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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 2022, 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]
4 Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has written to the Prime Minister recommending the government reverse its plans to privatise Channel 4. The recommendation is criticised by her predecessor, Nadine Dorries, who describes it as one of a number of "progressive" policies that are being "washed down the drain".[7]
5 The UK government confirms it will not go ahead with a plan to privatise Channel 4.[8]
BBC World News broadcasts coverage of the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI.[9]
The Apprentice returns for Series 17, with a new receptionist, Khadeejah Khan, who is the first to wear a hijab.[10][11]
7 The ITC Entertainment series The Four Just Men makes its Talking Pictures TV debut.[12]
Ahead of the merger in April, the BBC News Channel stops producing its weekend opt-out from BBC World News between 13:00-19:00. All network bulletins expect Breakfast and Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg stop being simulcast on the channel.
8 ITV1 and ITVX air Harry: The Interview, a 95-minute programme in which Prince Harry talks to Tom Bradby ahead of the release of his autobiography, Spare, on 10 January.[13][14] According to Deadline, the programme is watched by an average audience of 4.1 million, peaking at 4.5 million, but is beaten in the ratings by Episode 2 of the third series of Happy Valley on BBC One, which draws an audience of 5.2 million.[15]
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.[16]
GB News have hired comedian Dapper Laughs as a commentator on their late night newspaper review show, Headliners.[17]
Amanda Lovett, a contestant on BBC One's The Traitors apologises on social media after drawing criticism for making an appearance on GB News the previous week, and posing for photographs with fellow contestant Kieran Thompsett alongside presenters Tatiana Sanchez and Calvin Robinson (who has faced criticism for his views on LGBTQ issues). Lovett blames her agent for arranging her appearance on the channel, saying that she "had no idea what the news channel was about".[18]
12 The nominees are announced for the 2023 Brit Awards. There are no female nominations in the British Artist of the Year category, and British singer Sam Ryder, is the first Eurovision artist to be nominated for Best New Artist and K-pop girl group Blackpink, is the first Kpop girl group to be nominated for International Group. The ceremony is going to be hosted by Mo Gilligan for the second year running, and is set to air on ITV1 on 11 February.
13 The US version of The Traitors is made available as a box set on BBC iPlayer.[19]
Former GB News presenter Mercy Muroki has been hired by the UK government to advise Kemi Badenoch, the Minister for Women and Equalities, on gender policy.[20]
The BBC's F1 correspondent and co-commentator for the English language world feed of Extreme E Jennie Gow, announces on social media that she had suffered a stroke, affecting her speech and ability to write.[21]
15 Ski Sunday celebrates its 45th anniversary.
16 The critically acclaimed TV adaptation of the video game, The Last of Us, makes its UK television debut on Sky Atlantic, airing at 2.00am.[22][23]
The BBC have partnered with the European Broadcasting Union and Warner Bros. Discovery to provide coverage of the Olympic Games, with every Games up to and including 2032 free-to-air across the BBC.[24]
Love Island returns to ITV2 for a ninth series with a change of rules regarding contestants' social media accounts, which ITV now requests remain dormant during the series. Contestants' friends and relatives had previously managed their social media accounts while they participated in the series.[25]
Birmingham City Council have approved BBC plans to use the old Banana Warehouse in Digbeth as the new MasterChef studios.[26]
17 BBC Breakfast celebrates its 40th anniversary of Breakfast Time with guest appearances from some former presenters, including Francis Wilson, Russell Grant and Debbie Rix.[27]
The BBC apologises to viewers after sexual noises were heard during coverage of an FA Cup third-round replay.[28]
Amazon Prime Video has reportedly cut ties with Jeremy Clarkson following his controversial remarks about Meghan Markle.[29]
GB News Head of Television, Helen Warner, leaves her post after four months with the channel.[30][31]
18 Piers Morgan attracts criticism on social media after comments made on his show, Piers Morgan Uncensored, about Madonna ahead of her 40th anniversary world tour. Morgan criticised the singer for "the whole trying to be a sex kitten thing when you're in your sixties" and suggested she should be "put out to pasture".[32]
19 BBC One airs an edition of Question Time focused entirely on the health service.[33]
23 William Shawcross, the Commissioner for Public Appointments, is to hold a review into the process of hiring Chairman of the BBC Richard Sharp following claims he helped then Prime Minister Boris Johnson secure a loan guarantee shortly before his appointment.[34]
Ofcom says it will not investigate comments about Qatar made by Gary Neville on ITV before the 2022 FIFA World Cup final. Neville had called working conditions in the country "abhorrent", attracting 705 complaints from viewers, but Ofcom have concluded the remarks were part of "a wider discussion about policies and actions of the Qatari Government, which gave due weight to a range of views".[35]
Ant & Dec have signed a three-year contract extension with ITV.[36]
24 Bruno Tonioli replaces David Walliams as a judge on Britain's Got Talent.[37]
25 Made in Manchester announces a partnership with Workerbee to generate new content ideas for radio and television.[38]
26 BBC newsreader Joanna Gosling makes her final appearance on the BBC News channel, having decided to leave the broadcaster after 23 years, and ahead of the planned merger of BBC News and BBC World News.[39]
GB News have hired Conservative MP and former Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg to present a chat show that will travel round the country.[40][41]
28 Eric Pickles, chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, says that Nadine Dorries, the former Secretary of State for Culture, has breached the ministerial code by not consulting the watchdog about her appointment as a presenter on TalkTV, where she is to present a weekly show from 3 February.[42]
30 William Shawcross, the commissioner for public appointments, steps back from the planned investigation into how Richard Sharp got the job as BBC chairman because of previous contact between them. Another investigator will be appointed to take on the inquiry.[43]
Analysis carried out by market researchers Kantar Group shows the number of paid-for video streaming subscriptions in the UK fell by two million during 2022 as people made cutbacks because of the cost of living crisis, with the number falling from 30.5m to 28.5m.[44]
31 BBC Two broadcasts the ceremony at which the "official keys of Eurovision" are handed from the previous year's host city to the present year's host city (in this case from Turin to Liverpool). The event is presented by Rylan Clark and AJ Odudu.[45][46]

February

Date Event
1 STV Player begins streaming classic soap opera Brookside as the first streaming service to provide every episode.[47][48]
2 The BBC announces that Matthew Amroliwala, Christian Fraser, Yalda Hakim, Lucy Hockings, and Maryam Moshiri will be chief presenters on the BBC's news channel. However Amroliwala's Global, Hakim's Impact and Live With Lucy Hockings are not confirmed as staying on air.[49]
The evening's edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored includes an interview with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, recorded at 10 Downing Street. The programme is watched by an average audience of 120,500, putting TalkTV ahead of its rivals, BBC News, Sky News, and GB News, during the 8.00–9.00pm timeslot.[50]
3 Former Secretary of State for Culture Nadine Dorries begins presenting a weekly Friday evening show, Friday Night with Nadine, for Talkradio and TalkTV. Her first guest is the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.[51]
5 The final episodes of His Dark Materials and Happy Valley are shown on BBC One.[52]
BBC World News America presenter Laura Trevelyan and her family apologise to the people of the Caribbean island of Grenada, where its ancestors had more than 1,000 slaves in the 19th Century. Trevelyan says that seven members of her family will travel to Grenada later in February to issue a public apology.[53]
6 Mark Steyn, who used his GB News show to cast doubt on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, quits the news channel after claiming its bosses tried to make him pay fines issued by the media regulator Ofcom following two investigations into his programme.[54]
7 Lucy Frazer replaces Michelle Donelan as Culture Secretary following a cabinet reshuffle.[55]
Castle Rock Entertainment announces a deal with John Cleese to revive the sitcom Fawlty Towers, with Cleese reprising his role as Basil Fawlty and his daughter Camilla also starring.[56][57]
8 The BBC pulls several episodes of Doctors that depict an explosion at a medical conference, deeming they would be inappropriate for transmission after the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake.[58]
The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism have urged the media regulator Ofcom and GB News to tackle what it describes as the channel's indulgence in conspiracy theories. The comments follow the 4 February edition of Neil Oliver's programme in which he described a "silent war" by generations of politicians to take "total control of the people" by creating a "one-world government".[59]
9 BBC Three celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Reece Donnelly leaves Series 17 of The Apprentice, later saying that he did so for health reasons.[60]
10 An inquest into the death of Cherry Valentine, a contestant on the second series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK records a verdict of suicide after hearing how he had struggled to deal with fame before taking his life in September 2022.[61]
11 The 2023 Brit Awards are broadcast live. The ceremony was shown on ITV1, ITV2 and ITVX.
13 The BBC have commissioned Grenfell, a three-part series telling the story of the Grenfell Tower fire. The series will be written and directed by Peter Kosminsky.[62]
Sky Kids launches and is aimed at children aged 1–7. Apart from promos, the channel doesn't carry any advertisements.[63] It is the first in-house children's network to be programmed and directly operated by Sky as until October 2022, Sky had held a stake in Nickelodeon UK Ltd which had contained a non-compete clause that otherwise restricted Sky and Comcast from launching a children's television network.[64]
The BBC Welsh Service (now BBC Cymru Wales) marks the 100th anniversary of the BBC's first broadcast in Wales.[65]
S Club 7 make an appearance on The One Show, having announced plans to reunite for their 25th anniversary.[66]
17 Originally scheduled for 2020, but delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, series seven of Still Open All Hours is completely cancelled by the BBC, with no plans for any further series.[67]
Buckinghamshire Council approves proposals for an £800m expansion of Pinewood Studios near Iver Heath.[68]
18 The Persian language TV network Iran International announces it is suspending its UK operation because of threats against its London-based journalists.[69]
Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, who appeared in Navalny, a BAFTA-nominated film about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, claims he has been banned from the awards ceremony because he is a security risk.[70]
19 The 2023 BAFTA Film Awards are held at London's Southbank Centre.[71]
20 Channel 5 presenter Dan Walker is taken to hospital after being struck by a car while riding his bike.[72]
21 Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA announces that BT Sport will rebrand as TNT Sports in July 2023, ahead of the 2023–24 football season; the branding is derived from WBD's U.S. television channel TNT (which has historically carried sports coverage such as the NBA), and has also been used by WarnerMedia sports networks in Latin America. The Eurosport UK channels will be folded into TNT Sports at a later date, expected to be no sooner than the 2024 Summer Olympics, but no later than the 2026 Winter Olympics.[73][74][75]
Ofcom have written to both ITV News and Sky News to ask them for an explanation of their actions following complaints made by the family of Nicola Bulley, who disappeared while walking her dog, and whose body was later found by police. Bulley's family had been contacted by both outlets despite asking for privacy.[76]
ITV confirms that You’ve Been Framed will not be returning for another series and the comedy clip show has been axed after 33 years on air.[77]
The Telegraph journalist Christopher Hope announces he is joining GB News as head of politics and political editor later in the year.[78]
22 The presenting line up for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest is revealed. Hannah Waddingham, star of Ted Lasso, will co-present alongside singer Alesha Dixon and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina, with Graham Norton joining them to present the grand final.[79]
24 The UK Government is to give £10m to the Eurovision Song Contest to help pay for operational costs such as security and visas, as well as ensuring the event "showcases Ukrainian culture".[80]
A voiced aid appeal for victims of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake narrated by Daniel Craig airs simultaneously on across 29 UK channels.[81]
27 Stephen Fry confirms he will present a revival of Jeopardy! on ITV.[82]

March

Date Event
1 More details of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest are released. The run up to the event will include a submarine parade through the streets of Liverpool, as well as a rave held simultaneously in Liverpool and Kyiv.[83]
TalkTV launches a livestream on Amazon Freevee.[84]
2 Plans are announced for BBC Breakfast to relaunch the 500 Words children's writing competition previously run by Radio 2. The competition will return in September.[85]
3 Reality television star Stephen Bear is sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for sharing a video of himself having sex with an ex-partner on the OnlyFans website.[86]
5 BBC One airs an edition of Antiques Roadshow featuring Camilla, Queen Consort, which was filmed at Cornwall's Eden Project in 2022, and sees Camilla have two of her own personal items valued, a rare snuffbox from the Royal Collection made from Cornish silver and a copy of Thomas Gray's poem, Elegy in a Country Churchyard.[87]
It is announced that Arlene Foster will expand her role at GB News, taking on further presenting duties alongside making documentaries for the channel.[88] Her first documentary, looking at the role of faith in politics, will air later in the year.[89]
6 Media regulator Ofcom finds that the GB News programme Mark Steyn, which aired on 21 April 2022, was in breach of broadcasting rules, as it presented misinformation on COVID-19 and vaccines.[90][91]
World Business Report begins to be shown on the BBC News Channel as part of extended programme sharing between the channel and BBC World News.[92]
GB News confirms it will air coverage of the Twelfth of July parade from Belfast for the second year running. Foster will again present coverage of the parade.[89]
7 Tickets for the Eurovision Song Contest go on sale,[93] and sell out in 90 minutes due to high demand.[94]
As part of budget cuts the BBC announces plans to scrap the BBC Singers, the UK's only full-time professional chamber choir, later in the year.[95][96]
STV hosts the first televised debate of the 2023 Scottish National Party leadership election.[97]
GB News announces that Conservative MP Lee Anderson is to host a show on the channel.[98]
8 BBC sports presenter Gary Lineker has said he will continue to speak up for those who have "no voice" following criticism from the Home Secretary over a series of tweets posted the previous day on the UK government's Illegal Migration Bill, the language of which he described as "not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s".[99]
9 Mae Muller is chosen to represent the UK at the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "I Wrote a Song".[100]
GB News reports a loss of £30m for its first year on air, from June 2021 to June 2022. It also had a turnover of £3.6m over the same period.[101]
10 The BBC confirms Gary Lineker is to step back as presenter of Match of the Day until an agreement can be reached over his social media use.[102] Ian Wright and Alan Shearer subsequently announce they will not appear on the show either, in solidarity with Lineker.[103][104] After other presenters, including Jermaine Jenas, refuse to act as stand-in presenter, the BBC announces the following day's edition of Match of the Day will go ahead without in-studio presenters or pundits.[105]
ITV announces that their children's channel, CITV, will close in Autumn 2023 and be replaced by ITVX Kids, a new dedicated destination for kids on ITVX to launch in July. The LittleBe pre-school segment on ITVBe will continue, while some children's content will air on ITV2 in the early mornings from September.[106][107]
11 BBC One axes the day's editions of Football Focus and Final Score after their respective presenters, Alex Scott and Jason Mohammad, say they will not appear on the programmes in solidarity with Gary Lineker. Kelly Somers, who was rumoured to be standing in for Scott on Football Focus, also confirms she will not appear on BBC television.[108][109] 5 live Sport and Fighting Talk are also pulled from the day's schedule on BBC Radio 5 Live after their presenters say they will not be going on air.[110][111] Match of the Day goes ahead, but as a 20 minute programme without its familiar theme music. GB News airs what it describes as an Alternative Match of the Day which includes its presenters making a number of digs at Lineker but does not show any actual football coverage, something for which it is widely mocked on social media, with comparisons drawn to The Day Today.[112] Both Match of the Day and Match of the Day 2, broadcast the following day, follow a shortened format with no studio presentation, punditry, or interviews.[113]
13 Gary Lineker is reinstated as presenter of Match of the Day and will present again from Saturday 18 March. BBC Director-General Tim Davie also announces a review of social media policy for BBC presenters is to be carried out.[114]
BBC Question Time presenter Fiona Bruce announces she will relinquish her role as an ambassador for domestic violence charity Refuge following comments made on the 9 March edition of Question Time which led to her being accused of "minimising" and trivialising abuse. Bruce faced the allegations after intervening in a debate during which Stanley Johnson was described by one panellist as a "wife-beater". Bruce says her intervention was "mischaracterised" by a "social media storm".[115]
14 BBC Scotland hosts the final televised debate of the SNP leadership election.[116]
17 Alison Hammond confirms she will replace Matt Lucas as co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off.[117]
BBC One airs Red Nose Day 2023, with the evening raising a total of £34m for Comic Relief.[118]
18 Gary Lineker returns to BBC One as he presents the channel's live coverage of the FA Cup match between Manchester City and Burnley.[119] But he is forced to cancel his appearance on the following day's coverage of the quarter-final between Brighton & Hove and Grimsby Town after losing his voice. Coverage of that match is instead presented by Alex Scott.[120]
19 The BBC urges its staff to delete the TikTok app from its official devices amid concerns about its security.[121]
22 Sky Sports announces plans to axe Soccer AM after 28 years, with the final edition planned for Saturday 27 May.[122]
Newsreader Alastair Stewart announces his retirement after 50 years in broadcasting.[123][124]
Ofcom has received 2,250 complaints about Channel 5's Jeremy Vine programme following a debate about strikes by junior doctors on the 13 March edition of the show. Ofcom says it is deciding whether to launch an investigation.[125]
23 The BBC confirms it has halted production on Series 34 of Top Gear after presenter Andrew Flintoff was injured in an accident while filming in December 2022.[126]
Marnie Swindells wins Series 17 of The Apprentice.[127]
Channel 4 confirms its game show Moneybags will not be renewed for a third series.[128]
GB News announce plans to expand their political coverage and establish a new studio at Westminster.[129] It is also reported that Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson will be paid £100,000 a year in his new presenting role with the channel.[130]
24 The BBC pauses its decision to scrap the BBC Singers while it explores alternative funding for the chamber choir, and after a number of organisations came forward to offer funding.[131]
25 BBC Two airs The MI5 Spy and the IRA: Operation Chiffon, a programme in which journalist Peter Taylor reveals the story of an MI5 spy who helped bring about the Northern Ireland Peace Process after defying government orders not to hold talks with Provisional IRA representatives in 1993.[132]
27 ITV announces the return of Deal or No Deal, with new presenter Stephen Mulhern.[133]
29 Vicki Michelle makes her EastEnders debut as Jo Cotton.[134]
Ofcom have received 52 complaints about the 24 March edition of TalkTV's Friday Night with Nadine Dorries after its presenter commented on the ongoing Commons Privileges Committee investigation into former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.[135]
30 The BBC confirms it will broadcast 1,000 fewer hours of new television programmes during 2023 as part of spending cuts.[136]
BBC soap opera Doctors airs the final appearance of mainstay Karen Hollins (Jan Pearson) after fourteen years in an unannounced shock death storyline.[137]
ITV1 airs Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maude, a documentary in which Jason Watkins and his wife, Clara Francis, talk about the death of their daughter, Maude, who died from sepsis in 2011.[138]
31 John Hardie, a former chief executive at ITN, is named as the chair of a review into the BBC's social media guidelines following the Gary Lineker controversy.[139]

April

Date Event
3 The BBC News Channel is merged with BBC World News to form a single worldwide news channel called BBC News, which launches at 9.00am. The channel is based on BBC World News output, but retains the ability to break away from international programming for a major UK news story. The weekday simulcasts of the BBC One news bulletins and BBC Breakfast continue to be shown on the channel and a simulcast of Newsnight is launched. The channel is launched by Ben Thompson who presents the first three hours, followed by Lucy Hockings from 12.00pm. There are also some minor glitches with the new logo. The first breakaway for UK news comes in the afternoon with coverage of the sentencing of Thomas Cashman for the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, while international viewers continue with coverage of the Ukraine War, and the arrest of Donald Trump in the United States, which is presented by Matthew Amroliwala.[140][141]
Ofcom launches an investigation into GB News over potential impartiality following a programme in which Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was interviewed by presenters and Conservative MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies. Ofcom will look at whether the programme, aired on 11 March, broke its rules "requiring news and current affairs to be presented with due impartiality".[142]
Ofcom finds that Nadine Dorries' interview with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson on TalkTV in February did not breach impartiality rules.[143]
6 More4 have commissioned a six-part television version of the radio quiz PopMaster which will be presented by Ken Bruce.[144][145]
8–9 GB News airs The GB News Easter Special, a programme in which Calvin Robinson, an Anglican transitional deacon, discusses faith and contemporary issues with four Christian academics. The programme also includes singing and readings from religious text.[146]
9 At 8pm ITV airs For the Love of Paul O'Grady, a tribute to Paul O'Grady, who died suddenly the previous month.[147]
10 Netflix adds the S4C Welsh language crime drama Dal y Mellt (retitled Rough Cut) to its streaming service, the first time the platform has streamed a Welsh language series.[148]

May

Date Event
6 The coronation of Charles III and Camilla is scheduled to take place at Westminster Abbey and will be the first ever coronation ceremony to air live on multiple television channels in the UK.[149]
7 The BBC broadcasts the concert and lightshow from Windsor Castle to celebrate the coronation.[150]
13 The 2023 Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled to take place in Liverpool.[151] It is also set to be broadcast live in cinemas around the UK for the first time.[152]

June

Date Event

July

Date Event
20 The FIFA Women's World Cup kicks off with the opening match in Auckland, New Zealand.

August

Date Event
20 The FIFA Women's World Cup ends with the final in Sydney, Australia.

September

Date Event

October

Date Event

November

Date Event
23 Doctor Who celebrates its 60th anniversary.

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
14 January Celebrity Bridge of Lies BBC One
17 January India: The Modi Question BBC Two
20 January The i-Word BBC Two Wales
12 February The Gold BBC One
13 February Better
24 February Beyond Paradise
5 March We Need to Talk About Cosby BBC Two
12 March Wild Isles BBC One
21 March Phoenix Rise BBC Three
Anton & Giovanni's Adventures in Sicily BBC One
26 March Great Expectations
27 March Blue Lights
31 March A Kind of Spark CBBC
4 April Rain Dogs BBC One
11 April Colin From Accounts BBC Two
TBA Best Interests BBC One
Black Ops
Boarders BBC Three
Champion BBC One
The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies BBC One
The Gallows Pole
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder BBC Three
Porth Purgatory BBC Two Wales
Queen of Oz BBC One
The Reckoning
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
5 January A Murder in the Family ITVX
11 January Next Level Chef UK ITV1
12 January Britain's Notorious Prisons
The Reunion ITVX
16 January Maternal ITV1
17 January The Family Pile
26 January Deep Fake Neighbour Wars ITVX
2 February Nolly
9 February Ghislaine Maxwell: Partner in Crime
Cold Case Forensics ITV1
16 February The Twelve ITVX
23 February You & Me
30 March Six Four
8 April In for a Shout ITV1
16 April The Hunt for Raoul Moat
24 April I'm a Celebrity... South Africa
4 May Tom Jones ITVX
May Malpractice ITV1
TBA After the Flood ITVX
Archie
Count Abdulla
Joan
Passenger
Platform 7
Significant Other
Three Little Birds
The Winter King
Breathtaking
The Long Shadow
Ruby Speaking

Channel 4

Date Debut Channel
4 January The Light in the Hall Channel 4
13 January Jon and Lucy's Odd Couples
23 January Everyone Else Burns
7 February Consent
15 February The Piano
19 March Rise and Fall
26 March Tempting Fortune
31 March Late Night Lycett
TBA
The Change
Entitled
Scared of The Dark
Get Millie Black
Queenie
Truelove
PopMaster More4

Channel 5

Date Debut Channel
25 January The Catch Channel 5
20 February The Challenge UK
TBA Blindspot
Heat
HMS Murder
The Inheritance

Sky

Date Debut Channel
1 January Romantic Getaway Sky Comedy
4 January Hold the Front Page Sky Max
9 February Funny Woman
February Ama's Story Sky Kids
16 March A Town Called Malice Sky Max
6 April Dreamland Sky Comedy
TBA The Lovers Sky Atlantic
Lockerbie Sky Max
Mary & George Sky Atlantic
Then You Run Sky Max

Other channels

Date Debut Channel
6 January The Rig Amazon Prime Video
9 January The Twisted Timeline of Sammy & Raj Nickelodeon
13 January Break Point Netflix
19 January The Chemistry of Death Paramount+
25 January Extraordinary Disney+ / Star
27 January Lockwood & Co. Netflix
24 February Liaison Apple TV+
The Reluctant Traveler
28 February The Diplomat Alibi
1 March Cheat Netflix
Dirty Water STV Player
8 March MH370: The Plane That Disappeared Netflix
31 March The Power Amazon Prime Video
TBA The Vanishing Triangle Acorn TV
Anansi Boys Amazon Prime Video
Fifteen-Love
My Lady Jane
Wilderness
The Buccaneers Apple TV+
Constellation
Criminal Record
Hijack
Still Up
Marlow BritBox
Culprits Disney+ / Star
The Ballad of Renegade Nell
The Full Monty
Iwájú
Kensal Town
Nautilus
The 39 Steps Netflix
Baby Reindeer
Bodies
Coming Undone
Fool Me Once
The Fuck It Bucket
Kaos
Obsession
One Day
Supacell
White Stork
The Blue Paramount+
The Burning Girls
The Doll Factory
A Gentleman in Moscow
Untitled Sexy Beast prequel
Diva TBC
Hot Air
Obituary
Song of the Sun God

Channels and streaming services

New channels

Date Channel
5 January That's 70s
That's 80s
That's 90s
13 February Sky Kids
3 April BBC News (relaunch)

New streaming services

Date Channel
July ITVX Kids

Defunct channels/streaming services

Date Channel
5 January Smithsonian Channel
3 April BBC News (original)
BBC World News
Autumn 2023 CITV

Rebranding channels/streaming services

Date Old name New name
5 January Great! Movies Classic Great! Romance
6 January Classic Hits That's 60s
22 March Great! Movies Action Great! Action
Spring 2023 All 4 Channel 4
July BT Sport TNT Sports

Television programmes

Changes of network affiliation

Programme Moved from Moved to
Bel-Air Peacock Sky Max
COBRA Sky One
Warrior
Intelligence
Futurama Disney+
Dave BBC Two
Snowfall
King of the Hill Fox
Good Trouble BBC Three
Neighbours Channel 5 Amazon Freevee
American Rust Sky Atlantic
Your Honor Paramount+
Billions
Dexter
Star Trek: Picard Amazon Prime Video
Star Trek: Lower Decks
South Park Comedy Central
Uncoupled Netflix
Most Dangerous Game Quibi Roku Channel
The Sex Lives of College Girls ITV2 ITVX
Sanditon Britbox
Magpie Murders BBC One
Eurovision Song Contest Semi-Finals BBC Three

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 N/A (same channels as original)
Kavos Weekender 29 March 2020 ITV2 N/A (same channel as original)
Michael McIntyre's Big Show 25 December 2019 BBC One 14 January 2023
Challenge Anneka 15 October 1995
6 June 2007 		BBC One
ITV1 		18 March 2023 Channel 5
Race Across the World 26 April 2020 BBC Two 22 March 2023 BBC One
Big Brother 5 November 2018 Channel 4
Channel 5 		TBA ITV2
Deal or No Deal 23 December 2016 Channel 4 ITV1
Jeopardy! 2 July 1984
9 April 1993
7 June 1996 		Channel 4
ITV1
Sky One
Gladiators 1 January 2000
25 October 2009 		ITV1
Sky One 		BBC One
Survivor 29 May 2002 ITV1

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 (1974–1988, 1992–present)
Pobol y Cwm (1974–present)
Arena (1975–present)
One Man and His Dog (1976–present)
Top Gear (1977–2001, 2002–present)
Ski Sunday (1978–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)
Soccer AM (1994–2023)
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 (2002–2023)
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
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 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
2007
Britain's Got Talent (2007–2020, 2022–present)
Would I Lie to You? (2007–present)
Don't Tell the Bride
The Graham Norton Show
Shaun the Sheep
2008
An Là (2008–present)
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

2010s

Programme Date
2010
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)
Death in Paradise
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)
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
Father Brown
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, 2016–2017, 2019–present)
STV News at Six (2014–present)
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
The Crown (2016–present)
Marcella
Naked Attraction
2017
The Voice Kids (2017–present)
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
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
The Masked Singer
Noughts + Crosses
Trying
2021
Bloods (2021–present)
Hope Street
Secret Crush
Unbeatable
2022
The 1% Club (2022–present)
Action Pack
The Andrew Neil Show
The John Bishop Show
Ant & Dec's Limitless Win
National Comedy Awards
Trigger Point

Ending this year

Date Programme Channel(s) Debut(s)
2 January The Papers BBC News 2013
4 January Stonehouse ITV1 2023
18 January Messy Goes to OKIDO CBeebies 2015
5 February His Dark Materials BBC One 2019
Happy Valley 2014, 2016 & 2023
20 February Maternal ITV1 2023
12 March Endeavour 2012
19 March The Gold BBC One 2023
9 April Wild Isles
27 May Soccer AM Sky Sports 1994
TBC Ghosts[153] BBC One 2019
Not Going Out 2006

Deaths

Date Name Age Broadcast credibility
11 January Piers Haggard[154] 83 Television director (Pennies from Heaven, Play for Today, Thirty-Minute Theatre, Quatermass)
15 January Bruce Gowers[155] 82 Television director (American Idol)
27 January Sylvia Syms[156] 89 Actress (Peak Practice, EastEnders, Thatcher: The Final Days)
10 February Hugh Hudson[157] 86 Director (Chariots of Fire)
13 February Zia Mohyeddin[158] 91 British-Pakistani actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Immaculate Conception).
14 February Christine Pritchard[159] 79 Actress (Pobol y Cwm, Cara Fi)
17 February Lee Whitlock[160] 54 Actor (Shine on Harvey Moon, Casualty, Grange Hill, London's Burning, The Bill)
19 February Dickie Davies[161] 94 Television presenter (World of Sport)
23 February John Motson[162] 77 Football commentator (BBC Sport)
5 March Bob Goody[163] 71 Actor and screenwriter (Smith and Goody, The Blackheath Poisonings, Blue Heaven)
9 March Mystic Meg[164] 80 Astrologer (The National Lottery Draws)
11 March Bill Tidy[165] 89 Television personality (Countdown, Countryfile)
23 March Dafydd Hywel[166] 77 Actor (We Are Seven, Stella, Pobol y Cwm, Keeping Faith/Un Bore Mercher)
24 March Christopher Gunning[167] 78 Theme tune composer (Agatha Christie's Poirot, Middlemarch)
28 March Paul O'Grady[168] 67 Comedian and television presenter (Blankety Blank, The Paul O'Grady Show, Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs, Blind Date)
6 April Nicola Heywood-Thomas[169][170] 67 News presenter and broadcaster (HTV News, BBC Wales Today)
Paul Cattermole[171][172] 46 Singer (S Club 7) and actor (Miami 7)

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