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27 January – Grandstand, the flagship BBC sports programme, is aired for the final time on BBC One, after nearly 50 years on television screens. The very last edition is broadcast the following day on BBC Two. [289] 9 March – The BBC's Castaway returns for a second, but shorter series. [290]
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
BBC1 abandons regular programming to provide up to date coverage of unfolding events. 1 October – BBC London is launched, replacing Newsroom South East. [28] 2002. 25 January – UK Today ends after all of the BBC's regional centres are upgraded for digital broadcasting. However, due to cost considerations, the BBC decides not to create ...
It was created by then-BBC presenter Stephen Cole. Since its debut on 6 April 2000, it has broadcast a new episode every week, marking its 1,000th episode on 6 July 2019. [1] In October 2024, the channel announced it was to axe the programme after 25 years, alongside its interview show HARDtalk.
This Week is a British current affairs and politics TV programme. It was screened late on Thursday evenings on BBC One and hosted by former Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil, with a panel of two commentators, one from the right and the other from the left of the political spectrum.
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.
23 November – The BBC picks up the terrestrial rights to The Simpsons, which is first shown at 5:30pm on BBC1 with a Sunday lunchtime repeat on BBC2. There's No Disgrace Like Home is the first episode to be shown on BBC1, later being beaten in the ratings by Sabrina the Teenage Witch which makes its UK debut on that day.
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.