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British English-language television shows
- The X Factor (British TV series)Simon Cowell devised the format for The X Factor in 2004 while working as a Sony Music executive. He had previously served as a judge on Pop Idol, which ran…
- The Planets (1999 TV series)The Planets arrived on television screens in 1999 as a joint venture between the BBC and A&E. This partnership combined British documentary traditions with…
- Doctor WhoThe BBC Television Service broadcast the first episode of Doctor Who at 17:16:20 GMT on the 23rd of November 1963. This transmission occurred just eighty…
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerIn November 2017, Amazon paid close to one billion dollars for the global television rights to The Lord of the Rings. This figure represented a five-season…
- EastEndersIn March 1983, a handful of BBC executives gathered to discuss the future of British television drama. They needed a popular twice-weekly series that could…
- The Beatles Anthology (TV series)In 1970, long-time friend and Apple Corps manager Neil Aspinall compiled footage of concert, interview, and television appearances from various sources…
- Granada ReportsGranada Reports began as Northern Newscast in May 1956 when the station first started broadcasting. The programme evolved through several name changes…
- Antiques RoadshowThe year 1977 marked the beginning of a television phenomenon that would outlast its creators. A BBC documentary aired that year, focusing on a London…
- The Beatles: Get BackPeter Jackson stood before a vault of film reels in 2019, holding the rights to footage shot during January 1969. He had visited Apple Corps to discuss a…
- Cowboy Bebop (2021 TV series)On the 6th of June 2017, an American live action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop was announced for television by Tomorrow Studios.
- Space Race (TV series)BBC filmed Space Race in and around the town of Sibiu, Transylvania in Romania. Romania has signed the EU co-production treaty which allows for EU…