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Revision as of 13:51, 4 January 2023

List of years in British television (table)
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This is a list of events taking place in 2023 relating to television in the United Kingdom.

Events

January

Date Event
1 BBC One's New Year schedule includes Sam Ryder Rocks New Year's Eve from 11.30pm on 31 December, with a break at midnight for London's annual New Year fireworks display. Het Grote Songfestivalfeest (renamed The Big Eurovision Party for UK viewers) follows Sam Ryder at 12.45am and is presented by Rylan Clark.[1][2]
BBC Four begins showing old episodes of Come Dancing, beginning with an episode from 1979 presented by Terry Wogan. Seven editions of the show are planned for repeat on a weekly basis.[3]
ITV1 airs No Time to Die as part of its New Year's Day schedule.[4]
2 The BBC News channel airs the final edition of The Papers, its nightly review of the following morning's newspaper headlines. From the following day, discussion of newspaper headlines will form part of its news content.[5]
3 School drama Waterloo Road returns to BBC One following an eight year hiatus.[6]
7 The ITC Entertainment series The Four Just Men makes its Talking Pictures TV debut.[7]
8 ITV1 and ITVX air Harry: The Interview, a 90-minute programme in which Prince Harry talks to Tom Bradby ahead of the release of his autobiography, Spare, on 10 January.[8]
9 Talking Pictures TV begins re-running the 1970s ITV drama Crown Court on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays at 2.30pm. Unusually for a series from the era, all of its 879 episodes still exist.[9]

February

Date Event
9 BBC Three celebrates its 20th anniversary.

March

Date Event

April

Date Event

May

Date Event
13 The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled to take place in Liverpool.[10]

June

Date Event

July

Date Event

August

Date Event

September

Date Event

October

Date Event

November

Date Event

December

Date Event
7 ITV2 celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Debuts

BBC

Date Debut Channel
2 January Make It at Market BBC One
Young MasterChef BBC Three
TBA Best Interests BBC One
Better
Black Ops
Blue Lights
Boarders BBC Three
Champion
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies BBC One
The Gallows Pole
The Gold
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder BBC Three
Great Expectations BBC One
Porth Purgatory BBC Two Wales
Queen of Oz BBC One
Rain Dogs
The Sixth Commandment
Steeltown Murders
Ten Pound Poms
This Town
Two Tone BBC One
Wahala
Wolf BBC One
The Woman in the Wall

ITV

Date Debut Channel
2 January Stonehouse ITV1
11 January Next Level Chef UK
26 January Deep Fake Neighbour Wars ITVX
January Maternal ITV1
2 February Nolly ITVX
TBA Archie
Count Abdulla
Joan
Three Little Birds
The Winter King
Breathtaking
The Long Shadow
Payback
Tom Jones
You & Me

Channel 4

Date Debut Channel
January Everyone Else Burns Channel 4
TBA Entitled
The Gathering
Queenie
Truelove

Channel 5

Date Debut Channel
TBA The Catch Channel 5
HMS Murder

Sky

Date Debut Channel
1 January Romantic Getaway Sky Comedy
4 January Hold the Front Page Sky Max
9 February Funny Woman Sky Comedy
TBA The Lovers Sky Atlantic
Dreamland Sky Max
Lockerbie
Then You Run
A Town Called Malice

Other channels

Date Debut Channel
6 January The Rig Amazon Prime Video
25 January Extraordinary Disney+ / Star
27 January Lockwood & Co. Netflix
TBA The Vanishing Triangle Acorn TV
The Diplomat Alibi
Anansi Boys Amazon Prime Video
The Power
Wilderness
The Buccaneers Apple TV+
Constellation
Criminal Record
Liaison
Still Up
Marlow BritBox
Culprits Disney+ / Star
Nautilus
The 39 Steps Netflix
Baby Reindeer
Bodies
Coming Undone
The Fuck It Bucket
Kaos
One Day
Supacell
White Stork
The Blue Paramount+
The Burning Girls
The Doll Factory
A Gentleman in Moscow
Untitled Sexy Beast prequel
Hot Air TBC
Kensal Town
Obituary
Song of the Sun God

Channels and streaming services

New channels

Date Channel
1 February Sky Kids
April Upcoming BBC News channel

New streaming services

Date Channel
TBA MAX

Defunct channels/streaming services

Date Channel
5 January Smithsonian Channel
April BBC News
BBC World News

Rebranding channels/streaming services

Date Old name New name
5 January Great! Movies Classic Great! Romance
Spring 2023 All 4 Channel 4

Television programmes

Changes of network affiliation

Programme Moved from Moved to
Futurama Sky One Disney+
Neighbours Channel 5 Amazon Freevee
The Sex Lives of College Girls ITV2 ITVX
Your Honor Sky Atlantic Paramount+

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Programme Date(s) of original removal Original channel(s) Date of return New channel(s)
Happy Valley 15 March 2016 BBC One 1 January 2023 N/A (same channel as original)
Waterloo Road 9 March 2015 BBC One
BBC Three 		3 January 2023 BBC One
Michael McIntyre's Big Show 25 December 2019 BBC One 14 January 2023 N/A (same channel as original)
Big Brother 5 November 2018 Channel 4
Channel 5 		TBA ITV2
Deal or No Deal 23 December 2016 Channel 4 ITV1
Gladiators 1 January 2000
25 October 2009 		ITV1
Sky One 		BBC One
Survivor 29 May 2002 ITV1
Race Across the World 26 April 2020 BBC Two

Continuing television programmes

1920s

Programme Date
BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)

1930s

Programme Date
The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)
BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–present)

1950s

Programme Date
Panorama (1953–present)
Eurovision Song Contest (1956–2019, 2021–present)
The Sky at Night (1957–present)
Final Score (1958–present)
Blue Peter

1960s

Programme Date
Coronation Street (1960–present)
Points of View (1961–present)
Songs of Praise
University Challenge (1962–1987, 1994–present)
Doctor Who (1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present)
Horizon (1964–present)
Match of the Day
Top of the Pops (1964–2006, 2006–present)
Gardeners' World (1968–present)
Question of Sport (1968, 1970–present)

1970s

Programme Date
Emmerdale (1972–present)
Mastermind (including Celebrity Mastermind) (1972–1997, 2003–present)
Newsround (1972–present)
Football Focus (1974–present)
Pobol y Cwm
Arena (1975–present)
One Man and His Dog (1976–present)
Top Gear (1977–2001, 2002–present)
Blankety Blank (1979–1990, 1997–2002, 2016, 2020–present)
Antiques Roadshow (1979–present)
Question Time

1980s

Programme Date
Children in Need (1980–present)
See Hear (1981–present)
Countdown (1982–present)
ITV Breakfast (1983–present)
EastEnders (1985–present)
Comic Relief (1988–present)
Catchphrase (1986–2002, 2013–present)
Casualty (1986–present)
Red Dwarf (1988–1999, 2009, 2012–present)
This Morning (1988–present)
Countryfile

1990s

Programme Date
Have I Got News for You (1990–present)
MasterChef (1990–2001, 2005–present)
The Big Breakfast (1992–2002, 2021–present)
ITV News Meridian (1993–present)
Hollyoaks (1995–present)
National Television Awards (1995–2008, 2010–present)
Silent Witness (1996–present)
Midsomer Murders (1997–present)
Y Clwb Rygbi
Classic Emmerdale (1998–2004, 2019–present)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998–2014, 2018–present)
Loose Women (1999–present)

2000s

Programme Date
2000
Bargain Hunt (2000–present)
BBC Breakfast
Click
Doctors
A Place in the Sun
Unreported World
2001
BBC South East Today (2001–present)
2002
Escape to the Country (2002–present)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002–2009, 2013–2018, 2020–present)
Most Haunted (2002–2010, 2014–present)
River City (2002–present)
Saturday Kitchen
2003
QI (2003–present)
Eggheads
Homes Under the Hammer
Traffic Cops
2004
Match of the Day 2 (2004–present)
Strictly Come Dancing
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
The Gadget Show
Live at the Apollo
Newswatch
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two
Who Do You Think You Are?
2005
8 Out of 10 Cats (2005–present)
The Andrew Marr Show
The Adventure Show
Dragons' Den
The Hotel Inspector
Springwatch
2006
The Apprentice: You're Fired! (2006–present)
Banged Up Abroad
Dancing on Ice (2006–2014, 2018–present)
Dickinson's Real Deal (2006–present)
Horrid Henry
Monkey Life
Not Going Out
The One Show
Peschardt's People
2007
Would I Lie to You? (2007–present)
Don't Tell the Bride
The Graham Norton Show
Shaun the Sheep
2008
An Là (2008–present)
Celebrity Juice
Chuggington
Police Interceptors
Seachd Là
Soccer Aid (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018–present)
2009
Pointless (2009–present)
The Chase
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
Rip Off Britain

2010s

Programme Date
2010
Celebrity Coach Trip (2010–2012, 2019–2020, 2022–present)
The Great British Bake Off (2010–present)
Great British Railway Journeys
Lorraine
The Only Way Is Essex
Sunday Morning Live
2011
Junior Bake Off (2011, 2013, 2015–2016, 2019, 2021–present)
Made in Chelsea (2011–present)
Vera
24 Hours in A&E
Scotland Tonight
The Jonathan Ross Show
Top Boy (2011–2013, 2019, 2022–present)
2012
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (2012–present)
Endeavour
Call the Midwife
Stand Up To Cancer
The Voice UK
Tipping Point
Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
2013
The Dumping Ground (2013–present)
Shetland
Two Doors Down (2013, 2016–present)
2014
Agatha Raisin (2014–present)
GPs: Behind Closed Doors
Good Morning Britain
Happy Valley (2014, 2016, 2023)
Grantchester (2014–present)
STV News at Six
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
2015
Hunted (2015–present)
Love Island
SAS: Who Dares Wins
Taskmaster
Travel Man
2016
Bake Off: The Professionals (2016–present)
Celebs Go Dating
Class Dismissed (2016–2017, 2019–present)
The Crown (2016–present)
Marcella
Naked Attraction
2017
The Good Karma Hospital (2017–present)
The Voice Kids
Impossible
The Repair Shop
Richard Osman's House of Games
Strike
2018
Britannia (2018–present)
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
Peston
Stath Lets Flats
2019
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star (2019–present)
The Hit List
Mandy
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Sex Education

2020s

Programme Date
2020
Beat the Chasers (2020–present)
It's Pony
Code 404
Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow
Mystic
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
The Masked Singer
Noughts + Crosses
Trying
2021
Bloods (2021–present)
Hope Street
I Can See Your Voice
The Masked Dancer
Secret Crush
Unbeatable
2022
The 1% Club (2022–present)
Action Pack
The Andrew Neil Show
Angry Birds: Summer Madness
The John Bishop Show
Limitless Win
National Comedy Awards
Trigger Point

Ending this year

Date(s) Programme Channel(s) Debut(s)
5 February His Dark Materials BBC One 2019
Happy Valley 2014 & 2023

Deaths

Date Name Age Broadcast credibility

References

  1. ^ "The Big Eurovision Party: Rylan to bring in 2023 with song contest stars". 19 November 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  2. ^ Megrath, Christopher (30 December 2022). "BBC's Big NYE party: Who's performing, what time does it start". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  3. ^ Dyer, Jamie (31 December 2022). "BBC Four to broadcast classic Come Dancing". Old Time Review. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  4. ^ "No Time to Die to The Pale Blue Eye: the seven best films to watch on TV this week". the Guardian. 30 December 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  5. ^ "BBC News Update: The Papers". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Waterloo Road: Why BBC school drama is back after eight-year break". 3 January 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  7. ^ Dyer, Jamie (29 November 2022). "Four Just Men Coming To Talking Pictures". Old Time Review. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  8. ^ "ITV to show UK exclusive Prince Harry interview with Tom Bradby, produced by ITN Productions". Press Centre. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  9. ^ Dyer, Jamie (13 December 2022). "Crown Court Coming to Talking Pictures TV". Old Time Review. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  10. ^ Lally, Kate (7 October 2022). "Eurovision 2023 date confirmed as Liverpool to host competition". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 31 December 2022.

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