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5 April – Industrial action by members of the Entertainment Trades' Alliance results on all of today's BBC1 programmes being cancelled. [50] 7 June – BBC1 airs the first edition of Crimewatch. The first case to be featured on the show is the murder of Colette Aram, which had occurred the previous year.
Only channels where an episode first aired are listed (with the exception of episodes on non-BBC Three programmes which debuted online; for these) the linear channel and the transmission date on that channel are used. Children's television programmes can be found at List of BBC children's television programmes.
BBC Lifestyle: Lifestyle programming. BBC UKTV: Australia, and New Zealand, best of British entertainment programming. BBC Nordic: Nordic countries, Factual entertainment and documentaries programming. BBC Kids: Australia, and New Zealand, Programming for children over the age of six. CBeebies: Programming for children under the age of six.
16 October – BBC Scotland opts out of the network and broadcast their regional version of the Children's BBC Breakfast Show for the second year running, presented by Grant Stott and Gail Porter between 7:15am to 8:25am on BBC Two Scotland for a whole week until 20 October. 1996. 5 February – Breakfast News Extra is launched.
Consequently, the BBC's weekday breakfast programmes start half an hour earlier, at 6 am. 13 April – For the first time all BBC News programmes have the same look following a relaunch of all of the main news bulletins. 1994. 9 April – LWT launches a new Sunday morning political programme for ITV – Jonathan Dimbleby.
28 April – BBC television programming in Hindi and Urdu ends after more than 20 years. [48] [49] Three months later, on 25 July, a new English language programme for the Asian community launches. [50] 4 June – BBC 1/2 Mix, is launched as a subscription-funded television service, serving continental Europe, initially serving Scandinavia. [51]
It is the first BBC programme filmed in colour, although it can only be transmitted in black and white. 24 April – The Sky at Night airs for the first time, presented by Patrick Moore. He would present the programme until his death in December 2012. 24 September – The BBC begins broadcasting programmes for schools.
Comedian Frank Skinner has been dropped by the BBC after demanding a reported £20 million to stay with the network. [219] ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald that launched earlier in the year, is to be cut from an hour to 45 minutes and moved from Thursdays to Wednesdays. ITV says this is to make way for documentaries and drama in the Thursday ...