Articles about programmes

An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966

From 1972, Brian Tesler, Director of Programmes at Thames, takes us through his company’s achievements and plans

From 1972, Lewis Rudd, Controller of Children’s Programmes at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans

From 1972, Grahame Turner, Controller of Outside Broadcasts at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans

From 1972, Philip Jones, Controller of Light Entertainment at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans

From 1972, Guthrie Moir, Controller of Education and Religious Programmes at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans

From 1972, Jeremy Isaacs, Controller of Features at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans

From 1972, Lloyd Shirley, Controller of Drama at Thames, takes us through his department’s achievements and plans

Popularity and hard hitting plots.

The series is here to stay

School’s out forever

Benny Hill and the winds of change in TV comedy

From ITC to Euston…

Granada is 50: we profile their longest-running programme

50 years of presenters & readers

Seeking employment

David Brockman tells the story of ITV’s earliest hit series

The London Television Consortium had a hard lesson to learn

Philip Stevens on making early ITV commercials

Director Terry Henebery talks to Louis Barfe

Thames’s first day on air

Thames made the programmes that made Thames

Memories of the centre of ITV

David Brockman on the controversy 25 years on

Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV – part 1

Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV – part 2

David Brockman on British religious television

David Hastings tracks the rise of the docusoap

At the end of the day

A look at the first night’s schedule.

Looking back at ten years

It was, in 1967…

A-R programming was not what it seemed

Definitive children’s programming

The full list of Small Time programmes

Perhaps television, on balance, was always awful, ponders Glenn Aylett

…was taught to me by Blue Peter, says Russ J Graham

David Brockman remembers the station that served…

David Brockman on poetry replacing presentation

David Brockman looks into a new genre from Anglia

Carl Ellis on sci-fi and fantasy programmes on Channel Four

Carl Ellis on how satellite (nearly) always treats imports better

David Brockman on regional contributions of the ITV network

Carl Ellis looks into the world of import and export

Andrew Hesford-Booth watches television during the day