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English-language British television shows

  • The X Factor (British TV series)The X Factor first hit British television screens on the 4th of September 2004, and almost immediately began reshaping Saturday nights in the United Kingdom.
  • The Planets (1999 TV series)The Planets arrived on BBC and A&E screens on the 29th of April 1999, asking a question that no documentary had tackled quite so ambitiously in the Space…
  • Doctor WhoDoctor Who first reached British television screens at 17:16:20 GMT on the 23rd of November 1963 - eighty seconds later than scheduled, because BBC…
  • EastEndersEastEnders first appeared on BBC One screens at 7 p.m. on the 19th of February 1985, and by the next morning, 17 million people had watched it.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerJeff Bezos personally joined negotiations when Amazon pursued The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. That level of executive involvement was, by industry…
  • The Beatles Anthology (TV series)The Beatles Anthology began not as a television event but as a 90-minute film sitting in a vault, completed in 1971 and seen by almost nobody.
  • Granada ReportsGranada Reports said goodbye to one of its own on the 1st of August 2024. Lucy Meacock presented her final edition that day, closing out 36 years working for…
  • Antiques RoadshowAntiques Roadshow began not as a television series but as a single BBC documentary, filmed in Hereford on the 17th of May 1977.
  • The Beatles: Get BackThe Beatles: Get Back opens with a scene from January 1969. Paul McCartney sits at his guitar, waiting for John Lennon, who is running late.
  • Space Race (TV series)Space Race is a BBC docudrama series that first aired in Britain on BBC2 between the 14th of September and the 5th of October 2005.