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6 March – After twenty years and 1002 episodes, the final new edition of Rainbow airs. The long-running series ends due to its producer Thames Television losing its ITV franchise. Repeats continue to be shown until the end of the year. 4 April – The final edition of the Saturday morning show Motormouth airs.
This is a timeline of the history of Carlton Television (now known as ITV London), and of its former owner Carlton Communications.Carlton Television has provided the ITV service for London on weekdays since 1993, and Carlton Communications took over the services for the Midlands, South West England, the West of England and Wales before merging with Granada plc to form ITV plc.
21 May – Serena Martin wins the 1997 series of Junior MasterChef on BBC1. 23 May – The long-running Channel 4 game show Countdown celebrates its 2000th edition with a special retrospective programme. [48] 24–26 May – Channel 4 dedicates the Spring Bank Holiday weekend to sitcoms.
Mike and Angelo was recommissioned in 1992 by Carlton Television for a fifth series, after Thames Television lost its ITV franchise. Series 5 would be produced by Tetra Films, and featured a new theme composed by Kim Goody and Alan Coates , which would remain, in several slight variations, for the remainder of the show's run.
Carlton Television (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties from 9.25am every Monday to 5.15pm every Friday. [1] The company is now managed with London Weekend Television as a single entity (ITV London), but the two companies are still separately licensed.
2000. 31 January – Carlton Kids stops broadcasting. [5]1 February – Discovery Kids launches on the OnDigital platform as a direct replacement for Carlton Kids. 27 May – Boomerang launches to broadcast classic cartoons from the Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Warner Bros archive programme library, as well as freeing up its sister network of many classics in the schedule.
6 September – The live broadcast of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales is watched by 2.5 billion viewers worldwide. [3] The ceremony's footage goes down in the Guinness World Records as the biggest TV audience for a live broadcast. [4] In the UK, 32.10 million viewers watch the broadcast. It is the UK's second most-watched broadcast of ...
Rebecca is a 1997 British-German television drama directed by Jim O'Brien. The teleplay by Arthur Hopcraft is based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The serial was filmed for Carlton Television by Portman Productions in association with WGBH and Tele München. Broadcast in the United Kingdom on 5 and 6 January 1997 on ...