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The 100 Greatest TV Ads is a British TV entertainment programme that first aired on 29 April 2000 on Channel 4. It is part of the channel's 100 Greatest strand of programmes, and was presented by Graham Norton .
The majority of special events attracting large audiences are often carried on more than one channel. The most watched special event programme of all time on a single channel in the UK is the 1973 wedding ceremony of Princess Anne, shown only on BBC One. Pre-1981 figures supplied by the British Film Institute (BFI)
Lily's Driftwood Bay – animation cartoon series; The Limbo Connection; Linda Green – comedy drama; Line of Duty – crime/drama/thriller; Lingo – game show; The Link – quiz game show; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Lip Service – drama; Lipstick on Your Collar – romance/musical/comedy; Liquid Television – anthology series ...
Channel 4 entices viewers to their pioneering instructional programme with an ad in The Times that invites them to: "Watch the great 16th century Italian painter Tom Keating [who] believes the spirits of the Old Masters sometimes enter him as he works on a canvas. Tonight, in the first of a series, watch Titian paint Tarquin and Lucretia ...
3 September – ITV begins showing the supernatural children's anthology series Shadows. 4 September – Gerry Anderson's live-action science fiction series Space: 1999 airs on ITV, starring Martin Landau. 19 September – BFBS Television broadcasts for the first time, in Celle, near Hanover in the West Germany from Trenchard Barracks. [5]
1963 in British television – The science fiction series Doctor Who is aired for the first time and the satirical show That Was The Week That Was comes to an end after series 2. 1964 in British television – BBC Two goes on the air and long-running football and music shows Top of the Pops and Match of the Day are both launched and Stingray ...
TV programme Film Title Channel Premiere End Title Premiere Doctor Who: BBC TV: 1963: 1989 Dr. Who and the Daleks: 1965 Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 1966 Doomwatch: BBC1: 1970: 1972: Doomwatch: 1972 The Quatermass Experiment: BBC Television Service: 1953: 1953: The Quatermass Xperiment: 1955 Quatermass II: BBC Television Service: 1955: ...
14 September – The highly popular and long-running live children's variety show Crackerjack! is broadcast for the first time on BBC TV, hosted by Eamonn Andrews. 22 September – Commercial broadcasting starts in the UK with the launch of ITV in London, Associated-Rediffusion on weekdays and Associated Television Network (ATV) at weekends ...