has been running since 1979, based on a 1977 documentary programme.
Co-production with Sundance TV (series 1–2) and BBC America (series 3) Bodyguard: One 26 August – 23 September 2018 Trust: Two 12 September – 14 November 2018 Acquired from FX: Killing Eve: One 15 September 2018 – 17 April 2022 Acquired from BBC America: The Sinner: Four 1 December 2018 – 11 January 2020 Acquired from USA Network
Mark Austin – former BBC journalist and sports correspondent for BBC News, from 1982 to 1986. He joined ITN in 1986 as sports correspondent. Now works for Sky News. Khalid Aziz – main presenter and reporter on Look North in Leeds during the 1970s and early 1980s. He left to join TVS on its inception in 1982.
11 November – Last episode of the first series of the sitcom To the Manor Born on BBC One receives 23.95 million viewers, the all-time highest figure for a recorded programme in the UK. [41] 13 November The Times is published for the first time in nearly a year after a dispute between management and unions over staffing levels and new ...
The sci-fi TV series Logan's Run is shown on ITV. The ITV variety and sketch series The Les Dawson Show is first broadcast. 27 January – In an interview for Granada Television 's World in Action , Leader of the Opposition Margaret Thatcher remarks, "people are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture". [1]