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The world's first scheduled, high-definition (as then defined; meaning 240-line) television programmes were broadcast on 2 November 1936 by the British Broadcasting Corporation. They had been preceded by a number of low-definition BBC test broadcasts, as well as a 180-line Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk service, from Berlin, since March 1935.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. 6 September – ITV broadcasts Killer. It would later be turned into a series and renamed Taggart. 9 September – London Weekend Television launches a computerised version of its ident with the tagline "Your Weekend ITV".
FA Cup: BBC One/TV 1937 – 1996, 2002 – 2008 & 2014 – present (shared with BT Sport) Wimbledon Championships: BBC TV/BBC One 1937 – present, BBC Two 1964 – present; The Boat Race: BBC TV/One 1938 – 2004 & 2010 – present (ITV covered the Boat Race from 2005 – 2009) Live England Test Cricket: BBC TV 1938 – 1998
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 ...
Ghosts (American TV series) Ghosts is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC One from April 2019 to December 2023. It follows a group of ghosts from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing it with its new living occupants.
The debut 1982 showing draws in an estimated audience of over 16.8 million viewers. [19] 25 October – ITV debuts Harry's Game, a three-part drama miniseries made by Yorkshire Television closely based on Gerald Seymour 's 1975 novel of the same name starring Ray Lonnen, Derek Thompson and Benjamin Whitrow.
Docudrama The Day Britain Stopped airs on BBC Two. It is based on a fictional disaster on 19 December 2003, in which a train strike is the first in a chain of events that lead to a meltdown of the country's transport system ending with a plane collision.
January. 2 January – The first episode of the science fiction series Blake's 7 is broadcast on BBC1. 4 January – The first edition of the arts series The South Bank Show is broadcast, presented by Melvyn Bragg and replaces Aquarius. 8 January – All Creatures Great and Small debuts on BBC1. 20 January – The first of ITV's occasional An ...