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This is a list of events taking place in 2017 relating to Television in the United Kingdom.

Events

January

Date	Event
1	BBC One launches a new set of idents, replacing the circle idents that have been shown before programmes for a decade. The new idents feature the photography of Martin Parr, who has attempted to capture portraits of modern Britain.
	Sherlock returns to BBC One for a fourth series. Overnight viewing figures indicate the first episode was watched by an average audience of 8.1 million, making it the second most watched programme of the 2016–17 festive period; The New Year's Eve fireworks had a viewership of 11.6 million.
4	Fawlty Towers is voted the best British sitcom of all time British sitcom in a survey of comedians, comedy writers and actors.
5	Channel 4 announce they are to show the Monaco Grand Prix and Singapore Grand Prix live for the first time in five years and the United States Grand Prix live for the first time in a decade on free-to-air TV, as they announce their picks for 2017. As part of the C4F1 coverage, also the British Grand Prix and Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as contracted.
6	The manufacturers of the Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway board game apologise after several of the quiz questions were found to have incorrect answers.
7	The BBC airs the first Saturday evening National Lottery Draw to be shown via BBC iPlayer only, the Corporation having taken the decision to stop broadcasting the draw live on BBC One after agreeing a new deal with Lottery operator Camelot Group.
	BBC Two airs the documentary David Bowie: The Last Five Years on the eve of what would have been the singer's 70th birthday.
	Let It Shine makes its debut on BBC One, while The Voice debuts on ITV. Overnight viewing figures indicate that an average audience of 6.3 million tuned in for Let It Shine, narrowly beating the 5.9 million who watched The Voice.
10	Former deputy governor of the Bank of England David Clementi is named as BBC chairman, heading the board of directors that will replace the BBC Trust.
11	BBC Director-General Tony Hall unveils plans to revamp BBC iPlayer in order to make it the premier online television service by 2020.
12	BBC One announces the launch of The Big Painting Challenge, a boot-camp style series that will see amateur artists compete for the title of Britain's best amateur artist. The prime-time Sunday evening show, which will begin in February, will be presented by will be hosted by Mariella Frostrup and the Rev Richard Coles.
	BBC Two has commissioned Terry Pratchett: Back in Black, a documentary about the fantasy author Terry Pratchett which takes a humorous look at his life story.
13	Sky says it has pulled an episode of its series Urban Myths about Michael Jackson following a complaint from his daughter. Paris Jackson had said that she was "incredibly offended" by the portrayal of her father in the programme due to be aired by Sky Arts.
	Richard Ayoade will present a new series of The Crystal Maze when it returns to Channel 4 later this year, the broadcaster announces. Stephen Merchant presented a one off edition of the game show last year.
	Channel 5 weather presenter Sian Welby will join Heart Radio to present the weekday evening show from 16 January.
14	The Russian version of "The Final Problem", the last in the current series of Sherlock, is illegally uploaded to the internet prior to its transmission on 15 January. The BBC launches an investigation into the leak. Overnight viewing figures suggest the show episode was watched by an audience of 5.9 million.
15	The BBC announce plans to adapt the John le Carré novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold for television.
18	The BBC Trust rules that a BBC News at Six report from November 2015 discussing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's view on the shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland was impartial and inaccurate.
	Channel 4 announces that Wife Swap will return for a one-off Brexit special.
19	It is reported that Bill Emmott, a former board member of Ofcom, is seeking a judicial review into a decision by Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Karen Bradley to dismiss him from his post without compensation after he expressed support for the European Union.
	ITV announces that it has axed The Xtra Factor from ITV2. Future editions of the programme will appear online only.
20	BBC One and ITV provide live coverage of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States; BBC coverage of the event is presented by BBC World's Katty Kay, with ITV's coverage presented by Tom Bradby.
	Angus Deayton is confirmed as the new host of Creme de la Creme, a Great British Bake Off spin-off series that will continue to air on the BBC.
24	BBC Two announce plans for Geri's Nineties: The Decade That Made Me, a series in which former Spice Girl Geri Horner will look back at the 1990s.
25	At the 22nd National Television Awards, Ant & Dec are presented with the Television Presenter Award for the sixteenth consecutive year.
27	BBC Two airs Eurovision: You Decide from London's Hammersmith Apollo, where former X Factor contestant Lucie Jones is chosen to represent the United Kingdom in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Never Give Up on You".
30	Peter Capaldi announces his intention to leave Doctor Who at the end of the year.
31	Dermot O'Leary and Emma Willis are chosen to host the 2017 Brit Awards after Michael Bublé pulled out because his son is receiving treatment for cancer.
	BBC Two airs the 1971 film 10 Rillington Place following the death of Sir John Hurt, who plays the role of Timothy Evans.

February

Date	Event
1	It is announced that Nick Jenkins and Sarah Willingham will leave Dragons' Den when the current series ends on 26 February.
2	Kris Marshall announces he is leaving the role of DI Humphrey Goodman in BBC One's Death in Paradise at the end of the current series. His place will be taken by Ardal O'Hanlon who will appear as a new detective.
	Construction workers accidentally dig up and damage Blue Peter's Millennium Time Capsule while carrying out work at London's O2 Arena. The O2 has said it will work with the Blue Peter team to repair or replace the capsule, buried before the Millennium and due to be opened in 2050.
3	US human rights campaigner Kenneth Roth apologises to Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis after mistakenly accusing her of running an alleged CIA torture site. Roth had tweeted a picture of Maitlis instead of Gina Haspel, named as CIA deputy director by US president Donald Trump.
	With The Jump set to return to Channel 4 for a fourth series from 5 February, it is reported that the 2017 series has claimed its first casualty, with model Vogue Williams having to pull out because of a knee injury.
	EastEnders fans express their disappointment on social media upon learning the evening's episode has been cancelled in favour of the BBC One documentary Spy in the Wild.
4	Sir Bradley Wiggins reveals that he has suffered a foot injury while training for the fourth series of The Jump, becoming the second participant to be injured during training for this year's series. However, Wiggins says he will continue as a contestant.
7	Debut of The Moorside, a BBC One drama starring Sheridan Smith and telling the story of the Shannon Matthews case. The first episode is received positively by critics.
	Channel 5 announces that it will air a revamped and updated version of Blind Date.
8	Rolf Harris is cleared of three sex offence charges at Southwark Crown Court.
9	BBC Wales pulls a promotional trailer for the Six Nations rugby match between Wales v England to be held on 11 February after criticism that it was anti-English.
10	BBC Four acquires its first Canadian drama, the six part Cardinal, a detective series based on Giles Blunt's 2002 novel Forty Words for Sorrow. The series will air later in the year.
13	Sir Bradley Wiggins is forced to quit The Jump after sustaining what is described as a small leg fracture during snowcross training.
15	It has been announced that Rolf Harris will face a retrial on 15 May over three alleged sex offence charges and one new charge of indecent assault.
16	Edition of EastEnders in which Bex Fowler (played by Jasmine Armfield) performs the ballad "Boxed Up Broken Heart". The track, written by musician and singer Gwyneth Herbert, is part of a storyline in which the character pens the song after splitting from an onscreen boyfriend.
17	The BBC confirms that Danny Dyer will take a short break from his EastEnders role following a report in The Sun that bosses were concerned about his health.
19	The TV adaptation of Len Deighton's novel SS-GB, a series imagining an alternate history in which Nazi Germany won World War II, debuts on BBC One. The first episode attracts a number of complaints from viewers unable to hear the dialogue, which is blamed on actors mumbling. The BBC says it will look at the sound quality before the next episode is transmitted.
	Piers Morgan announces he will not present the Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme awards following a campaign to remove him. A petition asserting it was "not acceptable" for Morgan to present the awards ceremony attracted some 200 signatures after the RTS confirmed him as host on 16 February.
27	Sky News relaunches its 10 pm bulletin with a new-look set and a focus on content from the Sky News team of specialists and broadcast from the new glass box studio at the heart of Sky's campus in Osterley, west London.
	The Nightly Show is broadcast on ITV at 10 pm and runs for eight weeks and ITV News at Ten is moved to a temporary timeslot of 10.30 pm.

March

Date	Event
1	The television licence will increase from £145.50 to £147 on 1 April, it is announced – the first time the annual licence has increased since 2010.
2	Channel 5 announce plans to broadcast the Home and Away spin-off film Revenge, which gets its British television debut on 5Star on 13 March.
3	Isabelle Heward is named the 2017 Mastermind champion.
4	The BBC launches an investigation after a group of five intruders gained access to a studio at Broadcasting House during a live broadcast of the BBC News channel the previous evening. The individuals were not seen on air and left of their own accord.
16	Ofcom confirms it has received one complaint about a child grooming storyline in Coronation Street involving the character Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon), although the plot has generally won praise from children's charities.
	Channel 4 confirms Sandi Toksvig, Prue Leith and Noel Fielding will join Paul Hollywood when The Great British Bake Off returns later this year.
22	The BBC and ITV interrupt their schedules to provide news coverage following a terrorist attack in London referred as 22/3.
23	Opening the first edition of BBC One's current affairs programme This Week to air in the wake of the Westminster attack, presenter Andrew Neil launches a scathing attack against those who commit acts of terrorism, describing them as "jumped up jihadis", and saying that Britain will never be "cowed" or "defeated" by them.
	Channel 5 airs the documentary The Last Days of George Michael, prompting Michael's former bandmate, Andrew Ridgley to criticise the programme as "sensationalist and mucky". Channel 5 defends its decision to broadcast the film, citing a "legitimate public interest in the circumstances surrounding his death".
27	BBC One airs Question Time: Britain After Brexit, a special edition of Question Time from Birmingham ahead of government preparations to trigger Article 50, the process of withdrawal from the European Union.
30	Comedian Sue Perkins will stand in for Graham Norton as presenter of the 2017 British Academy Television Awards because Norton will be in Kiev in his role as presenter of the BBC's coverage of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest.
	Channel 5 celebrates its 20th anniversary.
31	The tenth series of Doctor Who, which begins on 15 April, will feature the first openly gay companion, Bill Potts (played by Pearl Mackie).
	The BBC Three documentary film Reggie Yates's Hidden Australia is criticised by the BBC Trust for "[seriously breaching] its editorial guidelines" after some of its footage was found to be misleading. The film, made by Sunday Pictures, portrayed extreme drinking among the Aboriginal community at a party, which was in fact footage of several events held on different days, including scenes from a wake.

April

Date	Event
2	Mo Adeniran wins the sixth series of The Voice UK. The series final is briefly interrupted when the stage is invaded by an individual carrying a piece of paper which he attempts to show to the cameras.
	BBC announces it has renewed its contract for exclusive contract to broadcast the Glastonbury Festival until 2022.
3	Beginning of a week of special editions of BBC World News's flagship interview programme HARDtalk celebrating its 20th anniversary. Programmes include an interview with Sir Ian McKellen recorded in front of a live audience at the [[BBC Radio Theatre, which airs on 4 April.
7	John Middleton makes his final appearance as Emmerdale character Ashley Thomas after 21 years with the show. The character dies after being diagnosed with incurable pneumonia.
10	BBC period drama Call the Midwife will get its first black character, West Indian nurse Lucille, when it returns for a seventh series in 2018. BBC News reports casting is currently under way for the role.
	Maxine Mawhinney presents her final BBC News bulletin on BBC News Channel alongside Simon McCoy after 21 years with BBC News.
	Balliol College, Oxford win the 2016–17 series of University Challenge.
11	Peter Kay's Car Share returns to BBC One for a second series. The opening episode sparks renewed interest in the 2001 compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 48 after tracks from it are featured in the show. As a result of the series, Now 48 enters the album charts for the first time in several years.
15	Doctor Who returns to BBC One for its tenth series.
17	The finale of the final series of Broadchurch airs on ITV. Overnight audience figures indicate the episode was seen by an average of 8.7 million viewers (peaking at 9.3 million), the series' highest-ever viewership.
18	The BBC announces a season of programming on both radio and television to mark the 50th anniversary of 1967 Sexual Offences Act. The season, Gay Britannia, will examine the history of gay Britain and celebrate the LGBTQ community.
19	Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish and former banker Jenny Campbell will join the next series of Dragons' Den, replacing Nick Jenkins and Sarah Willingham.
20	The BBC confirms David Dimbleby will present its coverage of the 2017 general election on 8 June. Dimbleby, who will be fronting his tenth general election coverage, had said before the 2015 general election that 2015 would be the last time he would present election coverage. Also it's announced that Huw Edwards will present the day time coverage on 9 June
22	An edition of ITV's Take Me Out is dedicated to a contestant who has died since the programme was filmed. An inquest in September hears the man hanged himself after losing his job because he took four days off work to appear on the show.
25	Katty Kay and Christian Fraser announce on air that the programme 100 Days will be extended. It will be renamed 100 Days + starting on Monday 1 May. This is partly due to the snap 2017 general election on 8 June. It also means World News Today, which fills the slot on Friday and weekends, would be saved for now, despite being axed a month earlier.
27	Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish quits the Dragons' Den line up before filming begins for the next series; he is replaced by Vitabiotics chairman Tej Lalvani.
	Online food delivery service Just Eat signs a £10 million-a-year deal to sponsor The X Factor, one of the largest sponsorships for a weekly British television show.
28	Joseph Valente, winner of the 2015 series of The Apprentice is ending his business relationship with Lord Sugar, it is announced. Although Valente will take full control of his ImpraGas business, the two have parted amicably.
30	The Loose Women presenters launch their Body Stories campaign, featuring a billboard image of them all posing in swimwear with the slogan "Look but don't retouch". The campaign is aimed at addressing issues relating to body image.

May

Date	Event
3	It has been announced that Adam Crozier is to step down as ITV chief executive after seven years.
5	BBC Four airs the documentary Classic Albums: Carly Simon – No Secrets in which Carly Simon sings the words of a fourth verse she penned for her 1972 hit "You're So Vain" for the first time. However, the documentary does not shed any light on the song's subject.
9	Shirley Ballas will join the panel of judges on Strictly Come Dancing when it returns to BBC One later in the year, it is confirmed. She replaces Len Goodman, who stepped down at the end of the last series.
12	Junior doctor Saliha Mahmood-Ahmed wins the 2017 series of MasterChef.
	EastEnders unveils plans to introduce a new family–the Taylors, who will arrive in Albert Square in summer 2017. Executive Producer Sean O'Connor describes the family as "noisy and brash", "[lacking] cash" but "[having] love and warmth in spades".
13	Portugal's Salvador Sobral wins the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the love ballad "Amar pelos dois". It is the first time Portugal have won the competition. The UK's entry, Lucie Jones comes fifteenth with her song "Never Give Up on You".
15	ITV airs the concluding episode of its four part drama, Little Boy Blue, a series dealing with the 2007 murder of Rhys Jones. The programme attracts criticism from the former Assistant Chief Constable of Merseyside, Patricia Gallan, who says some of its content "should not be taken as fact". Gallan herself is portrayed in the series by Sara Powell.
16	McDonald's says it will withdraw an advertising campaign featuring a boy who struggles to identify with his dead father until he visits the fast food restaurant. The commercial first aired on 12 May, and received hundreds of complaints from parents who said their children had been upset by its content, as well as drawing criticism from a bereavement charity for exploiting childhood grief. The ad was scheduled to run for seven weeks, but its last airdate will be on 17 May.
	David Tennant and Billie Piper will reunite to play the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler for a series of audio dramas, it is announced.
22	Ofcom decides not to launch an investigation into a rape scene that appeared in an episode of Emmerdale aired on 24 April, despite the content generating 101 viewer complaints.
	Comedian Vic Reeves will make a cameo appearance in Coronation Street as a television producer, it is announced.
25	The week's edition of BBC One's Question Time, scheduled to take place in Belfast, is instead moved to Salford in the wake of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. Panellists for the programme are Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, anti-extremism campaigner Sara Khan, head of the Police and Crime Commissioners Association Nazir Afzal, and peace campaigner Colin Parry.
	The BBC announces the BBC Store, a facility allowing viewers to buy and download BBC content, will close in November, two years after its launch.
	Fred Talbot is found guilty at Lanark Sheriff Court of a string of sex offences against schoolboys during boating and camping trips in the 1970s and 1980s. He is sentenced on 15 June.
31	ITV announces plans to reschedule the eleventh series final of Britain's Got Talent so as not to clash with the One Love Manchester concert, Ariana Grande's benefit concert for the victims of the Manchester bombing, which will air on BBC One on 4 June. Britain's Got Talent, originally scheduled to air on that evening, will now air a day earlier. The British Soap Awards, due to air on 3 June, will air on 6 June instead.

June

Date	Event
2	Jay Hunt will step down from her role as Chief Creative Officer at Channel 4 in September, it is announced.
3	BBC Two airs Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution with Howard Goodall, a documentary presented by Howard Goodall celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
	Canadian detective series Cardinal makes its British television debut on BBC Four.
	Tokio Myers wins the eleventh series of Britain's Got Talent.
4	BBC One postpones a Question Time leaders debate due to air at 5.55 pm to make way for a BBC News special following the previous evening's terrorist attack in London. The programme, set to feature Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron taking questions in Edinburgh, is rescheduled for 5 June. However, two further pre-recorded debates with the leaders of UKIP and the Green Party, and Plaid Cymru, due to air later the same evening are not rescheduled. Planned editions of The Andrew Marr Show and the Sunday Politics are cancelled in the wake of the attack.
	The One Love Manchester concert airs live on BBC One and BBC Radio, starring Ariana Grande. Overnight viewing figures indicate it had a peak audience of 22.6 million, making it the most watched television event of 2017 to date.
8–9	The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News provide coverage of the results of the 2017 general election, which sees the Conservatives lose their majority, but remain the party with the largest number of seats in the House of Commons.
9	ITV announce plans for a drama about the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary starring Timothy Spall.
13	BBC Two airs the documentary Jo Cox: Death of An MP to coincide with the first anniversary of her murder.
14	The BBC denies reports that a scene from Planet Earth II showing a baby iguana being chased by racer snakes was faked.
15	Fred Talbot is jailed for four years for historical sex offences against boys he took on school trips to Scotland between 1978 and 1981.
	Antibiotics are voted Britain's greatest invention following a live television special, Britain's Greatest Invention on BBC Two.
	On the eve of the first anniversary of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, Channel 4's late night talk show The Last Leg airs a joint video recorded by four former British Prime Ministers–John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron–in which they pay tribute to Cox and urge people to celebrate her life.
17	Billy Connolly, Julie Walters and June Whitfield are among those from the world of entertainment to be awarded in the 2017 Birthday Honours, with Connolly receiving a Knighthood, and Walters and Whitfield receiving Damehoods.
	Following the Grenfell Tower fire in London, BBC Two pulls the documentary Venice Biennale: Sink or Swim as it features artist Khadija Saye, who is believed to be among those to have perished in the blaze. The opening edition of BBC One's singing contest Pitch Battle is also replaced by a different edition after the blaze, a decision taken due to song lyrics.
	The debut edition of BBC One's Pitch Battle is seen by an average audience of 2 million viewers, while Channel 5's relaunched Blind Date is watched by 1.5 million. The second edition of ITV's The Voice Kids draws in an average 2.5 million. However, ratings are down on their usual average, something which broadcasters attribute to a heat wave being experienced by the UK.
19	Ofcom says it will not investigate an edition of Britain's Got Talent in which Amanda Holden wore a topless dress as it "would not have exceeded most viewers' expectations". The regulator received 650 complaints about the edition of the programme aired on 1 June, and 683 complaints across the series about Holden's choice of outfits.
20	The start of the BBC News at Ten is temporarily delayed by a "technical systems crash" that occurred seconds before the programme was due to go on air.
22	In what is believed to be the first such incident of its type on Question Time, a member of the audience is told to leave the programme by presenter David Dimbleby for repeatedly heckling the panel.
	Antiques Roadshow experts believe a Faberge ornament recently valued one the programme could be one of its most significant finds, with a value of £1million.
23	It is announced that Sean O'Connor will leave EastEnders after just a year in the role of executive producer. He will temporarily be replaced by former executive producer John Yorke.
24	John Simm reprises his role as The Master for the Doctor Who episode "World Enough and Time".
29	Culture Secretary Karen Bradley refers Rupert Murdoch's bid to take full control of Sky UK to the Competition Commission after an Ofcom report into the matter concluded that the deal could give the Murdoch family "increased influence" over the UK's news agenda.

July

Date	Event
1	The tenth series of Doctor Who concludes with an extended hour-long episode, "The Doctor Falls". The episode sees David Bradley portraying William Hartnell's First Doctor, a role he first played in the 2013 television biopic An Adventure in Space and Time.
3	Ofcom has launched an investigation into a Coronation Street storyline involving child grooming after scenes were shown before the 9.00pm watershed. Five complaints were received about the scenes, involving the character Bethany Platt (played by Lucy Fallon) when they appeared in an omnibus edition of the soap shown on ITV2 on the morning of Saturday 3 June.
4	Plans are announced to reinvent the BBC for a new generation, including spending an extra £34 million on children's programming.
	A BBC survey indicates that at least a third of Premier League football fans regularly view matches online through unofficial streaming services.
6	The final edition of Question Time before the summer break is interrupted by two digital alerts from presenter David Dimbleby's mobile phone, set to remind him it is bedtime.
	Coronation Street bosses are warning fans to be aware of an online scam offering to recruit extras.
12	BBC One Wales airs Sir Gareth Edwards at 70, a birthday tribute to Welsh rugby union player Gareth Edwards. The programme is presented by Gabby Logan in front of a celebrity audience. The programme is aired nationally on BBC Two on 1 August.
13	As the government considers whether Channel 4 should relocate from London, television producer Phil Redmond launches a bid to move the broadcaster to Liverpool.
	A recently married couple, believed to be the first same-sex couple to marry in a Muslim ceremony in the UK, are guests on ITV's This Morning.
14	The BBC unveils plans to launch a bursary scheme aimed at nurturing new female comedy talent from the North, and named in honour of the late Caroline Aherne. The launch takes place at the 2017 Salford Sitcom Showcase on 27 July.
	A BBC One trailer reveals that the identity of the actor to play the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who will be announced on the channel following the 2017 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final on 16 July.
16	Jodie Whittaker is announced as the Thirteenth Doctor, and the first woman to regularly play the role. The trailer revealing the identity of the next Doctor is watched by an estimated 4.6 million viewers. The announcement that a woman will take up the role is broadly welcomed, with those offering their support including Prime Minister Theresa May, who is described as being "pleased" by the news. The news is greeted with mixed reception from two actors who previously portrayed the role; expressing a preference for a male Doctor, Peter Davison says he feels "a bit sad" the character may no longer be "a role model for boys", comments that are dismissed as "rubbish" by his successor, Colin Baker.
19	As part of the terms of its renewed Royal Charter, the BBC publishes the earnings of celebrities on salaries over £150,000 in its annual report for 2016/17. The figures reveal that two-thirds of these are male, with Chris Evans the top earner. The revelations spark a row about the gender pay gap, and suggestions from politicians that male stars could be forced to take a pay cut.
21	ITV announces the death of Pudsey, the dog who, as part of Ashleigh and Pudsey, won the 2012 series of Britain's Got Talent.
23	Around forty of the BBC's high-profile female personalities have signed an open letter to Director-General Tony Hall urging him to "correct [the] disparity" over gender pay.
	Mel and Sue will present a revived version of The Generation Game, which has been commissioned for an initial run of four editions, it is confirmed.
	Singer Katherine Jenkins makes her television presenting debut as one of the main presenters of Songs of Praise.
24	The first trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas special, titled "Twice Upon a Time" is released online. The one-minute footage shows Peter Capaldi's final outing as The Doctor.
	The BBC announces a new music festival for 2018, which it is hoped will fill the gap left by Glastonbury, which is taking a year off. The Biggest Weekend will run from 25 to 28 May, and take place at four venues, one in each of the Home Countries. Coverage will be shown on BBC radio and television.
	ITV2 airs the third series finale of Love Island, which is watched by an average 2.43 million viewers, giving the channel its largest audience to date.
28	Channel 4 says that its athletics series The Jump will take a break during 2018, and will not be part of its winter schedule so as not to clash with the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
	Isabelle Warburton wins the eighteenth series of Big Brother.
29	BBC One airs the series 31 finale of Casualty, an episode notable for being the first on British television to be shot in entirely one take using a single camera.
30	The Sunday Times removes an online article amid allegations of antisemitism after columnist Kevin Myers suggested in the piece that some female BBC presenters are paid high salaries because they are Jewish. The newspaper also confirms that Myers "will not write again" for them following the comments. Myers subsequently apologises for the remarks, telling Ireland's RTÉ News that he "uttered those words out of respect for the religion".
	The Mail on Sunday reports that Earl Spencer has urged Channel 4 not to broadcast tapes of his sister, Diana, Princess of Wales discussing aspects of her personal life amid concerns it will cause distress to her children. The footage is scheduled to air as part of the documentary Diana: In Her Own Words, due for broadcast in the run up to the 20th anniversary of her death. His concerns are subsequently echoed by Royal commentators and friends of the late princess, including Rosa Monckton, who intends to write to the broadcaster urging them not to show the footage, which she says "doesn't belong in the public domain".

August

Date	Event
1	The BBC announces plans for Britain's Best Cook, a new cookery contest series for BBC One, with Claudia Winkleman as presenter and Mary Berry as one of the judges.
4	Countryfile presenter Anita Rani wades into the BBC gender pay gap controversy, claiming the issue of equal pay is also about race and class.
	The Sun agrees to pay former EastEnders producer Sean O'Connor "substantial damages" after wrongly reporting that he had been sacked from the programme for bullying cast members.
6	It is reported that former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson is being treated in hospital for pneumonia after being taken ill while on holiday in Majorca.
	The Channel 4 documentary Diana: In Her Own Words is aired, drawing their largest overnight ratings for over a year. Figures indicate the film, which includes footage of Diana, Princess of Wales discussing aspects of her marriage to Prince Charles, was watched by an average audience of 3.5 million, peaking at 4.1 million.
8	Scriptwriter Nina Raine is to write a version of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice for ITV that will be darker and more adult themed than previous versions. It is the sixth time the book has been adapted for television.
	Sky's Soccer AM announces that its presenter Helen Chamberlain is to leave the programme after 22 years. She will be replaced by comedian Lloyd Griffith and former footballer Jimmy Bullard.
9	Fitness experts have criticised Geordie Shore starlet Charlotte Crosby for her promotion of a one-week diet plan, which they argue would have questionable results.
11	Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore appears as a guest on Channel 4's The Last Leg.
	YouTube star Trisha Paytas quits the twentieth series of Celebrity Big Brother after eleven days, saying that being a contestant on the show was the "worst experience" of her life.
14	BBC Radio Five Live presenter Emma Barnett makes her debut as a Newsnight presenter, providing summer cover on the BBC Two current affairs programme. She is followed on 17 August by LBC shock-jock Nick Ferrari.
15	Michael Sheen and David Tennant have been cast in a joint BBC/Amazon adaptation of the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel Good Omens, it is announced.
16	BBC Two announce plans to move its new cooking show, The Big Family Cooking Showdown to avoid clashing with editions of The Great British Bake Off, which begins on Channel 4 on 29 August. Showdown will move from Tuesday to Thursday evenings from that date.
18	At the High Court of England and Wales, entertainer Michael Barrymore wins "more than nominal damages" against Essex Police after claiming his career was ruined as a result of his wrongful arrest on suspicion of the rape and murder of Stuart Lubbock.
	Veteran entertainer and presenter Sir Bruce Forsyth has died aged 89, it is announced.
20–23	Channel 4 airs The State, a four part drama shown over four consecutive nights which deals with a group of British Muslims who join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and travel to Syria. The series wins praise from both critics and viewers.
21	The BBC announces plans for Harry Styles at the BBC, a one-off entertainment show to air in November in which Harry Styles chats to Nick Grimshaw and performs some of his songs.
	The BBC considers the idea of a permanent tribute to Sir Bruce Forsyth after some fans called for a statue of him to be installed outside a BBC building.
	Viewers of ITV's This Morning are left moved by a segment of the show in which presenter Ruth Langsford comforts a former colleague who was left with a brain injury after suffering an anaphylactic shock when she ate a meal containing nuts while on holiday in Budapest.
23	It is announced that Sarah Smith will succeed Andrew Neil as presenter of The Sunday Politics when the programme returns on 17 September.
	The League of Gentlemen will return to BBC Two for three one-off specials to mark the series' 20th anniversary, it is announced.
	Following her portrayal of Cilla Black in a 2014 biopic, it is announced that Sheridan Smith has signed a record deal with East West Records to release an album.
	Memorable edition of the ITV Lunchtime News in which a toddler runs around the studio while Alistair Stewart interviews her mother and brother for a piece about milk allergies.
24	The BBC announces it has commissioned documentaries about the Grenfell Tower fire and the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
25	Sarah Harding wins the twentieth series of Celebrity Big Brother.
27	BBC One debuts Strike – The Cuckoo's Calling, the first in a new detective series, Strike, and based on the crime novels by J. K. Rowling.
28	Channel 5 confirms Celebrity Big Brother will return in 2018, following rumours it would be axed along with the main Big Brother show. Speculation about its future had begun after Channel 5's director, Ben Frow told the Edinburgh Television Festival he "would be much happier with a channel that did not have Big Brother on it".
29	Sky UK ceases carriage of Fox News Channel, owned by Sky stakeholder 21st Century Fox, after fifteen years (the feed consisted of a near-direct simulcast of the American cable news channel, outside of commercials being replaced by Sky News forecasts and headlines). A low audience average of 2,000 daily viewers for the channel in the United Kingdom was cited for the move to discontinue offering the channel, though FNC's issues through 2017 and Rupert Murdoch clearing hurdles to acquire the remaining interest in Sky UK that he does not presently own were also cited.
	The Great British Bake Off makes its Channel 4 debut, with a viewing audience of 5.8 million tuning in to watch the opening episode of its eighth series.

September

Date	Event
2	The X Factor returns for its fourteenth series, with the opening episode achieving ratings of 6 million, the programme's lowers viewirship to date.
	Premiership Rugby makes its debut on Channel 5.
4	ITV announces that Dancing on Ice will return in January 2018 after a four year hiatus. It will be presented by Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.
	BBC Two airs Diana and I, a film that explores how the death of Diana, Princess of Wales affected ordinary people.
6	ITV announces the introduction of a sixth weekly episode of Coronation Street from Wednesday 20 September, meaning the programme will air a double bill of episodes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from that date.
7	The BBC announces the full lineup for the Later...with Jools Holland 25th anniversary special, being held at the Royal Albert Hall on 21 September. Acts will include Foo Fighters, Paul Weller, Van Morrison, Dizzee Rascal, Gregory Porter, Kali Uchis, Camille, Songhoy Blues, and Jorja Smith. The special will be broadcast on BBC Two on Saturday 23 September.
9	As Strictly Come Dancing returns for a new series, openly gay comedian Susan Calman (who is one of the contestants) is forced to defend her decision to dance with a male partner after facing fierce criticism from members of the LGBT community on social media. Calman says she was offended by the criticism she received for taking part in the show, which does not have same-sex dance couples. Bosses at Strictly have not ruled out the idea of using same-sex couples at a future date.
12	Culture Secretary signals her intention to refer 21st Century Fox's proposed £11.7bn takeover of Sky to the Competition and Markets Authority for further investigation amid concerns over media plurality. The merger deal is referred to the Authority on 14 September.
14	Addressing the Royal Television Society's conference in Cambridge, Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, appears to row back from government plans to move Channel 4 out of London, suggesting that not all of the broadcaster's operations would need to relocate.
	ITV announces plans for Butterfly, a three part series about a schoolboy who identifies as a girl, with Anna Friel playing the role of the boy's mother.
	Nate Dias and Steve Guinness win the first series of Channel 4's Lego Masters.
15	ITV have secured a deal to show coverage of the 2017 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
16	BBC Two airs The A-Z of Later...with Jools Holland: From Adele to ZZ Top, a programme celebrating the diverse acts that have appeared on the programme during the quarter of a century it has been on air.
19	It is reported that Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders will reunite for a Christmas special of French and Saunders to mark the series' 30th anniversary.
20	The Detectives returns to BBC Two for a second series, this time focusing on Greater Manchester Police's Murder Investigation Team.
	ITV announces that ITV3 will broadcast two classic episodes of Coronation Street on weekday afternoons from 2 October.
22	Greg James and A.Dot will present a new, primetime music show for BBC One to launch in October, it is announced. Sounds Like Friday Night will be the first regular mainstream music programme to air on the BBC since Top of the Pops was axed in 2006.

October

Date	Event

November

Date	Event
1	S4C celebrate their 35th anniversary.
2	Channel 4, and Countdown both celebrate their 35th anniversaries.

December

Date	Event

Debuts

BBC

Date	Debut	Channel
1 January	Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise	BBC Two
2 January	Impossible	BBC One
	CBBC Visits the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts	CBBC
3 January	Revolting	BBC Two
	Yellowstone: Wildest Winter to Blazing Summer
4 January	Italy's Invisible Cities	BBC One
7 January	Let It Shine
	Taboo
	David Bowie: The Last Five Years	BBC Two
11 January	Hospital
	Common Sense
12 January	Spy in the Wild	BBC One
22 January	Apple Tree Yard
23 January	Numberblocks	CBeebies
	100 Days (now 100 Days +)	BBC Four / BBC News Channel
26 January	British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley	BBC Four
6 February	SAS: Rogue Warriors	BBC Two
7 February	The Moorside	BBC One
8 February	This Country	BBC Three
	Roots	BBC Four
13 February	Remotely Funny	CBBC
19 February	SS-GB	BBC One
22 February	Incredible Medicine: Dr Weston's Casebook	BBC Two
24 February	The Secrets of Your Food
27 February	Mary Berry Everyday
	Meet the Lords
28 February	The Replacement	BBC One
	1066: A Year to Conquer England	BBC Two
5 March	Clique	BBC Three
9 March	Just a Couple
13 March	Fugitives	BBC One
	My Life: New Boys in Town	CBBC
17 March	Wild Ireland: The Edge of the World	BBC Two
18 March	Happy 100th Birthday Dame Vera Lynn
25 March	All Round to Mrs. Brown's	BBC One
26 March	Turkey with Simon Reeve	BBC Two
27 March	Holding Back the Years	BBC One
	The Repair Shop	BBC Two
	Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby
28 March	Gravity and Me: The Force that Shapes our Lives	BBC Four
30 March	Galapagos	BBC One
31 March	Decline and Fall
5 April	Second Chance Summer: Tuscany	BBC Two
	Me and My Dog: The Ultimate Contest
11 April	Our Friend Victoria	BBC One
12 April	Reported Missing
13 April	Bucket	BBC Four
	The World According to Kids	BBC Two
21 April	Hospital People	BBC One
22 April	The Playlist	CBBC
24 April	The Boss	BBC One
1 May	Amsterdam: An Art Lovers' Guide	BBC Four
3 May	Trust Me, I'm a Vet	BBC Two
4 May	Can't Cope, Won't Cope	BBC Three
7 May	Babs	BBC One
	Mexico: Earth's Festival of Life	BBC Two
	Dara & Ed's Road to Mandalay
	Queer Britain	BBC Three
8 May	A1: Britain's Longest Road	BBC One
10 May	King Charles III	BBC Two
16 May	Three Girls	BBC One
18 May	Kat & Alfie: Redwater
24 May	White Gold	BBC Two
25 May	Paula
28 May	The Life Swap Adventure
	Paul Hollywood's Big Continental Road Trip
30 May	Broken	BBC One
	The Chillenden Murders	BBC Two
1 June	The Great Village Green Crusade	BBC Four
4 June	One Love Manchester	BBC One
5 June	The Secret Life of the Hospital Bed
	Cosby: Fall Of An American Icon	BBC Two
8 June	Frankie Boyle's New World Order
12 June	The Art of Japanese Life	BBC Four
	Handmade in Japan
13 June	Ryan Gander: The Idea of Japan
	Jo Cox: Death of an MP	BBC Two
15 June	Britain's Greatest Invention
17 June	Pitch Battle	BBC One
19 June	Curious Creatures	BBC Two
23 June	Tracey Breaks the News	BBC One
28 June	The Week the Landlords Moved In
3 July	The Betrayed Girls
11 July	In the Dark
	The British Garden: Life and Death on Your Lawn	BBC Four
17 July	Letterbox	BBC Two
	Nadiya's British Food Adventure
18 July	Addicted Parents: Last Chance to Keep My Children
19 July	The Sweet Makers
20 July	The Mash Report
22 July	Ill Behaviour	BBC iPlayer
23 July	Wild Alaska Live	BBC One
24 July	Wild
26 July	Against the Law	BBC Two
27 July	Prejudice and Pride: The People’s History of LGBTQ Britain	BBC Four
29 July	Queer as Art	BBC Two
31 July	Man in an Orange Shirt
	Queers	BBC Four
8 August	Trust Me	BBC One
14 August	The Zoo	CBBC
15 August	The Big Family Cooking Showdown	BBC Two
	Quacks
16 August	Saving Lives at Sea
	No More Boys and Girls
19 August	Partners in Rhyme	BBC One
20 August	Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?	BBC Two
27 August	Strike	BBC One
30 August	World's Busiest Cities	BBC Two
31 August	Sex Map of Britain	BBC Three
4 September	Richard Osman's House of Games	BBC Two
	Diana and I
11 September	Rellik	BBC One
	Beyond 100 Days	BBC Four & BBC News Channel
13 September	The Other One	BBC Two
16 Septembe r	Even Better Than the Real Thing	BBC One
20 September	Famalam	BBC Two
	The Detectives: Murder on the Streets
24 September	The Child in Time	BBC One
25 September	The Vietnam War	BBC Four
28 September	Russia with Simon Reeve	BBC Two
30 September	Saturday Mash-Up!	CBBC & BBC Two
3 October	Army: Behind the New Frontlines	BBC Two
Autumn	Gentleman Jack	BBC One
Autumn	Anansi Boys	BBC One
November	Requiem
	Blue Planet II
Unknown	Creeped Out	CBBC
	The Last Post	BBC One
	Bodyguard
	Hard Sun
	Gunpowder
	Troy: Fall of a City
	Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed!	CBBC
	Howards End	BBC One
	The Child in Time
	Getting The Builders In
	McMafia

ITV

Date	Debut	Channel
2 January	The Halcyon	ITV
5 January	Save Money: Good Health
6 January	Britain's Best Walks with Julia Bradbury
7 January	The Opening Show	ITV4
8 January	2Awesome	ITV2
	Dance Dance Dance	ITV
10 January	Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia
13 January	Tina and Bobby
30 January	James Martin's French Adventure
31 January	Tales from the Coast with Robson Green
5 February	Lion Country: Night and Day
	The Good Karma Hospital
16 February	Mafia Women with Trevor McDonald
21 February	Britain's Busiest Motorway
24 February	Phillip Schofield's South African Adventure
27 February	The Home Game
	The Nightly Show
28 February	The Secret Chef
1 March	Little Big Shots
2 March	Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
	Prime Suspect 1973
5 March	5 Gold Rings
27 March	Harlots	ITV Encore
4 April	Save Money: Good Food	ITV
10 April	Devon and Cornwall Cops
17 April	Culinary Genius
18 April	Don't Ask Me Ask Britain
20 April	Joanna Lumley's Postcards
	The Detectives: Inside the Major Crimes Team
23 April	Bigheads
24 April	Little Boy Blue
1 May	Babushka
6 May	The Keith & Paddy Picture Show
5 June	Lord Lucan: My Husband, the Truth
10 June	The Voice Kids
11 June	The Loch
12 June	Amazing Animal Births
	Fearless
15 June	The Real Full Monty
	CelebAbility	ITV2
26 June	David Dickinson's Name Your Price	ITV
30 June	The Secret World of Posh Pets
5 July	Joanna Lumley's India
13 July	Eat, Shop, Save
27 July	Inside London Fire Brigade
11 August	Teach My Pet To Do That
14 August	easyJet: Inside the Cockpit
17 August	The Brighton Police
30 August	Love Your Home and Garden
2 September	Saturday Morning with James Martin
	The Family Chase
	Cannonball
4 September	Dress to Impress	ITV2
11 September	Liar	ITV
12 September	Robson Green's Coastal Lives
14 September	Bromans	ITV2
20 September	Bad Move	ITV
December	All Star Musicals
Unknown	Life Inside Lockdown
	Undercover Prisoner
	Codswallop	ITV2
	A Very Public Education	ITV
	When the Going Gets Tough	ITV Encore
	Innocent	ITV

Channel 4

Date	Debut	Channel
2 January	First Dates Hotel	Channel 4
5 January	Spies
8 January	Walking the Americas
6 February	The Fake News Show
16 February	Inside Dior	More4
20 February	The Trouble with Dad	Channel 4
22 February	The Royal House of Windsor
23 February	Gap Year	E4
26 February	Rivers with Jeremy Paxman	Channel 4
27 February	Game of Clones	E4
2 March	Extremely British Muslims	Channel 4
6 March	How'd You Get So Rich?
	Mutiny
23 March	Three Wives, One Husband
12 April	My Online Nightmare
19 April	How to Live Mortgage Free with Sarah Beeny
	Confessions of a Junior Doctor
20 April	Born to Kill
30 April	Escape to Costa Rica
8 May	Loaded
9 May	Elizabeth
14 May	Hunted America	All 4
21 May	The Trial: A Murder in the Family	Channel 4
28 May	The Handmaid's Tale
7 June	Ackley Bridge
19 June	Vlogglebox	E4
22 June	Host the Week	Channel 4
24 June	Pop, Pride and Prejudice	More4
3 July	Binky & JP's Baby: Born in Chelsea	E4
4 August	The Secret Life of the Holiday Resort	Channel 4
5 August	Paul O'Grady's Hollywood
14 August	Cheap Cheap Cheap
15 August	Delhi Cops
16 August	Made Over By	E4
20 August	From Russia to Iran: Crossing Wild Frontiers	Channel 4
	The State
21 August	All Gardens Great and Small	More4
24 August	Lego Masters	Channel 4
29 August	Married to a Celebrity: The Survival Guide
6 September	Back
13 September	My Hotter Half	E4
17 September	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams	Channel 4
18 September	All Star Driving School	E4
Unknown	Kiss Me First

Channel 5

Date	Debut	Channel
3 January	A New Life in Oz	Channel 5
9 January	The Week We Went Wild
11 January	Celebrity 100% Hotter
12 January	Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink
7 February	Secrets of the National Trust
	Celebrity Carry On Barging
8 February	Climbing the Property Ladder
10 February	Cruising with Jane McDonald
13 February	Railways That Built Britain with Chris Tarrant
16 February	When Kids Kill: Schoolboy Slayer
17 March	Tony Robinson: Coast to Coast
20 March	Traffic Cops: Under Attack
21 March	Yorkshire: A Year in the Wild
23 March	The Last Days of George Michael
29 March	One Night with My Ex
30 March	Rich House, Poor House
31 March	Spectacular Spain with Alex Polizzi
19 April	Badass Brides	5Star
27 April	Baby Ballroom
1 May	The Miranda Hart Story	Channel 5
8 May	Mind the Age Gap
6 June	Our Dream Hotel
9 June	Biggest Dog in the World
17 June	Before They Were Stars
6 July	Circus Kids: Our Secret World
7 August	Make or Break?
23 August	Starting Up, Starting Over
30 August	Nightmare New Builds
3 September	My Secret Sex Fantasy
Unknown	Minds at War

Other channels

Date	Debut	Channel
2 January	Celebrity Fat Fighters	TLC
8 January	The Big Spell	Sky 1
15 January	Freddie Down Under
19 January	Urban Myths	Sky Arts
17 March	Oasis	Amazon Video
22 March	Dr Christian Will See You Now	W
31 March	Carters Get Rich	Sky 1
3 April	Just Tattoo of Us	MTV
5 April	Henry IX	Gold
13 April	Guerrilla	Sky Atlantic
14 April	Ronnie's Redneck Road Trip	Dave
22 April	Micky Flanagan Thinking Aloud	Sky 1
5 May	Jamestown
15 May	Go 8 Bit: DLC	Dave
18 May	A Tale of Two Sisters	Yesterday
15 June	Riviera	Sky Atlantic
22 June	Free Rein	Netflix
24 June	Ben Phillips Blows Up	Comedy Central
21 August	Sunny Day	Nickelodeon
7 September	Tin Star	Sky Atlantic
Unknown	Britannia	Sky 1
	Sick Note	Sky Atlantic

Channels

New channels

Date	Channel
4 February	ITV Box Office
15 March	Quest Red
31 August	FreeSports

Defunct channels

Date	Channel

Rebranding channels

Date	Old Name	New Name
9 February	Tiny Pop +1	Pop Max
25 April	Pop Max	Tiny Pop +1

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Classic Coronation Street	Granada Plus	ITV3
The National Lottery Draws	BBC One	BBC iPlayer
Eurovision: You Decide	BBC Four	BBC Two
Line of Duty	BBC Two	BBC One
The Cheltenham Festival	Channel 4	ITV & ITV4
The Grand National
Chester's May Festival
The Epsom Derby
Royal Ascot
Glorious Goodwood
The Ebor Festival
Other Horse Racing Programmes
The Great British Bake Off	BBC One & BBC Two	Channel 4
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
BDO World Darts Championship
The Voice UK	BBC One	ITV
The Worst Witch	CITV	CBBC
Blind Date	ITV	Channel 5
Don't Tell the Bride	Sky 1	E4
The Price Is Right	ITV Sky 1	Channel 4

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Programme	Date(s) of original removal	Original channel(s)	Date of return	New channel(s)
ITV Racing	5 October 1985	ITV	1 January 2017	ITV & ITV4
The Worst Witch	26 January 2001 27 January 2007	CITV	11 January 2017	CBBC
Piers Morgan's Life Stories	11 December 2015	ITV	3 February 2017	N/A (same channel)
Blind Date	31 May 2003	ITV	17 June 2017	Channel 5
World News America	25 March 2011	BBC News Channel	2017	N/A (Same channel)
The Crystal Maze	10 August 1995 (Original Series) 16 October 2016 (Stand Up to Cancer Special)	Channel 4	23 June 2017	N/A (Same channel)
Classic Coronation Street	1 November 2004	Granada Plus	2 October 2017	ITV3
The Price Is Right	12 January 2007	ITV	2017	Channel 4

1950s

Programme	Date
Panorama	(1953–present)
Eurovision Song Contest	(1956–present)
The Sky at Night	(1957–present)
Final Score	(1958–present) (part of Grandstand, 1958–2001)
Blue Peter	(1958–present)

1960s

Programme	Date
Coronation Street	(1960–present)
Maigret	(1960–1963, 1992–1993, 2016–present)
Points of View	(1961–present)
Songs of Praise	(1961–present)
University Challenge	(1962–1987, 1994–present)
Doctor Who	(1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present)
Horizon	(1964–present)
Match of the Day	(1964–present)
Top of the Pops	(1964–present) (only at Christmas 2006–present)
Gardeners' World	(1968–present)
A Question of Sport	(1968, 1970–present)

1970s

Programme	Date
Emmerdale	(1972–present)
Mastermind (including Celebrity Mastermind)	(1972–1997, 2003–present)
Newsround	(1972–present)
Football Focus	(1974–present)
Pobol y Cwm	(1974–present)
Porridge	(1974–1977, 2016–present)
Arena	(1975–present)
One Man and His Dog	(1976–present)
Top Gear	(1977–2001, 2002–present)
Antiques Roadshow	(1979–present)
Question Time	(1979–present)

1980s

Programme	Date
Children in Need	(1980–present)
Danger Mouse	(1981–1992, 2015–present)
Countdown	(1982–present)
ITV Breakfast	(1983–present)
Good Morning Britain	(1983–1992, 2014–present)
Thomas & Friends	(1984–present)
EastEnders	(1985–present)
Watchdog	(1985–present)
Comic Relief	(1985–present)
Catchphrase	(1986–2002, 2013–present)
Casualty	(1986–present)
Fifteen to One	(1988–2003, 2013–present)
Red Dwarf	(1988–1999, 2009, 2012–present)
This Morning	(1988–present)
Countryfile	(1988–present)

1990s

Programme	Date
Have I Got News for You	(1990–present)
The Crystal Maze	(1990–1995, 2016–present)
MasterChef	(1990–2001, 2005–present)
ITV News Meridian	(1993–present)
Junior MasterChef	(1994–1999, 2010–present)
Room 101	(1994–2007, 2012–present)
Hollyoaks	(1995–present)
Soccer AM	(1995–present)
Silent Witness	(1996–present)
Classic Coronation Street	(1996–2004, 2017–present)
Midsomer Murders	(1997–present)
Robot Wars	(1997–2004, 2016–present)
Teletubbies	(1997–2001, 2002, 2007–2009, 2012, 2015–present)
Y Clwb Rygbi	(1997–present)
Cold Feet	(1998–2003, 2016–present)
Holby City	(1999–present)
Loose Women	(1999–present)

2000s

Programme	Date
2000
Big Brother (including Celebrity Big Brother)	(2000–present)
Bargain Hunt	(2000–present)
BBC Breakfast	(2000–present)
Click	(2000–present)
Doctors	(2000–present)
A Place in the Sun	(2000–present)
The Unforgettable	(2000–2002, 2010–present)
Unreported World	(2000–present)
2001
BBC South East Today	(2001–present)
Rogue Traders	(2001–present) (part of Watchdog 2009–present)
2002
Animal Park	(2002–2009, 2016–present)
Escape to the Country	(2002–present)
Flog It!	(2002–present)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!	(2002–present)
Inside Out	(2002–present)
Most Haunted	(2002–2010, 2014–present)
River City	(2002–present)
Saturday Kitchen	(2002–present)
2003
Daily Politics	(2003–present)
QI	(2003–present)
This Week	(2003–present)
Eggheads	(2003–present)
Extraordinary People	(2003–present)
Grumpy Old Men	(2003–present)
Homes Under the Hammer	(2003–present)
Traffic Cops	(2003–present)
2004
Doc Martin	(2004–present)
Match of the Day 2	(2004–present)
Strictly Come Dancing	(2004–present)
The X Factor	(2004–present)
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year	(2004–present)
The Culture Show	(2004–present)
Football First	(2004–present)
The Gadget Show	(2004–present)
Live at the Apollo	(2004–present)
NewsWatch	(2004–present)
SadlerVision	(2004–present)
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two	(2004–present)
Who Do You Think You Are?	(2004–present)
2005
8 out of 10 Cats	(2005–present)
Coach Trip	(2005–2006, 2009–2012, 2013–present)
The Andrew Marr Show	(2005–present)
The Adventure Show	(2005–present)
The Apprentice	(2005–present)
Dragons' Den	(2005–present)
The Hotel Inspector	(2005–present)
The Jeremy Kyle Show	(2005–present)
Mock the Week	(2005–present)
Springwatch	(2005–present)
2006
The Album Chart Show	(2006–present)
Animal Spies!	(2006–present)
The Apprentice: You're Fired!	(2006–present)
Banged Up Abroad	(2006–present)
Cricket AM	(2006–present)
Dickinson's Real Deal	(2006–present)
Don't Get Done, Get Dom	(2006–present)
Horrid Henry	(2006–present)
Monkey Life	(2006–present)
Not Going Out	(2006–present)
The One Show	(2006–present)
People & Power	(2006–present)
Peschardt's People	(2006–present)
The Secret Millionaire	(2006–2008, 2010–present)
2007
Britain's Got Talent	(2007–present)
Would I Lie to You?	(2007–present)
Benidorm	(2007–present)
The Big Questions	(2007–present)
Don't Tell the Bride	(2007–present)
The Graham Norton Show	(2007–present)
Heir Hunters	(2007–present)
Helicopter Heroes	(2007–present)
Inspector George Gently	(2007–present)
London Ink	(2007–present)
Shaun the Sheep	(2007–present)
Real Rescues	(2007–present)
The Hot Desk	(2007–present)
2008
An Là	(2008–present)
Big & Small	(2008–present)
Celebrity Juice	(2008–present)
Chuggington	(2008–present)
Only Connect	(2008–present)
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is	(2008–present)
Police Interceptors	(2008–present)
Rubbernecker	(2008–present)
Seachd Là	(2008–present)
2009
Pointless	(2009–present)
The Chase	(2009–present)
Countrywise	(2009–present)
Cowboy Trap	(2009–present)
Four Weddings	(2009–present)
Piers Morgan's Life Stories	(2009–present)
Rip Off Britain	(2009–present)

2010s

Programme	Date
2010
Dinner Date	(2010–present)
The Great British Bake Off	(2010–present)
Great British Railway Journeys	(2010–present)
A League of Their Own	(2010–present)
Little Crackers	(2010–present)
Lorraine	(2010–present)
Luther	(2010–present)
The Only Way Is Essex	(2010–present)
Sherlock	(2010–present)
Sunday Morning Live	(2010–present)
Take Me Out	(2010–present)
2011
All Over the Place	(2011–present)
The Amazing World of Gumball	(2011–present)
Black Mirror	(2011–present)
Episodes	(2011–2017)
Four Rooms	(2011–present)
Hacker Time	(2011–present)
Horrible Histories: Gory Games	(2011–present)
Junior Bake Off	(2011–present)
Made in Chelsea	(2011–present)
Match of the Day Kickabout	(2011–present)
Ross Kemp: Extreme World	(2011–2017)
Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up	(2011–present)
Show Me What You're Made Of	(2011–present)
Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents	(2011–present)
Trollied	(2011–present)
Vera	(2011–present)
2012
4 O'Clock Club	(2012–present)
Endeavour	(2012–present)
Call the Midwife	(2012–present)
Great Continental Railway Journeys	(2012–present)
Prisoners' Wives	(2012–present)
The Syndicate	(2012–present)
Stella	(2012–present)
Stand Up To Cancer	(2012–present)
The Voice UK	(2012–present)
Naomi's Nightmares of Nature	(2012–present)
Tipping Point	(2012–2017)
Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs	(2012–present)
Last Tango in Halifax	(2012–present)
Operation Ouch!	(2012–present)
Claimed and Shamed	(2012–present)
Wolfblood	(2012–present)
2013
The Dumping Ground	(2013–present)
Blandings	(2013–present)
Dani's Castle	(2013–present)
Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom	(2013–present)
Broadchurch	(2013–2017)
Caught Red Handed	(2013–present)
Officially Amazing	(2013–present)
Shetland	(2013–present)
Big Star's Little Star	(2013–present)
The Dog Rescuers	(2013–present)
Still Open All Hours	(2013–present)
2014
Agatha Raisin	(2014–present)
Boomers	(2014–present)
The Dog Ate My Homework	(2014–present)
The Jump	(2014–present)
Prey	(2014–present)
The Great Interior Design Challenge	(2014–present)
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice	(2014–present)
Happy Valley	(2014–present)
Holiday of My Lifetime	(2014, 2016–present)
Tyger Takes On...	(2014–present)
Educating Joey Essex	(2014–present)
The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway	(2014–2017)
In the Club	(2014–present)
Weekend	(2014–present)
Chasing Shadows	(2014–present)
Judge Rinder	(2014–present)
Grantchester	(2014–present)
Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans	(2014–present)
Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis	(2014–present)
Scrambled!	(2014–present)
W1A	(2014–present)
Who's Doing the Dishes?	(2014–present)
2015
The Almost Impossible Gameshow	(2015–present)
CBBC Official Chart Show	(2015–present)
Chewing Gum	(2015–present)
Decimate	(2015–present)
The Dengineers	(2015–present)
Doctor Foster	(2015–present)
Eve	(2015–present)
The Frankenstein Chronicles	(2015–present)
The Great Pottery Throw Down	(2015–present)
Hetty Feather	(2015–present)
Hive Minds	(2015–present)
Hoff the Record	(2015–present)
Hunted	(2015–present)
In Therapy	(2015–present)
The John Bishop Show	(2015–present)
Josh	(2015–present)
Jeremy Kyle Emergency Room	(2015–present)
The Kyle Files	(2015–present)
Michael McIntyre's Big Show	(2015–present)
Ninja Warrior UK	(2015–present)
Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords	(2015–present)
No Offence	(2015–present)
Ordinary Lies	(2015–present)
Peter Kay's Car Share	(2015–2017)
Play to the Whistle	(2015–present)
Poldark	(2015–present)
Real Stories with Ranvir Singh	(2015–present)
Rebound	(2015–present)
Safe House	(2015–present)
SAS: Who Dares Wins	(2015–present)
The Saturday Show	(2015–present)
Scream Street	(2015–present)
Simply Nigella	(2015–present)
So Awkward	(2015–present)
Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week	(2015–present)
Taskmaster	(2015–present)
Thunderbirds Are Go	(2015–present)
Victoria Derbyshire	(2015–present)
Wild & Weird	(2015–present)
10,000 BC	(2015–present)
2016
The A Word	(2016–present)
All Over the Workplace	(2016–present)
Alphabetical	(2016–present)
Airmageddon	(2016–present)
Bake Off: Crème de la Crème	(2016–2017)
Bang on the Money	(2016–present)
Borderline	(2016–present)
Cash Trapped	(2016–present)
Class	(2016–present)
Class Dismissed	(2016–present)
The Code	(2016–present)
Crashing	(2016–present)
The Crown	(2016–present)
The Cruise	(2016–present)
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit	(2016–present)
Debatable	(2016–present)
The Durrells	(2016–present)
Eden	(2016–2017)
Got What It Takes?	(2016–present)
Insert Name Here	(2016–present)
The Level	(2016–present)
Love, Nina	(2016–present)
Maigret	(2016–present)
Marcella	(2016–present)
Masterpiece	(2016–present)
Mum	(2016–present)
Naked Attraction	(2016–present)
New Blood	(2016–present)
The Night Manager	(2016–present)
No Such Thing as the News	(2016–present)
Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle	(2016–present)
Peston on Sunday	(2016–present)
Pocket Money Pitch	(2016–present)
The Premier League Show	(2016–present)
The Question Jury	(2016–present)
Spot Bots	(2016–present)
Stan Lee's Lucky Man	(2016–present)
Tenable	(2016–present)
Think Tank	(2016–present)
This Time Next Year	(2016–present)
Top Class	(2016–present)
Tribes, Predators & Me	(2016–present)
Unspun with Matt Forde	(2016–present)
Upstart Crow	(2016–present)
Victoria	(2016–present)
We Have Been Watching	(2016–present)
The Windsors	(2016–present)
Witless	(2016–present)
Zapped	(2016–present)

Ending this year

Date(s)	Programme	Channel(s)	Debut(s)
4 January	Pop Quiz	BBC One / Red TV / Vintage TV / BBC Four	1981
7 January	The National Lottery Draws	BBC One	1994
15 January	Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise	BBC Two	2017
27 January	Tina and Bobby	ITV
3 February	Spy in the Wild	BBC One
6 February	Apple Tree Yard
12 February	Uncle	BBC Three / BBC One	2014
14 February	The Moorside	BBC One	2017
20 February	The Halcyon	ITV
25 February	Let It Shine	BBC One
13 March	Meet the Lords	BBC Two
14 March	1066: A Year to Conquer England
	The Replacement	BBC One
19 March	SS-GB
23 March	Little People	Cartoonito / Tiny Pop	2016
29 March	Postman Pat	BBC One / BBC Two / CBeebies / Tiny Pop	1981
9 April	Clique	BBC Three	2017
13 April	Gap Year	E4
17 April	Broadchurch	ITV	2013
2 May	Peter Kay's Car Share	BBC One	2015
9 May	Second Chance Summer: Tuscany	BBC Two	2017
11 May	Born to Kill	Channel 4
14 May	Escape to Costa Rica
15 May	Little Boy Blue	ITV
18 May	Three Girls	BBC One
	Guerrilla	Sky Atlantic
25 May	The Trial: A Murder in the Family	Channel 4
29 May	The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway	BBC Two	2014
30 May	Bake Off: Crème de la Crème		2016
30 June	Mount Pleasant	Sky 1	2011
13 July	100 Days/100 Days +	BBC Four / BBC News Channel	2017
15 July	Wife Swap	Channel 4	2003 & 2017
30 July	Wild Alaska Live	BBC One	2017
1 August	In the Dark
11 August	Eden	Channel 4	2016
12 August	Ross Kemp: Extreme World	Sky 1	2011
29 August	Trust Me	BBC One	2017
November	Inspector George Gently		2007
TBC	Episodes	BBC Two	2011
	Tipping Point	ITV	2012

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Broadcast credibility
1 January	Brian Widlake	85	Journalist and broadcaster (The Money Programme, The World at One)
3 January	Rodney Bennett	81	Television director (Doctor Who)
17 January	Philip Bond	82	Actor (Doctor Who, The Onedin Line, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
23 January	Gorden Kaye	75	Actor ('Allo 'Allo!, Brazil, Coronation Street)
25 January	John Hurt	77	Actor (Midnight Express, Alien, The Elephant Man, The Black Cauldron, Red Fox, Thumbelina, Doctor Who)
26 January	David Rose	92	Television producer (Z-Cars, Softly, Softly), founder of Film4
1 February	Desmond Carrington	90	Actor (Emergency – Ward 10) and broadcaster
6 February	Alec McCowen	91	Actor (A Night to Remember, Henry V, Gangs of New York)
8 February	Alan Simpson	87	Writer (Hancock's Half Hour, Comedy Playhouse, Steptoe and Son)
	Tara Palmer-Tomkinson	45	Socialite and television presenter (I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp, Animals Do the Funniest Things)
12 February	Sara Coward	69	Actress (Inspector Morse, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Rumpole of the Bailey)
25 February	Neil Fingleton	36	Actor (Game of Thrones, 47 Ronin, Doctor Who)
28 February	James Walker	76	Actor (Nineteen Eighty-Four, Empire of the Sun, Danny, Champion of the World)
9 March	Ann Beach	78	Actress (Fresh Fields, Notting Hill)
	Jane Freeman	81	Actress (Last of the Summer Wine)
10 March	John Forgeham	75	Actor (Footballers' Wives, The Italian Job, Kiss of the Dragon, Crossroads)
	Tony Haygarth	72	Actor (El C.I.D., Chicken Run, Where the Heart Is, Emmerdale, Dracula)
17 March	Robert Day	94	Television and film director (The Green Man, First Man into Space, Two-Way Stretch, The Rebel)
7 April	Christopher Morahan	87	Television and stage director (The Jewel in the Crown, Emergency Ward 10)
	Tim Pigott-Smith	70	Actor (Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, Fame Is the Spur, The Jewel in the Crown, The Chief, Bloody Sunday, Gangs of New York, V for Vendetta, 37 Days)
8 April	Brian Matthew	88	Radio broadcaster and television presenter (Thank Your Lucky Stars)
10 April	David Parry-Jones	83	Broadcaster, sports commentator and writer (BBC Wales Today)
	Margaret Towner	96	Actress (Derek, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace)
16 April	Rosemary Frankau	84	Actress (Terry and June)
17 April	Sean Scanlan	68	Actor (The Tales of Para Handy, Rab C. Nesbitt)
2 May	Moray Watson	88	Actor (Rumpole of the Bailey, The Darling Buds of May)
5 May	Michael Wearing	78	Television producer (Edge of Darkness, Boys from the Blackstuff)
10 May	Geoffrey Bayldon	93	Actor (Worzel Gummidge, Catweazle, Magic Grandad, Casino Royale, Dracula)
23 May	Roger Moore	89	Actor (The Spy Who Loved Me, The Persuaders!, The Saint)
24 May	David Bobin	71	Sports broadcaster (Sky Sports)
28 May	John Noakes	83	Television presenter (Blue Peter, Go With Noakes)
30 May	Molly Peters	75	Actress (Thunderball)
1 June	Roy Barraclough	81	Actor (Sez Les, Dawson's Weekly, Les Dawson Show, Coronation Street)
2 June	Peter Sallis	96	Actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Wallace and Gromit, The Wind in the Willows)
5 June	Andy Cunningham	67	Magician, puppeteer and actor (Bodger & Badger)
12 June	Sam Beazley	101	Actor (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Johnny English)
19 June	Brian Cant	83	Narrator (Camberwick Green, Trumpton, Chigley, Jay Jay the Jet Plane), actor (Dappledown Farm, Teletubbies) and television presenter (Play School)
27 June	Michael Bond	91	Writer (The Herbs, Paddington Bear)
30 June	Barry Norman	83	Film critic and television presenter (Film...)
3 July	Joe Robinson	90	Actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Thor and the Amazon Women)
4 July	Carol Lee Scott	74	Actress and singer (Grotbags)
16 July	Trevor Baxter	84	Actor (Doctor Who, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Maelstrom) and playwright
21 July	Deborah Watling	69	Actress (Doctor Who)
25 July	Hywel Bennett	73	Actor (The Virgin Soldiers, Shelley, EastEnders)
27 July	Robert Anker	27	Dancer (former member of Diversity, winners of the 2009 series of Britain's Got Talent)
28 July	Rosemary Anne Sisson	93	Writer (Upstairs, Downstairs)
3 August	Robert Hardy	91	Actor (All Creatures Great and Small, Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, Harry Potter)
13 August	Victor Pemberton	85	Writer and television producer (Doctor Who, Fraggle Rock, The Adventures of Black Beauty)
18 August	Bruce Forsyth	89	Entertainer and presenter (Sunday Night at the London Palladium, The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right, The Price Is Right, You Bet!, Strictly Come Dancing)
	Liz MacKean	52	Journalist (Newsnight)
6 September	Mike Neville	80	Broadcaster (BBC North East and Cumbria, ITV Tyne Tees)
21 September	William G. Stewart	84	Television presenter and producer (Fifteen to One)

See also

• 2017 in British music
• 2017 in British radio
• 2017 in the United Kingdom