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The Big Match was a British football television programme, screened on ITV between 1968 and 1992. [1]The Big Match originally launched on London Weekend Television (LWT) – the ITV regional station that served London and the Home Counties at weekends – screening highlights of Football League matches.
Sinstadt covered four World Cups for ITV, from 1970 in Mexico to 1982 in Spain, with the main matches he covered including the live 1978 third-place play-off between Brazil and Italy, and the 1982 semi-final between France and West Germany. [4] He was also part of the ITV team at the European Championships in Italy in 1980. [5]
Between 1997 and 2001, ITV had the rights to show the FA Cup, both as highlights and live, and ITV revived the name The Big Match. However, when these rights reverted to the BBC, with ITV replacing the BBC as holder of the rights to English top-flight football highlights in 2001, the new programme was simply called The Premiership. 24 Poirot: ITV
Debut of the game show Give Us a Clue on ITV. 3 January – The children's series The Book Tower makes its debut on ITV, featuring dramatizations of books as well as interviews with authors. 3 January – ITV programming resumes in the Yorkshire Television region at 5.45pm, with the station off air for the previous 17 days due to industrial action.
The programme's format was typical of the time, extended highlights of a London (1965–68) based match and a Midlands based match (from August 1968) was the main attraction and then shorter highlights of two other games from around the country, covered by other ITV regions. Where possible this would be a game involving a Midlands team as the ...
Two years later the director Alan Clarke makes a film version with most of the same cast and the original play itself is eventually transmitted on BBC2 in 1991. [ 20 ] Emmerdale Farm moves from daytime to a peak time (7pm) slot although five regions, Anglia Television , Thames Television , Westward Television , Grampian Television and Scottish ...
William Russell Enoch (19 November 1924 – 3 June 2024) was an English actor who performed as both Russell Enoch and William Russell.His career on stage and screen spanned over seven decades and he first achieved prominence in the title role of the television series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956–1957).
[1] After World of Sport ended in 1985, [2] Davies stayed with ITV, presenting boxing, darts, and snooker, as well as playing a part in their coverage of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. He left ITV Sport in August 1989. [3] After leaving ITV, Davies joined the original incarnation of Eurosport, which was then owned by Sky, and the European ...