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BBC TWO Christmas 2015 presentation

Retro idents, eh?

Tonight will be the last night for BBC two xmas Alba ident.

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By Cavan

153 replies

29k views

:-( 1 Dec - 19 DecA former member

Holby City

New titles debuted tonight - first update in nearly 17 years

Why did you quote that three month old post?

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By Multi

24 replies

5,921 views

1 Dec - 31 Mar 2016JAS84

An evening of classic BBC children's programmes

Split from CBBC Birthday thread

I feel sick. It's a wonder the weight of John and Fred's obviously massive balls didn't pull them back down to the ground!

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By Brekkie

39 replies

5,114 views

PI 1 Dec - 23 Decpip2

Purple lines on BBC 1

For the benefit of those of you who aren't Marvel fans, Kilgrave is also known as Purple Man, and is the villain played by David Tennant on Netflix's Jessica Jones.

By A former member

2 replies

803 views

2 DecJAS84

Christmas Listings 2015

Seen Radio Times, TV Times and TV Choice at Sainsbury's in Oldbury when passing through earlier.

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By TV Times

15 replies

3,604 views

2 Dec - 6 Decsteddenm

Essex TV ?

Has anyone heard of these lot essex-tv.co.uk?

No, it's in Suffolk (just) but a great deal of the county of Essex use it for their TV reception, so it makes perfect sense to use it for this service because existing aerials will receive it ....

By bharris

7 replies

20k views

3 DecMarkymark

Sky's Future

Sky is a public company, and as such is "always for sale" - even if it has in the past behaved as if it were a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp or latterly Fox. At the same time Murdoch is 84...

By DVB Cornwall

4 replies

1,202 views

RD 3 Dec - 4 Decrdd

BBC 3 Rebrand for online switchover?

Teaser just appeared

I just noticed the same promo of the new logo, but with a new background color. I did try to ask BBC Three via their Twitter page.

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By orange

54 replies

13,448 views

5 Dec - 19 DecJetixFann450

26 years ago today...

The 1990 Broadcasting Bill published.

E4 are advertising season 3 quite heavily. Begins 10th January.

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By Maaixuew

175 replies

16,089 views

BR 7 Dec - 20 DecBrekkie

Emmerdale actress Shirley Stelfox dies aged 74

This is sad news, wonder if we have already seen her final scene or whether she has any pre filmed. Another sad case of a long serving ITV soap actress dying before the character could film an on...

By JAS84

1 reply

565 views

BO 8 DecBongo

Channel 4 Christmas 2015 Presentation

Split from Channel 4

Like the Simpsons one, yeah.

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By dbl

55 replies

9,618 views

8 Dec - 25 DecJAS84

Are there too many channels?

And if so, which ones would you close?

Well I'm sorry but nobody is obliged to, and quite frankly they probably won't. I'm not sure if you realise how some of your posts are coming across to others Riaz, but it's not great. For the sake...

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By Maaixuew

123 replies

12,292 views

CW 9 Dec - 29 Mar 2016Charlie Wells

Tru TV

Tru TV UK has nothing like that, its all Dire crime stuff. Which is a shame.

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By A former member

14 replies

2,092 views

:-( 10 Dec - 15 DecA former member

Euro 2016

Split from The Sport Thread

S4C will broadcast the three Wales group games following a deal with the BBC and ITV.

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By Brekkie

15 replies

2,712 views

BR 12 Dec - 19 DecBrekkie

Drama

They quite often showed 16:9 programmes as 14:9 as a 4:3 broadcast well after 2008, presumably because they didn't/wouldn't/couldn't get new prints for widescreen programmes.

By A former member

5 replies

1,392 views

NJ 12 Dec - 28 DecNeil Jones

Old Kids' TV Shows Being Aired on BBC 4

Already posted.

By DCI02

1 reply

626 views

14 DecJake

Kathy Secker has died

Former Tyne Tees continuity announcer

Sad news indeed. I grew up with her on my TV. She was ALWAYS warm and cheery. Her voice was soooo lovely to hear too. One of the stars of regional TV. RIP pet

By rob

6 replies

1,603 views

16 Dec - 17 DecStedixon

Channel 5 reverting to FIVE?

Rebrand imminent

The new e-mail address presumably reflects the change of name from Red Bee to Ericsson?

By permotio

11 replies

4,787 views

16 Dec - 17 DecInspector Sands

Channel 4 the new home of FTA Formula 1.

No Ad breaks during races.

Setanta did originally have their own commentators, but they gave that all up a few years ago (around 2012, as mentioned above) and moved to taking BBC commentary.

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By Blake Connolly

243 replies

37k views

RD 17 Dec - 24 Jul 2016rdd

Jimmy Hill has died

Former footballer/ MOTD presenter

They'd be fully aware though London viewers would see both and they had a few hours to ensure different edits. Not sure if Jimmy Hill would have been considered important enough to have an obit...

By ASO

5 replies

1,231 views

BR 19 DecBrekkie

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On This Day in History

1950 The first edition of Whirligig airs on BBC TV.
1967 The first episode of Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width airs on ITV.
1971 The final episode of Lovers airs on ITV.
1979 Suez 1956 (play) airs on BBC One.
1988 The final edition of On the House airs on BBC Two.
1989 The final episode of Saracen airs on ITV.

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