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24 September – Pick of the Pops is broadcast for the final time. 1 October – The first edition of a new Sunday teatime programme Solid Gold Sixty is broadcast on BBC Radio 1. Presented by Tom Browne , the programme consists of two hours featuring the Radio One playlist tracks which were not in the Top 20, followed by a one-hour Top 20 ...
30 March – Channel 5 begins broadcasting 24 hours a day from day one, with American sport being shown through the night on weekdays. 9 November – BBC News 24 launches and from that day, instead of closing down, BBC One simulcasts the new news channel throughout the night. 1998. 14 January – ITV Nightscreen launches as an overnight filler ...
24 February – The Desperate People (1963) 8 March – The Birth of a Private Man (1963) 31 March – The Sunday Play (1963) 7 April – Jane Eyre (1963) 3 May – The Spread of the Eagle (1963) 18 May – The Stanley Baxter Show (1963–1971) 19 May – Epitaph for a Spy (1963) 3 June – Hornblower (1963) 20 June – Maupassant (1963) 10 ...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the television version of Douglas Adams' radio comedy of the same name, makes its debut on BBC2. [5] 20 January – BBC2 airs live coverage of the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States. [6] 22 January – The US sitcom Benson makes its UK debut on ITV.
Issue dates from 4/11/2004 to 10/9/2005 fell on a Sunday (Sunday-to-Saturday listings). Issue dates from 10/17/2005 onward fall on a Monday (Monday-to-Sunday listings). NOTE: Beginning in 2006, TV Guide occasionally produced 2-week "double issues."
11 October – Coldplay's 10th album, Moon Music, enters the UK Albums Chart at number one with sales of 237,000, and having outsold the combined total of albums in the rest of the top 40. [ 112 ] 19 – 20 October – A series of vigils are held in the UK and elsewhere in the world for One Direction singer Liam Payne , who died in a fall from ...
5 May – As part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of VE Day, ITV airs A Royal Celebration: 40 Years of Peace, featuring the music of British artists such as Lonnie Donegan, Paul Jones, Brian Poole, Joe Brown, Wayne Fontana, Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard. 7 May – The American action series Street Hawk makes its UK debut on ITV.
8 December – Alan Bradley is fatally run over by a Blackpool tram on Coronation Street, getting the soap's biggest ever audience at almost 27 million viewers, a record that remains to this day. [64] [65] 11 December – Debut of The Art of Landscape on Channel 4, a programme that shows slowly changing sceneries, animations and landscapes ...