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31 August – ITV starts broadcasting in central Scotland – Scottish Television (STV) is the franchise holder. 1958. 14 January – Television Wales and the West (TWW) starts broadcasting to South Wales and the West of England. 30 August – Southern Television launches. 1959.
Danger Mouse (ITV 1981–1992, BBC Two 2007–2009, CBBC 2015–present) Danger UXB (1979) The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993) Dave Spud: the Movie (2022 as a movie) Davina & Shania: We love Monaco; Daybreak (1983, 2010–2014) Deal or No Deal (Channel 4 2005–2016, ITV1 2023–present) Demons (2009) Department S (1969–1970) The Des O ...
The history of ITV, the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies "Independent Television" commercial network, goes back to 1955. [1]Independent Television began as a network of independently-owned regional companies that were both broadcasters and programme makers, beginning with four companies operating six stations in three large regions in 1955–1956, and gradually expanding to 17 stations in ...
June. [] 18 June – The last edition of Tonight is broadcast on BBC1. 24 June – BBC1 begin showing the popular American spy series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin. 27 June – The last episode of science-fiction marionette series Stingray is broadcast on ITV.
Television mogul Lew Grade set up the Incorporated Television Programme Company (ITP) with Prince Littler and Val Parnell in 1954. [1] Originally designed to be a contractor for the UK's new ITV network, the company failed to win a contract when the Independent Television Authority felt that doing so would give too much control in the entertainment business to the Grade family's companies ...
Number 59 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films: Joey Boy: Frank Launder: Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter: Comedy: The Knack …and How to Get It: Richard Lester: Michael Crawford, Rita Tushingham: Comedy: Won the Palme d'Or at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival: Lady L: Peter Ustinov: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven: Comedy: Licensed to ...
1935 in British television – Baird stops broadcasting in September. 1936 in British television – Electronically scanned television begins from Alexandra Palace. 1937 in British television – First outside broadcast at the Coronation of King George VI. 1938 in British television – First news bulletin carried by BBC television, in sound only.
Other notable roles include Travels with My Aunt (1972), Death on the Nile (1978), A Room with a View (1986), Richard III (1995), Gosford Park (2001) and Quartet (2012). Smith also starred in the commercially successful films Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Secret Garden (1993) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and its sequel.