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UKTV is a commercial broadcaster owned by BBC Studios, one of the BBC's commercial units. Originating in 1992 with UK Gold, UKTV expanded its channels from 1997 onwards, with the BBC taking full ownership in June 2019. Unlike the BBC's public service channels, the UKTV channels contain advertising.
8–22 February – The BBC provides live and recorded coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics from France. 15 February – The network television premiere of Leonard Nimoy 's 1987 comedy film Three Men and a Baby on ITV, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson.
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.
9 October – ITV airs the UK version of the popular American game show Sale of the Century. 10 October – Upstairs, Downstairs debuts on ITV. November. 10 November – Princess Anne opens the BBC's new Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham. 20 November – The children's programme Play Away debuts on BBC2 and is hosted by Brian Cant.
Event. 1 January. BBC One airs The Queen by Rolf, a documentary following artist Rolf Harris as he paints a portrait of the Queen. [1] 2 January. BBC One aired the network premiere of Piglet's Big Movie. The same channel aired the network premiere of the Steven Spielberg smash-hit Catch Me If You Can . 3 January.
1 January. BBC1's New Year's Eve special Live into 85, broadcast from Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland, ends broadcasting in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as scheduled 40 minutes earlier than in Scotland after a series of disasters brought on by poor organisation from the production team. [1]
29 January – Tom Keating On Painters is rebroadcast. 30 January – Channel 4 becomes the first broadcaster in the UK to show the Super Bowl live. 31 January – Channel 4 News introduces its current news theme 'Best Endeavours' composed by Alan Hawkshaw. January.
The existing BBC TV channel is renamed BBC1. 21 April – Play School is first broadcast on BBC2; the launch schedule, abandoned on the previous day, is shown in full this evening. 26 April – News Review, a summary of the week's news with subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, is broadcast for the first time as part of the launch of BBC2.