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2002 In British Television
This is a list of British television related events from 2002. Events January *1 January **Provisional viewing figures released by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board indicate that on average, BBC One had more viewers than ITV through 2001. This is the first time this has happened. **New Year's Day highlights on BBC One include the films '' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', ''Small Soldiers'', ''Shakespeare in Love'' and '''Til There Was You''. *4 January – It is reported that three '' Coronation Street'' actors Stephen Beckett (Dr Matt Ramsden), Clare McGlinn ( Charlie Ramsden) and Naomi Russell ( Bobbi Lewis) are to leave the series in the Spring. *5 January – The first episode of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series premieres on ITV1, based on Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean. *7 January **The Independent Television Commission rejects 129 viewer complaints about WHSmith's Fat Geordies Christmas advertising campaign, saying the humour was acceptable and would not have caused widesp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Television
Regular television broadcasts in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection of free-to-air, free-to-view and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channelsTaking the base Sky EPG TV Channels. A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of platforms, b) duplication of services, c) regional services, d) part time operations, and e) audio. For the Sky platform alone, there are basically 485 TV channels, additionally 57 "timeshifted versions", 36 HDTV versions, 42 regional TV options, 81 audio channels, and 5 promotion channels as of mid-2010 for consumers as well as on-demand content. There are six main channel owners who are responsible for most material viewed. There are 27,000 hours of domestic content produced a year, at a cost of £2.6 billion.Taki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky News
Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006. In 2019, Sky News was named Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year, the 12th time it has held the award. The channel and its live streaming world news is available on its website, TV platforms, and online platforms such as YouTube and Apple TV, and various mobile devices and digital media players. A sister channel, Sky News Arabia, is operated as a joint venture with the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation. A channel called Sky News International, simulcasting the UK channel directly but without British advertisements, is available in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Asia Pacific, Australia, and the Americas. Narrated segments (which generally cover lighter issu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Smith, Baron Smith Of Kelvin
Robert Haldane Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin, (born 8 August 1944) is a British businessman and former Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Smith was knighted in 1999, appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbench peer in 2008, and appointed Knight of the Thistle in the 2014 New Year Honours. He was also appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2016. Lord Smith of Kelvin serves as Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde and Chair of the British Business Bank. He is Chairman of IMI plc, Scottish Enterprise and Forth Ports Limited. On 19 September 2014, he was appointed as Chair of the newly formed Scotland Devolution Commission by Prime Minister David Cameron, following the "No" result in the Scottish independence referendum; his role being to oversee devolution commitments spelt out by the Westminster parliamentary leaders, with initial proposals drawn up by November 2014. Early life Smith grew up in the Maryhill district of Glas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV2
ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 both of which are freely available to a majority of households. The channel is primarily aimed at the 16/18–34 age group, just like BBC Three, E4 and Sky Max and is known for American programming such as adult animations '' Family Guy,'' '' American Dad!'' and ''Bob's Burgers'', repeats of recently aired episodes of soap operas and other entertainment programming from ITV such as '' Coronation Street'' and ''Emmerdale''; 60-second entertainment news bulletin ''FYI Daily'', which airs in-between films; and original programming such as '' Celebrity Juice'' and '' Love Island''. In November 2021, the channel moved into the true-crime genre with ''Social Media Murders'' a three-part documentary s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UTV2
UTV2 was a television channel, owned by Ulster Television plc (now UTV Media). The channel was on digital terrestrial television and NTL cable in Northern Ireland. The channel launched on 28 June 1999 as ''TV You'', but was rebranded as ''UTV2'' in 2000. The programming consisted primarily of simulcasts with ITV2, as broadcast in England, Wales and the Scottish Borders, although they did also use archive programmes from UTV. Unusually, for a commercial station, UTV2 did not carry any advertising. This was presumably due to their failure to attract advertisers to UTV2, which was only receivable by a few thousand viewers. UTV2 closed on 22 January 2002 following a deal with ITV Digital and was replaced by ITV2. See also * UTV *ITV2 ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Sunday Inquiry
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as the Saville Inquiry or the Saville Report after its chairman, Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in 1998 by British Prime Minister Tony Blair after campaigns for a second inquiry by families of those killed and injured in Derry on Bloody Sunday during the peak of The Troubles. It was published on 15 June 2010. The inquiry was set up to establish a definitive version of the events of Sunday 30 January 1972, superseding the tribunal set up under Lord Widgery that had reported on 19 April 1972, 11 weeks after the events, and to resolve the accusations of a whitewash that had surrounded it. The inquiry took the form of a tribunal established under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921, and consisted of Lord Saville, William L. Hoyt, the former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and John L. Toohey, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia. The judges finished hearing evidence on 23 November 2004, and reconvened once again o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday (2002 Film)
''Sunday'' is a television drama, produced by Sunday Productions for Channel 4 and screened on 25 January 2002. It dramatises the events of "Bloody Sunday" through the eyes of the families of the dead and injured, specifically those of Leo Young, older brother of John Young, who was killed on the day. The timescale covers events in the years prior to Bloody Sunday, and subsequent events up to and including the Widgery Tribunal. It was written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Charles McDougall, and the Channel 4 transmission was followed by a live studio debate about the issues involved. It was overshadowed by the rival ''Bloody Sunday'', shown eight days previously by ITV. While the ITV's ''Bloody Sunday'' filmed most of its scenes in Ballymun in Dublin, ''Sunday'' filmed the majority of its scenes in Derry itself. Streets and areas where the actual events of Bloody Sunday happened were used by the production team, such as William Street, Creggan, Craigavon Bridge and Harvey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloody Sunday (film)
''Bloody Sunday'' is a 2002 British-Irish film written and directed by Paul Greengrass based around the 1972 "Bloody Sunday (1972), Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by ITV Granada, Granada Television as a TV film, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on ITV (TV channel), ITV on 20 January, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. Though set in Derry, the film was mostly shot in Ballymun in North Dublin, with some location scenes were shot in Derry, in Guildhall Square and in Creggan, Derry, Creggan on the actual route of the in 1972. Content The film was inspired by Don Mullan's politically influential book ''Eyewitness Bloody Sunday'' (Wolfhound Press, 1997). The drama shows the events of the day through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, an Social Democratic and Labour Party, SDLP Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland who was a central organiser of the Northern Ireland Civil Rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Shuttleworth
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 2002, by order of first appearance. Hazel Wilding Hazel Wilding first appears on 23 January 2002 when cab driver Vikram Desai (Chris Bisson) picks up her from an upmarket suburb. Immediately, Hazel flirts heavily with Vikram and she then requests his services more frequently. It is not long before Hazel seduces Vikram at a hotel wearing lingerie and bearing a bottle of champagne. In February 2002, Vikram is shocked to discover that Hazel is married and feels that things between them have become too complicated. He then keeps a distance from her by sending other drivers when she requests his cab. It is not long before Vikram resumes his secret affair with Hazel as she gives him a gold bracelet for his birthday and he dumps girlfriend Bobbi Lewis for Hazel. When Les Battersby ( Bruce Jones) comes to collect Hazel one day, he is very suggestive and she slaps him. She deman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Hudd
Roy Hudd, OBE (16 May 1936 – 15 March 2020) was an English comedian, actor, presenter, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment. Early life Hudd was born in Croydon on 16 May 1936 to Evalina "Evie" (née Barham) and Harry Hudd. His father was a carpenter who left the family shortly after the Second World War, and his mother, who had a history of mental health problems, commited suicide by gas when Hudd was 9 years old. Hudd was primarily brought up by his grandmother, and attended Tavistock Secondary Modern School in Croydon and Croydon Secondary Technical School. After completing his national service in the Royal Air Force, he studied commercial art at the Regent Street Polytechnic. He then worked as a messenger for an advertising agency, a window dresser and a commercial artist working under Harry Beck. He made his professional debut as a comedian at the Streatham Hill Theatre on 27 October 1957, in a show in aid of the Sir Philip Game#M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Sykes
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 1998, by order of first appearance. Maggie Veitch Maggie Veitch (also known as Warder Veitch), portrayed by Susan Tordoff, was a prison guard who bullied Deirdre Rachid (Anne Kirkbride). Her despicable acts were putting Deirdre in an asylum and not informing her of a phone call from her good friend Mike Baldwin ( Johnny Briggs). Eventually, Deirdre's prison mate Jackie Dobbs (Margi Clarke) stood up for Deirdre by punching Veitch in the stomach on her behalf. Since then, Veitch wasn't cruel to Deirdre. Hayley Cropper Hayley Anne Cropper (née Harold Patterson) is a fictional character from the long-running soap opera ''Coronation Street''. She made her first appearance on 26 January 1998, and is played by Julie Hesmondhalgh. She is the first transsexual character in a British soap opera and was the first permanent transsexual character in the world of soaps. She is pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angie Watts
Angie Watts is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'', played by Anita Dobson from the first episode of the series until 1988, when Dobson decided to leave, and the character was written out. Angie is well known for her cheeky banter, her perm and turning to alcohol during her stormy marriage to cheating Den Watts ( Leslie Grantham), which ended when he handed her divorce papers on Christmas Day 1986, in an episode watched by a record-breaking 30.1 million viewers. Despite being the loud and feisty lady of Walford, and having a close relationship with her beloved adoptive daughter Sharon (Letitia Dean), she doesn't have much real happiness during her time in Albert Square. Alcoholism claimed her life in April 2002 when she died of cirrhosis of the liver, 14 years after her last appearance. Storylines Alcoholic Angie shares a stormy marriage with her womanising husband, Den Watts ( Leslie Grantham), and refuses to let him go even during their rockiest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
