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1999 in British television

October 26, 2023

This is a list of British television related events from 1999.

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Events edit

January edit

February edit

  • 1 February
  • 2 February – As Glenn Hoddle is sacked as England football manager following the controversy over comments he made during a recent interview it is revealed his 13-year-old daughter Zara, wrote to the BBC's Ceefax asking people to leave Hoddle alone to get on with his job.[38][39]
  • 3 February
    • It is reported that Martini is to sign a £1 million contract with ITV to sponsor a season of James Bond films. The channel is planning to screen all 18 Bond films, beginning with GoldenEye in March, then broadcasting them in chronological order from Dr. No to Tomorrow Never Dies.[40] GoldenEye airs at 8.30 pm on 10 March.[41] Dr. No is screened on 29 May.[42] Tomorrow Never Dies makes its television debut on 13 October.[43][44]
    • The US romantic comedy-drama Sex and the City makes its British television debut on Channel 4.[45]
  • 8 February – Following a five-week trial at Manchester Crown Court, former Central News reporter John Caine is convicted of sexually abusing underage boys over a period of two decades and jailed for five and a half years.[46]
  • 11 February – Three members of production staff are suspended from BBC One's The Vanessa Show following reports in The Mirror that fake guests appeared on the programme.[47] They are later sacked following an internal inquiry.[48]
  • 12 February – ITV's Trisha show is caught up in a fake guests controversy after it emerges that the agent who supplied guests to the rival Vanessa Show did the same for Trisha, but the show's editor Sally-Ann Howard, denies any of her team were aware that the guests were fakes.[49]
  • 13 February – BBC One airs "Face Value", the 250th episode of Casualty.[50]
  • 18 February – ITV screens the Granada Television film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, a dramatisation of the aftermath of the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence told from the point of view of his parents.[51]
  • 21 February – US/Canadian animated series for preschoolers Salty's Lighthouse which uses footage taken from the children's model animated series that was originally broadcast on ITV is shown on Channel 4 for the first time in the UK. At the same time, it is also the second time Tugs is shown in its homeland.
  • 23 February – Channel 4 debuts Russell T. Davies's groundbreaking series Queer as Folk.[52][53]
  • 25 February
    • The BBC announces that Noel's House Party will be axed after eight years. The most recent edition of the show drew an audience of less than six million and it will finish when its current run ends on 20 March.[54]
    • The Broadcasting Standards Commission upholds a complaint about a feature in the Teletext games magazine Digitiser from 26 October 1998. The gossip column, Gossi the Dog had alluded to Gossi's master thrashing the talking cartoon dog with a belt.[55]
  • 26 February
    • Channel 4 News presenter Sheena McDonald is in intensive care after receiving head injuries when she was hit by a police van on an emergency call in north London.[56][57][58]
    • Channel 4 is fined £150,000 by the Independent Television Commission for including fake scenes in Too Much Too Young: Chickens, a documentary about rent boys in Glasgow that aired in 1997. The fine is the first such penalty imposed on Channel 4.[59]

March edit

  • 4 March – BBC Prime is launched for the first time in South Africa.
  • 5 March – After 32 years, what is billed as the last ever News at Ten is broadcast on ITV, hosted as usual by Trevor McDonald.[41] It is replaced with a 6:30pm bulletin, the ITV Evening News and an 11pm programme, ITV Nightly News from the following Monday.[60][61] In the event, News at Ten returns in 2001,[62] is axed again in 2004,[63] and resurrected in 2008.[64] It is restored as a five-nights-a-week programme from March 2009.[65] This day also sees the final broadcast of the ITV Evening News in its long-running 5:40pm slot.[66] The changes at ITV also prompt other broadcasters to review their news scheduling with Sky News and BBC News 24 both launch 10pm bulletins to fill the gap left by News at Ten, while Channel 5 reschedules its evening news bulletin to 6pm. Channel 4 News is also relaunched.[61][67]
  • 7 March – BBC Two airs the final episode of the 1993 series of Grange Hill, concluding a Sunday morning rerun of the first 16 series of the school drama which began in April 1993.[68][69]
  • 8–12 March – ITV's first week without News at Ten includes the network television premieres of two films, GoldenEye and The Specialist, an episode of Kavanagh QC and a series of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.[70]
  • 8 March – Following the introduction of the ITV Evening News, UTV's evening news programme, UTV Live is brought forward by half an hour to start at 5:30pm. The first half-hour sees feature reports, light-hearted stories and the weather forecast branded as part of a separate programme, UTV Life which runs before the main evening news which starts at 6pm and keeps the UTV Live name.
  • 9 March – A contestant who won £125,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? despite answering a question incorrectly will be allowed to keep his prize money, it is reported. The error occurred after researchers matched the wrong answer with a question about tennis, but the mistake was quickly spotted by viewers. Celador which produces the show, says it will review its checking procedure.[71]
  • 10 March
    • Carlton Television buys Bob Geldof's production company, Planet 24, in a deal City analysts believe to be worth £15 million.[72]
    • The Vanessa Show is interrupted by a male streaker. The lads' magazine Front later claims responsibility for the stunt.[73]
  • 11 March – Reports that new The Big Breakfast presenter Kelly Brook is struggling with her presenting role are laughed off by the programme after an email from its assistant producer suggested the number of big words in her script should be limited was leaked to the media.[74]
  • 12 March – This year's Comic Relief telethon includes a Doctor Who parody featuring Rowan Atkinson as The Doctor, Julia Sawalha as his sidekick and Jonathan Pryce as The Master.[75] The 29-minute sketch, written by Steven Moffat also includes the first female version of The Doctor, portrayed by Joanna Lumley.[76] A special episode of The Vicar of Dibley includes cameo appearances by Johnny Depp and Sarah, Duchess of York.[77]
  • 15 March
    • Debut of the BBC One prison documentary series Jailbirds, a ten-part series that looks at life inside New Hall women's prison in West Yorkshire.[78]
    • Provisional viewing figures released for the first week of ITV's schedule changes indicate the channel enjoyed a 5% increase in ratings. ITV says it is pleased with the results, but expects the figures to drop again following the initial interest in its new lineup.[79]
    • The BBC children's programme Teletubbies goes on the air in Japan.[80]
  • 16 March – The NSPCC launches its new 'full stop' advertising campaign which shows different objects of childhood heroes shielding their eyes as children's voices are heard being abused. It is broadcast after the 9.00pm watershed as a shock tactic to break people's complacency, part of the largest campaign ever undertaken by a charity and the beginning of a long-term strategy to end violence against children.
  • 17 March
    • Entertainer Rod Hull dies after falling from the roof of his house while trying to adjust a television aerial.[81]
    • The Surfer advertisement for Guinness first airs on ITV.[82]
    • An attempt by BSkyB to buy Manchester United F.C. is rejected by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.[83]
    • To celebrate the recently aired 250th episode of Casualty, BBC One airs Casualty 250: the Full Medical, a documentary in which Gaby Roslin looks back at the show's history. Later the same evening sees a repeat of "Gas", the very first episode from 1986.[84]
  • 20 March
  • 21 March – Ernie Wise, the surviving half of the beloved comedy duo, Morecambe and Wise dies of a heart attack, aged 73, following ongoing heart trouble.[85]
  • 22 March
    • It is announced that The Jack Docherty Show will end after two years as host Jack Docherty is to leave Channel 5. He says the show has "burned out" and is running out of guests. The final edition airs on 23 June.[86]
    • A November 1998 episode of the children's series Sooty & Co. about fragrances in which the characters were seen sniffing medicine bottles is criticised by the Independent Television Commission amid concerns it could prompt copycat behaviour.[87]
  • 24 March
    • Major networks provide news coverage as NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
    • The BBC confirms that Ross Kemp who plays Grant Mitchell in EastEnders, will leave the soap in the Autumn after signing a contract with ITV.[88]
    • Mirror Group sells its 18.6% stake in SMG to Granada.[89]
  • 26 March – Debut of As the Crow Flies, a seven-part BBC Two series in which Janet Street-Porter sets out to walk the 350 miles between the Edinburgh and Greenwich observatories.[90]
  • 28 March – Lloyd Burgess wins the 1999 series of MasterChef.
  • 29 March
    • Pokémon makes its British television debut on Sky One.
    • The final episode of the children's series Bodger & Badger is aired on BBC One.
  • 30 March
    • UKTV announces plans to rebrand UK Gold Classics as UK Gold 2.[91] The changes will take place from the coming weekend.[92]
    • ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 are heavily criticised in the Independent Television Commission's annual report on commercial television. ITV is criticised for its low amount of current affairs coverage, particularly in relation to the NATO campaign in Yugoslavia, while Channel 5 is branded as "tacky" for its reliance on low-budget erotic dramas and factual programmes about sex for its late-night schedule.[93][94]
  • 31 March – ITV announce that Mary Nightingale will take over as presenter of its long-running holiday show Wish You Were Here...?, succeeding Anthea Turner who is stepping down from the role.[95]

April edit

  • 1 April
  • 2 April
    • After two and a half years, Channel 4 is given another whole new look replacing the previous circles idents with all-new idents with the Channel 4 logo in a square and lines against various backgrounds scrolling across the screen.
    • UK Gold launches new fireworks idents and UK Gold Classics is renamed UK Gold 2. It operates as a time-shift service of UK Gold by broadcasting the channel's daytime output during the evening.
    • The two-part adaptation of Minette Walters 1995 crime novel The Dark Room airs on BBC One, starring Dervla Kirwan as the shaven-headed Jane "Jinx" Kingsley and James Wilby as Dr. Protheroe. The serial concludes on 3 April, ending a run of her novels adapted for television which began in February 1996 with The Sculptress.
    • BBC One airs Parkinson Meets Woody Allen, a 50-minute programme in which film director Woody Allen gives his first British television interview for 35 years.[97] Allen is questioned extensively about his private life by host Michael Parkinson, but is reluctant to speak on some topics. The BBC subsequently rejects reports that Allen had asked producers to edit out parts of the interview in which he discusses his marriage to his stepdaughter.[98]
  • 4 April – Sky One airs its special Valentine's Day episode of The Simpsons, featuring guest appearance by British pop superstar Elton John.
  • 5 April
    • BBC One and ITV air a national television appeal to help refugees from Kosovo. The Kosovo Crisis Appeal, co-ordinated by the Disasters Emergency Committee raises £3m by midday the following day.[99]
    • ITV airs Martine McCutcheon: This is My Moment, a one-hour documentary chronicling former EastEnders actress Martine McCutcheon's efforts to launch her singing career.[100] Her debut single, "Perfect Moment", reaches number one in the UK Singles Chart on 11 April.[101]
  • 8 April
    • Debut of the BBC children's series Miami 7 featuring the manufactured pop group S Club 7. The series combines drama and musical performance and is intended as a vehicle to launch the group's music career with their debut single "Bring It All Back" being released on 7 June.[102][103]
    • ITV launches its new news and current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald. Based on the format of US shows such as 60 Minutes and featuring a team of high-profile journalists, the first edition features an interview with the five individuals suspected of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The launch comes amid reports that ITV news coverage has lost as many as a million viewers since News at Ten was axed in March.[104] The edition prompts fifteen complaints to the Independent Television Commission from viewers who felt it wrong to give the men a platform to defend themselves, but the Commission rules in August that Martin Bashir's questioning had meant the programme was "anything but a platform" for the suspects.[105]
  • 9 April – Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Stephen Byers announces that BSkyB's £626m bid to buy Manchester United will not be allowed to go ahead.[106][107]
  • 12 April – Long-running children's animated television series Bob the Builder begins on BBC One.
  • 13 April – Past and present stars of Coronation Street attend a memorial service for Bryan Mosley at Salford Cathedral.[108]
  • 14 April – ITV airs the network television premiere of Girls' Night, a film produced by Granada Television as part of the ITV Film Initiative, a scheme established in 1996 aimed at boosting the British film industry and increasing the number of home grown films.[109]
  • 15 April – A fire breaks out at the headquarters of MTV Europe, the former TV-am Breakfast Television Centre, in Camden, London, forcing them off air while the fire is being tackled.[110]
  • 19 April – US talk show presenter Jerry Springer makes his UK television debut presenting the first of two editions of This Morning alongside Judy Finnigan while her husband Richard Madeley is busy working on another television project.[111]
  • 20 April – It is emerged that Channel 4 have asked the producers of Brookside to tone down an attempted rape scene due to air the following evening because the content may be too graphic to air before the 9pm watershed.[112]
  • 21 April – A week after the Government announces new targets for the proportion of ethnic police officers, ITV's The Bill announces two new black characters will join the series. Police Constable Di Worrell, played by Jane Wall and Detective Constable Danny Glaze (Karl Collins) who will become the show's first black male CID officer. The Bill's producers say the announcement is not a response to the government initiative, but had been planned for several months.[113]
  • 26 April
    • Television presenter Jill Dando is murdered outside her home in west London.[114] Her death sparks a huge manhunt by the Metropolitan Police and leads to the trial of Barry George. Initially convicted of the murder, after a successful appeal and retrial George is acquitted on 1 August 2008, thus leaving the crime unsolved.[115]
    • BSkyB Chief Executive Mark Booth announces his resignation after 18 months in the position.[116]
  • 27 April
  • 28 April – BBC Two debuts My Year with Beethoven, a six-part programme in which German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter talks about the devastating impact which the onset of deafness had on Beethoven's life and music, accompanied by American pianist Lambert Orkis who performs one of Beethoven's most tempestuous works on a personal journey throughout ten different sonatas. The series continues on 11 May.
  • 29 April
    • Six episodes of Channel 5's Sex and Shopping are criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Commission for containing explicit material which the Commission feels was "unacceptable for broadcast at any time".[118]
    • Retailer WHSmith announces plans to sell books and stationary via interactive digital television after signing a deal with the Rupert Murdoch backed venture Open.[119]
    • The Planets, an eight-part documentary series exploring the Solar System, debuts on BBC Two.[120]
  • 30 April
    • The BBC is reviewing whether or not to air the remaining episodes of Antiques Inspectors following Jill Dando's murder, Broadcast magazine reports. The series had made its debut with Dando as presenter on 25 April with filming of the final episode completed two days before that.[121] The programme is subsequently cancelled,[122] but it is decided later in the year that it should be aired as a tribute to the presenter with the series beginning its run from 5 September.[123][124]
    • Sky Soap closes due to poor viewing figures.
    • Scottish Television launches S2.

May edit

  • 1 May
    • Channel 4 airs Now We Are Two, a weekend of programmes marking the second anniversary of the election of Tony Blair's Labour Government. On this day, If John Smith Had Lived imagines the direction the Labour Party might have taken under the leadership of John Smith, while The Trial of Margaret Thatcher debates the policies of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a courtroom setting. The following day, Blair's Third Way looks at Tony Blair's governing style.[125]
    • From the Earth to the Moon, a thirteen-part spin-off from the film Apollo 13 made by HBO debuts on Channel 4.[120]
    • The cable-only film service Home Video Channel closes after 14 years on air.
  • 2 May – Sheena McDonald is released from hospital two months after she received severe head injuries when she was hit by a police van.[126]
  • 5 May – An inquest into the death of Rod Hull records a verdict of accidental death.[127]
  • 6–7 May – BBC One provides coverage of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, as well as the year's local elections.[128]
  • 9 May – Michael Parkinson presents the 1999 British Television Academy Awards in which the UK television industry pays tribute to the late Jill Dando. She had been due to host the ceremony alongside Parkinson, but following her death the BBC had decided not to replace her.[129]
  • 10 May – BBC network news is relaunched with new music, titles and a red and ivory set. This design is used for the 25 October relaunch of News 24, enhancing cross-channel promotion of the service.
  • 11 May
  • 14 May – Helen Rollason presents the first Friday sport bulletin on the BBC's Six O'Clock News.[132]
  • 17 May
    • The Independent Television Commission rejects a number of viewer complaints about editions of The Jerry Springer Show featuring a gay marriage and amateur strippers that aired on weekday afternoons as not being inappropriate viewing. The Commission finds that the subject of same-sex marriage was dealt with sensitively, while the episode featuring the strippers was "not explicit" because they had only removed some of their clothes. However, a complaint is upheld against Sky One's Bloody Foreigners that aired on 2 March which featured an interview with a female member of a wife-swapping club while an explicit pornographic film played on a television in the background.[133]
    • Channel 4 airs the network television premiere of Bill Condon's 1995 American horror sequel film Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, starring Tony Todd and Kelly Rowan.
  • 18 May – The BBC's Crimewatch programme broadcasts a reconstruction of presenter Jill Dando's murder. The show opens without its usual titles and music.[134]
  • 19 May – ITV airs the first British Soap Awards, which are presented by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. The Awards ceremony had been recorded the previous weekend.[135]
  • 20 May
    • The first Pride of Britain Awards, an annual event launched by The Mirror newspaper to honour ordinary people who have acted bravely or extraordinarily in challenging situations is presented by Carol Vorderman at London's Dorchester Hotel.[136][137] The Awards are such a success that ITV agrees to screen the second event the following year.[138]
    • The broadcasters union BECTU condemns plans to air a Party election broadcast by the far right British National Party due to be shown on 21 May and says it will support any of its members who refuse to work on the broadcast.[139] The BNP has been allocated a party political broadcast slot for the forthcoming European election after fielding enough candidates to qualify for free airtime during the election campaign.[139] The Independent Television Commission receives seven complaints from viewers that the BNP should not have been allowed to air their views, but the Commission later rules that none of its rules were breached because the broadcast did not mention race or immigration and to ban the BNP from television on principle would be undemocratic.[105]
  • 21 May – The funeral of Jill Dando is held in her home town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset. Although the service itself is private, footage is relayed to a crowd gathered in the town's Ellensborough Park East.[140]
  • 24 May – The Digital Spy website reports that UK Gold 2 is to have its broadcasting hours extended from 1 June. The channel has operated on a limited basis, airing on Fridays to Sundays from 6pm to 2am, but will become a daily service.[141]
  • 25 May – Bostock's Cup a single comedy-drama about a fictional football team winning the 1974 FA Cup Final airs on ITV.[142][143][144]
  • 26 May
    • Following a ten-day trial at London's Snaresbrook Crown Court, former London's Burning actor John Alford is jailed for nine months after being convicted of supplying cocaine and cannabis resin to an undercover reporter. He has been the victim of a sting by a tabloid newspaper, a factor taken into account in his sentencing.[145] He is released from prison six weeks later.[146]
    • 19 million viewers see Manchester United complete The Treble by beating Bayern Munich 2–1 in injury time in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona.[147]
  • 27 May – The Broadcasting Standards Commission upholds several viewer complaints about an episode of EastEnders aired on Valentine's Day that featured the killing of the character Saskia Duncan which the watchdog rules was too graphic to be shown before the watershed when the content could be seen by children.[148]
  • 28 May – The BBC have signed a deal to air the network television premiere of Titanic.
  • 29 May – Sweden's Charlotte Nilsson wins the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem with "Take Me to Your Heaven".

June edit

  • 1 June
    • ITN's Bill Neely sends a report from the Albania-Kosovo border as NATO aircraft mistakenly bomb Albanian army forces on the Albanian side of the border, destroying a guard box.[149]
    • The educational channel BBC Knowledge goes on the air.[150]
    • Debut of ITV's gritty prison drama Bad Girls, a series set in a high security women's prison.[151]
  • 4 June – ITV airs the final edition of the 1999 series of Play Your Cards Right, the last of the current run since the series was revived in 1994. It will be revived again in 2002 but axed again a year later.[152]
  • 5 June – Ian Moor wins the tenth series of Stars in Their Eyes, performing as Chris De Burgh.[153]
  • 6 June – Six TV, Britain's sixth and last free-to-air terrestrial analogue local channel, broadcast on UHF under a Restricted Television Service Licence, launches in both Oxfordshire and Southampton as the Oxford channel in Oxfordshire and the Southampton channel in Hampshire.[154]
  • 7 June – A study by the Broadcasting Standards Commission finds an increase in the number of viewer complaints about the amount of sex on television. Among those surveyed, the number feeling there was too much sex on television rose from 32% in 1997 to 38% in 1998.[155]
  • 8 June – The BBC axes the Hale and Pace entertainment series h&p@bbc due to poor ratings. The series was planned to "hilariously interact" with the public.[156]
  • 10 June – BBC One announces that the short-lived The Vanessa Show which was at the centre of a fake guests controversy earlier in the year, will be axed. The final edition will air on 23 July.[157]
  • 13 June
    • S Club 7, stars of the BBC children's television series Miami 7, reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their debut single "Bring It All Back".[158]
    • Changing Places, the Heartbeat spin-off starring Nick Berry that takes his character, PC Nick Rowan, to Canada after Berry left the series, receives its debut on ITV.[159]
  • 19 June – The wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor.[160]
  • 20 June – The BBC broadcasts live cricket for the final time for more than 20 years when it shows live coverage of the 1999 Cricket World Cup Final, bringing to an end sixty years of continuous cricket coverage on the BBC. The terrestrial rights now transfer to Channel 4.[161]
  • 22 June – The Independent Television Commission criticises Channel 4 for failing to warn viewers about the level of explicit sex scenes in its controversial gay drama, Queer as Folk. Concern is also expressed about the series first episode which included a scene portraying the seduction of a teenager below the age of consent by an older gay male, but says the content did not breach broadcasting regulations.[162]
  • 24 June – The Broadcasting Standards Commission rejects viewer complaints about the second series of BBC One drama The Lakes which had featured sexual violence, rape and a relationship between a Roman Catholic priest and a member of his congregation, saying the programme "had not exceeded acceptable boundaries".[163]
  • 25 June – It is announced that Pearson TV chairman Greg Dyke will succeed John Birt as Director-General of the BBC from April 2000.[164]
  • 28 June
    • BBC One airs the last episode in the original run of its time-travelling comedy series Goodnight Sweetheart.[165] It returns in 2016 for a one-off special as part of the BBC's 60th anniversary of comedy celebrations.[166]
    • Ulster Television launches TV You (later UTV2).
  • 30 June – Janet Street-Porter, pioneer of "yoof" television at the BBC, is appointed as editor of The Independent on Sunday, her first major role in print journalism.[167]

July edit

  • 1 July
    • BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time from Birmingham featuring Leader of the Opposition William Hague as the sole panelist.[168]
    • Channel 4 starts broadcasting cricket following the channel sensationally obtaining the rights from the BBC the previous year.[161]
  • 3 July – FilmFour will launch an interactive service similar to Digital Teletext, the website Digital Spy reports.[169]
  • 5 July – BBC One Controller Peter Salmon has commissioned a World in Action-style investigative series to air as part of the Autumn schedule. The as-yet untitled programme is being developed by several members of the team who formerly worked for the now defunct ITV programme.[170]
  • 6 July
    • BBC Director-General John Birt warns that the increase in paid for digital television could lead to a "knowledge underclass" if public service broadcasters such as the BBC do not remain universally available.[171]
    • ITV unveils its first Autumn schedule since moving News at Ten to a later time slot. Highlights include a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, written by Alan Bleasdale that will attempt to update the character of Fagin, moving him away from the Ron Moody interpretation that is often associated with the story.[172]
  • 8 July
    • Singer Robbie Williams will appear in a TV advert aimed at raising awareness of testicular cancer, it is reported.[173]
    • BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time from London with Prime Minister Tony Blair as its sole panelist.[174]
  • 9 July – Carlton Cinema has signed a deal with MGM.
  • 14 July – Debut of BBC One's groundbreaking series The Secret Life of Twins.[175]
  • 15 July – US crime drama The Sopranos makes its British television debut on Channel 4.[176][177]
  • 16 July
    • BBC One airs the Two Ronnies Night, an evening of programmes paying tribute to The Two Ronnies, Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker. The evening sees the two comedians reunited on screen for the first time since Christmas Day 1987.[178]
    • Channel 4 announces the axing of the highly acclaimed Trial and Error, a series that investigates miscarriages of justice which it feels is outdated. The final edition looking at the murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins airs on 26 July.[179]
    • Channel 4 launches its Over the Moon season to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing. The season includes Real Time Apollo, a five-day broadcast of footage of the Moon mission, airing at roughly the same time events happened in 1969. The programme also features interviews with Buzz Aldrin who took part in the mission.[180]
  • 17 July – Debut of Channel 4's Late Night Poker,[181] a series which helps to popularise poker in the 2000s and developed a cult following.[182] The programme includes under table cameras allowing viewers to view players cards that are hidden from the others taking part in the game and is unique in that participants are allowed to smoke on air.[183]
  • 19 July – Channel 4 airs an evening of programmes about space ahead of the Moon landing anniversary.[184]
  • 22 July – Test cricket coverage debuts on Channel 4 with an updated format and new presenters.[185]
  • 23 July
    • The Queen unveils a bronze statue of Eric Morecambe at a ceremony in the Lancashire town of Morecambe, the comedian's home town from which he took his stage name, fifteen years after his death.[186]
    • Channel 4 has commissioned Projector Productions to make a £2 million feature-length adaptation of the children's fairytale Cinderella to be aired over Christmas.[187]
    • Broadcast magazine reports that Teletext Ltd's plans for a digital teletext service have been put back by delays in software development to support the service on the ONdigital platform.[188]
  • 24 July – Goodness Gracious Me Night, an evening of programming dedicated to the Asian comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me airs on BBC Two.[189]
  • 27 July – Cable TV operator NTL buys its largest rival, Cable & Wireless Communications, for £8.2bn.[190]
  • 30 July

August edit

  • 1 August
  • 2 August – It is announced that ITV has signed the BBC sports presenter Des Lynam on a four-year contract. He is to become the company's main football presenter.[195]
  • 3 August – Liza Tarbuck is chosen to replace Kelly Brook as co-presenter of The Big Breakfast.[196][197]
  • 5 August
  • 6 August – ITV axes two programmes from its primetime Monday night slot because of falling ratings. Tested to Destruction presented by Carol Vorderman and documentary series The Sexual Century debuted at 9pm and 9:30pm respectively on 26 July, but will be replaced from 9 August and aired elsewhere in the schedule.[200]
  • 8 August
    • The Sunday Telegraph reports that former player Gary Lineker has signed a £500,000 five-year contract to become the BBC's new face of football coverage following the departure of Des Lynam.[201] Lineker will remain in this role for more than 20 years.
    • Noel Edmonds announces he is leaving the BBC because its programmes are "too boring". His contract with the Corporation expires in March 2000 and he will present two further shows before his departure, an August Bank Holiday special and Noel's Christmas Presents Unwrapped.[202]
  • 9 August – Helen Rollason who in 1990 became the first female presenter on BBC One's Grandstand, dies aged 43, following a two-year battle with cancer.[203][204]
  • 11 August – BBC One and Channel 5 show live coverage of the 1999 solar eclipse. It is not shown live on the ITV network, but in the only region where the eclipse is total, Westcountry Television, just weeks away from losing its on-screen identity, opts out and provides its own coverage.[205]
  • 12 August – The BBC programme complaints unit rules that jokes about speech impediments made by comedian Frank Skinner on an edition of his BBC One chat show on 20 May were "insensitive".[206]
  • 13 August – Following a successful month-long trial, Cable & Wireless Communications begins offering its customers email and internet services through their television sets.[207]
  • 16 August – The US version of ITV's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? debuts on ABC with Regis Philbin as host. The show's success leads to an increase in interest in UK game shows from American producers.[208][209]
  • 19 August – Claims by The Sun that it has obtained a document detailing EastEnders plotlines for the forthcoming year have been dismissed by the show's producers.[210]
  • 22 August – Sky Sports Xtra launches, initially as an interactive service.[211]
  • 24 August – BBC One airs Helen Rollason: The Bravest Fight, a 30-minute documentary presented by Peter Sissons in which friends and colleagues pay tribute to her.[212][213]
  • 24 August - The final edition of The Cook Report airs on ITV.
  • 27 August – The BBC names Gordon Brewer and Anne Mackenzie as the presenters of Newsnight Scotland, BBC Two's forthcoming Newsnight opt-out for Scottish viewers.[214]
  • 31 August – The BBC unveils plans to create separate television, radio and online news services for four new regions in London and the South East.[215]

September edit

  • 1 September – Launch of Nick Jr., the UK's first television channel dedicated to viewers under the age of seven.[216]
  • 2 September
    • Comedian Frank Skinner has been dropped by the BBC after demanding a reported £20 million to stay with the network.[217]
    • ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald that launched earlier in the year, is to be cut from an hour to 45 minutes and moved from Thursdays to Wednesdays. ITV says this is to make way for documentaries and drama in the Thursday slot.[218]
  • 3 September – An updated version of the classic slapstick game show It's a Knockout makes its Channel 5 debut with Keith Chegwin taking on the presenting role. He is joined by Frank Bruno, Lucy Alexander and Nell McAndrew.[219][220] Two series are aired over the following 18 months before Channel 5 announce in April 2001 that they have no plans to commission more series.[221]
  • 5 September – ITV debuts Springer on Sunday, a one-off David Letterman-style chat show presented by Jerry Springer. Guests include Robbie Coltrane, Glenda Jackson and Tom Jones.[222][223]
  • 6 September
    • The ITV London Weekday franchise Carlton drops the on-air branding of the Central and Westcountry ITV regions, replacing them both with Carlton.[224]
    • CITV show Art Attack is now broadcast twice weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays.
    • Diagnosis Murder, a US comedy/mystery/medical drama series starring Dick Van Dyke, makes its BBC One debut.[225]
    • Debut of ITV's daytime topical discussion show, Loose Women,[226] originally from Norwich. The show will pass its 3000th episode in 2018.
    • The popular children's programme Tweenies makes its debut on BBC2 at 10:30am and again at 3:25pm on BBC1.[227]
  • 7 September
    • A man is arrested by police after using a coffee table to smash his way through a plate glass window into the BBC newsroom at White City as journalists were preparing for the 11am bulletin. The intruder also hurled computers and furniture in what is reported to be a protest against the BBC's coverage of a story. The broadcaster launches an inquiry into the incident, after security was tightened at the BBC in the wake of Jill Dando's murder earlier in the year.[228][229][230][231]
    • Channel 5 airs the network television premiere of Roland Emmerich's 1996 science-fiction epic film Independence Day, giving the broadcaster an average audience of 4.98 million (24%) and peaking at 5.5 million (25%) at 10pm, its largest to date.[232]
  • 9 September – Debut of the ITV documentary series The Second World War in Colour which marks sixty years since the start of the conflict, showing rare colour footage of World War II which has taken ten years to collate. The series is narrated by the actor John Thaw.[233][234]
  • 11 September – The first of Channel 4's '100 Greatest' programmes air, starting with 100 Greatest TV Moments.
  • 13 September – Blackadder Back and Forth, a new installment of the Blackadder comedy series will be part of the exhibition at the Millennium Dome from January 2000. The episode will receive its television debut on Sky in 2001 with the BBC also planning to show it.[235] The episode is part of "Skyscape", the Sky-sponsored entertainment venue at the Dome, something which has led to some confusion over who owns the broadcasting rights to the series that made its debut on the BBC.[236]
  • 15 September
    • S4C2 launches.[237] It broadcasts coverage of the National Assembly for Wales and extended coverage of events being shown on S4C.[238][239]
    • A police officer is charged with driving without due care and attention over the accident that left newsreader Sheena McDonald in hospital earlier in the year.[240][241]
  • 16 September – The first episode of the British-Canadian children's stop-motion animated series Rotten Ralph begins on BBC One with "Happy Birthday Rotten Ralph".
  • 19 September – ITV airs Clive James's Postcard from... Havana, a documentary in which Clive James visits Cuba and investigates the impact Communism has on the ordinary lives of Cubans forty years after the Cuban Revolution.[242][243][244]
  • 20 September
  • 21 September – The US animated sitcoms Futurama and Family Guy both debut in the UK on Sky One.
  • 23 September – Launch of BBC Text, the service which was renamed BBCi in 2001 and BBC Red Button in 2008, 25 years after the launch of the Ceefax service.[246]
  • 24 September – Channel 4's cult sitcom Spaced airs its first episode.
  • 25 September – Addressing clergy at a conference in Lancashire, The Right Reverend Allan Chesters, Bishop of Blackburn, criticises soaps such as Coronation Street for their high divorce rates.[247]
  • 26 September – Channel 4 broadcasts the network television premiere of Mary Reilly, starring Julia Roberts.
  • 27 September
  • 28 September – A service of thanksgiving is held for Jill Dando at All Soul's Church in Langham Place, London which is attended by family, friends and colleagues.[249] The service includes a special address from BBC Director-General John Birt.[250]
  • 29 September – The European Commission rejects a complaint from BSkyB that the licence fee funding of BBC News 24 is illegal under EU law because it amounts to state funding.[251]
  • 30 September
    • The BBC announces details of 2000 to 1, a unique quiz for the millennium that will give one person the chance to win a year off work with prize money equivalent to double their annual salary. The show, presented by Gary Lineker will air through December with the winner being decided on New Year's Eve.[252][253]
    • The Broadcasting Standards Commission upholds 28 complaints about Channel 4's drama Psychos which aired in May, finding that the series reinforced stereotypes and prejudice towards people with mental health problems.[254]

October edit

  • 1 October – Sky MovieMax 5 is launched.[255]
  • 1 October–6 November – ITV provides coverage of the 1999 Rugby World Cup, hosted for the second time by several countries. Wales are the main host, but many matches are played in England, Scotland, Ireland and France.
  • 2 October – The Mirror's Matthew Wright reports that a recent Coronation Street storyline involving the death of the character Judy Mallett, played by Gaynor Faye, has helped to save the life of a woman who sought medical help after watching the episode in which Judy died of a blood clot in her leg following a car crash. The unnamed woman had recently been involved in a motoring accident herself and was experiencing leg pain that she had attributed to bruising. She subsequently attended hospital where doctors diagnosed a blood clot.[256]
  • 4 October
    • Launch of Newsnight Scotland, the BBC Scotland opt-out of the main Newsnight programme on BBC Two.[257][258]
    • BBC Wales unveils a new look for its news programmes with new sets and titles.[259]
    • The BBC have agreed a deal with Welsh broadcaster S4C to screen Welsh language episodes of Teletubbies.[260]
    • HTV Wales launches the soap Nuts and Bolts, a series set in the South Wales Valleys which airs at 7pm. The Independent Television Commission later upholds nine viewer complaints against the programme because some of its content was inappropriate for airing before the watershed. HTV subsequently airs a later episode of the series containing similar content at 10pm.[261]
  • 4 October–8 November – The six-part documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs airs on BBC One, using computer-generated imagery and animatronics to show life in the Mesozoic era.[262][263][264] Figures issued on 20 October by the Broadcasters Audience Research Board indicate that the first episode was watched by 18.9 million viewers, making it the all-time most watched science programme in the UK and the BBC's 19th most watched programme of all time. 15 million see the episode on 4 October, while a further 3.91 million watch the repeat on 10 October.[265]
  • 6 October – ITV airs the network television premiere of the 1996 disaster film Twister, starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt.
  • 7 October – Gimme Some Truth, a 56-minute documentary featuring unseen footage of John Lennon is set to be aired on British television. Work has recently been completed on the project, but a deal to broadcast it is yet to be agreed.[266] The film is ultimately shown on BBC Two on 13 February 2000.[267]
  • 8 October – The BBC prepares itself for a backlash from EastEnders viewers after a murder trial in the soap ends in a wrongful conviction. The character Matthew Rose is found guilty of the manslaughter of Saskia Duncan, but the killing was actually carried out by Steve Owen who walks free.[268] The episode prompts a tabloid newspaper campaign to free Rose who is dubbed "The Walford One". Joe Absolom who plays the character, announces a few days later his intention to leave the show at the end of the year, although he will be seen on screen until February 2000.[269]
  • 11 October – Debut of BBC One's The Major Years, a three-part documentary about the premiership of former Prime Minister John Major.[270][271]
  • 12 October – Launch of Open, the UK's first interactive television shopping channel available to Sky Digital subscribers. Viewers can access services from several high street retailers, including WHSmith, Dixons and HSBC.[272]
  • 14 October – BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time recorded in Sydney, Australia, ahead of the country's republic referendum.[273]
  • 15 October – TNT Classic Movies is replaced with TCM. Also on this day is the launch of the short-lived analogue version of TNT.
  • 18 October – Sheena McDonald presents the 1999 Gramophone Awards, her first public appearance since her accident in February.[274]
  • 19 October – At a hearing at London's Horseferry Road Magistrates Court, a media studies student who went on the rampage in the BBC newsroom the previous month pleads guilty to affray and common assault.[275] At a subsequent hearing in March 2000, the man who was protesting against TV licence charges and planned to tackle Greg Dyke on the issue, is ordered to be detained indefinitely at a psychiatric hospital because of ongoing mental health problems.[276]
  • 21 October – L!VE TV is expected to close after emerges that Mirror Group Newspapers are in negotiations with NTL to sell the channel.[277]
  • 24 October – Debut of the BBC Two documentary series, Playing the Race Card which looks at the history of race and immigration in the United Kingdom.[278]
  • 25 October
    • Relaunch of BBC News 24 with a new set design.[279]
    • The final episode of BBC One's The Major Years shows footage of an abandoned Conservative Party political broadcast depicting Labour leader Tony Blair as Faust and Peter Mandelson as the Devil. John Major vetoed its use before the 1997 general election believing it would backfire on the Conservatives.[280]
  • 27 October – BBC Two airs the 150th edition of TOTP2.[281]
  • 29 October
    • ITV chief executive Richard Eyre is named as the new head of Pearson TV, replacing Greg Dyke in the new year.[282]
    • A racism storyline in Brookside reaches a dramatic conclusion when a thug is shown being engulfed in flames as his attempt to petrol bomb the house of a black family goes wrong.[283]
  • 31 October – TeleG is established as the first daily digital Gaelic TV channel in Scotland.[284]

November edit

  • 1 November
    • ITV has commissioned a further four editions of Springer on Sunday following the success of a pilot edition that aired earlier in the year.[223][285]
    • Channel 4 launches FilmFour magazine to accompany its subscription film channel FilmFour.[286]
    • FilmFour celebrates its first anniversary with a night of simulcast programmes with Channel 4, including the premiere of Caligula.[287]
  • 4 November
    • The BBC establishes the Helen Rollason Award, an award to be given at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony in recognition of "outstanding achievement in the face of adversity" in honour of the presenter who died in August.[288][289]
    • Following an in-depth review of BBC One programming led by BBC Director of Television Alan Yentob, the channel says it will give priority to quality programming and reduce its output of docusoaps.[290]
  • 5 November – Trinity Mirror announces the closure of L!VE TV which goes off the air on the same day.[291]
  • 6 November
  • 8 November
  • 9 November
  • 10 November – MacIntyre Uncovered, a series in which investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre goes undercover to examine issues such as football hooliganism, the fashion photography industry and private healthcare debuts on BBC One. The programme begins on the same day that he announces he is ending his undercover work because the job is becoming increasingly dangerous for him.[297]
  • 11 November
    • Bob the Builder, the popular children's stop-motion series has been sold for broadcasting in South Africa. The series will premiere on SABC2 on Thursdays at 8:40am.
    • Former Blue Peter presenter Tim Vincent is to join the cast of ITV soap Emmerdale as a vet and will be seen on screen from March 2000.[298]
  • 12 November
    • Loud Tie Day, an event to raise money for Beating Bowel Cancer, a charity founded by television presenter Lynn Faulds Wood.[299] The event, led by Chris Tarrant aims to raise £1 million for bowel cancer clinics around the UK by encouraging people to wear colourful ties to work.[300]
    • Chris Smith, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has instructed the Independent Television Commission to compile a report on the impact of ITV's decision to axe News at Ten, it has emerged.[301]
    • The BBC announce that Fiona Bruce will join Nick Ross as co-presenter of Crimewatch following Jill Dando's murder. She will appear on the show from the following January.[302]
  • 13 November
  • 14 November – On Remembrance Sunday, BBC One airs the World War I drama All the King's Men about volunteers from George V's Sandringham Estate in the 5th Norfolk Regiment which suffered heavy losses at Gallipoli in 1915. The film stars David Jason as Captain Frank Beck.[306]
  • 16 November – BBC Two begins rerunning episodes of Doctor Who, beginning with the first episode of the 1970 adventure Spearhead from Space.[305]
  • 17 November – To coincide with the release of the new James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, a special edition of BBC One's Tomorrow's World looks at the high tech gadgets that might be used by him.[307]
  • 23 November
    • BBC One airs an edition of MacIntyre Uncovered, looking at the exploitation of young girls in the fashion industry, something that leads to a row between the BBC and the Elite model agency which claims the programme was "rigged", biassed and unfair. Two executives seen making sexist and racist comments in the programme resign amid public anger, but are reinstated by the agency, although they elect to remain on gardening leave while an investigation into the matter takes place.[308][309]
    • ITV unveils its Christmas schedule which includes an episode of Heartbeat that will see singer Charlotte Church make her acting debut.[310]
  • 24 November – BBC One unveils its Winter lineup of programming which will include a remake of the 1960s television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), featuring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in the eponymous roles.[311]
  • 25 November – Sarah Lancashire is to briefly reprise her role as Coronation Street's Raquel Watts in early 2000, it is confirmed.[312]
  • 26 November – BBC One airs the 1999 Children in Need television fundraiser. By the following day it has raised £11.6m for charity.[313]
  • 28 November
    • Debut of Wives and Daughters on BBC One and Oliver Twist on ITV, two costume dramas that compete head-to-head for viewers. Provisional figures released the following day indicate ITV had the larger audience with 8.4 million watching Oliver Twist compared to 7.2 million who saw Wives and Daughters.[314]
    • BBC One airs Ruth Ellis: a Life for a Life, a drama documentary presented by Kirsty Wark that reveals new evidence that could have prevented Ruth Ellis from being the last woman to be hanged in Britain.[315]
  • 29 November – From today, children's programming is broadcast all day on BBC Choice, branded CBBC on Choice, every day from 6am until 7pm including programmes rarely seen on the main channel.
  • November – Test Card J and Test Card W debut on the BBC, replacing Test Card F which is retired after 32 years.

December edit

  • 2 December – Comedian Frank Skinner has signed a three-year deal with ITV and will take his chat show to the network.[316]
  • 3 December – Channel 5 has signed a deal with Warner Bros. International Television to show their 1999 titles from 2002. Among the films included in the deal are The Matrix, Deep Blue Sea, Message in a Bottle, Eyes Wide Shut, Wild Wild West, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Payback and Analyze This.[317]
  • 4 December – The millennium quiz 2000 to 1 debuts on BBC One with Michael Parkinson and Katy Hill presenting.[318][319]
  • 6 December – BBC One airs Stephen King: Shining in the Dark, an edition of Omnibus in which the author Stephen King talks about his life and work.[320] The programme is followed by the first part of a TV adaptation of his story The Langoliers,[321] with part two airing on 8 December.[322] The documentary is repeated on BBC Choice on 12 December.[323]
  • 7 December
    • A report published by the Broadcasting Standards Commission says that television is failing to reflect the multicultural nature of Britain with few ethnic characters seen on screen in drama and soap and viewers feeling that many that do appear are portrayed as two-dimensional and negatively stereotyped.[324][325]
    • Channel 5 broadcasts the TV movie Winter Angel, a revival of the popular 1970s BBC science-fiction series Doomwatch.[326][327]
  • 8 December
    • It is announced that Michael Starke who plays Sinbad in Brookside will leave the soap after more than a decade. He is due to exit the show in September 2000.[328]
    • BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 featuring performances by US country singer Shania Twain.[329]
  • 11 December – "Flying Without Wings" by Irish boy band Westlife wins the 1999 Record of the Year.[330]
  • 12 December – Recently retired National Hunt trainer Jenny Pitman is presented with the first Helen Rollason Award at the 1999 BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony.[331] Boxer Lennox Lewis is named as this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year[332] while boxer Muhammad Ali is named as BBC Sports Personality of the Century.[333]
  • 13 December
    • The Independent Television Commission rules that an episode of Jerry Springer UK featuring rubber fetishists that aired on 27 September was unsuitable for its 8pm timeslot.[334]
    • ITV says it has unearthed colour footage of World War I and plans to make a follow-up documentary to its popular series The Second World War in Colour. The channel has also commissioned a raft of historical documentaries for the 10pm slot.[335]
    • Campaign Live reports that Carlton Communications plc have decided to close their general entertainment channel Carlton Select which airs old terrestrial TV content.[336]
  • 16 December – Channel 4 signs a £100 million deal to regain the rights to show US TV series Friends and ER which it has shared with Sky One since 1996. The deal means new episodes of both series will make their British terrestrial debut on Channel 4 from 2001, instead of the current arrangement where Sky is allowed to show them first.[337]
  • 19 December – Charlotte Church makes her acting debut in an episode of Heartbeat.[338]
  • 22 December
  • 24 December – Ian Woodley becomes the first person on British television to win a million pounds on a segment of the Channel 4 show TFI Friday called Someone's Going to be a Millionaire, a reference to ITV's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? which at the time has not had a million pound winner but eventually will in November the following year.[344]
  • 25 December
    • Christmas Day highlights on BBC One include the network television premiere of the adventure fantasy Jumanji.[345] Hooves of Fire, the first Robbie the Reindeer adventure, also premieres on the channel.[346]
    • ITV beats BBC One in the Christmas Day ratings for the first time since 1984, airing a mixture of soaps, the drama A Touch of Frost and three episodes of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Coronation Street is the most viewed programme with an audience of 14.74 million. However, although ITV has the largest number of viewers for peak viewing, in terms of figures for the overall day, BBC One has the larger percentage of audience share.[347]
    • Channel 4 airs the controversial modern opera Powder Her Face based on the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. The work which includes a scene depicting oral sex is broadcast from 8:40pm in order to time the explicit content to appear after the 9pm watershed.[348]
  • 26 December – Boxing Day highlights on BBC One include Mission: Impossible, a 1996 film produced by and starring Tom Cruise.[349]
  • 27 December
    • The network television debut of Spice World on BBC One.[350]
    • ITV has decided to air a documentary about the Krays in which former gangster Freddie Foreman confesses to a murder he committed for the gang in 1966. The Krays – Unfinished Business is scheduled to air on 10 January 2000.[351]
  • 29 December – Along with other terrestrial and satellite networks, the BBC simulcasts the "What is it like to lose someone?" ad campaign, featuring the parents of a young woman killed by a drink driver. The advert which explores the couple's grief over the loss of their daughter is part of a new Millennium Drink-Drive campaign.
  • 31 December
    • Over 60 countries take part in 2000 Today, a programme seeing in the start of the new millennium. In the UK, the 28-hour marathon show is shown on BBC One and hosted by Michael Parkinson, Gaby Roslin and David Dimbleby.[352]
    • Motivation expert John Mitchell wins the BBC One quiz 2000 to 1 after a tie-breaker in which his opponent answers a question incorrectly. He wins £70,000 and a year off work.[353][354]
    • On ITV, Trevor McDonald and Dermot Murnaghan present Countdown 2000, a programme showing key events from around the UK and the rest of the world as nations welcome in the new millennium.[355]

Undated edit

Debuts edit

BBC edit

ITV (Including ITV and ITV2) edit

Channel 4 edit

Channel 5 edit

Channels edit

New channels edit

Date Channel
1 June BBC Knowledge
6 June Six TV (Oxford & Southampton)
1 July VH1 Classic
MTV Base
MTV Extra
1 September Nick Jr.
Nickelodeon Replay
15 September S4C2
15 October TCM
18 October The Hallmark Channel
31 October TeleG (Scotland)

Defunct channels edit

Date Channel
30 April Sky Soap
1 May Home Video Channel
15 October TNT Classic Movies
5 November L!VE TV

Television shows edit

Changes of network affiliation edit

Shows Moved from Moved to
It's a Knockout BBC One Channel 5

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

Ending this year edit

Births edit

Deaths edit

Date Name Age Cinematic Credibility
9 February Bryan Mosley[3] 67 actor (Alf Roberts in Coronation Street)
24 February Derek Nimmo[360] 68 character actor
17 March Rod Hull[361] 63 entertainer
21 March Ernie Wise[85] 73 surviving half of UK comedy duo, Morecambe and Wise
2 April Andrew Gardner[362] 66 newsreader
4 April Bob Peck[363] 53 actor (Ronald Craven in Edge of Darkness)
14 April Anthony Newley[364] 67 actor, singer and songwriter
26 April Jill Dando[114][365] 37 presenter (co-host of Crimewatch)
6 May Johnny Morris[366] 82 presenter (Animal Magic)
23 June Buster Merryfield[367] 78 actor (Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses)
25 June Fred Feast[368] 69 actor (Fred Gee in Coronation Street)
4 July Jack Watson[369] 78 actor
12 July Bill Owen[370] 85 actor (Compo Simmonite in Last of the Summer Wine)
9 August Helen Rollason[371] 43 sports journalist and television presenter
10 August Jennifer Paterson[372] 70 celebrity chef and television presenter, one half of the Two Fat Ladies
1 October Lena Zavaroni[373] 35 child singer and television presenter
7 October Deryck Guyler[374] 85 actor (Please Sir!, Sykes)
21 November Quentin Crisp[375] 90 writer and raconteur
24 November Hilary Minster 55 actor (General Von Klinkerhoffen in 'Allo 'Allo!)
19 December Robert Dougall[376] 86 newsreader
Desmond Llewelyn[377] 85 actor
25 December Peter Jeffrey[378] 70 actor
Unknown Jim Wiggins[379] 76–77 actor

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This is a list of British television related events from 1999 List of years in British television table 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science Contents 1 Events 1 1 January 1 2 February 1 3 March 1 4 April 1 5 May 1 6 June 1 7 July 1 8 August 1 9 September 1 10 October 1 11 November 1 12 December 1 13 Undated 2 Debuts 2 1 BBC 2 2 ITV Including ITV and ITV2 2 3 Channel 4 2 4 Channel 5 3 Channels 3 1 New channels 3 2 Defunct channels 4 Television shows 4 1 Changes of network affiliation 4 2 Returning this year after a break of one year or longer 5 Ending this year 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksEvents editJanuary edit 1 January New Year s Day highlights on BBC One include Apollo 13 1 Denise van Outen presents her final edition of The Big Breakfast although she will return in September of the following year 2 In Coronation Street four decade resident Alf Roberts dies of a heart attack just one month before the real life death of Bryan Mosley the actor who had portrayed him since his debut in 1961 3 3 4 January BBC One airs a two part adaptation of Andy McNab s book Bravo Two Zero starring Sean Bean as McNab and set during the Gulf War 4 5 4 January GMTV2 launches during the breakfast downtime of ITV2 6 Debut of The Vanessa Show with Vanessa Feltz on BBC One 7 Australian children s drama Misery Guts begins to air on BBC One 8 Canadian television series for preschoolers Polka Dot Shorts begins to air in the UK on BBC Two The series is so popular in the UK it continues airing on the BBC for 6 years until 2004 and a range of videos of the series is released by Abbey Home Media Debut of Canadian science fiction drama television series First Wave on Sky One starring Sebastian Spence 5 January Provisional viewing figures suggest that an episode of ITV s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire aired on 3 January was watched by 17 million viewers making it the highest viewed television programme excluding soaps and World Cup matches since 1997 9 As he prepares to launch a new series of Parkinson broadcaster Michael Parkinson criticises his chat show rival footballer Ian Wright telling BBC Radio 5 Live s Sybil Ruscoe that Wright has a careless attitude and does not have the understanding to do his job properly 10 6 January In a stunt organised by the recently launched lads magazine Front television presenter Noel Edmonds is hit in the face with two custard pies while filming for Noel s House Party in London s Oxford Street 11 A Broadcasting Standards Commission survey indicates that many viewers believe sex is used on television in order to boost ratings 12 7 January BBC One airs the network television premiere of Braveheart Mel Gibson s 1995 historical drama about the late 13th century warrior William Wallace who led the Scots which leading the clans in the fight for Scottish independence it also stars Patrick McGoohan Brendan Gleeson Catherine McCormack and Sophie Marceau in her first English language appearance 8 January Teenage model Kelly Brook is chosen to replace Denise van Outen as co host of Channel 4 s The Big Breakfast alongside Johnny Vaughan 13 14 Nita Desai played by Rebecca Sarker arrives in Coronation Street to take over from Ashley Peacock Steven Arnold as manager of the corner shop She is the first member of the Desai family the soap s first Asian family to be seen on screen 15 Debut of the sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme on BBC Two starring Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus 10 January ITV replaces its long running Sunday morning church service broadcast Morning Worship with a new religious magazine programme Sunday Morning which includes a short service The first venue for the programme is Frinton Free Church in Frinton on Sea Essex 16 ITV begins a six part adaptation of Bill Bryson s Notes from a Small Island 17 11 January The black comedy show The League of Gentlemen debuts on BBC Two 18 Along with The Fast Show and Goodness Gracious Me it is credited with boosting international interest in British comedy series 19 12 January Debut of the Casualty spin off Holby City on BBC One Among the cast are several former soap stars including Michael French Angela Griffin Nicola Stephenson and Lisa Faulkner 20 21 Airline returns to ITV for a second series with EasyJet now as the featured company 13 January BBC One s audience share drops below 30 for the first time 22 16 January ITV s On the Ball has been recommissioned for a second run for the 1999 2000 football season despite getting off to a slow start The Mirror newspaper reports 23 19 January ITV s This Morning becomes the first programme on British television to show men how to check themselves for signs of testicular cancer 24 Carlton Communications has spent 91 million on a library of 300 films from Universal Studios The titles which were part of the ITC Television library include The Eagle Has Landed The Big Easy Sophie s Choice Thunderbirds The Saint Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Jesus of Nazareth 25 Claire King makes her final regular appearance as Emmerdale character Kim Tate after a decade with the series 26 Following a two decades long absence from the soap in September 2018 ITV confirms King will reprise the role for a special week of episodes from 8 October 2018 27 20 January The UK government says no political pressure was applied to the BBC over its decision not to give Scotland a separate version of the Six O Clock News 28 ITV announce that Michael Nicholson and Jonathan Maitland will join Trevor McDonald to present a new current affairs programme for the network 29 Channel 4 defends a segment on today s edition of The Big Breakfast in which guest presenter Jenny McCarthy assumes a number of suggestive poses as she playsa Guess the Balls game with footballer Vinnie Jones The item appears at 8 30am when the content can be viewed by children but a Channel 4 spokesman tells Scotland s Daily Record that Jenny McCarthy s performance within this criteria has been stunning and we see no areas where she has let us or the public down this week 30 The Broadcasting Standards Commission upholds viewer complaints against the TV series Compromising Situations aired on Channel 5 as well as the film Centerfold which the network aired in Summer 1998 Channel 5 is also criticised by the BSC for making sexually explicit material available on free to air television 31 21 January ITV and Channel 4 sign a deal with Metro Goldwyn Mayer 27 January After upholding four viewer complaints about Compromising Situations a late night erotic anthology series aired on Channel 5 the Broadcasting Standards Commission warns that erotic content on the channel could lead to soft porn being shown on mainstream television The Commission expresses the opinion that complaints about Compromising Situations and another series Hot Line raises significant issues for public debate The ruling leads to a row between the Commission and Channel 5 with its Chief Executive David Elstein comparing the reprimand to the 1960 prosecution of Penguin Books over its publication of Lady Chatterley s Lover 32 33 29 January Channel 5 airs episode 480 of Family Affairs which sees the entire Hart family killed in a boat explosion The episode marks a change in direction for the soap which is to move from its riverside location to west London 34 35 February edit 1 February Kelly Brook takes over from Denise van Outen as co presenter of Channel 4 s The Big Breakfast 36 37 The Channel 4 Political Awards is broadcast for the first time 2 February As Glenn Hoddle is sacked as England football manager following the controversy over comments he made during a recent interview it is revealed his 13 year old daughter Zara wrote to the BBC s Ceefax asking people to leave Hoddle alone to get on with his job 38 39 3 February It is reported that Martini is to sign a 1 million contract with ITV to sponsor a season of James Bond films The channel is planning to screen all 18 Bond films beginning with GoldenEye in March then broadcasting them in chronological order from Dr No to Tomorrow Never Dies 40 GoldenEye airs at 8 30 pm on 10 March 41 Dr No is screened on 29 May 42 Tomorrow Never Dies makes its television debut on 13 October 43 44 The US romantic comedy drama Sex and the City makes its British television debut on Channel 4 45 8 February Following a five week trial at Manchester Crown Court former Central News reporter John Caine is convicted of sexually abusing underage boys over a period of two decades and jailed for five and a half years 46 11 February Three members of production staff are suspended from BBC One s The Vanessa Show following reports in The Mirror that fake guests appeared on the programme 47 They are later sacked following an internal inquiry 48 12 February ITV s Trisha show is caught up in a fake guests controversy after it emerges that the agent who supplied guests to the rival Vanessa Show did the same for Trisha but the show s editor Sally Ann Howard denies any of her team were aware that the guests were fakes 49 13 February BBC One airs Face Value the 250th episode of Casualty 50 18 February ITV screens the Granada Television film The Murder of Stephen Lawrence a dramatisation of the aftermath of the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence told from the point of view of his parents 51 21 February US Canadian animated series for preschoolers Salty s Lighthouse which uses footage taken from the children s model animated series that was originally broadcast on ITV is shown on Channel 4 for the first time in the UK At the same time it is also the second time Tugs is shown in its homeland 23 February Channel 4 debuts Russell T Davies s groundbreaking series Queer as Folk 52 53 25 February The BBC announces that Noel s House Party will be axed after eight years The most recent edition of the show drew an audience of less than six million and it will finish when its current run ends on 20 March 54 The Broadcasting Standards Commission upholds a complaint about a feature in the Teletext games magazine Digitiser from 26 October 1998 The gossip column Gossi the Dog had alluded to Gossi s master thrashing the talking cartoon dog with a belt 55 26 February Channel 4 News presenter Sheena McDonald is in intensive care after receiving head injuries when she was hit by a police van on an emergency call in north London 56 57 58 Channel 4 is fined 150 000 by the Independent Television Commission for including fake scenes in Too Much Too Young Chickens a documentary about rent boys in Glasgow that aired in 1997 The fine is the first such penalty imposed on Channel 4 59 March edit 4 March BBC Prime is launched for the first time in South Africa 5 March After 32 years what is billed as the last ever News at Ten is broadcast on ITV hosted as usual by Trevor McDonald 41 It is replaced with a 6 30pm bulletin the ITV Evening News and an 11pm programme ITV Nightly News from the following Monday 60 61 In the event News at Ten returns in 2001 62 is axed again in 2004 63 and resurrected in 2008 64 It is restored as a five nights a week programme from March 2009 65 This day also sees the final broadcast of the ITV Evening News in its long running 5 40pm slot 66 The changes at ITV also prompt other broadcasters to review their news scheduling with Sky News and BBC News 24 both launch 10pm bulletins to fill the gap left by News at Ten while Channel 5 reschedules its evening news bulletin to 6pm Channel 4 News is also relaunched 61 67 7 March BBC Two airs the final episode of the 1993 series of Grange Hill concluding a Sunday morning rerun of the first 16 series of the school drama which began in April 1993 68 69 8 12 March ITV s first week without News at Ten includes the network television premieres of two films GoldenEye and The Specialist an episode of Kavanagh QC and a series of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 70 8 March Following the introduction of the ITV Evening News UTV s evening news programme UTV Live is brought forward by half an hour to start at 5 30pm The first half hour sees feature reports light hearted stories and the weather forecast branded as part of a separate programme UTV Life which runs before the main evening news which starts at 6pm and keeps the UTV Live name 9 March A contestant who won 125 000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire despite answering a question incorrectly will be allowed to keep his prize money it is reported The error occurred after researchers matched the wrong answer with a question about tennis but the mistake was quickly spotted by viewers Celador which produces the show says it will review its checking procedure 71 10 March Carlton Television buys Bob Geldof s production company Planet 24 in a deal City analysts believe to be worth 15 million 72 The Vanessa Show is interrupted by a male streaker The lads magazine Front later claims responsibility for the stunt 73 11 March Reports that new The Big Breakfast presenter Kelly Brook is struggling with her presenting role are laughed off by the programme after an email from its assistant producer suggested the number of big words in her script should be limited was leaked to the media 74 12 March This year s Comic Relief telethon includes a Doctor Who parody featuring Rowan Atkinson as The Doctor Julia Sawalha as his sidekick and Jonathan Pryce as The Master 75 The 29 minute sketch written by Steven Moffat also includes the first female version of The Doctor portrayed by Joanna Lumley 76 A special episode of The Vicar of Dibley includes cameo appearances by Johnny Depp and Sarah Duchess of York 77 15 March Debut of the BBC One prison documentary series Jailbirds a ten part series that looks at life inside New Hall women s prison in West Yorkshire 78 Provisional viewing figures released for the first week of ITV s schedule changes indicate the channel enjoyed a 5 increase in ratings ITV says it is pleased with the results but expects the figures to drop again following the initial interest in its new lineup 79 The BBC children s programme Teletubbies goes on the air in Japan 80 16 March The NSPCC launches its new full stop advertising campaign which shows different objects of childhood heroes shielding their eyes as children s voices are heard being abused It is broadcast after the 9 00pm watershed as a shock tactic to break people s complacency part of the largest campaign ever undertaken by a charity and the beginning of a long term strategy to end violence against children 17 March Entertainer Rod Hull dies after falling from the roof of his house while trying to adjust a television aerial 81 The Surfer advertisement for Guinness first airs on ITV 82 An attempt by BSkyB to buy Manchester United F C is rejected by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission 83 To celebrate the recently aired 250th episode of Casualty BBC One airs Casualty 250 the Full Medical a documentary in which Gaby Roslin looks back at the show s history Later the same evening sees a repeat of Gas the very first episode from 1986 84 20 March The network television premiere of Roger Donaldson s 1995 American science fiction horror Species on ITV starring Michael Madsen Marg Helgenberger Forest Whitaker Ben Kingsley and Natasha Henstridge The final episode of Noel s House Party is shown on BBC One 21 March Ernie Wise the surviving half of the beloved comedy duo Morecambe and Wise dies of a heart attack aged 73 following ongoing heart trouble 85 22 March It is announced that The Jack Docherty Show will end after two years as host Jack Docherty is to leave Channel 5 He says the show has burned out and is running out of guests The final edition airs on 23 June 86 A November 1998 episode of the children s series Sooty amp Co about fragrances in which the characters were seen sniffing medicine bottles is criticised by the Independent Television Commission amid concerns it could prompt copycat behaviour 87 24 March Major networks provide news coverage as NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The BBC confirms that Ross Kemp who plays Grant Mitchell in EastEnders will leave the soap in the Autumn after signing a contract with ITV 88 Mirror Group sells its 18 6 stake in SMG to Granada 89 26 March Debut of As the Crow Flies a seven part BBC Two series in which Janet Street Porter sets out to walk the 350 miles between the Edinburgh and Greenwich observatories 90 28 March Lloyd Burgess wins the 1999 series of MasterChef 29 March Pokemon makes its British television debut on Sky One The final episode of the children s series Bodger amp Badger is aired on BBC One 30 March UKTV announces plans to rebrand UK Gold Classics as UK Gold 2 91 The changes will take place from the coming weekend 92 ITV Channel 4 and Channel 5 are heavily criticised in the Independent Television Commission s annual report on commercial television ITV is criticised for its low amount of current affairs coverage particularly in relation to the NATO campaign in Yugoslavia while Channel 5 is branded as tacky for its reliance on low budget erotic dramas and factual programmes about sex for its late night schedule 93 94 31 March ITV announce that Mary Nightingale will take over as presenter of its long running holiday show Wish You Were Here succeeding Anthea Turner who is stepping down from the role 95 April edit 1 April The BBC announces that Craig Doyle will succeed Jill Dando as the presenter of Holiday 95 In EastEnders the Queen Vic landlady Peggy Mitchell played by Barbara Windsor marries Frank Butcher Mike Reid 96 2 April After two and a half years Channel 4 is given another whole new look replacing the previous circles idents with all new idents with the Channel 4 logo in a square and lines against various backgrounds scrolling across the screen UK Gold launches new fireworks idents and UK Gold Classics is renamed UK Gold 2 It operates as a time shift service of UK Gold by broadcasting the channel s daytime output during the evening The two part adaptation of Minette Walters 1995 crime novel The Dark Room airs on BBC One starring Dervla Kirwan as the shaven headed Jane Jinx Kingsley and James Wilby as Dr Protheroe The serial concludes on 3 April ending a run of her novels adapted for television which began in February 1996 with The Sculptress BBC One airs Parkinson Meets Woody Allen a 50 minute programme in which film director Woody Allen gives his first British television interview for 35 years 97 Allen is questioned extensively about his private life by host Michael Parkinson but is reluctant to speak on some topics The BBC subsequently rejects reports that Allen had asked producers to edit out parts of the interview in which he discusses his marriage to his stepdaughter 98 4 April Sky One airs its special Valentine s Day episode of The Simpsons featuring guest appearance by British pop superstar Elton John 5 April BBC One and ITV air a national television appeal to help refugees from Kosovo The Kosovo Crisis Appeal co ordinated by the Disasters Emergency Committee raises 3m by midday the following day 99 ITV airs Martine McCutcheon This is My Moment a one hour documentary chronicling former EastEnders actress Martine McCutcheon s efforts to launch her singing career 100 Her debut single Perfect Moment reaches number one in the UK Singles Chart on 11 April 101 8 April Debut of the BBC children s series Miami 7 featuring the manufactured pop group S Club 7 The series combines drama and musical performance and is intended as a vehicle to launch the group s music career with their debut single Bring It All Back being released on 7 June 102 103 ITV launches its new news and current affairs programme Tonight with Trevor McDonald Based on the format of US shows such as 60 Minutes and featuring a team of high profile journalists the first edition features an interview with the five individuals suspected of the murder of Stephen Lawrence The launch comes amid reports that ITV news coverage has lost as many as a million viewers since News at Ten was axed in March 104 The edition prompts fifteen complaints to the Independent Television Commission from viewers who felt it wrong to give the men a platform to defend themselves but the Commission rules in August that Martin Bashir s questioning had meant the programme was anything but a platform for the suspects 105 9 April Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Stephen Byers announces that BSkyB s 626m bid to buy Manchester United will not be allowed to go ahead 106 107 12 April Long running children s animated television series Bob the Builder begins on BBC One 13 April Past and present stars of Coronation Street attend a memorial service for Bryan Mosley at Salford Cathedral 108 14 April ITV airs the network television premiere of Girls Night a film produced by Granada Television as part of the ITV Film Initiative a scheme established in 1996 aimed at boosting the British film industry and increasing the number of home grown films 109 15 April A fire breaks out at the headquarters of MTV Europe the former TV am Breakfast Television Centre in Camden London forcing them off air while the fire is being tackled 110 19 April US talk show presenter Jerry Springer makes his UK television debut presenting the first of two editions of This Morning alongside Judy Finnigan while her husband Richard Madeley is busy working on another television project 111 20 April It is emerged that Channel 4 have asked the producers of Brookside to tone down an attempted rape scene due to air the following evening because the content may be too graphic to air before the 9pm watershed 112 21 April A week after the Government announces new targets for the proportion of ethnic police officers ITV s The Bill announces two new black characters will join the series Police Constable Di Worrell played by Jane Wall and Detective Constable Danny Glaze Karl Collins who will become the show s first black male CID officer The Bill s producers say the announcement is not a response to the government initiative but had been planned for several months 113 26 April Television presenter Jill Dando is murdered outside her home in west London 114 Her death sparks a huge manhunt by the Metropolitan Police and leads to the trial of Barry George Initially convicted of the murder after a successful appeal and retrial George is acquitted on 1 August 2008 thus leaving the crime unsolved 115 BSkyB Chief Executive Mark Booth announces his resignation after 18 months in the position 116 27 April The Open University wins the 1998 99 series of University Challenge beating Oriel College Oxford 265 210 Channel 5 announce plans to resurrect It s a Knockout with original presenter Stuart Hall at the helm The channel is also bringing Jeremy Beadle back to television with a new series in which contestants win his money 117 28 April BBC Two debuts My Year with Beethoven a six part programme in which German violinist Anne Sophie Mutter talks about the devastating impact which the onset of deafness had on Beethoven s life and music accompanied by American pianist Lambert Orkis who performs one of Beethoven s most tempestuous works on a personal journey throughout ten different sonatas The series continues on 11 May 29 April Six episodes of Channel 5 s Sex and Shopping are criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Commission for containing explicit material which the Commission feels was unacceptable for broadcast at any time 118 Retailer WHSmith announces plans to sell books and stationary via interactive digital television after signing a deal with the Rupert Murdoch backed venture Open 119 The Planets an eight part documentary series exploring the Solar System debuts on BBC Two 120 30 April The BBC is reviewing whether or not to air the remaining episodes of Antiques Inspectors following Jill Dando s murder Broadcast magazine reports The series had made its debut with Dando as presenter on 25 April with filming of the final episode completed two days before that 121 The programme is subsequently cancelled 122 but it is decided later in the year that it should be aired as a tribute to the presenter with the series beginning its run from 5 September 123 124 Sky Soap closes due to poor viewing figures Scottish Television launches S2 May edit 1 May Channel 4 airs Now We Are Two a weekend of programmes marking the second anniversary of the election of Tony Blair s Labour Government On this day If John Smith Had Lived imagines the direction the Labour Party might have taken under the leadership of John Smith while The Trial of Margaret Thatcher debates the policies of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a courtroom setting The following day Blair s Third Way looks at Tony Blair s governing style 125 From the Earth to the Moon a thirteen part spin off from the film Apollo 13 made by HBO debuts on Channel 4 120 The cable only film service Home Video Channel closes after 14 years on air 2 May Sheena McDonald is released from hospital two months after she received severe head injuries when she was hit by a police van 126 5 May An inquest into the death of Rod Hull records a verdict of accidental death 127 6 7 May BBC One provides coverage of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly as well as the year s local elections 128 9 May Michael Parkinson presents the 1999 British Television Academy Awards in which the UK television industry pays tribute to the late Jill Dando She had been due to host the ceremony alongside Parkinson but following her death the BBC had decided not to replace her 129 10 May BBC network news is relaunched with new music titles and a red and ivory set This design is used for the 25 October relaunch of News 24 enhancing cross channel promotion of the service 11 May News at Ten and World in Action both of which have been axed by ITV are announced as winners at the Royal Television Society s Journalism Awards News at Ten is voted programme of the year while World in Action wins the judges award Other winners include the Nine O Clock News in the international category for its coverage of the Drenica massacre and Dermot Murnaghan for an ITV Lunchtime News interview with Peter Mandelson in which he questioned the politician about his loan from Geoffrey Robinson 130 The BBC confirms that EastEnders actress Danniella Westbrook will return to the soap as Sam Mitchell in the Summer three years after she was last seen on screen 131 14 May Helen Rollason presents the first Friday sport bulletin on the BBC s Six O Clock News 132 17 May The Independent Television Commission rejects a number of viewer complaints about editions of The Jerry Springer Show featuring a gay marriage and amateur strippers that aired on weekday afternoons as not being inappropriate viewing The Commission finds that the subject of same sex marriage was dealt with sensitively while the episode featuring the strippers was not explicit because they had only removed some of their clothes However a complaint is upheld against Sky One s Bloody Foreigners that aired on 2 March which featured an interview with a female member of a wife swapping club while an explicit pornographic film played on a television in the background 133 Channel 4 airs the network television premiere of Bill Condon s 1995 American horror sequel film Candyman Farewell to the Flesh starring Tony Todd and Kelly Rowan 18 May The BBC s Crimewatch programme broadcasts a reconstruction of presenter Jill Dando s murder The show opens without its usual titles and music 134 19 May ITV airs the first British Soap Awards which are presented by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan The Awards ceremony had been recorded the previous weekend 135 20 May The first Pride of Britain Awards an annual event launched by The Mirror newspaper to honour ordinary people who have acted bravely or extraordinarily in challenging situations is presented by Carol Vorderman at London s Dorchester Hotel 136 137 The Awards are such a success that ITV agrees to screen the second event the following year 138 The broadcasters union BECTU condemns plans to air a Party election broadcast by the far right British National Party due to be shown on 21 May and says it will support any of its members who refuse to work on the broadcast 139 The BNP has been allocated a party political broadcast slot for the forthcoming European election after fielding enough candidates to qualify for free airtime during the election campaign 139 The Independent Television Commission receives seven complaints from viewers that the BNP should not have been allowed to air their views but the Commission later rules that none of its rules were breached because the broadcast did not mention race or immigration and to ban the BNP from television on principle would be undemocratic 105 21 May The funeral of Jill Dando is held in her home town of Weston super Mare in Somerset Although the service itself is private footage is relayed to a crowd gathered in the town s Ellensborough Park East 140 24 May The Digital Spy website reports that UK Gold 2 is to have its broadcasting hours extended from 1 June The channel has operated on a limited basis airing on Fridays to Sundays from 6pm to 2am but will become a daily service 141 25 May Bostock s Cup a single comedy drama about a fictional football team winning the 1974 FA Cup Final airs on ITV 142 143 144 26 May Following a ten day trial at London s Snaresbrook Crown Court former London s Burning actor John Alford is jailed for nine months after being convicted of supplying cocaine and cannabis resin to an undercover reporter He has been the victim of a sting by a tabloid newspaper a factor taken into account in his sentencing 145 He is released from prison six weeks later 146 19 million viewers see Manchester United complete The Treble by beating Bayern Munich 2 1 in injury time in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona 147 27 May The Broadcasting Standards Commission upholds several viewer complaints about an episode of EastEnders aired on Valentine s Day that featured the killing of the character Saskia Duncan which the watchdog rules was too graphic to be shown before the watershed when the content could be seen by children 148 28 May The BBC have signed a deal to air the network television premiere of Titanic 29 May Sweden s Charlotte Nilsson wins the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem with Take Me to Your Heaven June edit 1 June ITN s Bill Neely sends a report from the Albania Kosovo border as NATO aircraft mistakenly bomb Albanian army forces on the Albanian side of the border destroying a guard box 149 The educational channel BBC Knowledge goes on the air 150 Debut of ITV s gritty prison drama Bad Girls a series set in a high security women s prison 151 4 June ITV airs the final edition of the 1999 series of Play Your Cards Right the last of the current run since the series was revived in 1994 It will be revived again in 2002 but axed again a year later 152 5 June Ian Moor wins the tenth series of Stars in Their Eyes performing as Chris De Burgh 153 6 June Six TV Britain s sixth and last free to air terrestrial analogue local channel broadcast on UHF under a Restricted Television Service Licence launches in both Oxfordshire and Southampton as the Oxford channel in Oxfordshire and the Southampton channel in Hampshire 154 7 June A study by the Broadcasting Standards Commission finds an increase in the number of viewer complaints about the amount of sex on television Among those surveyed the number feeling there was too much sex on television rose from 32 in 1997 to 38 in 1998 155 8 June The BBC axes the Hale and Pace entertainment series h amp p bbc due to poor ratings The series was planned to hilariously interact with the public 156 10 June BBC One announces that the short lived The Vanessa Show which was at the centre of a fake guests controversy earlier in the year will be axed The final edition will air on 23 July 157 13 June S Club 7 stars of the BBC children s television series Miami 7 reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their debut single Bring It All Back 158 Changing Places the Heartbeat spin off starring Nick Berry that takes his character PC Nick Rowan to Canada after Berry left the series receives its debut on ITV 159 19 June The wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys Jones takes place at St George s Chapel Windsor 160 20 June The BBC broadcasts live cricket for the final time for more than 20 years when it shows live coverage of the 1999 Cricket World Cup Final bringing to an end sixty years of continuous cricket coverage on the BBC The terrestrial rights now transfer to Channel 4 161 22 June The Independent Television Commission criticises Channel 4 for failing to warn viewers about the level of explicit sex scenes in its controversial gay drama Queer as Folk Concern is also expressed about the series first episode which included a scene portraying the seduction of a teenager below the age of consent by an older gay male but says the content did not breach broadcasting regulations 162 24 June The Broadcasting Standards Commission rejects viewer complaints about the second series of BBC One drama The Lakes which had featured sexual violence rape and a relationship between a Roman Catholic priest and a member of his congregation saying the programme had not exceeded acceptable boundaries 163 25 June It is announced that Pearson TV chairman Greg Dyke will succeed John Birt as Director General of the BBC from April 2000 164 28 June BBC One airs the last episode in the original run of its time travelling comedy series Goodnight Sweetheart 165 It returns in 2016 for a one off special as part of the BBC s 60th anniversary of comedy celebrations 166 Ulster Television launches TV You later UTV2 30 June Janet Street Porter pioneer of yoof television at the BBC is appointed as editor of The Independent on Sunday her first major role in print journalism 167 July edit 1 July BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time from Birmingham featuring Leader of the Opposition William Hague as the sole panelist 168 Channel 4 starts broadcasting cricket following the channel sensationally obtaining the rights from the BBC the previous year 161 3 July FilmFour will launch an interactive service similar to Digital Teletext the website Digital Spy reports 169 5 July BBC One Controller Peter Salmon has commissioned a World in Action style investigative series to air as part of the Autumn schedule The as yet untitled programme is being developed by several members of the team who formerly worked for the now defunct ITV programme 170 6 July BBC Director General John Birt warns that the increase in paid for digital television could lead to a knowledge underclass if public service broadcasters such as the BBC do not remain universally available 171 ITV unveils its first Autumn schedule since moving News at Ten to a later time slot Highlights include a new adaptation of Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist written by Alan Bleasdale that will attempt to update the character of Fagin moving him away from the Ron Moody interpretation that is often associated with the story 172 8 July Singer Robbie Williams will appear in a TV advert aimed at raising awareness of testicular cancer it is reported 173 BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time from London with Prime Minister Tony Blair as its sole panelist 174 9 July Carlton Cinema has signed a deal with MGM 14 July Debut of BBC One s groundbreaking series The Secret Life of Twins 175 15 July US crime drama The Sopranos makes its British television debut on Channel 4 176 177 16 July BBC One airs the Two Ronnies Night an evening of programmes paying tribute to The Two Ronnies Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker The evening sees the two comedians reunited on screen for the first time since Christmas Day 1987 178 Channel 4 announces the axing of the highly acclaimed Trial and Error a series that investigates miscarriages of justice which it feels is outdated The final edition looking at the murder of Billie Jo Jenkins airs on 26 July 179 Channel 4 launches its Over the Moon season to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing The season includes Real Time Apollo a five day broadcast of footage of the Moon mission airing at roughly the same time events happened in 1969 The programme also features interviews with Buzz Aldrin who took part in the mission 180 17 July Debut of Channel 4 s Late Night Poker 181 a series which helps to popularise poker in the 2000s and developed a cult following 182 The programme includes under table cameras allowing viewers to view players cards that are hidden from the others taking part in the game and is unique in that participants are allowed to smoke on air 183 19 July Channel 4 airs an evening of programmes about space ahead of the Moon landing anniversary 184 22 July Test cricket coverage debuts on Channel 4 with an updated format and new presenters 185 23 July The Queen unveils a bronze statue of Eric Morecambe at a ceremony in the Lancashire town of Morecambe the comedian s home town from which he took his stage name fifteen years after his death 186 Channel 4 has commissioned Projector Productions to make a 2 million feature length adaptation of the children s fairytale Cinderella to be aired over Christmas 187 Broadcast magazine reports that Teletext Ltd s plans for a digital teletext service have been put back by delays in software development to support the service on the ONdigital platform 188 24 July Goodness Gracious Me Night an evening of programming dedicated to the Asian comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me airs on BBC Two 189 27 July Cable TV operator NTL buys its largest rival Cable amp Wireless Communications for 8 2bn 190 30 July After two decades with the BBC comedy writer John Sullivan signs a deal to write material for ITV although he will continue to write his current BBC series Roger Roger and Heartburn Hotel 191 Three contestants who did not disclose unspent criminal convictions before appearing on ITV s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire are to have their winnings withdrawn the show s producers confirm 192 Channel 4 confirms that Kelly Brook has left The Big Breakfast The announcement follows recent media speculation about her future with the programme 193 August edit 1 August Dominique Fraser wins the 1999 series of Junior MasterChef BBC One airs the network television premiere of A Time to Kill 194 2 August It is announced that ITV has signed the BBC sports presenter Des Lynam on a four year contract He is to become the company s main football presenter 195 3 August Liza Tarbuck is chosen to replace Kelly Brook as co presenter of The Big Breakfast 196 197 5 August The publication of the Davies Report which sets out proposals for the future funding of BBC digital services 198 Former EastEnders co stars Leslie Grantham and Anita Dobson who played Den and Angie Watts are to team up again to play husband and wife in a Sky Premier adaptation of the Stephen Leather thriller The Stretch which will air the following year 199 6 August ITV axes two programmes from its primetime Monday night slot because of falling ratings Tested to Destruction presented by Carol Vorderman and documentary series The Sexual Century debuted at 9pm and 9 30pm respectively on 26 July but will be replaced from 9 August and aired elsewhere in the schedule 200 8 August The Sunday Telegraph reports that former player Gary Lineker has signed a 500 000 five year contract to become the BBC s new face of football coverage following the departure of Des Lynam 201 Lineker will remain in this role for more than 20 years Noel Edmonds announces he is leaving the BBC because its programmes are too boring His contract with the Corporation expires in March 2000 and he will present two further shows before his departure an August Bank Holiday special and Noel s Christmas Presents Unwrapped 202 9 August Helen Rollason who in 1990 became the first female presenter on BBC One s Grandstand dies aged 43 following a two year battle with cancer 203 204 11 August BBC One and Channel 5 show live coverage of the 1999 solar eclipse It is not shown live on the ITV network but in the only region where the eclipse is total Westcountry Television just weeks away from losing its on screen identity opts out and provides its own coverage 205 12 August The BBC programme complaints unit rules that jokes about speech impediments made by comedian Frank Skinner on an edition of his BBC One chat show on 20 May were insensitive 206 13 August Following a successful month long trial Cable amp Wireless Communications begins offering its customers email and internet services through their television sets 207 16 August The US version of ITV s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire debuts on ABC with Regis Philbin as host The show s success leads to an increase in interest in UK game shows from American producers 208 209 19 August Claims by The Sun that it has obtained a document detailing EastEnders plotlines for the forthcoming year have been dismissed by the show s producers 210 22 August Sky Sports Xtra launches initially as an interactive service 211 24 August BBC One airs Helen Rollason The Bravest Fight a 30 minute documentary presented by Peter Sissons in which friends and colleagues pay tribute to her 212 213 24 August The final edition of The Cook Report airs on ITV 27 August The BBC names Gordon Brewer and Anne Mackenzie as the presenters of Newsnight Scotland BBC Two s forthcoming Newsnight opt out for Scottish viewers 214 31 August The BBC unveils plans to create separate television radio and online news services for four new regions in London and the South East 215 September edit 1 September Launch of Nick Jr the UK s first television channel dedicated to viewers under the age of seven 216 2 September Comedian Frank Skinner has been dropped by the BBC after demanding a reported 20 million to stay with the network 217 ITV s Tonight with Trevor McDonald that launched earlier in the year is to be cut from an hour to 45 minutes and moved from Thursdays to Wednesdays ITV says this is to make way for documentaries and drama in the Thursday slot 218 3 September An updated version of the classic slapstick game show It s a Knockout makes its Channel 5 debut with Keith Chegwin taking on the presenting role He is joined by Frank Bruno Lucy Alexander and Nell McAndrew 219 220 Two series are aired over the following 18 months before Channel 5 announce in April 2001 that they have no plans to commission more series 221 5 September ITV debuts Springer on Sunday a one off David Letterman style chat show presented by Jerry Springer Guests include Robbie Coltrane Glenda Jackson and Tom Jones 222 223 6 September The ITV London Weekday franchise Carlton drops the on air branding of the Central and Westcountry ITV regions replacing them both with Carlton 224 CITV show Art Attack is now broadcast twice weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays Diagnosis Murder a US comedy mystery medical drama series starring Dick Van Dyke makes its BBC One debut 225 Debut of ITV s daytime topical discussion show Loose Women 226 originally from Norwich The show will pass its 3000th episode in 2018 The popular children s programme Tweenies makes its debut on BBC2 at 10 30am and again at 3 25pm on BBC1 227 7 September A man is arrested by police after using a coffee table to smash his way through a plate glass window into the BBC newsroom at White City as journalists were preparing for the 11am bulletin The intruder also hurled computers and furniture in what is reported to be a protest against the BBC s coverage of a story The broadcaster launches an inquiry into the incident after security was tightened at the BBC in the wake of Jill Dando s murder earlier in the year 228 229 230 231 Channel 5 airs the network television premiere of Roland Emmerich s 1996 science fiction epic film Independence Day giving the broadcaster an average audience of 4 98 million 24 and peaking at 5 5 million 25 at 10pm its largest to date 232 9 September Debut of the ITV documentary series The Second World War in Colour which marks sixty years since the start of the conflict showing rare colour footage of World War II which has taken ten years to collate The series is narrated by the actor John Thaw 233 234 11 September The first of Channel 4 s 100 Greatest programmes air starting with 100 Greatest TV Moments 13 September Blackadder Back and Forth a new installment of the Blackadder comedy series will be part of the exhibition at the Millennium Dome from January 2000 The episode will receive its television debut on Sky in 2001 with the BBC also planning to show it 235 The episode is part of Skyscape the Sky sponsored entertainment venue at the Dome something which has led to some confusion over who owns the broadcasting rights to the series that made its debut on the BBC 236 15 September S4C2 launches 237 It broadcasts coverage of the National Assembly for Wales and extended coverage of events being shown on S4C 238 239 A police officer is charged with driving without due care and attention over the accident that left newsreader Sheena McDonald in hospital earlier in the year 240 241 16 September The first episode of the British Canadian children s stop motion animated series Rotten Ralph begins on BBC One with Happy Birthday Rotten Ralph 19 September ITV airs Clive James s Postcard from Havana a documentary in which Clive James visits Cuba and investigates the impact Communism has on the ordinary lives of Cubans forty years after the Cuban Revolution 242 243 244 20 September Jerry Springer UK debuts on ITV 245 Bob the Builder goes on the air on television in Australia on ABC 21 September The US animated sitcoms Futurama and Family Guy both debut in the UK on Sky One 23 September Launch of BBC Text the service which was renamed BBCi in 2001 and BBC Red Button in 2008 25 years after the launch of the Ceefax service 246 24 September Channel 4 s cult sitcom Spaced airs its first episode 25 September Addressing clergy at a conference in Lancashire The Right Reverend Allan Chesters Bishop of Blackburn criticises soaps such as Coronation Street for their high divorce rates 247 26 September Channel 4 broadcasts the network television premiere of Mary Reilly starring Julia Roberts 27 September The popular children s puppet Sooty returns to television with a brand new series called Sooty Heights set in a hotel with Richard Cadell and Liana Bridges taking over as presenters as their predecessor Matthew Corbett retired last year The children s cartoon series Angelmouse narrated by David Jason makes its debut on BBC One 248 28 September A service of thanksgiving is held for Jill Dando at All Soul s Church in Langham Place London which is attended by family friends and colleagues 249 The service includes a special address from BBC Director General John Birt 250 29 September The European Commission rejects a complaint from BSkyB that the licence fee funding of BBC News 24 is illegal under EU law because it amounts to state funding 251 30 September The BBC announces details of 2000 to 1 a unique quiz for the millennium that will give one person the chance to win a year off work with prize money equivalent to double their annual salary The show presented by Gary Lineker will air through December with the winner being decided on New Year s Eve 252 253 The Broadcasting Standards Commission upholds 28 complaints about Channel 4 s drama Psychos which aired in May finding that the series reinforced stereotypes and prejudice towards people with mental health problems 254 October edit 1 October Sky MovieMax 5 is launched 255 1 October 6 November ITV provides coverage of the 1999 Rugby World Cup hosted for the second time by several countries Wales are the main host but many matches are played in England Scotland Ireland and France 2 October The Mirror s Matthew Wright reports that a recent Coronation Street storyline involving the death of the character Judy Mallett played by Gaynor Faye has helped to save the life of a woman who sought medical help after watching the episode in which Judy died of a blood clot in her leg following a car crash The unnamed woman had recently been involved in a motoring accident herself and was experiencing leg pain that she had attributed to bruising She subsequently attended hospital where doctors diagnosed a blood clot 256 4 October Launch of Newsnight Scotland the BBC Scotland opt out of the main Newsnight programme on BBC Two 257 258 BBC Wales unveils a new look for its news programmes with new sets and titles 259 The BBC have agreed a deal with Welsh broadcaster S4C to screen Welsh language episodes of Teletubbies 260 HTV Wales launches the soap Nuts and Bolts a series set in the South Wales Valleys which airs at 7pm The Independent Television Commission later upholds nine viewer complaints against the programme because some of its content was inappropriate for airing before the watershed HTV subsequently airs a later episode of the series containing similar content at 10pm 261 4 October 8 November The six part documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs airs on BBC One using computer generated imagery and animatronics to show life in the Mesozoic era 262 263 264 Figures issued on 20 October by the Broadcasters Audience Research Board indicate that the first episode was watched by 18 9 million viewers making it the all time most watched science programme in the UK and the BBC s 19th most watched programme of all time 15 million see the episode on 4 October while a further 3 91 million watch the repeat on 10 October 265 6 October ITV airs the network television premiere of the 1996 disaster film Twister starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt 7 October Gimme Some Truth a 56 minute documentary featuring unseen footage of John Lennon is set to be aired on British television Work has recently been completed on the project but a deal to broadcast it is yet to be agreed 266 The film is ultimately shown on BBC Two on 13 February 2000 267 8 October The BBC prepares itself for a backlash from EastEnders viewers after a murder trial in the soap ends in a wrongful conviction The character Matthew Rose is found guilty of the manslaughter of Saskia Duncan but the killing was actually carried out by Steve Owen who walks free 268 The episode prompts a tabloid newspaper campaign to free Rose who is dubbed The Walford One Joe Absolom who plays the character announces a few days later his intention to leave the show at the end of the year although he will be seen on screen until February 2000 269 11 October Debut of BBC One s The Major Years a three part documentary about the premiership of former Prime Minister John Major 270 271 12 October Launch of Open the UK s first interactive television shopping channel available to Sky Digital subscribers Viewers can access services from several high street retailers including WHSmith Dixons and HSBC 272 14 October BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time recorded in Sydney Australia ahead of the country s republic referendum 273 15 October TNT Classic Movies is replaced with TCM Also on this day is the launch of the short lived analogue version of TNT 18 October Sheena McDonald presents the 1999 Gramophone Awards her first public appearance since her accident in February 274 19 October At a hearing at London s Horseferry Road Magistrates Court a media studies student who went on the rampage in the BBC newsroom the previous month pleads guilty to affray and common assault 275 At a subsequent hearing in March 2000 the man who was protesting against TV licence charges and planned to tackle Greg Dyke on the issue is ordered to be detained indefinitely at a psychiatric hospital because of ongoing mental health problems 276 21 October L VE TV is expected to close after emerges that Mirror Group Newspapers are in negotiations with NTL to sell the channel 277 24 October Debut of the BBC Two documentary series Playing the Race Card which looks at the history of race and immigration in the United Kingdom 278 25 October Relaunch of BBC News 24 with a new set design 279 The final episode of BBC One s The Major Years shows footage of an abandoned Conservative Party political broadcast depicting Labour leader Tony Blair as Faust and Peter Mandelson as the Devil John Major vetoed its use before the 1997 general election believing it would backfire on the Conservatives 280 27 October BBC Two airs the 150th edition of TOTP2 281 29 October ITV chief executive Richard Eyre is named as the new head of Pearson TV replacing Greg Dyke in the new year 282 A racism storyline in Brookside reaches a dramatic conclusion when a thug is shown being engulfed in flames as his attempt to petrol bomb the house of a black family goes wrong 283 31 October TeleG is established as the first daily digital Gaelic TV channel in Scotland 284 November edit 1 November ITV has commissioned a further four editions of Springer on Sunday following the success of a pilot edition that aired earlier in the year 223 285 Channel 4 launches FilmFour magazine to accompany its subscription film channel FilmFour 286 FilmFour celebrates its first anniversary with a night of simulcast programmes with Channel 4 including the premiere of Caligula 287 4 November The BBC establishes the Helen Rollason Award an award to be given at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony in recognition of outstanding achievement in the face of adversity in honour of the presenter who died in August 288 289 Following an in depth review of BBC One programming led by BBC Director of Television Alan Yentob the channel says it will give priority to quality programming and reduce its output of docusoaps 290 5 November Trinity Mirror announces the closure of L VE TV which goes off the air on the same day 291 6 November Investigative reporter and documentary maker Graham Hall who made the 1998 film Inside the ALF for Channel 4 s Dispatches gives an account of how he was recently kidnapped and branded with a hot iron by people claiming to be members of the Animal Liberation Front after meeting someone who told him they had information about an illegal dog fighting ring 292 The network television premiere of Tony Randel s 1988 British American horror sequel Hellbound Hellraiser II on Channel 4 starring Ashley Laurence Clare Higgins Kenneth Cranham Imogen Boorman Sean Chapman and Doug Bradley 8 November ITV launches a generic look for the second time the first being in 1989 with most regions adopting idents based around a heart theme The exceptions are the three Carlton owned regions the SMG plc owned Scottish and Grampian and UTV Debut of the six part Coronation Street spin off After Hours which sees Julie Goodyear reprise her role as Bet Lynch 293 294 295 9 November Joanna Lumley and Tom Conti will appear in a series of TV broadcasts to raise funds for a Disasters Emergency Committee appeal to help victims of Cyclone Orissa 296 Comedian Tommy Tiernan plays a video rental store employee in Channel 4 s new sitcom Small Potatoes alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar and Omid Djalili 10 November MacIntyre Uncovered a series in which investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre goes undercover to examine issues such as football hooliganism the fashion photography industry and private healthcare debuts on BBC One The programme begins on the same day that he announces he is ending his undercover work because the job is becoming increasingly dangerous for him 297 11 November Bob the Builder the popular children s stop motion series has been sold for broadcasting in South Africa The series will premiere on SABC2 on Thursdays at 8 40am Former Blue Peter presenter Tim Vincent is to join the cast of ITV soap Emmerdale as a vet and will be seen on screen from March 2000 298 12 November Loud Tie Day an event to raise money for Beating Bowel Cancer a charity founded by television presenter Lynn Faulds Wood 299 The event led by Chris Tarrant aims to raise 1 million for bowel cancer clinics around the UK by encouraging people to wear colourful ties to work 300 Chris Smith the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport has instructed the Independent Television Commission to compile a report on the impact of ITV s decision to axe News at Ten it has emerged 301 The BBC announce that Fiona Bruce will join Nick Ross as co presenter of Crimewatch following Jill Dando s murder She will appear on the show from the following January 302 13 November The debut of BBC One s National Lottery game show Red Alert sees Alan Dedicoat replaced by Sid Waddell as the Voice of the Balls a move that proves to be unpopular with viewers Dedicoat resumes the role the following week Waddell will claim he was sacked from the show for being too Geordie 303 304 Tom Baker presents a Doctor Who theme night on BBC Two 305 Roy Walker presents his final episode of Catchphrase on ITV 14 November On Remembrance Sunday BBC One airs the World War I drama All the King s Men about volunteers from George V s Sandringham Estate in the 5th Norfolk Regiment which suffered heavy losses at Gallipoli in 1915 The film stars David Jason as Captain Frank Beck 306 16 November BBC Two begins rerunning episodes of Doctor Who beginning with the first episode of the 1970 adventure Spearhead from Space 305 17 November To coincide with the release of the new James Bond film The World Is Not Enough a special edition of BBC One s Tomorrow s World looks at the high tech gadgets that might be used by him 307 23 November BBC One airs an edition of MacIntyre Uncovered looking at the exploitation of young girls in the fashion industry something that leads to a row between the BBC and the Elite model agency which claims the programme was rigged biassed and unfair Two executives seen making sexist and racist comments in the programme resign amid public anger but are reinstated by the agency although they elect to remain on gardening leave while an investigation into the matter takes place 308 309 ITV unveils its Christmas schedule which includes an episode of Heartbeat that will see singer Charlotte Church make her acting debut 310 24 November BBC One unveils its Winter lineup of programming which will include a remake of the 1960s television series Randall and Hopkirk Deceased featuring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in the eponymous roles 311 25 November Sarah Lancashire is to briefly reprise her role as Coronation Street s Raquel Watts in early 2000 it is confirmed 312 26 November BBC One airs the 1999 Children in Need television fundraiser By the following day it has raised 11 6m for charity 313 28 November Debut of Wives and Daughters on BBC One and Oliver Twist on ITV two costume dramas that compete head to head for viewers Provisional figures released the following day indicate ITV had the larger audience with 8 4 million watching Oliver Twist compared to 7 2 million who saw Wives and Daughters 314 BBC One airs Ruth Ellis a Life for a Life a drama documentary presented by Kirsty Wark that reveals new evidence that could have prevented Ruth Ellis from being the last woman to be hanged in Britain 315 29 November From today children s programming is broadcast all day on BBC Choice branded CBBC on Choice every day from 6am until 7pm including programmes rarely seen on the main channel November Test Card J and Test Card W debut on the BBC replacing Test Card F which is retired after 32 years December edit 2 December Comedian Frank Skinner has signed a three year deal with ITV and will take his chat show to the network 316 3 December Channel 5 has signed a deal with Warner Bros International Television to show their 1999 titles from 2002 Among the films included in the deal are The Matrix Deep Blue Sea Message in a Bottle Eyes Wide Shut Wild Wild West South Park Bigger Longer amp Uncut Payback and Analyze This 317 4 December The millennium quiz 2000 to 1 debuts on BBC One with Michael Parkinson and Katy Hill presenting 318 319 6 December BBC One airs Stephen King Shining in the Dark an edition of Omnibus in which the author Stephen King talks about his life and work 320 The programme is followed by the first part of a TV adaptation of his story The Langoliers 321 with part two airing on 8 December 322 The documentary is repeated on BBC Choice on 12 December 323 7 December A report published by the Broadcasting Standards Commission says that television is failing to reflect the multicultural nature of Britain with few ethnic characters seen on screen in drama and soap and viewers feeling that many that do appear are portrayed as two dimensional and negatively stereotyped 324 325 Channel 5 broadcasts the TV movie Winter Angel a revival of the popular 1970s BBC science fiction series Doomwatch 326 327 8 December It is announced that Michael Starke who plays Sinbad in Brookside will leave the soap after more than a decade He is due to exit the show in September 2000 328 BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 featuring performances by US country singer Shania Twain 329 11 December Flying Without Wings by Irish boy band Westlife wins the 1999 Record of the Year 330 12 December Recently retired National Hunt trainer Jenny Pitman is presented with the first Helen Rollason Award at the 1999 BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony 331 Boxer Lennox Lewis is named as this year s BBC Sports Personality of the Year 332 while boxer Muhammad Ali is named as BBC Sports Personality of the Century 333 13 December The Independent Television Commission rules that an episode of Jerry Springer UK featuring rubber fetishists that aired on 27 September was unsuitable for its 8pm timeslot 334 ITV says it has unearthed colour footage of World War I and plans to make a follow up documentary to its popular series The Second World War in Colour The channel has also commissioned a raft of historical documentaries for the 10pm slot 335 Campaign Live reports that Carlton Communications plc have decided to close their general entertainment channel Carlton Select which airs old terrestrial TV content 336 16 December Channel 4 signs a 100 million deal to regain the rights to show US TV series Friends and ER which it has shared with Sky One since 1996 The deal means new episodes of both series will make their British terrestrial debut on Channel 4 from 2001 instead of the current arrangement where Sky is allowed to show them first 337 19 December Charlotte Church makes her acting debut in an episode of Heartbeat 338 22 December Former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton hangs up during the middle of a live telephone interview with BBC Breakfast News presenter John Nicholson after he begins questioning him about his financial backers 339 Hamilton is being interviewed after losing a libel case 340 Spice Girls singer Emma Bunton launches a government safety advertising campaign warning people of the dangers of drinking and handling fireworks on millennium eve 341 BBC One airs Tony Grounds s family drama Last Christmas a television film starring Phillip Dowling Pauline Quirke and Ray Winstone 342 BBC One airs Celine Dion All the Way a Decade of Song a programme featuring Celine Dion in concert performing some of the tracks from her recently released compilation album All the Way A Decade of Song 343 24 December Ian Woodley becomes the first person on British television to win a million pounds on a segment of the Channel 4 show TFI Friday called Someone s Going to be a Millionaire a reference to ITV s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire which at the time has not had a million pound winner but eventually will in November the following year 344 25 December Christmas Day highlights on BBC One include the network television premiere of the adventure fantasy Jumanji 345 Hooves of Fire the first Robbie the Reindeer adventure also premieres on the channel 346 ITV beats BBC One in the Christmas Day ratings for the first time since 1984 airing a mixture of soaps the drama A Touch of Frost and three episodes of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Coronation Street is the most viewed programme with an audience of 14 74 million However although ITV has the largest number of viewers for peak viewing in terms of figures for the overall day BBC One has the larger percentage of audience share 347 Channel 4 airs the controversial modern opera Powder Her Face based on the life of Margaret Duchess of Argyll The work which includes a scene depicting oral sex is broadcast from 8 40pm in order to time the explicit content to appear after the 9pm watershed 348 26 December Boxing Day highlights on BBC One include Mission Impossible a 1996 film produced by and starring Tom Cruise 349 27 December The network television debut of Spice World on BBC One 350 ITV has decided to air a documentary about the Krays in which former gangster Freddie Foreman confesses to a murder he committed for the gang in 1966 The Krays Unfinished Business is scheduled to air on 10 January 2000 351 29 December Along with other terrestrial and satellite networks the BBC simulcasts the What is it like to lose someone ad campaign featuring the parents of a young woman killed by a drink driver The advert which explores the couple s grief over the loss of their daughter is part of a new Millennium Drink Drive campaign 31 December Over 60 countries take part in 2000 Today a programme seeing in the start of the new millennium In the UK the 28 hour marathon show is shown on BBC One and hosted by Michael Parkinson Gaby Roslin and David Dimbleby 352 Motivation expert John Mitchell wins the BBC One quiz 2000 to 1 after a tie breaker in which his opponent answers a question incorrectly He wins 70 000 and a year off work 353 354 On ITV Trevor McDonald and Dermot Murnaghan present Countdown 2000 a programme showing key events from around the UK and the rest of the world as nations welcome in the new millennium 355 Undated edit Baby Cow Productions founded by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal Debuts editBBC edit 1 January Bang Bang It s Reeves and Mortimer 1999 3 January Bravo Two Zero 1999 4 January Polka Dot Shorts 1993 2001 The Vanessa Show 1999 Misery Guts 1998 1999 6 January See It Saw It 1999 2001 7 January Home Farm Twins 1999 2000 8 January SMart on the Road 1999 2003 Gimme Gimme Gimme 1999 2001 10 January Shooting the Past 1999 11 January The League of Gentlemen 1999 2002 12 January Holby City 1999 2022 356 16 January Sunburn 1999 2000 24 January The Scarlet Pimpernel 1999 2000 February Super League Show 1999 present 1 February Anthony Ant 1999 6 February Get Your Act Together 1999 18 February Harbour Lights 1999 2000 22 February Mrs Merton and Malcolm 1999 28 February All Along the Watchtower 1999 30 March Supernatural The Unseen Powers of Animals 1999 7 April Starhill Ponies 1998 2002 8 April Miami 7 1999 12 April Bob the Builder 1998 2011 BBC 2015 present Channel 5 Great Expectations 1999 14 April The Naked Chef 1999 2001 20 April A Life of Grime 1999 2004 28 April h amp p bbc 1999 357 29 April The Planets 1999 1 May The Passion 1999 25 May Barking Mad 1999 2001 3 June It s Only TV but I Like It 1999 2002 6 June See How They Run 1999 20 June Aristocrats 1999 22 June Hope and Glory 1999 2000 26 June Star for a Night 1999 2000 2001 11 July Badger 1999 2000 18 July The Mayfair Set 1999 19 July Life Support 1999 23 July Patrick Kielty Almost Live 1999 2003 26 July Zorro 1999 2002 4 August Jack of Hearts 1999 5 September Sex Chips amp Rock n Roll 1999 6 September Diagnosis Murder 1993 2001 Tweenies 1999 2002 Animorphs 1998 1999 9 September Let Them Eat Cake 1999 13 September Eureka Street 1999 15 September Insides Out 1999 2000 16 September Barmy Aunt Boomerang 1999 2000 20 September People Like Us 1999 2001 27 September Angelmouse 1999 2000 28 September Pablo the Little Red Fox 1999 2000 29 September Belfry Witches 1999 2000 4 October Walking with Dinosaurs 1999 Newsnight Scotland 1999 2014 7 October DIY SOS 1999 present 8 October Brotherly Love 1999 2000 17 October Michael Palin s Hemingway Adventure 1999 31 October The Magician s House 1999 2000 Living Britain 1999 4 November Extreme Survival 1999 2002 6 November Friends Like These 1999 2000 2003 12 November Hippies 1999 13 November Red Alert 1999 2000 14 November All the King s Men 1999 28 November Wives and Daughters 1999 7 December Pig Heart Boy 1999 19 December The Big Knights 1999 2000 24 December The Greatest Store in the World 1999 25 December David Copperfield 1999 Unknown Junk 1999 ITV Including ITV and ITV2 edit 2 January The Wiggles 1998 2001 4 January Oggy and the Cockroaches 1999 Present Better Homes 1999 2003 The Vice 1999 2003 Mopatop s Shop 1999 2005 7 January Lavender Castle 1999 2000 10 January Notes from a Small Island 1999 5 February Comin Atcha 1999 12 February Days Like These 1999 15 February Forgotten 1999 17 February The Planet s Funniest Animals 1999 2008 26 February Pump It Up 1999 2000 8 March ITV Nightly News 1999 2001 The Grimleys 1999 2001 9 March Wonderful You 1999 18 March Every Woman Knows a Secret 1999 In the Company of Strangers 1999 4 April Nancherrow 1999 7 April The Last Train 1999 8 April Tonight 1999 present 12 April Maisy 1999 2001 19 April Butterfly Collectors 1999 26 April The Blonde Bombshell 1999 4 May Trust 1999 5 May Wilmot 1999 2000 6 May Dream Street 1999 2002 Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century 1999 2001 12 May Plastic Man 1999 17 May An Evil Streak 1999 19 May Pride of Britain Awards 1999 present 25 May Bostock s Cup 1999 1 June Bad Girls 1999 2006 7 June Always and Everyone 1999 2002 12 June Animals Do the Funniest Things 1999 2011 6 September Loose Women 1999 present In the Name of Love 1999 9 September Foxbusters 1999 2000 Daylight Robbery 1999 2000 10 September Jungle Run 1999 2006 Construction Site 1999 23 September Back to the 50s 1999 27 September Sooty Heights 1999 2000 Hilltop Hospital 1999 2002 28 September Watership Down 1999 2000 3 October Nuts and Bolts 1999 2002 8 November My Parents Are Aliens 1999 2006 358 Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married 1999 2001 11 November Extremely Dangerous 1999 14 November Dr Willoughby 1999 28 November Oliver Twist 1999 20 December Dark Ages 1999 26 December Faeries 1999 Channel 4 edit 2 January Angry Kid 1999 present 3 February Sex and the City 1998 2004 5 February Boyz Unlimited 1999 21 February Salty s Lighthouse 1997 1998 23 February Queer as Folk 1999 2000 25 February Boiling Point 1999 18 March Escape to River Cottage 1999 19 March Smack the Pony 1999 2003 29 April Grand Designs 1999 present 6 May Psychos 1999 4 June Bits 1999 2001 6 June This is Modern Art 1999 20 June Michael Moore Live 1999 15 July The Sopranos 1999 2007 17 July Late Night Poker 1999 2002 2007 2011 21 July Love in the 21st Century 1999 31 August Los Dos Bros 1999 2000 6 September Show Me the Money 1999 2000 11 September 100 Greatest 1999 present 17 September Something for the Weekend 1999 2000 22 September The Richard Blackwood Show 1999 2001 23 September The Hip Hop Years 1999 24 September Spaced 1999 2001 17 October Bremner Bird and Fortune 1999 2010 19 October Shockers Anthology series 1999 2001 9 November Small Potatoes 1999 2001 28 December The 1900 House 1999 2000 30 December Shipwrecked 1999 2001 2006 2009 E4 2011 2012 2019 Channel 5 edit 24 January The Movie Chart Show 1999 2003 20 April Can We Still Be Friends 1999 24 April The Tribe 1999 2003 13 July House Doctor 1999 2003 2 August Win Beadle s Money 1999 6 September Beachcomber Bay 1999 2002 30 October Harry and Cosh 1999 2003 15 November The Alchemists 1999 7 December Winter Angel 1999 Channels editNew channels edit Date Channel1 June BBC Knowledge6 June Six TV Oxford amp Southampton 1 July VH1 ClassicMTV BaseMTV Extra1 September Nick Jr Nickelodeon Replay15 September S4C215 October TCM18 October The Hallmark Channel31 October TeleG Scotland Defunct channels edit Date Channel30 April Sky Soap1 May Home Video Channel15 October TNT Classic Movies5 November L VE TVTelevision shows editChanges of network affiliation edit Shows Moved from Moved toIt s a Knockout BBC One Channel 5Returning this year after a break of one year or longer edit 3 September It s a Knockout 1966 1982 1999 2001 Unknown Fully Booked sequels to be overtaken by FBi 1999 2000 Ending this year editBBC Cricket 1939 1946 1999 2020 2024 Mr and Mrs 1964 1999 2008 2010 2012 2016 ITV News at Ten 1967 1999 2001 2004 2008 present Play Your Cards Right 1980 1987 1994 1999 2002 2003 Strike It Lucky and Strike It Rich 1986 1999 Rab C Nesbitt 1988 1999 Red Dwarf 1988 1999 2009 2012 present The Larry Sanders Show 1993 1999 Bodger amp Badger 1989 1999 Fun House 1989 1999 2point4 Children 1991 1999 Murder Most Horrid 1991 1999 Noel s House Party 1991 1999 In Bed with Medinner 1992 1999 Goodnight Sweetheart 1993 1999 The Jack Docherty Show 1997 1999 The Wild House 1997 1999 The Ambassador 1998 1999 Unfinished Business 1998 1999 This Morning with Richard Not Judy 1998 1999 Rocky and the Dodos 1998 1999 Liverpool 1 1998 1999 Grafters 1998 1999 Every Woman Knows a Secret 1999 Butterfly Collectors 1999 The Blonde Bombshell 1999 Aristocrats 1999 Win Beadle s Money 1999 Let Them Eat Cake 1999 The Cook Report 1987 1999 Births edit28 January HRVY singer and television presenter 9 February Adrianna Bertola actress and singer 12 April Akai Osei dancer actor and musician 29 April Callum Scott Howells actor and television personality 23 June Noah Marullo actor 14 October Daniel Roche actor 359 Deaths editDate Name Age Cinematic Credibility9 February Bryan Mosley 3 67 actor Alf Roberts in Coronation Street 24 February Derek Nimmo 360 68 character actor17 March Rod Hull 361 63 entertainer21 March Ernie Wise 85 73 surviving half of UK comedy duo Morecambe and Wise2 April Andrew Gardner 362 66 newsreader4 April Bob Peck 363 53 actor Ronald Craven in Edge of Darkness 14 April Anthony Newley 364 67 actor singer and songwriter26 April Jill Dando 114 365 37 presenter co host of Crimewatch 6 May Johnny Morris 366 82 presenter Animal Magic 23 June Buster Merryfield 367 78 actor Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses 25 June Fred Feast 368 69 actor Fred Gee in Coronation Street 4 July Jack Watson 369 78 actor12 July Bill Owen 370 85 actor Compo Simmonite in Last of the Summer Wine 9 August Helen Rollason 371 43 sports journalist and television presenter10 August Jennifer Paterson 372 70 celebrity chef and television presenter one half of the Two Fat Ladies1 October Lena Zavaroni 373 35 child singer and television presenter7 October Deryck Guyler 374 85 actor Please Sir Sykes 21 November Quentin Crisp 375 90 writer and raconteur24 November Hilary Minster 55 actor General Von Klinkerhoffen in Allo Allo 19 December Robert Dougall 376 86 newsreaderDesmond Llewelyn 377 85 actor25 December Peter Jeffrey 378 70 actorUnknown Jim Wiggins 379 76 77 actorSee also edit1999 in British music 1999 in British radio 1999 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1999References edit BBC One London 1 January 1999 BBC Genome BBC Retrieved 12 November 2016 Fuller Rick 1 January 1999 Outen with the old Denise bids last farewell to the Big Breakfast Daily Record Trinity Mirror Retrieved 15 June 2014 a b Hayward Anthony 11 February 1999 Obituary Bryan Mosley The Independent Independent Print Limited Archived from the original on 1 May 2022 Retrieved 28 April 2014 Bravo Two Zero BBC One London 3 January 1999 BBC Genome genome ch bbc co uk 3 January 1999 Retrieved 23 October 2018 Bravo Two Zero BBC One London 4 January 1999 BBC Genome genome ch bbc co uk 4 January 1999 Retrieved 23 October 2018 thesearethedays 25 February 2018 GMTV2 starts Monday 4th January 1999 Archived from the original on 20 December 2021 Retrieved 25 September 2018 via YouTube The Vanessa Show BBC One 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