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This is a list of British television related events from 1993.

Events

January

  • 1 January
    • Carlton Television takes over the weekday ITV franchise in London at midnight, replacing Thames after 24 years on the air. Meridian takes over the South of England franchise from TVS, Westcountry takes over the South West England franchise from TSW, Good Morning Television, GMTV takes over the national breakfast television franchise from TV-am at 6am and Teletext Ltd takes over the teletext franchise from ORACLE. The first edition of GMTV is presented by Eamonn Holmes and Anne Davies.
    • The Independent Television Commission removes the limit on the value of prizes which can be given away on ITV game shows, set at £6,000 per episode since 1981, paving the way for the big money game shows of the late 1990s and 2000s.
    • Channel 4 becomes an independent statutory corporation. Under the terms of the Broadcasting Act 1990, the channel is now also allowed to sell its own airtime. Under the Act, ITV have agreed to fund Channel 4 if it falls below 14% of total TV advertising revenue. The channel also makes a payment of £38 million to ITV under terms of its funding formula.[1]
    • The London News Network, a joint venture between London's two franchise holders, Carlton and LWT, begins providing a seven-day news service for ITV viewers in London.
    • Scottish Television launches new idents and presentation.[2]
    • HTV launches a new logo and idents.
  • 2 January – Debut of the Saturday morning children's show Saturday Disney on ITV.
  • 3 January
    • The Central-produced children's series Tots TV makes its debut on ITV and starts airing in the US the following day. Its sponsor is Lego Duplo.
    • The final edition of LWT News is broadcast, presented by Anna Maria Ashe.
    • Debut of the Sunday morning current affairs series Breakfast with Frost on BBC1, presented by David Frost.[3]
  • 4 January
    • John Birt succeeds Sir Michael Checkland as Director-General of the BBC.
    • Scottish Television launches a 30-minute lunchtime edition of Scotland Today.
    • Launch of the ITV regional news programme London Tonight which airs seven days a week on both Carlton and LWT.
    • Ulster's news service is renamed UTV Live. The programme broadcasts for 60 minutes, instead of 30.
    • The BBC launches Business Breakfast as a 60-minute stand-alone programme. It had previously been part of Breakfast News. Consequently, the BBC's weekday breakfast programmes start half an hour earlier, at 6am. Also on that day, BBC1 begins broadcasting on weekdays at 6am. A start-of-day Ceefax broadcast is retained although it now runs for 15 minutes rather than 30, beginning at 5:45am.
  • 6 January
    • The Times reports that IFE have revised and increased their offer to purchase former ITV franchise holder TVS.[4][5]
    • The animated series The Animals of Farthing Wood, based on the books by Colin Dann, makes its debut on BBC1.[6]
    • Debut of the acclaimed series Fame in the 20th Century, an eight-part BBC1 programme in which Clive James examines the nature of 20th century fame using archive footage and commentary.[7] The series concludes on 24 February.[8]
  • 8 January
    • ITV begins reairing series 3 of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. However, the first few episodes are trimmed to fit the timeslot.
    • The children's comedy programme ZZZap! makes its debut on Children's ITV, starring the show you how its done gloves known as the Handymen, Richard Waites as the trouble-causing Cuthbert Lilly and the sneaky villain Tricky Dicky and Neil Buchanan as the smartest artist Smart Arty.
    • ITV introduces a third weekly episode of The Bill on Friday evenings.
    • After a 14-year absence, the game show Celebrity Squares returns to ITV, with returning host Bob Monkhouse.
  • 11 January – Debut of The Good Sex Guide, a ground-breaking late night documentary series on ITV presented by Margi Clarke.[9][10][11] Aired at 10.35pm, the programme attracts audience of 13 million, something that is unprecedented for a show aired in a late night timeslot.[12]
  • 14 January – Eurosport and Screensport propose a merger to provide a single channel as both are operating at a loss, hoping that a merged channel would become financially profitable.[13]
  • 16 January – ITV airs Alan Parker's 1987 occult detective film Angel Heart, starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro.
  • 17 January – The network television premiere of James Cameron's 1989 Oscar-winning science fiction adventure The Abyss on Channel 4, starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Biehn.
  • 20 January – BBC2 airs live coverage of the inauguration of Bill Clinton as the 42nd President of the United States.[14]
  • 23 January – The Times reports that an offer by IFE to buy TVS for £56.5 million has been accepted.[15]
  • 24 January — The satellite channels Lifestyle and Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox close.

February

  • 1 February
    • IFE completes its deal to buy TVS.
    • BSkyB introduces a new system of film ratings often used for various times, replacing the British Board of Film Classification certificates.
  • 6 February – The Casualty episode "Family Matters" which airs today sees an early appearance of the actress Kate Winslet.[16]
  • 7 February – Having completed its initial run of all 692 episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H in December 1991, Central begins rerunning the series from the first episode. It is shown weekly, late on Sunday evenings until the end of 1994.
  • 12–14 February – Channel 4 airs Love Weekend, a series of programmes with sexually explicit content coinciding with Valentine's Day weekend. It includes the network television premiere of Last Tango in Paris, starring Marlon Brando, which is aired uncut on 14 February, Valentine's Day itself.[17] The makers of Tango pay £20,000 for a 30-second advert for the soft drink in the film's first ad break.[18]
  • 14–16 February – Sky One debuts Diana: Her True Story, a dramatisation of Andrew Morton's biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. The film features Serena Scott Thomas as the Princess.[19]
  • 15 February
  • 16 February – The final episode of Count Duckula is broadcast on ITV.
  • 17 February – The original scheduled airdate for Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean, but it is postponed following the murder of Kirkby toddler James Bulger and is delayed for over a year until 25 April the following year. Instead, Mr. Bean in Room 426 is shown in its place.
  • 24 February
  • 27 February – Boiling Point, an episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty is broadcast,[22] but it is met with great controversy and outrage after it depicts rioting youths setting fire to a hospital's accident and emergency department. The BBC receives over 700 complaints about the violent nature of the episode, despite it airing after the 9pm watershed and warning viewers accordingly. However, the episode achieves viewing figures of 17.02 million, the highest for the show at this time.
  • 28 February – BBC1 airs the first in a twelve-part adaptation of Peter Mayle's memoir A Year in Provence.[23] The series, starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan concludes on 16 May.[24] Unlike the book however, the miniseries is not well received by critics and in 2006, it is placed at number ten on a Radio Times list of the worst television programmes ever made.[25][26] The writer John Naughton describes it as a "smugathon ... which achieved the near impossible – creating a John Thaw vehicle nobody liked".[26]

March

  • 1 March
    • Screensport and Eurosport merge and Screensport closes. They merge to try to turn two loss making channels into a single profitable channel.[13]
    • Games World makes its debut on Sky One.
  • 5 March – ITV begins airing Doctor Finlay, a continuation series of the original Dr. Finlay's Casebook that aired during the 1960s.
  • 6 March – An IRA bomb scare at BBC Television Centre means that the live Saturday night programme Noel's House Party cannot be broadcast. Instead, after a repeat of the previous year's Noel's Christmas Presents, host Noel Edmonds is forced to introduce a Tom and Jerry cartoon in its place, The Zoot Cat.
  • 7 March – The Movie Channel airs a special feature-length version of Star Trek: The Next Generation shown exclusively rather than as part of the main run of the show which features Leonard Nimoy as Spock from the original television series.
  • 12 March – BBC1 airs Total Relief, the 1993 Comic Relief telethon.[27]
  • 23 March
    • Channel 4 debuts the US horror/science fiction series Eerie, Indiana, starring Omri Katz.
    • Sky One airs Episodes 170 and 171 of the Australian soap E Street which features a hard-hitting storyline involving extreme character Sonny Bennett (Richard Huggett) who kills three characters in a car bomb explosion. Because the episodes air in an early evening timeslot, they are preceded by a warning to viewers that they contain scenes that some may find upsetting. The 12:30pm repeat the following days, 24 and 25 March are dropped entirely and are replaced by episodes of The Simpsons.
  • 26 March – ITV airs The Final Straw, an episode of The Bill in which Detective Constable Viv Martella, played by Nula Conwell is killed off when she is shot by a gunman after approaching his car.
  • 27 March – The network television premiere of the 1989 American gangster comedy Harlem Nights on BBC1, starring Eddie Murphy.
  • 28 March – The Bluebells' 1984 single Young at Heart reaches number one in the UK Singles Chart following a rerelease after being featured in a Volkswagen Golf advert. It tops the charts for four weeks.
  • 29 March – Central becomes the first ITV region to begin showing the New Zealand medical soap opera Shortland Street.

April

  • 2 April – Debut of the comedy-drama The Riff Raff Element on BBC1.
  • 3 April – The 1993 Grand National, shown live on BBC1, is declared void after 30 of the 39 runners begin the race and carry on, despite there having been a false start.
  • 4 April
    • Children's BBC begin to repeat the school drama Grange Hill from its first series in 1978 on Sunday mornings on BBC2, as part of the show's 15th anniversary celebrations. These repeats end in 1999 with series 16. Prior to the repeats, the US animated series Rugrats also begins airing today.[28][29]
    • The final episode of The Darling Buds of May is broadcast on ITV.
  • 5 April – The Children's Channel rebrands with a new series of idents depicting the live-action shots that shows the colours of blue, red and yellow and updates its new logo to be like the original one.
  • 6 April – BBC1 airs This Is Michael Bolton, a recording of the singer in concert.[30]
  • 11 April
  • 12 April – The network television premiere of Tony Scott's 1990 American romantic sports drama Days of Thunder on BBC1, starring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Robert Duvall.
  • 13 April – A new look is introduced across all the BBC's television news bulletins with a studio that is almost entirely computer-generated and features a glass model of the Corporation's coat of arms.
  • 17 April
    • After six years, six series and 179 editions, BBC1 broadcasts the final episode of its Saturday morning children's series Going Live!.[31]
    • Arena presents a new four-part series, "Tales of Rock 'N' Roll" on BBC2 which looks at the story of four rock songs of how they came about and the history behind them and who and what they involved. Starting with Peggy Sue who was tracked down in Sacramento, California to be found running her own drain-clearing company Rapid Rooter and then to be taken back to Lubbock, Texas to recall how she knew Buddy Holly and how her marriage to drummer Jerry Allison turned out. Heartbreak Hotel where the song came to be written after the two songwriters discovered an article about a suicide in a hotel in Miami after reading about it in the Miami Herald. Walk on the Wild Side looks at all the characters that were involved in the song and how Lou Reed used to spend time at Andy Warhol's studio where they all did drugs (Holly Woodlawn and Joe Dallesandro were the only ones still around to tell the tale) and Highway 61 Revisited which looked at Bob Dylan's roots and everything connected with U.S. Route 61. The series ran for four consecutive weeks on Saturday nights on 17 April, 24 April, 1 May, and 8 May.
  • 18 April – The network television premiere of Jonathan Lynn's 1990 British madcap comedy Nuns on the Run on Channel 4, starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane.
  • 23 April
    • Pearson Television launches a friendly takeover bid for Thames Television, valuing the company at £99 million.[32]
    • Episode 1681 of Neighbours, the first that does not feature the 1980s-style titles and theme music, is shown in the UK, having made its debut in Australia on 18 May 1992.

May

June

  • 1 June – S4C introduces a new series of idents which depicted inanimate objects as having characteristics of dragons as a reference to the red dragon on the flag of Wales.
  • 4 June
    • When Roy Hattersley fails to appear on this day's edition of Have I Got News for You, the third time he has cancelled at the last minute: he is replaced with a tub of lard, credited as "The Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard MP", as it is "imbued with much the same qualities and liable to give a similar performance".[38]
    • At 6pm, UTV unveils a new logo. A new jingle is also introduced with a distinct Celtic sound.[39] On the same day, the extended studios at Havelock House are formally opened by presenter Gloria Hunniford.
  • 6 June – The Animals of Farthing Wood makes its Irish debut in the on RTÉ. It still airs in this country to this day.
  • 9 June – The network television premiere of Herbert Ross' 1989 American comedy drama Steel Magnolias on ITV, starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Julia Roberts and Olympia Dukakis.
  • 10 June – Les Dawson, the comedian and presenter who has presented the shows Jokers Wild, Blankety Blank and Fast Friends, dies suddenly from a heart attack during a medical checkup at a Greater Manchester hospital at the age of 62.
  • 11 June – Channel 4 airs the final episodes of Cheers over three consecutive nights, finishing with the 80-minute finale on 13 June. However, due to the series popularity, repeats of the show begin the following weekend.[40]
  • 28 June – Channel 4 airs the last programmes produced for the ITV Schools strand. However, the channel continues to produce its own schools programming for several years afterwards.

July

  • 1 July – The two production companies, Tiger Television and Aspect Film and Television, merge to form Tiger Aspect Productions.
  • 4 July
  • 9 July
    • BBC1 airs the final episode of Eldorado.[41] The soap has been axed due to poor ratings.
    • ITV finishes repeating the latest series of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. The episode Thomas and Percy's Christmas Adventure has been excluded from this year's series of repeats.
  • 22 July – Three former cable-only channels, Discovery, The Learning Channel and Bravo, begin broadcasting on the Astra satellite, ahead of the launch of the Sky Multichannels package on 1 September.
  • 22–23 July – The network television premiere of the US crime drama Stay the Night on BBC1, starring Barbara Hershey.[42][43]
  • 23 July – Prime Minister John Major gives an interview to ITN journalist Michael Brunson after his government wins a vote of confidence in the House of Commons earlier that day. During an unguarded moment following the interview and while still being recorded, Major refers to some of his cabinet colleagues as "Bastards".[44] The incident which becomes known in the media as "Bastardgate", prompts the tabloid newspapers The Daily Mirror and The Sun to set up phone lines with recordings of the conversation that readers are invited to call. Both newspapers are warned to discontinue the lines by the regulatory body, the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services because it feels that broadcasting the off-air conversation is a breach of privacy.[45]
  • 24 July – The fourth series of ITV's Stars in Their Eyes concludes with the show's first live Grand Final, allowing viewers to vote for their favourite act. The series is won by Jacquii Cann, performing as Alison Moyet.
  • July – The ITC publishes the findings of a technical review of the future viability of launching a fifth television channel. By October, more than 70 parties have responded to its publication, including some expressing interest in running Channel 5 should the licence be readvertised.[46]

August

September

  • 1 September
    • Sky Multichannels launches. Consequently, many satellite channels, including Sky One and UK Gold, are now only viewable on satellite as part of a pay television package. At the same time, new idents launch on Sky's main channels.
    • Three new channels launch - The Family Channel, Nickelodeon UK and UK Living and all three join the Sky Multichannels package. The Family Channel shares space with The Children's Channel which now ends its day two hours earlier, at 5pm.
  • 5 September
  • 6 September
  • 10 September – BBC2 begins showing the late-night Horror double bill movie series Dr. Terror's Vault of Horror, hosted by "Dr Walpurgis", played by Guy Henry. The first films shown are the 1986 comedy horror film Vamp, starring Grace Jones and the 1960 gothic horror The Mask of Satan.
  • 11 September
  • 12 September
  • 16 September – The network television premiere of Die Hard 2: Die Harder on ITV, starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Dennis Franz and Reginald VelJohnson.
  • 17 September – Cartoon Network and classic movie channel TNT launch in the UK. They share the same transponder with Cartoon Network broadcasting during the day and TNT broadcasting during the evening and overnight. The channels are free-to-air on satellite and are not part of the Sky Multichannels package.
  • 19 September
    • The network television premiere of Peter Weir's 1989 teen drama Dead Poets Society on ITV, starring Robin Williams.
    • Channel 4 airs Blue, a drama film directed by Derek Jarman who is partially blind and only able to see in shades of blue. BBC Radio 3 also broadcasts the film simultaneously so that viewers could hear the soundtrack in stereo.
  • 20 September
    • The educational numeracy series Numbertime makes its debut on BBC2.
    • Schools programmes continue to be shown on Channel 4, now under the branding of Channel 4 Schools with new idents to accompany the change.
  • 21 September – BBC1 airs A Murderer's Game, an edition of the Crimewatch File series looking at the 1992 hunt for the kidnapper of the Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater.[52]
  • 22 September
    • The game show Lose A Million makes its debut on ITV, presented by Chris Tarrant with a voiceover by Honor Blackman in which contestants win a total of £1 million and attempt to lose as many of them as possible by answering questions incorrectly. It is axed on 1 December, lasting only a single series.
    • Children's ITV debuts Old Bear Stories and Avenger Penguins, the former will go on to win a BAFTA award for Best Children's Programme.
    • BBC1 airs Hostage, an edition of the Inside Story strand in which Terry Waite speaks about his years of captivity in Beirut.[53]
  • 23 September – Debut of the popular children's educational series Come Outside on BBC2, starring Lynda Baron as Auntie Mabel alongside her dog Pippin.
  • 24 September
    • The animated series Philbert Frog makes its debut on BBC1.
    • Channel 4 debuts the late night magazine topical programme Eurotrash, presented by Antoine de Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier, with narrative voiceovers by British comic actress Maria McErlane. The show features a comical review of unusual topics mainly from Western and Central Europe, with all intellectual property rights to the series controlled by the production company Rapido TV.
  • September – Scottish Television reschedules Emmerdale from 7pm to 5.10pm and uses the slot to broadcast daily regional programmes, including Take the High Road. This arrangement continues until early 1998 when Emmerdale is moved back to its original slot.
  • September–October – Channel 4 broadcasts live coverage of the Professional Chess Association version of the World Chess Championship 1993. Two hours of coverage are broadcast for each match. This is the first time that live chess has been broadcast in the UK.[54]

October

  • 1 October – QVC launches, becoming the first shopping channel in the UK. The channel had originally launched in the US in 1986.
  • 2 October
  • 19 October – The last on-screen appearance of Roly, the EastEnders dog and Queen Vic resident who has been part of the soap since the first episode. The episode featuring his demise attracted an audience of 14.8 million viewers. The dog who played Roly dies during a heatwave on 2 August 1995.
  • 20 October
    • Debut of Thatcher: The Downing Street Years, a four-part BBC1 series looking at the premiership of Margaret Thatcher.[57]
    • Kirsty Wark makes her debut as anchor on BBC2's Newsnight.
    • The Independent Television Commission issues Channel 4 with a formal warning for an episode of the soap Brookside which aired on 7 and 8 May that depicted a wife stabbing her abusive husband to death.[58]
  • 21 October – Channel 4 is granted permission by the High Court to show excerpts from Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 film A Clockwork Orange as part of its Without Walls series. The film Forbidden Fruit, is shown on 26 October. Time Warner had sought to prevent Channel 4 from showing scenes from the film which has been banned in the UK since 1973 after Kubrick withdrew it amid concerns it was encouraging violence; the ban is lifted in 2000, a year after Kubrick's death.[59]
  • 29 October – The final episode of the game show Every Second Counts is broadcast on BBC1.

November

December

  • 5 December
    • "Mr Blobby", a novelty song inspired by the Noel's House Party character of the same name, tops the UK Singles Chart. After being replaced a week later by Take That's "Babe", the song returns to the top to become the 1993 Christmas number one.[67][68]
    • The pilot episode for the comedy talk show Mrs Merton is shown by Granada Television with the titular character played by Caroline Aherne. It will be picked up for a full series on BBC2 in 1995.
  • 6 December – ITV's North West England franchise holder Granada launches a hostile takeover for London Weekend Television, worth £600million. The takeover bid comes about because of the relaxation of the rules governing the network. LWT tries to outstep the takeover bid by initiating talks with Yorkshire Television and Scottish Television.[69]
  • 9 December – Peter Sissons hosts his last edition of Question Time,[70] having chaired the show since 1989.
  • 13 December – The Times reports that a conflict of words has broken out between London Weekend Television and Granada over LWT's talks with Yorkshire Television. Granada claims the YTV-LWT deal is "something cobbled together by desperate men". Gerry Robinson, the Chairman of Granada plc is dismissive of the deal, especially since Yorkshire has made a £10million loss and is already paying much of its revenue to the government. Reports also suggest if LWT bid for Yorkshire Television it would also form an alliance with Anglia who would takeover Tyne Tees Television.[71]
  • 18 December – BBC2 broadcasts the Arena special "Radio Night", an ambitious simulcast with BBC Radio 4.[72]
  • 21 December – The Marcopolo 1 satellite is sold to Sweden's Nordic Satellite AB and is renamed Sirius 1.
  • 22 December – Plato's Stepchildren, an episode of the US science-fiction series Star Trek, is shown on BBC2 for the first time, having not been seen on British television since its original run on BBC1.[73][74]
  • 24 December
  • 25 December
  • 26 December
  • 27 December
  • 30 December
    • The Times reports that Granada has increased its takeover bid for LWT to £658million.[79]
    • Episodes of Emmerdale featuring the controversial plane crash storyline begin airing on ITV. The storyline was developed to win higher ratings for the series which has been threatened with cancellation due to low viewing figures. However, although it succeeds in turning around the fortunes of the series, ITV received many complaints about the timing of the story which comes shortly after the fifth anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster.
  • 31 December

Debuts

BBC1

BBC2

ITV

Channel 4

Sky One

Channels

New channels

Date Channel
1 September The Family Channel
Nickelodeon
UK Living
17 September Cartoon Network
TNT
1 October QVC

Defunct channels

Date Channel
24 January Lifestyle
Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox
1 March Screensport

Rebranded channels

Date Old Name New Name
1 September Sky Movies Plus Sky Movies
2 October Super Channel NBC Super Channel

Television shows

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

DateNameAgeCinematic Credibility
2 February Bernard Braden 76 actor and comedian
9 February Bill Grundy 69 television presenter
13 February Willoughby Gray 76 actor (Howards' Way)
18 February Jacqueline Hill 63 actress (Doctor Who)
Leslie Norman 81 television director
28 February Joyce Carey 94 actress
7 March Patricia Lawrence 67 actress
9 April Jess Yates 74 television presenter (Stars on Sunday)
6 May Ann Todd 83 actress
10 June Les Dawson 62 comedian (The Les Dawson Show) and television presenter (Blankety Blank)
11 June Bernard Bresslaw 59 actor and comedian
22 June Victor Maddern 65 actor (The Dick Emery Show)
18 August Tony Barwick 59 scriptwriter
24 August George Cansdale 83 television presenter
31 August Stuart Latham 81 television producer (Coronation Street)
2 September Eric Berry 80 actor
12 September Harold Innocent 60 actor
20 September Leonard Parkin 64 newsreader
7 October Cyril Cusack 82 actor
10 October John Bindon 50 actor (Z-Cars, Softly, Softly: Taskforce)
12 October Patrick Holt 81 actor (Dixon of Dock Green, Crown Court, Shabby Tiger, Emmerdale)
5 November Michael Bilton 73 actor (To the Manor Born, Waiting For God)
9 November Stanley Myers 63 theme tune composer
21 November Richard Wordsworth 78 actor
28 November Kenneth Connor 75 actor ('Allo 'Allo!)
1 December Lynette Davies 45 actress

See also

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