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Super Bowl (BBC One Two 2007 – 2013 & 2016 – 2022) ATP World Tour Finals – BBC Two 2009 – present. Football League/League Cup Show: BBC One 2009 – 2015 (rights transferred to Channel 5) PDC Champions League of Darts: BBC One & BBC Two 2016 – present. The Premier League Show: BBC Two 2016 – present.
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]
BBC One. Flagship channel and broadcasts a variety of mainstream programming. 24 hours. BBC Two. Secondary channel and broadcasts a range of alternative programming. BBC Three. Broadcasts a variety of youthful programming. 9 hours (19:00 to 04:00) BBC Four.
7–21 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the first Cricket World Cup. The BBC also shows full coverage of the 1979 World Cup. 11 June – A pilot of the sitcom The Melting Pot, written by and starring Spike Milligan (in brownface) with Neil Shand, is broadcast on BBC2. The following year, a full series of six episodes is ...
The strike commenced on 17 December 1978, with normal service not resumed on Yorkshire Television until 5.45pm on Wednesday 3 January 1979. Many of ITV's Christmas programmes are eventually shown in early 1979 after the dispute has ended, little did anyone know that the seeds for the ITV Strike of 79 were sown. [11]
The network television premiere of the 1980 American comedy spoof disaster film Airplane! on ITV, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack. 27 December – BBC2 airs the final episode of the US sitcom M*A*S*H. 30 December.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the television version of Douglas Adams' radio comedy of the same name, makes its debut on BBC2. 20 January – BBC2 airs live coverage of the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States. 22 January – The US sitcom Benson makes its UK debut on ITV. February
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. 6 September – ITV broadcasts Killer. It would later be turned into a series and renamed Taggart. 9 September – London Weekend Television launches a computerised version of its ident with the tagline "Your Weekend ITV".