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1993 in British television

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

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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
  • 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
  • 8 January
  • 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.
  • 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

February

March

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.
  • 2 June – Marcus Plantin, ITV's network director, announces the termination of Take the High Road from September 1993, as 'ITV's statisticians believed English audiences have had enough'[38] This results in public protest, as many believe that without ITV companies south of the border, the series had no chance.[39] The issue is raised in the House of Commons under an early day motions, and the Daily Record newspaper holds a protest as well.[40] By the end of June, Scottish Television decide to continue producing the series mainly for the Scottish market,[41] but within a month, nearly all the ITV companies reinstate it after viewers complain about the show being dropped in the first place.[42] At this point the series was shown on the ITV network on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons except for Scottish, Grampian and Border which showed the series on peak time slots and episodes were at least months ahead from the other regions.
  • 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".[43]
    • At 6pm, UTV unveils a new logo. A new jingle is also introduced with a distinct Celtic sound.[44] 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 on ITV of Herbert Ross's 1989 American comedy drama Steel Magnolias, starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Julia Roberts and Olympia Dukakis.
  • 10 June – Les Dawson, the comedian who has presented the shows Jokers Wild, Blankety Blank and Fast Friends, dies suddenly from a heart attack during a medical check-up 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.[45]
  • 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.
  • June – The BBC announces that it will freeze plans for new subscription services during its overnight downtime due to the service not being proftable. The BBC had planned up to 30 programmes but only four ever launched.[46]

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.[47] 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.[48][49]
  • 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".[50] 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.[51]
  • 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.[52]

August

September

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.[65]
    • 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.[66]
  • 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.[67]
  • 29 October – The final episode of the game show Every Second Counts is broadcast on BBC1.

November

December

  • 5 December
  • 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.[77]
  • 9 December – Peter Sissons hosts his last edition of Question Time,[78] 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.[79]
  • 18 December – BBC2 broadcasts the Arena special "Radio Night", an ambitious simulcast with BBC Radio 4.[80]
  • 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.[81][82]
  • 24 December
  • 25 December
  • 26 December
  • 27 December
  • 30 December
    • The Times reports that Granada has increased its takeover bid for LWT to £658million.[87]
    • 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

Continuing television shows

1920s

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

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

Date Name Age Cinematic 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

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