2013 in British television

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## Events

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### January

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2 | ITV signs a twelve-month product placement deal with DFS that will see the furniture retailer's sofas used as part of the set for This Morning.[1]
4 | The CBeebies and CBBC blocks on BBC Two air for the last time. The children's programming would in the future air exclusively on their dedicated channels.
5–6 | CITV celebrates its 30th anniversary with an "Old Skool" marathon of archive programming on the weekend.
5 | In a poll conducted for the film channel Sky Movies 007 HD, a scene from Goldfinger in which James Bond is strapped to a table while a laser beam begins to cut it in half is voted as the best Bond movie moment.[2]
6 | BBC One airs the last programme in its astronomy series The Sky at Night to be presented by Sir Patrick Moore, recorded shortly before his death in December 2012. He launched the series in 1957.[3]
Launch of ITV's celebrity diving contest, Splash!, in which Olympic bronze medalist Tom Daley teaches contestants to dive. The first episode is seen by 5.6 million viewers, but receives a mixed reception from critics.[4]
7 | BBC sports presenter Gabby Logan is appointed Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University.[5]
Anne Wood, creator of Teletubbies and Brum, criticises the BBC's decision to remove children's programming from its mainstream channels, accusing them of "ghettoising" children's television.[6]
9 | BBC Four confirms that its reruns of Top of the Pops will continue with episodes from 1978, but that editions featuring Jimmy Savile will not be aired.[7][8]
14 | ITV1 rebrands back to its original name, ITV, after 12 years, along with the introduction of a new logo on ITV plc-owned channels and online services.[9]
18 | After nearly four years, Countdown is filmed at the Granada Studios in Manchester for the last time. Subsequent series are now filmed at dock10, MediaCityUK in Salford thus marking the second time that the show has relocated in its 30-year history.
20 | The BBC issues an immediate apology after its digital channel CBeebies airs an episode of Tweenies from 2001 in which one of the main characters named Max dresses as Jimmy Savile to present a chart show.[10]
22 | Broadcaster Stuart Hall is charged with one count of rape and 14 of indecent assault following a police investigation into historic allegations.[11]
23 | Coronation Street, Downton Abbey, This Morning, Strictly Come Dancing and Miranda Hart are among the big winners at the 18th National Television Awards. Joanna Lumley takes home a lifetime achievement accolade.[12]
25 | Singer Rylan Clark wins the eleventh series of Celebrity Big Brother.[13]
30 | Former Channel 5 Director of Programmes Jeff Ford has been hired by Irish commercial broadcaster TV3 to become their new Director of Content, a position he will take up in February.[14]

### February

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2 | Former Olympic Skier Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards wins the first series of Splash!.[15]
4 | More4 launches in high-definition for the first time.
5 | Cable television provider Virgin Media announced it is to be acquired by Liberty Global for US$23.3 billion (£15 billion).[16]
8 | The BBC Trust approves a twelve-month trial to make some BBC TV content available online through BBC iPlayer ahead of its scheduled television debut.[17]
9 | BBC Three celebrates its 10th anniversary.
13 | ITV's This Morning apologises after "accidentally" showing a photograph of Kate Middleton in a bikini. The image was used while discussing a recent controversy involving pictures of the Duchess, but should have been blurred out.[18]
14 | Former head of BBC News Helen Boaden is appointed Director of BBC Radio by incoming BBC Director-General Tony Hall. She will take up the position from April.[19]
15 | ITV drops the actor Michael Le Vell from Coronation Street pending the outcome of legal proceedings after police charge him with 19 child sex offences allegedly committed between 2001 and 2010.[20]
16 | Sir Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice-president of Industrial Design for Apple Inc., is presented with Blue Peter's highest accolade, a gold Blue Peter badge in a special edition of the show about gadgets.[21]
18 | BBC journalists stage a one-day strike over compulsory redundancies.[22]
23 | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway returns to ITV after a four-year hiatus.
25 | Telecommunications giant BT, which bought the rights to some Premier League matches in 2012, expands its investment in sports broadcasting with the purchase of ESPN's channels in Britain and Ireland.[23]

### March

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4 | BBC One airs the 1000th edition of A Question of Sport.[24]
10 | Prince Charles guest edits an edition of Countryfile to celebrate the programme's 25th anniversary.[25]
Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle and dance partner Daniel Whiston win the eighth series of Dancing on Ice.[26]
14 | A full-size replica of the House of Commons, used in place of the real chamber in several films and television series, is among film sets for sale on the internet auction site eBay.[27] It is sold for £123,000, but auctioned again at an auction house in June after the buyer failed to complete the purchase.[28]
16 | The 2013 Comic Relief telethon raises a record £75 million for charity.[29]
17 | The final BBC News bulletins are aired from BBC Television Centre before news operations switch to the Broadcasting House in Central London, effective from 18 March.[30]
19 | Coronation Street actor William Roache apologises after appearing to suggest victims of paedophiles were being punished for past sins in an interview for New Zealand's One News.[31]
It is reported that Channel 4 will screen a documentary The Murder Trial showing footage of the trial of Nat Fraser, who in 2012 was convicted of the murder of his estranged wife, Arlene.[32]
23 | Granada Reports is broadcast from the Granada Studios at Quay Street for the last time.
24 | ITV Granada broadcasts from the dock10 studios for the first time.
26 | BBC Two launches in high definition for the first time, two and a half years after BBC One did.
Research published by the Archives of Disease in Childhood suggests that five-year-olds who watch more than three hours of television a day are more likely to develop antisocial behaviour than those who do not.[33]
29 | BBC journalists stage a twelve-hour strike, disrupting television and radio news programmes.[34]
30 | The BBC confirms that David Tennant and Billie Piper will appear in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special.[35]
Sir Tony Robinson's new Channel 4 history series Walking Through History started.
31 | The BBC Television Centre is closed and all BBC services move to the Broadcasting House.

### April

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1 | Responsibility for the funding of S4C begins to transfer to the BBC.[36]
The cox of the University of Oxford rowing team apologises for repeated use of the F-word during the previous day's University Boat Race which aired live on television.[37]
4 | Countdown co-presenter Rachel Riley will join the presenting team of Channel 5's The Gadget Show when the series returns in the summer, it is announced.[38]
9 | The US TV miniseries The Bible, a ten-part dramatisation of some of the Bible's most famous stories, will be aired by Channel 5 later in the year, it is announced.[39]
15 | The BBC says that an edition of Panorama filmed secretly on a university study trip to North Korea will be broadcast, despite claims by the London School of Economics that students may have been put in danger.[40]
16 | James Harding, former editor of The Times, is named as the new BBC Director of News. He replaces Helen Boaden, who was moved from the job to become Director of Radio.[41]
17 | BBC One airs the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died on 8 April. The three-hour special is watched by an average 3.2 million viewers, peaking at 4.4 million.[42]
A planned showing of the film Four Lions is cancelled by Film4 in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing in which three people died.[43]
19 | Channel 5 pulls two programmes narrated by Rolf Harris from its schedule after reports the presenter was interviewed by police over allegations of sexual offences.[44]
23 | Current Director of BBC One, Danny Cohen is appointed Director of BBC Television, taking up the position from 7 May.[45]
25 | The BBC is to limit the redundancy packages for its managers to £150,000 following criticism about the amount of severance paid to its executives.[46]
26 | Ray Winstone guest hosts Have I Got News for You, the edition prompting over 100 complaints to the BBC and Ofcom in the following days because of the programme's perceived anti-Scottish stance during a section discussing Scottish independence.[47]
29 | The University of Manchester wins the 2012–13 series of University Challenge, beating University College London 190–140.

### May

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1 | Forthcoming scenes from Coronation Street featuring William Roache will be dropped after he is arrested over historic allegations of rape. ITV says he will not appear again in the soap while investigations are ongoing.[48]
2 | Broadcaster Stuart Hall pleads guilty to 14 charges of sexual assault.[49]
Natalie Coleman wins the 2013 series of MasterChef.[50]
6 | A man who died along with his daughter in a speedboat crash off the north Cornish coast on 5 May is named as senior BSkyB executive Nick Milligan.[51]
8 | BBC Two Controller Janice Hadlow takes temporary control of BBC Four following the departure of Richard Klein to become head of ITV factual programming.[52]
9 | BT announces it will offer their BT Sport channels to its broadband customers for free in a bid to challenge Sky's dominance of the pay-per-view market.[53]
16 | The BBC apologises for a Newsnight report about Help for Heroes that falsely suggested the charity was responsible for shortcomings in the care of wounded soldiers.[54]
17 | Ian Allen, the creator of children's television series Button Moon wins a claim for damages against a businessman he says copied his designs for tee shirts and mugs.[55]
18 | Denmark's Emmelie de Forest wins the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with "Only Teardrops".
20 | The BBC documentary series Panorama airs unseen footage from the 1989 Hillsborough disaster that casts doubt on medical evidence given at the inquest.[56]
21 | ITV celebrity ice skating competition Dancing on Ice will end in 2014 after 1 further "all-stars" series, after Torvill & Christopher Dean would retire after 30 years of their Bolero performance at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
23 | BBC political editor Nick Robinson apologises after he quoted a source describing the perpetrators of the previous day's Woolwich attack as "of Muslim appearance". The BBC received 43 complaints after Robinson used the term during the BBC News at Six.[57]
24 | The BBC scraps its £98m Digital Media Initiative – a project launched in 2008 to change the way the corporation's staff utilised video and audio material. Director-General Tony Hall says the scheme has "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money", and that an investigation will be held to determine what lessons can be learned from the venture.[58]
The BBC apologises after a floor plan for the 23 May edition of Question Time from Belfast described the Northern Ireland Education Minister John O'Dowd as being from Sinn Féin/IRA. The phrase is a pejorative term used by members of the unionist community, but Sinn Féin maintains it and the IRA are separate organisations.[59][60]
27 | Former Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross issues a statement in defence of criticism he received for comments he makes about rape in his forthcoming book, Crime.[61]
30 | ITV announce that Beverley Callard is to reprise her role as Coronation Street's Liz McDonald, and will be seen on screen again from October.[62]

### June

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1 | The BBC announces that Doctor Who actor Matt Smith will quit as the Eleventh Doctor at the end of 2013.[63]
BBC One airs highlights of The Sound of Change Live, a benefit concert held in aid of fashion brand Gucci's Chime for Change campaign at Twickenham Stadium in London.
6 | In an interview for Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre podcast, actor and comedian Stephen Fry, who has bipolar disorder speaks candidly about an attempted suicide bid while he was filming abroad in 2012.[64]
Coronation Street actor Bill Roache is charged with five historical accounts of indecent assault against four girls during the 1960s.[65]
7 | Queen Elizabeth II opens the BBC's rebuilt Broadcasting House, creating a memorable television moment when she appears behind the BBC News channel's on air newsreaders.[66]
8 | The series seven finale of Britain's Got Talent is disrupted when a woman runs on stage and throws eggs at the judges. She is later revealed to be a member of one of the performing act's backing group.[67][68] The series is won by shadow dancing group Attraction.[69]
9 | Channel 4 airs an entire commercial break in French to celebrate the launch of its French zombie drama The Returned.[70]
13 | Comedian Rory Bremner presents Rory Goes to Holyrood, a one-off comedy programme for BBC Scotland that takes a satirical look at Scottish politics and the independence debate.[71] The show was conceived as a way of injecting some comedy into a subject that has suffered from an absence of humour.[72][73]
14 | The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board announces that catch-up programmes viewed online or through smart devices will be included in official viewing figures for the first time from Autumn 2013.[74]
17 | BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall is sentenced to 15 months in jail for sexually abusing under age girls, as the BBC issues an "unreserved apology" to his victims.[75]
Ofcom launches an investigation into the broadcasting of footage from the Woolwich attack after receiving about 700 complaints.[76]
Broadcaster Jo Whiley criticises reality shows such as The Voice and Britain's Got Talent, saying the contestants who appear on them are unaware of what they are letting themselves in for.[77]
18 | ITV announces that Birds of a Feather will return to British television in January 2014 following a fifteen-year break after the broadcaster signed up the original BBC cast.[78]
19 | Ofcom is to launch an investigation into BSkyB over the supply of its sports channels to rival broadcasters.[79]
22 | Andrea Begley wins the second series of The Voice.[80]
25 | It is reported that ITV are considering cancelling Prize Island, a game show filmed in Mozambique in October 2012 before it has even aired. ITV sources have claimed it was supposed to be shown in the spring to compete with BBC One's The Voice, but was considered not to be very good.[81][82] Prize Island eventually begins airing in October, going out in a Sunday afternoon slot.[83][84]
26 | Charlotte Moore is appointed as Controller of BBC One, replacing Danny Cohen, who was given the role of Director of Television in April.[85]

### July

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5 | The BBC announces it is suspending production of 3D programming indefinitely, due to a "lack of public appetite" for the technology.[86]
8 | Audience figures show Andy Murray's victory in the previous day's Wimbledon Men's Singles final was watched by 17.3 million viewers, making it the most watched programme of the year so far.[87]
Drama is launched by UKTV, replacing Blighty. The channel also launches on free-to-air platform Freeview. However it does not launch on Virgin Media until August.
9 | A special last-minute scene is filmed for inclusion in the day's episode of EastEnders reflecting Andy Murray's Wimbledon victory.[88]
The BBC confirms that Barbara Windsor will return to EastEnders as Peggy Mitchell for a one-off appearance.[89]
16  | After 5 seasons and 4 years, the final episode of the 2009 series of Horrible Histories is broadcast on CBBC.
17 | Police confirm that a body found at Seaford, East Sussex on 12 July is that of Paul Bhattacharjee, an actor who disappeared on 10 July. Bhattacharjee had appeared in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, and EastEnders.[90]
Leah Totton, a medical doctor from Derry, Northern Ireland wins the ninth series of The Apprentice, and a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar in her planned cosmetic procedures business.[91][92]
19 | An update of Freeview's software leaves owners of Sony DVD recorders unable to access or record Freeview channels through the devices.[93]
21 | For the past three consecutive weeks in July 2013, Channel 5 has beaten Channel 4 in terms of daily average share for the week, excluding +1. However, this time since its launch in 1997, Channel 5 (on a 5% share) beat Channel 4 (on a 4.94% share) in terms of daily average share for the week including +1.[94][95]
26 | Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has his fifteen-month sentence for a series of indecent assaults doubled to 30 months by the Court of Appeal after the Attorney General launched an appeal against the leniency of the original sentence.[96]

### August

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2 | The Fox Broadcasting Company announce plans to remake ITV's popular crime drama, Broadchurch for a US market.[97]
4 | Scottish actor Peter Capaldi is unveiled as the Twelfth Doctor in a BBC One special, Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor.[98][99]
7 | An advert featuring a team "rescuing" neglected jars of Marmite has received 278 complaints from viewers since it was first shown two days earlier.[100]
12 | Paddy Roberts becomes the first male £250,000 winner on Deal or No Deal.[101]
14 | Sky News cameraman Mick Deane is shot dead while covering protests following July's coup d'état in Egypt.[102]
19 | Sam Evans wins Big Brother 14.[103]
20 | Top Boy returns to Channel 4 for a second four-part series.
28 | UK television debut of the Australian prison drama Wentworth on Channel 5.[104] The opening episode of the Prisoner Cell Block H reboot attracts an audience of 2.4 million.[105]
29 | Thirty years of Blockbusters.
31 | Sharon Osbourne returns to The X Factor after six years.[106]

### September

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5 | It is reported that Coronation Street will explore the issue of the right to die when the character Hayley Cropper decides she wants to take her own life after being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.[107]
Lauren Lambert wins Cycle 9 of Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model.
6 | Ade Edmondson wins the 2013 series of Celebrity MasterChef.[108]
10 | Michael Le Vell is cleared of child sex allegations following a trial at Manchester Crown Court.[109]
11 | Singer Kylie Minogue will join The Voice UK as a coach when the series returns in 2014.[110]
12 | Debut of the period crime drama Peaky Blinders on BBC Two.[111]
13 | Reality television star Charlotte Crosby wins the twelfth series of Celebrity Big Brother.[112]
14 | Holly Willoughby and Reggie Yates announce their exit from The Voice UK, with new presenter Emma Willis confirmed to co-host the 2014 series.
16 | ITV re-introduces sub-regional news coverage across England. The weekday daytime, late evening and weekend bulletins as well as 20 minutes of the 6pm programme are once again more localised.
17 | Marvin Humes announced as Reggie Yates replacement on The Voice UK. He will co-host the third series alongside Emma Willis.
18 | Sue Barker announces she is stepping down as host of BBC Sports Personality of the Year after 19 years.[113]
20 | The day's episode of EastEnders sees a one-off appearance of Barbara Windsor as Peggy Mitchell.[114]
26 | BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders will leave the BBC to take up a position at JP Morgan Asset Management.[115]
27 | Prime Minister David Cameron confirms he will not have a television debate with Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond ahead of next year's referendum on Scottish independence.[116]
A Radio Times article reports that a leaked internal BBC document casts doubt on the existence of TV detector vans after it makes no mention of them in a detailed discussion of the TV licence fee.[117] The BBC subsequently responds by saying the vans do exist, but will not provide further details about how many are in operation.

### October

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1 | After series one of Wentworth continues to prove popular with viewers, Channel 5 announces it has acquired the UK broadcasting rights for series two. The series will air in 2014.[105]
3 | ITV celebrates twenty-five years of This Morning, with its original hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan returning to join Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby, Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford to present a special live edition from the show's original home at Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool.
6 | Speaking at the Cheltenham Literary Festival to promote his book, Great Britain's Great War, Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman criticises schools for using episodes of Blackadder Goes Forth to teach students about World War I, saying the practice is "astonishing".[118]
7 | It is reported that the comedy Open All Hours will return for a one-off special over Christmas. The episode, titled Still Open All Hours will see David Jason reprise his role as Granville.[119]
8 | BBC Director-General Tony Hall announces plans to launch a BBC One +1 channel, and offer a 30-day catch-up service on the iPlayer.[120]
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes defends a controversial rape storyline in the latest episode of the ITV series following a number of complaints.[121]
11 | Nine missing episodes from the 1968 Doctor Who series The Web of Fear and The Enemy of the World are made available for download from the BBC website after they were found at a television station in Nigeria.[122]
12 | The BBC says it "completely rejects" allegations by Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre that coverage of an article the paper published about Labour leader Ed Miliband's father was "one-sided".[123]
16 | BBC Director-General Tony Hall unveils the corporation's four-year plan for World War I centenary programming and coverage. This will include an online resource allowing access to records kept by the Imperial War Museum, and a documentary about Keith Murdoch (the father of Rupert Murdoch) who, as a young war correspondent, revealed the disastrous nature of the Gallipoli Campaign in 1916, changing the direction of the war.[124]
17 | Robert Peston is appointed as BBC Economics Editor, replacing Stephanie Flanders.[125]
22 | Stuart Hall is stripped of his OBE following his conviction for sexual offences against young girls.[126]
Frances Quinn wins the fourth series of The Great British Bake Off.[127]
ITV confirms that Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? will end after fifteen years on air as presenter Chris Tarrant steps down from the role.[128]
23 | Comedian Russell Brand appears as a guest on Newsnight to mark his one-off stint as guest editor of the New Statesman, and tells presenter Jeremy Paxman he has never voted because of an "absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class".[129][130] Paxman criticises Brand's stance on the programme, but later tells the Radio Times that he himself did not vote at a recent election, that there is something "irresistible" about the comedian, and that "part of [his] diagnosis is right. There is a huge sense of disillusion out there."[130]
25 | The BBC hosts 100 Women, a day of debate and discussion across radio, television and online featuring a hundred women from around the world.
28 | Lord Sugar confirms that the tenth series of The Apprentice has been pushed back to Autumn 2014 to avoid clashing with the 2014 World Cup. Young Apprentice has also been axed.[131]
29 | The BBC announce that The Sky at Night will be shown exclusively on BBC Four from 2014, ending a 54-year run on the corporation's flagship channel.[132]
31 | TV cameras are allowed into the Court of Appeal for the first time, after a change in the law allowing proceedings to be recorded.[133]
Journalist and presenter Paris Lees becomes the first openly transgender panellist to appear on the BBC's Question Time.[134]

### November

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9 | BT announces a £897 million deal with UEFA to broadcast the Champions League exclusively on BT Sport from the 2015–16 season for three years, ending two decades of the competition being broadcast free-to-air on ITV.[135]
11 | Panorama becomes the first ongoing British TV programme to reach and celebrate its 60th anniversary.
12 | Alan Titchmarsh steps down as presenter of the BBC's coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show after 30 years in the role and following the BBC's decision to revamp its coverage of the event.[136]
Actor Sir Tony Robinson says that Prince William has agreed to make a cameo appearance in Blackadder if another series is recorded.[137]
Laura Kuenssberg will leave ITV to return to the BBC as chief correspondent and a presenter of Newsnight from February 2014, it is announced. She will replace Gavin Esler in the latter role.[138]
13 | After 24 years and 70 episodes, Agatha Christie's Poirot airs its final episode, Curtain: Poirot's Last Case which sees main character Hercule Poirot killed off. As a result, David Suchet who portrayed Poirot (and is considered the most faithful to the books) has portrayed the character in every major adaptation of the stories that the character appears in.
18 | James Bond will return to terrestrial television after ITV signs a deal with MGM Worldwide Television to air the films, which were snapped up by BSkyB in an agreement with the distributors in 2012. The new deal enables ITV to air the television premiere of Skyfall in 2014.[139]
20 | At the Salford Media Festival in Manchester, Scottish Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop says that an independent Scotland would have a new licence fee funded broadcaster based on the assets and staff of BBC Scotland.[140]
23 | Doctor Who celebrates its 50th anniversary by airing a special episode, "The Day of the Doctor". Overnight viewing figures suggest it was watched by 10.2 million viewers.[141]
26 | The Scottish Government publishes Scotland's Future, its white paper laying out the case for an independent Scotland, and the means through which this would be achieved. Among the proposals are plans to replace BBC Scotland with a Scottish Broadcasting Service, although the body would continue to have close ties with the BBC, including airing content such as Doctor Who and EastEnders.[142][143]
27 | Addressing The Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference, BBC Director-General Tony Hall says the BBC should be "more aggressive" and "less British" in its defence of the television licence.[144]
28 | Virgin Media switches off its analogue TV service in Milton Keynes. This had been the last analogue television service which had still been in operation in the UK and brings to an end all forms of analogue television in the United Kingdom.
29 | The new Coronation Street set at dock10, MediaCityUK in Salford is officially unveiled.[145]
30 | The Bible makes its British television debut on Channel 5.[146]

### December

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2 | More than 44,000 people have signed a Change.org petition calling for reality television star Katie Hopkins to be banned from television after a Twitter posting in which she made a joke about Scottish life expectancy in the wake of the Glasgow helicopter crash that resulted in several fatalities. Hopkins responds that she was referring to a recent NHS report discussing the country's average life expectancy and apologises for any offence caused.[147]
5–6 | The death of former South African President Nelson Mandela leads to several schedule changes, including extended news coverage and special documentaries paying tribute to him.[148][149]
6 | Figures published by Broadcast magazine indicate that in 2013, ITV achieved its first increase in audience share since 1990, rising from 15.7% in 2012 to 16.5% this year. ITV is also the only one of the five main terrestrial channels to increase its viewership over the past year, while Channel 4 saw a drop from 6.5% to 5.8%. The decrease is attributed to the 2012 boost Channel 4 had in its viewers because of its coverage of that year's Summer Paralympics.[150]
8 | Westlife singer Kian Egan wins the thirteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.[151]
9 | EastEnders marks the death of Nelson Mandela with a specially recorded scene in which Carol Jackson (Lindsay Coulson) and Denise Fox (Diane Parish) recall Mandela's release from prison in 1990.[152]
10 | The BBC launches five new high-definition simulcasts of BBC News, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC and CBeebies.[153]
The Channel 4 daytime quiz Fifteen to One, which recently featured as a one-off special as part of an 80s Nostalgia evening, is to return for a full series in Spring 2014 with Sandi Toksvig as host. A celebrity version will be presented by Adam Hills.[154]
12 | BBC One's Question Time is broadcast from South Africa to discuss the legacy of Nelson Mandela following his recent death.[155]
Steven Edwards wins the sixth series of MasterChef: The Professionals.[156]
13 | The media regulator Ofcom says that complaints about BT TV have more than doubled since the launch of BT Sport in August.[157]
15 | 2013 Wimbledon men's singles winner Andy Murray is named this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year.[158]
Sam Bailey wins the tenth series of The X Factor.[159]
17 | Ofcom reports that a Comic Relief sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson as a fictional Archbishop of Canterbury was the most complained about television broadcast of the year, although Ofcom ruled in July that it did not breach the regulations.[160]
Channel 4 has commissioned three pilot comedy shows for the New Year. Flack will star Sheridan Smith as a PR woman struggling to keep her life on track. Catastrophe will see Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney respectively star as an Irish woman and American man who struggle to fall in love against the backdrop of contemporary London. Sit.Com, written by and starring David Baddiel, is a family sitcom highlighting the distractions of modern technology.[161]
21 | It is reported that former Channel 5 chief executive David Elstein will call for the abolition of the licence fee and suggest the BBC introduce a subscription model when the Culture, Media and Sport Committee convenes to discuss the future of the Corporation in January 2014.[162]
Model Abbey Clancy and dancing partner Aljaž Skorjanec win the eleventh series of Strictly Come Dancing.[163]
22 | Defence Minister Anna Soubry apologises after comments made on an edition of The Andrew Marr Show in which she described UKIP leader Nigel Farage as looking "like somebody has put their finger up his bottom and he really rather likes it".[164]
24 | British television premiere of Walt Disney's 1940 animated classic Fantasia is aired on BBC Two for the first time.
Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom airs its final episode.
25 | Matt Smith makes his final full appearance as the Eleventh Doctor in the Doctor Who episode "The Time of the Doctor"; his successor, Peter Capaldi, makes a minor appearance as the Twelfth Doctor at the episode's conclusion.
26 | Overnight viewing figures indicate that Mrs. Brown's Boys was the most watched show on Christmas Day, with an audience of 9.4 million. The BBC claimed four of the five most watched programmes on Christmas Day.[165][166]
27 | Still Open All Hours was the most watched programme on Boxing Day, attracting an audience of 10 million. On ITV, the terrestrial television premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was watched by an average audience of 4.3 million.[167]

## Debuts

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### BBC

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2 January | Africa | BBC One
4 January | The Dumping Ground | CBBC
5 January | Britain's Brightest | BBC One
Richard Hammond's Secret Service
Animal Antics
6 January | An Drochaid/The Bridge Rising | BBC Alba
The A to Z of TV Gardening | BBC Two
7 January | The Polar Bear Family & Me
The Battle for Malta
Fit | CBBC
Baby Makers: The Fertility Clinic | BBC Four
10 January | Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork
11 January | Alba | BBC Alba
13 January | Blandings | BBC One
14 January | Father Brown
Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here | BBC Two
15 January | Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways
16 January | Funny Business
17 January | Winterwatch Unsprung
Dani's Castle | CBBC
Fierce Earth
18 January | An Evening with Glen Campbell | BBC Four
19 January | Who Let the Dogs Out and About? | CBBC
22 January | Allotment Wars | BBC One
23 January | Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom | CBBC
David Attenborough - The Early Years | BBC Red Button
Bob Servant Independent | BBC Four
24 January | The Genius of Invention | BBC Two
25 January | An Ode to Burns and Ulster
27 January | Wonders of Life
29 January | The Mary Berry Story
31 January | The Planners
1 February | Monty Don's French Gardens
A Concert for Bangladesh Revisited | BBC Four
4 February | Am Prionnsa Beag/The Little Prince | BBC Alba
Dancing on the Edge | BBC Two
6 February | Brain Doctora | BBC Two
12 February | The Railway: Keeping Britain On Track
15 February | The Beatles' Please Please Me: Remaking a Classic | BBC Four
16 February | How To Be Epic @ Everything | CBBC
18 February | Britain's Empty Homes Revisited | BBC One
City of Culture Film | BBC Two Northern Ireland
21 February | Beneath the Lab Coat | BBC Two
22 February | Wild Arabia
24 February | Dan Cruickshank's Written in Stone | BBC One Northern Ireland
3 March | Boxing at the Movies: Kings of the Ring | BBC Four
4 March | Beat the Pack | BBC One
The Great British Winter | BBC Two
5 March | Bluestone 42 | BBC Three
11 March | Caught Red Handed | BBC One
Country Show Cook Off | BBC Two
12 March | Beyond Time: William Turnbull | BBC Four
14 March | Lee Nelson's Well Funny People | BBC Three
17 March | In the Flesh
18 March | The Challenger Disaster | BBC Two
Can Eating Insects Save the World | BBC Four
23 March | Britain's Natural World
24 March | Driven: The Fastest Woman in the World | BBC Two
31 March | The Village | BBC One
2 April | The Great British Sewing Bee | BBC Two
Crossing England in a Punt: River of Dreams | BBC Four
8 April | Chefs: Put Your Menu Where You Mouth Is | BBC One
25 April | The Politician's Husband | BBC Two
29 April | Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian
30 April | Sweat the Small Stuff | BBC Three
9 May | Dance with the Elements | BBC Two
12 May | Emeli Sande Live in London | BBC Three
13 May | The Fall | BBC Two
The Chef's Protege
Cusile
14 May | Frankie | BBC One
16 May | The Dambusters: 70 Years On | BBC Two
18 May | Ceolraidh | BBC Alba
19 May | Ice Age Giants | BBC Two
20 May | Don't Get Done in the Sun | BBC One
21 May | The Cleveland Captives: What Really Happened? | BBC Three
22 May | Enlighten Up! | BBC Two
25 May | David Bowie - Five Years
Cannes 2013 | BBC News Channel
27 May | Dive WWII: Our Secret History | BBC One Northern Ireland
30 May | DNN | CBBC
1 June | Curtain Call | BBC Two
4 June | The Call Centre | BBC Three
13 June | Rory Goes to Holyrood | BBC Two Scotland
16 June | The White Queen | BBC One
18 June | The Route Masters: Running London's Roads | BBC Two
4 July | Supermarket Secrets | BBC One
8 July | Count Arthur Strong | BBC Two
13 July | Top of the Lake
16 July | Family Tree
23 July | Badults | BBC Three
27 July | Break the Safe | BBC One
3 August | I Love My Country
10 August | That Puppet Game Show
16 August | Big School
25 August | What Remains
13 September | The House that £100k Built | BBC Two
18 September | Father Figure | BBC One
20 September | David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates | BBC Two
22 September | By Any Means | BBC One
The Crane Gang | BBC Two
24 September | The Wrong Mans
3 October | Hotel of Mum and Dad | BBC Three
10 October | Truckers | BBC One
21 October | Iceland Foods: Life in The Freezer Cabinet | BBC Two
22 October | Fox Wars | BBC One
23 October | Ambassadors | BBC Two
29 October | The Escape Artist | BBC One
4 November | Pressure Pad
13 November | Tudor Monastery Farm | BBC Two
17 November | Britain and the Sea | BBC One
20 November | Backchat | BBC Three
21 November | An Adventure in Space and Time | BBC Two
25 November | Referendum Documentaries | BBC Two Scotland & BBC Parliament
29 November | Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom | BBC Two
9 December | Great British Garden Revival
18 December | The Great Train Robbery | BBC One
26 December | Gangsta Granny
Death Comes to Pemberley
30 December | The Thirteenth Tale | BBC Two
Sacred Wonders of Britain
31 December | Two Doors Down | BBC One Scotland

### ITV

[edit]

Date | Debut | Channel

|
|

3 January | Fake Reaction | ITV2
5 January | Splash! | ITV
6 January | Mr Selfridge
The Magaluf Weekender | ITV2
11 January | Great Night Out | ITV
31 January | The Big Reunion | ITV2
13 February | From the Heart | ITV
27 February | Food Glorious Food
Lightfields
4 March | Broadchurch
18 March | James Nesbitt's Ireland
25 March | Plebs | ITV2
1 April | Cook Me the Money | ITV
7 April | Off Their Rockers
13 April | The Security Men
18 April | The British Animal Honours
19 April | The Ice Cream Girls
20 April | Saturday Farm
21 April | Country House Sunday
29 April | Vicious
The Job Lot
5 June | Love and Marriage
9 June | Tipping Point: Lucky Stars
29 June | Your Face Sounds Familiar
22 July | Take on the Twisters
31 July | You Saw Them Here First
19 August | Star Treatment
22 August | Poaching Wars with Tom Hardy
31 August | Stepping Out
3 September | Aussie Animal Island
Ade in Adland
4 September | Big Star's Little Star
5 September | Pat & Cabbage
The Guilty
The Big Reunion: On Tour
13 September | Gino's Italian Escape
17 September | Crazy Beaches | ITV2
2 October | I Want That Car | ITV4
5 October | The Munch Box | ITV & CITV
6 October | Inside the National Trust | ITV4
8 October | Duck Dynasty
10 October | Tricked | ITV2
Breathless | ITV
27 October | Sunday Side Up
Sunday Scoop
Prize Island
28 October | Tales from Northumberland with Robson Green
1 November | Off the Beaten Track
25 November | Show Me the Telly
11 December | Lucan
21 December | The Illusionists
25 December | River Deep Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand

### Channel 4

[edit]

Date | Debut | Channel

|
|

2 January | Gok's Style Secrets | Channel 4
7 January | Face the Clock
11 January | First Time Farmers
15 January | Utopia
18 February | The Common Denominator
7 March | Gogglebox
4 April | The Intern
6 April | Five Minutes to a Fortune
10 June | Dates
24 June | Brendan's Magical Mystery Tour
28 July | The Mill
1 August | How to Get a Council House
18 September | The Three Day Nanny
6 October | Was It Something I Said?
29 December | Speed with Guy Martin
Unknown | Labyrinth

### Channel 5

[edit]

Date | Debut | Channel

|
|

11 June | Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun | Channel 5
8 July | News Talk Live
28 August | Wentworth
8 October | The Dog Rescuers
30 November | The Bible

### Other channels

[edit]

Date | Debut | Channel

|
|

8 February | Henry Hugglemonster | Disney Junior
10 March | Ed Stafford: Naked and Marooned | Discovery Channel
10 June | Ape Man | National Geographic Channel
16 June | Jo Brand's Great Wall of Comedy | Gold
17 September | Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish | Dave
10 November | Yonderland | Sky 1

## Channels

[edit]

### New channels

[edit]

Date  | Channel

|

4 February  | More4 HD
26 March  | BBC Two HD
28 March  | Sky Movies Disney
Sky Movies Disney HD
30 April  | Investigation Discovery +1
TLC
TLC +1
TLC HD
4 June  | True Drama
8 July  | Drama
22 July  | Kix Power
1 August  | BT Sport 1
BT Sport 1 HD
BT Sport 2
BT Sport 2 HD
13 August  | TCM +1
1 October  | Kix +1
4 November  | Lifetime
Lifetime +1
10 December  | BBC Three HD
BBC Four HD
BBC News HD
CBBC HD
CBeebies HD

### Defunct channels

[edit]

Date  | Channel

|

26 March  | BBC HD
28 March  | Disney Cinemagic
Disney Cinemagic +1
Disney Cinemagic HD
30 April  | Discovery Real Time
Discovery Real Time +1
Discovery Travel & Living
DMAX +2
5 July  | Blighty
31 July  | ESPN America
ESPN America HD
ESPN Classic
12 August  | TCM 2
17 August  | Sky Movies 007 HD
1 October  | Kix Power
4 November  | Bio.

### Rebranding channels

[edit]

Date  | Old Name  | New Name

|
|

11 January  | FX  | Fox
FX +  | Fox +
FX HD  | Fox HD
14 January  | ITV1  | ITV
ITV1 +1  | ITV +1
ITV1 HD  | ITV HD
7 October  | Pick TV  | Pick
Pick TV +1  | Pick +1

## Television shows

[edit]

### Changes of network affiliation

[edit]

Show  | Moved from  | Moved to

|
|

The Grand National | BBC One & BBC Two | Channel 4
American Idol | ITV2 | 5*
The Paul O'Grady Show | Channel 4 | ITV
M*A*S*H | Comedy Central Extra | True Entertainment
Charlie Brooker's ...wipe | BBC Four | BBC Two

### Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

[edit]

Programme  | Date(s) of original removal  | Original channel(s)  | Date of return  | New channel(s)

|
|
|
|

Yes, Prime Minister | 28 January 1988  | BBC Two | 15 January 2013  | Gold
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | 21 March 2009  | ITV | 23 February 2013  | N/A (Same channel as original)
Catchphrase | 19 December 2002  | 7 April 2013
Through the Keyhole | 4 June 2008  | ITV, BBC One & BBC Two  | 31 August 2013  | ITV
Eliot Kid | 27 June 2012  | CBBC | 2 September 2013  | POP
Fifteen to One | 19 December 2003  | Channel 4  | 20 September 2013  | N/A (Same channel as original)
The Paul O'Grady Show | 23 December 2005
18 December 2009  | ITV
Channel 4 | 11 November 2013  | ITV
Open All Hours as Still Open All Hours | 26 March 1976
25 April 1982
6 October 1985  | BBC Two
BBC One | 26 December 2013  | BBC One

## Continuing television shows

[edit]

### 1920s

[edit]

Programme  | Date

|

BBC Wimbledon | 1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present

### 1930s

[edit]

Programme  | Date

|

Trooping the Colour | 1937–1939, 1946–2019, 2023–present
The Boat Race | 1938–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present

### 1950s

[edit]

Programme  | Date

|

Panorama | 1953–present
The Sky at Night | 1957–present
Final Score | 1958–present
Blue Peter

### 1960s

[edit]

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
Match of the Day | 1964–present
Top of the Pops
Gardeners' World | 1968–present

### 1970s

[edit]

Programme  | Date

|

Question of Sport | 1970–present
Emmerdale | 1972–present
Mastermind
Newsround
Arena | 1975–present
One Man and His Dog | 1976–present
Top Gear | 1977–present
Ski Sunday | 1978–present
Antiques Roadshow | 1979–present
Question Time

### 1980s

[edit]

Programme  | Date

|

Family Fortunes | 1980–1985, 1987–2002, 2006–present
Children in Need | 1980–present
Countdown | 1982–present
Channel 4 Racing | 1984–2016
Thomas & Friends | 1984–present
EastEnders | 1985–present
Comic Relief
Catchphrase | 1986–2002, 2013–present
Casualty | 1986–present
This Morning | 1988–present
Countryfile
Red Dwarf | 1988–1999, 2009–present
Agatha Christie's Poirot | 1989–2013

### 1990s

[edit]

Programme  | Date

|

Have I Got News for You | 1990–present
MasterChef | 1990–2001, 2005–present
Junior MasterChef | 1994, 2010–2014
Room 101 | 1994–2007, 2012–2018
The National Lottery Draws | 1994–2017
Top of the Pops 2 | 1994–2017
Hollyoaks | 1995–present
Soccer AM
Never Mind the Buzzcocks | 1996–2015
Silent Witness | 1996–present
Midsomer Murders | 1997–present
Y Clwb Rygbi, Wales
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | 1998–2014
British Soap Awards | 1999–2019, 2022–present
Holby City | 1999–2022[168]

### 2000s

[edit]

Programme  | Date

|

2000
Big Brother | 2000–present
Bargain Hunt
BBC Breakfast
Click
Doctors
A Place in the Sun
The Unforgettable
Unreported World
2001
Celebrity Big Brother | 2001–present
BBC South East Today
Football Focus
Rogue Traders
2002
Escape to the Country | 2002–present
Fifth Gear | 2002–2016
Flog It! | 2002–present
Foyle's War | 2002–2015
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! | 2002–present
In It to Win It | 2002–2016
Inside Out | 2002–present
River City
Saturday Kitchen
2003
Daily Politics | 2003–present

Peep Show | 2003–2015
This Week | 2003–present
Celebrity Mastermind
New Tricks | 2003–2015
Eggheads | 2003–present
Extraordinary People
Grumpy Old Men
Homes Under the Hammer
Traffic Cops
2004
Doc Martin | 2004–2019
Match of the Day 2 | 2004–present
Shameless | 2004–2013
Strictly Come Dancing | 2004–present
The X Factor | 2004–2018
60 Minute Makeover | 2004–2014
Agatha Christie's Marple | 2004–2013
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year | 2004–present
The Culture Show
Football First
The Gadget Show
Live at the Apollo
NewsWatch
SadlerVision
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two
Who Do You Think You Are?
2005
8 Out of 10 Cats | 2005–present
Deal or No Deal | 2005–2016
The Andrew Marr Show | 2005–present
The Adventure Show
The Apprentice
Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model | 2005–2013
Dragons' Den | 2005–present
The F Word
The Hotel Inspector
The Jeremy Kyle Show
Mock the Week
Springwatch
Ukwia
2006
Dancing on Ice | 2006–2014
Waterloo Road | 2006–present
The Album Chart Show
Animal Spies!
The Apprentice: You're Fired!
Banged Up Abroad
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
Cricket AM
Dickinson's Real Deal
Don't Get Done, Get Dom
Lewis | 2006–2015
Monkey Life | 2006–present
Not Going Out
The One Show | 2006–present
People & Power
Peschardt's People
Secret Millionaire
The Slammer | 2006–2015
2007
Britain's Got Talent | 2007–present
Outnumbered | 2007–2014
Skins | 2007–2013
Would I Lie to You? | 2007–present
The Alan Titchmarsh Show | 2007–2014
Benidorm | 2007–present
The Big Questions
Don't Tell the Bride
Embarrassing Bodies
Escape from Scorpion Island
The Graham Norton Show
Harry & Paul
Heir Hunters
Helicopter Heroes
Inspector George Gently
An Island Parish
Jeff Randall Live
London Ink
Mary Queen of Shops
Primeval
Rapal
The Real MacKay
Real Rescues
2008
An Là | 2008–present
Argumental
Being Human | 2008–2013
Big & Small | 2008–present
Bizarre ER
CCTV Cities
Celebrity Juice
Chuggington
Country House Rescue
The Hot Desk
House Guest
It Pays to Watch!
Only Connect
Police Interceptors
Rubbernecker
Rude Tube
Seachd Là
Snog Marry Avoid? | 2008–2013
Supersize vs Superskinny | 2008–2014
Wallander | 2008–2016
2009
Miranda | 2009–2015
PhoneShop | 2009–2013
Pointless | 2009–present
Rip Off Britain
Russell Howard's Good News | 2009–2015
Sesame Tree | 2009–2013
The Chase | 2009–present
The Cube | 2009–2015
Alan Carr: Chatty Man | 2009–2016
Bang Goes the Theory | 2009–2014
Cast Offs | 2009–present
Copycats
Countrywise
Cowboy Trap
Fern Britton Meets...
The Football League Show | 2009–2015
Four Weddings | 2009–present
Grow Your Own Drugs
Horrible Histories | 2009–2013
Inside Nature's Giants | 2009–present
Katie
Piers Morgan's Life Stories
Peter Andre: My Life | 2009–2013

### 2010s

[edit]

Programme  | Date

|

2010
Daybreak | 2010–2014
DCI Banks | 2010–2016
Downton Abbey | 2010–2015
Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers | 2010–2014
The Great British Bake Off | 2010–present
Great British Railway Journeys
Him & Her | 2010–2013
James May's Man Lab | 2010–2013
Late Kick Off | 2010–present
A League of Their Own
Little Crackers
Lorraine
Luther
The Million Pound Drop | 2010–2015
The Nightshift
The Only Way Is Essex
Pocket tv
Scream! If You Know the Answer
Sherlock
Stand Up for the Week | 2010–2013
Strike-back | 2010–present
Sunday Morning Live
Take Me Out | 2010–2020
The Trip | 2010–present
Turn Back Time – The High Street/ Turn Back Time - The Family
2011
All Over the Place | 2011–present
Black Mirror
Episodes | 2011–2017
Four Rooms | 2011–present
The Field of Blood | 2011–2013
Fresh Meat | 2011–2016
Friday Download | 2011–present
Hacker Time | 2011–2016
Horrible Histories: Gory Games | 2011–2018
Junior Bake Off | 2011–present
Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands | 2011–2013
Made in Chelsea | 2011–present
Match of the Day Kickabout
Mad Dogs | 2011–2013
Perfection | 2011–2015
Ross Kemp: Extreme World | 2011–2017
Sadie J | 2011–2013
The Sparticle Mystery | 2011–2015
Scott & Bailey | 2011–2016
Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents | 2011–present
Text Santa | 2011–2015
The Jonathan Ross Show | 2011–present
Top Boy | 2011–2013, 2019–present
Trollied | 2011–present
Vera | 2011–2025
2012
Endeavour | 2012–present
Call the Midwife
The Hoarder Next Door | 2012–2014
The Midnight Beast
Prisoners' Wives | 2012–2013
Pramface | 2012–2014
The Sarah Millican Television Programme | 2012–2013
The Syndicate | 2012–present
Stella
The Voice UK
Watson & Oliver | 2012–2013
Line of Duty | 2012–present
Tipping Point
Lemon La Vida Loca | 2012–2013
Hebburn
Ripper Street | 2012–2016
Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs | 2012–2023
Bad Education | 2012–2014
Last Tango in Halifax | 2012–present
Claimed and Shamed
2013
The Dumping Ground | 2013–present
The Dog Rescuers
Splash! | 2013–2014
Big Star's Little Star | 2013–present
Two Doors Down | 2013, 2016–present

## Ending this year

[edit]

Date(s)  | Programme  | Channel(s)  | Debut(s)

|
|
|

10 January  | The Polar Bear Family & Me | BBC Two | 1985
6 February  | Africa | BBC One
9 February  | Britain's Brightest
15 February  | Great Night Out | ITV
21 February  | Way To Go | BBC Three
22 February  | Face the Clock | Channel 4
28 February  | 64 Zoo Lane | CBeebies | 1999
Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands | BBC Three  | 2011
8 March  | Wild Arabia | BBC Two  | 2013
10 March  | Being Human | BBC Three  | 2008
27 March  | Lightfields | ITV  | 2013
30 March  | Life's Too Short | BBC Two  | 2011
2 April  | Heading Out | 2013
9 April  | Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask | Dave | 2011
10 April  | Anna & Katy | Channel 4
19 April  | The Common Denominator | 2013
25 April  | James May's Man Lab | BBC Two  | 2010
6 May  | James Nesbitt's Ireland | ITV  | 2013
9 May  | The Politician's Husband | BBC Two
28 May  | The Wright Way | BBC One
Shameless | Channel 4  | 2004
30 May  | Watson & Oliver | BBC Two  | 2012
31 May  | 1001 Things You Should Know | Channel 4
1 June  | An Audience with... | ITV & Channel 4  | 1980
2 June  | Ice Age Giants | BBC Two  | 2013
12 June  | 10 O'Clock Live | Channel 4  | 2011
18 June  | Frankie | BBC One  | 2013
24 June  | May the Best House Win | ITV  | 2010
30 June  | Rise of the Continents | BBC Two  | 2013
10 July  | Love and Marriage | ITV
11 July  | Lemon La Vida Loca | ITV2 | 2012
19 July  | Brendan's Magical Mystery Tour | Channel 4  | 2013
26 July  | Horrible Histories | CBBC | 2009
3 August  | Your Face Sounds Familiar | ITV | 2013
5 August  | The Dales | 2011
Skins | E4 | 2007
9 August  | The Field of Blood | BBC One  | 2011
18 August  | The White Queen | 2013
28 August  | Restoration Home | BBC Two  | 2011
29 August  | PhoneShop | Channel 4  | 2009
30 August  | Take On the Twisters | ITV  | 2013
4 September  | The Cafe | Sky 1 | 2011
5 September  | Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model | Sky Living | 2005
6 September  | Star Treatment | ITV  | 2013
15 September  | What Remains | BBC One
19 September  | The Guilty | ITV
26 September  | Chickens | Sky 1
27 September  | The IT Crowd | Channel 4  | 2006
David Attenborough's Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates | BBC Two  | 2013
28 September  | I Love My Country | BBC One
Stepping Out | ITV
9 October  | Whitechapel | 2009
10 October  | Pat & Cabbage | 2013
27 October  | By Any Means | BBC One
29 October  | London Irish | Channel 4
7 November  | Truckers | BBC One
10 November  | Ambassadors
12 November  | The Escape Artist
13 November  | Agatha Christie's Poirot | ITV  | 1989
14 November  | Breathless | 2013
24 November  | Was It Something I Said? | Channel 4
1 December  | Prize Island | ITV
8 December  | Britain and the Sea | BBC One
9 December  | Snog, Marry, Avoid? | BBC Three  | 2008
11 December  | Misfits | E4  | 2009
13 December  | Off the Beaten Track | ITV  | 2013
Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom | BBC Two
16 December  | Ripper Street | BBC One  | 2012
18 December  | Lucan | ITV  | 2013
19 December  | The Great Train Robbery | BBC One
Him & Her | BBC Three  | 2010
20 December  | Stand Up for the Week | Channel 4
Show Me the Telly | ITV  | 2013
22 December  | Hebburn | BBC Two  | 2012
The Sarah Millican Television Programme
23 December  | Peter Andre: My Life | ITV2  | 2009
24 December  | Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom | Channel 5  | 2008 or 2009
28 December  | Death Comes to Pemberley | BBC One  | 2013
29 December  | Sunday Scoop | ITV
Sunday Side Up
Agatha Christie's Marple | 2004
Mad Dogs | Sky 1  | 2011
Cash in the Attic | BBC Two  | 2002
31 December  | Tudor Monastery Farm | 2013

## Deaths

[edit]

Date  | Name  | Age  | Broadcast credibility

|
|
|

1 January  | Christopher Martin-Jenkins[169] | 67  | Test Match Special commentator
11 January  | Robert Kee[170] | 93  | Writer and broadcaster
28 January  | Bernard Horsfall | 82  | English-Scottish actor
29 January  | David Taylor | 78  | Veterinarian and television host
15 February  | Pat Derby[171] | 70  | British-born American animal trainer for numerous television shows in the United States and animal rights activist
17 February  | Richard Briers[172] | 79  | Narrator, actor, Voice actor (Marriage Lines, Roobarb, Noddy, The Good Life, Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk, Watership Down, Ever Decreasing Circles, Bob The Builder, Monarch of the Glen)
Derek Batey[173] | 84  | Television presenter and executive (Mr. and Mrs.)
21 February  | Raymond Cusick[174] | 84  | BBC designer (designed the Daleks on Doctor Who)
22 February  | Bob Godfrey[175] | 91  | Animator, director, narrator, Voice actor (Roobarb, Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk, Henry's Cat, Bunyip)
11 March  | Tony Gubba[176] | 69  | Sports commentator (also known for his role as voiceover on Dancing on Ice)
14 March  | Norman Collier[177] | 87  | Comedian
16 March  | Frank Thornton[178] | 92  | Actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Are You Being Served?)
20 March  | Jack Stokes | 92  | Animator and director (The Beatles: Yellow Submarine, Roobarb)
28 March  | Richard Griffiths[179] | 65  | Actor (Pie in the Sky, Harry Potter films)
5 May  | Nick Milligan[51] | 51  | BSkyB executive
16 May  | Paul Shane[180] | 72  | Actor (Hi-de-Hi!, You Rang, M'Lord?, Oh, Doctor Beeching)
18 May  | Arthur Malet | 85  | Actor (Mary Poppins, In the Heat of the Night, The Black Cauldron, Anastasia)
22 May  | Richard Thorp | 81  | Actor (Emmerdale) aka Alan Turner
27 May  | Bill Pertwee | 86  | Actor (Dad's Army), author
7 June  | David Lyon | 72  | Actor (House of Cards)
24 June  | Mick Aston | 66  | Media personality and archaeologist (Time Team)
4 July  | Bernie Nolan[181] | 52  | Singer and actress (Brookside, The Bill) aka Sheelagh Murphy
7 July  | Anna Wing[182] | 98  | Actress (EastEnders)
12 July  | Alan Whicker[183] | 87  | Journalist and broadcaster (Whicker's World)
Paul Bhattacharjee[90] | 53  | Actor (EastEnders)
Ray Butt[184] | 78  | Television producer and director (Only Fools and Horses)
17 July  | Briony McRoberts[185] | 56  | Actress (Take the High Road)
19 July  | Mel Smith[186] | 60  | Comedian (Alas Smith and Jones, Not the Nine O'Clock News)
27 July  | Jon Leyne | 55  | Reporter of BBC News, BBC News, BBC World News, Reporters
14 August  | Mick Deane[102] | 61  | Sky News cameraman
31 August  | David Frost[187] | 74  | Television presenter, journalist, comedian and writer (host of Breakfast with Frost, Through the Keyhole, That Was the Week That Was and The Frost Report)
2 September  | David Jacobs[188] | 87  | Actor and broadcaster (Top of the Pops, Juke Box Jury, A Song for Europe, Come Dancing)
18 October  | Felix Dexter[189] | 52  | Actor, writer and comedian
25 October  | Nigel Davenport | 85  | Stage, television and film actor (Chariots of Fire, The Treasure Seekers, A Man for All Seasons, Much Ado About Nothing,[citation needed] Howards' Way, Without a Clue)
7 November  | John Cole[190] | 85  | Journalist and broadcaster, former BBC Political Editor
18 November  | Peter Cartwright | 78  | Actor (Emmerdale) aka George Postlethwaite
19 November  | Ray Gosling[191] | 74  | Journalist and broadcaster
27 November  | Lewis Collins | 67  | Actor (The Professionals)
2 December  | Mary Riggans[192] | 78  | Actress (Take the High Road, Balamory) aka Suzie Sweet
21 December  | David Coleman | 87  | BBC Sports commentator
30 December  | Geoffrey Wheeler[193] | 83  | Broadcaster (Top of the Form, Songs of Praise)
31 December  | John Fortune[194] | 74  | Comedian and satirist (Bremner, Bird and Fortune)

## See also

[edit]

* 2013 in British music
* 2013 in British radio
* 2013 in the United Kingdom
* List of British films of 2013

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[edit]

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