Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[404] (death announced on this date) 26 October – Stephanie Collie, 60, English costume designer (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake, Peaky Blinders). [405] 30 October – Brian Tesler, 95, British television producer and executive. [406] 31 October Candy Devine, 85, Australian radio broadcaster (Downtown Radio) and singer.
24 October – BBC2 broadcast the iconic Fawlty Towers episode The Germans, in which a concussed Basil starts goose-stepping and impersonating Adolf Hitler to his German guests, 28 October – ITV shows a James Bond film on British television for the first time: Terence Young's 1962 big screen debut of 007 in Dr.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in March 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
9 October Gordon Honeycombe [70] 79 Newscaster (ITN News, TV-am) Julia Jones: 82 Television writer and former actress (Quiet as a Nun, Miss Marple, Wycliffe, Anne of Green Gables, Our Mutual Friend, Echoes, The Famous Five) 13 October Sue Lloyd-Roberts [71] 64 Television journalist (BBC News, Newsnight, ITN News) 17/18 October Jacky Sutton [72] 50
12 October – Les Dennis, game show host, actor; 27 October – Peter Firth, actor; 30 October – Nigel McCrery, television screenwriter (died 2025) 13 November – Diana Weston, actress; 16 November – Griff Rhys Jones, comedian, actor and writer; 13 December – Jim Davidson, comedian
19 October Alan J. W. Bell, 85, British television producer and director (Last of the Summer Wine, Ripping Yarns, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). [260] David Turner, 77, British computer scientist. [261] Anthony Vidler, 82, English architectural historian. [262] 20 October
Our list of 25 of the best British TV shows will excited royal family fans and Downton Abbey experts alike, and includes newer shows like Industry and Trying.
Paul O'Grady, talk show host and comedy performer (died 2023) 23 June – Maggie Philbin, broadcast presenter; 14 August – Gillian Taylforth, actress; 20 September – David Haig, actor; 18 October – Timmy Mallett, television presenter; 9 November – Karen Dotrice, actress; 22 November – George Alagiah, BBC journalist and news presenter ...