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10 February – London Weekend Television launches Gay Life, a late night regional series for gay viewers airing on Sundays. It is the first UK television series specifically aimed at a gay audience and is aired for two series in 1980 and 1981. [6] 19 February – Debut of the Scottish Television produced soap opera Take the High Road on ITV.
21 November – Television coverage of proceedings in the House of Commons begins. The BBC broadcasts all of its Parliamentary programming on BBC2. This includes live coverage of Prime Ministers Questions and late night and breakfast round-ups of the day's proceedings.
1991 in British television – Regular programming is abandoned in order to bring live coverage of the Gulf War after Allied Forces launch Operation Desert Storm against Iraq. Over the duration of the war there is extended coverage of events in the Persian Gulf. ITV also broadcasts news and discussion programmes about the war throughout the night.
The network television premiere of Steven Spielberg's 1977 science-fiction epic Close Encounters of the Third Kind on ITV, starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut and Melinda Dillon. The network television premiere of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science-fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey which is aired as part of BBC1's New Year's Day ...
The following is a list of most watched programmes, excluding sporting events and news coverage. The mid-1980s introduction of in-week repeat showings accounts for six of the top ten programmes. On this measure, the 1996 Christmas edition of Only Fools and Horses is, not including figures for repeats, the most-watched non-documentary programme ...
1980s British television series endings (11 C) 0–9. 1980 in British television (6 C, 8 P) 1981 in British television (6 C, 5 P) 1982 in British television (6 C, 5 P)
Consequently, the companies’ regional news programmes - Thames News, TSW Today and Coast to Coast - are seen for the final time. 1993. 1 January – At the stroke of midnight, Carlton, Meridian and Westcountry start broadcasting and at 6am GMTV goes on air for the first time. Also Teletext launches as ITV's new teletext service.
Television portal; United Kingdom portal; 1980s portal; Television series which originated in the United Kingdom in the decade 1980s. i.e. in the years 1980 to 1989.Television shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United Kingdom should be removed from this category and its sub-categories