Articles about programmes
Published 16 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966
Published 19 October 2017
From 1972, Brian Tesler, Director of Programmes at Thames, takes us through his company’s achievements and plans
Published 12 October 2017
From 1972, Lewis Rudd, Controller of Children’s Programmes at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans
Published 5 October 2017
From 1972, Grahame Turner, Controller of Outside Broadcasts at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans
Published 28 September 2017
From 1972, Philip Jones, Controller of Light Entertainment at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans
Published 21 September 2017
From 1972, Guthrie Moir, Controller of Education and Religious Programmes at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans
Published 14 September 2017
From 1972, Jeremy Isaacs, Controller of Features at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans
Published 7 September 2017
From 1972, Lloyd Shirley, Controller of Drama at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans
Published 25 April 2009
Popularity and hard hitting plots.
Published 30 November 2008
The series is here to stay
Published 26 October 2008
Published 11 February 2008
Benny Hill and the winds of change in TV comedy
Published 30 April 2006
Granada is 50: we profile their longest-running programme
Published 29 April 2006
50 years of presenters & readers
Published 22 February 2006
David Brockman tells the story of ITV’s earliest hit series
Published 1 February 2006
The London Television Consortium had a hard lesson to learn
Published 1 December 2005
Philip Stevens on making early ITV commercials
Published 5 October 2005
Director Terry Henebery talks to Louis Barfe
Published 3 September 2005
Thames’s first day on air
Published 3 September 2005
Thames made the programmes that made Thames
Published 3 September 2005
Memories of the centre of ITV
Published 2 July 2005
David Brockman on the controversy 25 years on
Published 1 May 2005
Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV – part 1
Published 1 May 2005
Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV – part 2
Published 1 February 2005
David Brockman on British religious television
Published 1 December 2004
David Hastings tracks the rise of the docusoap
Published 2 February 2004
A look at the first night’s schedule.
Published 1 January 2004
Looking back at ten years
Published 1 January 2004
A-R programming was not what it seemed
Published 1 January 2004
Definitive children’s programming
Published 1 January 2004
The full list of Small Time programmes
Published 30 August 2003
Perhaps television, on balance, was always awful, ponders Glenn Aylett
Published 17 July 2003
…was taught to me by Blue Peter, says Russ J Graham
Published 2 July 2003
David Brockman remembers the station that served…
Published 14 March 2003
David Brockman on poetry replacing presentation
Published 1 January 2003
David Brockman looks into a new genre from Anglia
Published 1 January 2003
Carl Ellis on sci-fi and fantasy programmes on Channel Four
Published 1 January 2003
Carl Ellis on how satellite (nearly) always treats imports better
Published 1 January 2003
David Brockman on regional contributions of the ITV network
Published 1 January 2003
Carl Ellis looks into the world of import and export
Published 1 January 2002
Andrew Hesford-Booth watches television during the day
Next Page »