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20 April – 50th anniversary of the launch of BBC Two. [265] 30 April – Jeremy Paxman announces he will leave Newsnight in June after 25 years with the programme. [266] 2 May – BBC Two's Newsnight appoints The Guardian newspaper's investigations editor, Nick Hopkins as its investigations correspondent. [267]
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.It is the corporation's second flagship channel, and it covers a wide range of subject matter, incorporating genres such as comedy, drama and documentaries.
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 ...
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, is a BBC documentary film series consisting of three one-hour films that re-enact the Nuremberg War Trials of Albert Speer, Hermann Göring, and Rudolf Hess. They were broadcast on BBC Two in 2006 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the trials.
BBC Two is the second BBC channel and the third channel to air in the UK. On 20 April 1964, BBC2 planned to launch an evening of programmes beginning at 7:20 pm. However, 35 minutes before the new channel went on air, a power failure spread through most of London, affecting BBC Television Centre, where BBC2's programme control was based.
This ended in November 1997 when BBC News 24 launched, and the news station has filled the overnight BBC One downtime ever since. In the 1950s, the BBC Television Service ended with the closing bars of Eric Coates' Television March, reinstated for one night only to finish off the BBC's 60th anniversary week, before the national anthem. [2]
The BBC Two 1991–2001 idents were broadcast from 16 February 1991 until 19 November 2001, and again from 9 July 2014 until 26 September 2018, on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. The idents , which consisted of a sans-serif '2' in Gill Sans , accompanied by the colour viridian , [ 1 ] were created by branding agency Lambie-Nairn [ 2 ] (and later ...
Intended as a 13-week pilot, it eventually continues past its 10,000th episode in its 60th anniversary year as Britain's longest-running television soap. Characters introduced in the first episode include Ken Barlow (William Roache, who will continue in the role for more than 60 years), Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) and Ena Sharples (Violet Carson).