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The Friday night draws showed the EuroMillions results and the Thunderball draw and are usually broadcast at 23:15. The Friday night draws were the only draws not to be broadcast live. From January 2013, the Friday draws are available to watch exclusively on the National Lottery's website. There is still a results update on BBC One at 22:35.
International football finals are a particular problem as research has shown that 71% of people in the UK will watch them at home instead of public venues such as pubs. [4] The Grid predicted a pickup of around 3000 MW, equivalent to 1.2 million kettles being turned on at once, if England made the later stages of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. [4] [9]
25 December 1987: ITV (Granada) [15] 4 Live Aid: 16-hour concert in Wembley Stadium and John F. Kennedy Stadium for Band Aid. 24.50 13 July 1985 BBC1 [16] 5 Only Fools and Horses "Time on Our Hands" 24.35: 29 December 1996: BBC1 [17] 6 EastEnders: Arthur and Pauline Fowler urge their son Mark to tell his sister Michelle that he has HIV. 24.30 ...
2 September – A regional news bulletin following the Nine O'Clock News is launched. 22 December – Having been broadcast every Sunday teatime since the launch of BBC2 in 1964, News Review is broadcast for the final time. 1986. 4 January – The first edition of NewsView is broadcast on BBC2. The new Saturday early evening programme lasts 40 ...
2013 in British television – BBC Two launches in high-definition for the first time 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years after BBC One did, Panorama becomes the first ongoing British TV programme to reach and celebrate its 60th anniversary since BBC Wimbledon in 1987 The Boat Race in 1998 and BBC Cricket in 1999, More4 also launches in HD for the first time ...
Figures indicate that the first episode is watched by 4.2 million, a healthy audience for a BBC Two programme, but by the third episode, aired on 31 January, fell to 2.5 million. [ 177 ] 13 February – BBC Two airs Gimme Some Truth , a documentary featuring footage of John Lennon as he recorded his 1971 album Imagine .
James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
14 July – Watchdog launches as a stand-alone programme on BBC1, [25] having previously been a segment within the teatime news magazine programmes Nationwide and Sixty Minutes. 27 July – BBC2 airs "Blues Night", an Arena special dedicated to the Blues and featuring artists from the genre, including Sonny Boy Williamson , B. B. King , Blind ...