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13 July – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting is established to consider the future of broadcasting, cable and "the possibility of television for public showing". ". Their report, published in 1962, criticises the populism of ITV and recommends that Britain's third national television channel (after the BBC Television Service and ITV) should be awarded to th
29 August – Many of the former overnight programmes associated with the old Night Network and Night Time services are replaced with repeats of networked daytime shows (many of these including on-screen BSL signing for the deaf). Scottish and Grampian (both branded overnight as Nighttime TV) continue to run their own overnight schedule. 2002 ...
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway – variety show; Any Dream Will Do – talent search show; Any Human Heart – drama; The Aphrodite Inheritance – drama; Apparitions – serial/drama/mystery; Apple Tree House – drama; Apple Tree Yard – thriller; The Appleyards – soap opera; The Apprentice – reality television; Aquarius – arts
The satellite network showed ten matches exclusively live in the UK. July - Cable channel Wire TV agrees a deal to televise up to 40 live Conference matches, plus weekly highlights, during the 1994-95 season. [206] [207] 1995. The first edition of Saturday morning football-based comedy/talk show Soccer AM is broadcast on Sky Sports.
3 July – ITV Northern debuts the Hanna Barbara family cartoon seriesThe Jetsons ahead of other ITV regions.; 8 July – The English comedy sketch Dinner for One with Freddie Frinton, having been shown live on Peter Frankenfeld's show GutenAbend in 1962, is recorded in English by Norddeutscher Rundfunk before an audience at the Theater am Besenbinderhof, Hamburg, West Germany.
Night Network was ITV's first overnight programme, beginning on Friday 28 August 1987, originally for the ITV regions covered by LWT, TVS and Anglia, before expanding to other regions during 1988. The programme aired between 1 am and 4 am in the Friday and Saturday night schedules, and between 1 am and 3 am in the Sunday night schedule.
14 June – BBC television broadcasts the first episode of the sitcom Steptoe and Son, written by Galton and Simpson and starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett, an unusual use at this time of "straight" actors in a sitcom; it is based on a one-off show "The Offer" in the Galton & Simpson's Comedy Playhouse strand.
A compilation double DVD set, Saturday Live: The Best of Series One, was released on 16 April 2007, containing almost two-and-a-half hours of material. No music performances from the shows were included. Saturday Live: The Best of Series 2 was released on 4 February 2008, and The Very Best Of Friday Night Live was released on 2 June 2008. On 5 ...