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Sixty Minutes is a defunct news and current affairs programme which ran each weekday at 5:40 pm from 24 October 1983 to 27 July 1984 on BBC1. It replaced Nationwide , and integrated the BBC's main regional news magazines into a single programme, as per its predecessor.
Six Minutes to Midnight is a 2020 British war drama film directed by Andy Goddard from a screenplay loosely based on a true story [2] by Goddard, Celyn Jones and Eddie Izzard, starring Izzard, Judi Dench, Carla Juri, James D'Arcy and Jim Broadbent. Six Minutes to Midnight was released in the United Kingdom on 26 March 2021, by Sky Cinema. [3]
The Sixth Commandment is a four-part British true crime television drama series, written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Saul Dibb.Based on the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin, it stars Timothy Spall, Anne Reid, Sheila Hancock, Éanna Hardwicke, Annabel Scholey, and Ben Bailey Smith.
The film was made by BBC to mark the Queen's Ruby Jubilee. [4] It was directed and produced by Edward Mirzoeff. [5] Mirzoeff co-wrote the script with Antony Jay, who had also written the script for the Royal Family (1969). [3] The programme was narrated by Ian Holm, and Rachel Portman composed the music. [6] Filming took place over 18 months. [7]
Edward J. Mason had his first major success in 1947 as a script writer when the BBC Home Service radio network began airing his British detective serial Dick Barton which he created with co-writer Geoffrey Webb. This was the first serial to air on the BBC and it continued to be aired until 1951.
Bert Coules worked in radio drama for ten years, gaining experience as a recording engineer, sound-effects technician, script reader and producer-director before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. [1] [2] Coules began writing without any previous training, saying that he only heard a bad radio drama and felt he could do better.
In the UK, it was premiered at 8:30 pm GMT on BBC One. In the US, it premiered at 9:00 pm ET/PT on PBS. In Australia, it premiered on subscription streaming service Stan at 10:00 pm AEDT on 2 January. In Latin America, it premiered at 1:00 am GMT on BBC Entertainment.
Six-Five Special was the BBC's first attempt at a rock-and-roll programme. Its title was derived from its broadcast time, as it aired at 6:05 on Saturday evening. It began immediately after the abolition of the Toddlers' Truce, in which programming ceased between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. so that children could be put to bed.