Hard Sell is a British reality television series which began showing in October 2006 on BBC One, produced by BBC Bristol and presented by Mark Franks. In the show two teams have to sell a collection of items for the greatest price possible.
BBC-3 was a BBC television programme, devised and produced by Ned Sherrin and hosted by Robert Robinson, which aired for twenty-four hour-long editions during the winter of 1965-1966.
It was the third in a line of weekend satire-and-chat shows, successor to That Was The Week That Was and Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, though David Frost did not participate in this series.
Regular performers included John Bird, Lynda Baron, David Batley, Roy Dotrice, Bill Oddie, and Leonard Rossiter. Gusts included Millicent Martin and Alan Bennett. The musical director was Dave Lee.
"Scientology and Me" is a television documentary first broadcast on 14 May 2007 as part of the BBC's Panorama series. In it, reporter John Sweeney visited the United States to investigate whether the Church of Scientology was becoming more mainstream. The programme gained particular controversy before and during filming due to unresolved differences on content and approach between Sweeney's production team and Scientology members. Tommy Davis, the international spokesperson for Scientology, did not want detractors or perceived enemies of the church to be interviewed or included in the documentary and wanted to censor any references to Scientology as a "cult".
The scale of the controversy intensified when the Church of Scientology released a 40-second clip of video footage showing a screaming argument between John Sweeney and Scientologist Tommy Davis over the way in which Sweeney was interviewing critics of Scientology. In the clip, Sweeney yells "You were not there at the beginning of the interview! You were not
Children's Hospital is a British television fly-on-the-wall documentary series based at the Sheffield Children's Hospital, Birmingham Children's Hospital, and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. It was broadcast on BBC One between 1993 and the early-2000s.
According to scholar Annette Hill, the series had "all the hallmarks of a docu-soap", saying its "personal, melodramatic stories appeal to viewers, with more that 8 million tuning into the first series, despite widespread criticism from the press." Peter Lee-Wright observes that the series marked a transition in fly-on-the-wall documentaries by shifting the emphasis from the practical considerations onto the "human dramas being played out ... [capturing] the pain of the children ... and their parents' rollercoaster rides."
The theme music was composed by Debbie Wiseman. The music was released as a CD single in 1997, containing full orchestral and piano versions of the theme, alongside the shorter versions used for the opening and closing sequences. The
Eureka is a British educational television series about science and inventiveness which was produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1981 to 1986. Devised and written by Clive Doig and Jeremy Beadle, the series told the stories behind the inventions of commonplace objects.
The Secrets of Scientology is a documentary which was broadcast on 28 September 2010 as part of the BBC's Panorama documentary strand. Presented by John Sweeney it is a follow-up of his 2007 investigation into the Church of Scientology and features interviews with former high-ranking members of the organisation.
The Real Swiss Family Robinson is a four-part BBC television miniseries in which different families leave their regular lives behind and sample life on a desert island.
Spotlight is the BBC's regional news programme for the southwest of England, covering Cornwall, Devon, southern and western Somerset, western Dorset and the Channel Islands. There is also a special version of the programme for viewers in the Channel Islands. The main version of the programme broadcasts between 18:30 and 18:58 on weekdays, with shorter bulletins at other times. The programme can be viewed anywhere in the UK on Sky channel 967/968 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service. Its main competitors are ITV West Country's main evening programme ITV News West Country in Cornwall, Devon, southern Somerset and western Dorset and ITV Channel Television's main evening programme ITV News Channel TV in the Channel Islands.
Spotlight is broadcast from BBC Broadcasting House in Seymour Road, Plymouth - this is the main headquarters for all BBC South West programming, on TV, radio and online. There are also smaller studios in Barnstaple, Exeter, Paignton, Taunton and Truro.
Twenty-Four Hours is a long-running, late evening, daily news magazine programme that aired on BBC1. It focused on analysis and criticism of current affairs and featured in-depth short documentary films that set the style for current affairs magazine programmes. Twenty-Four Hours launched in 1965 and focused on investigative journalism. The programmes main presenter was Cliff Michelmore.
The Undercover Soldier is a 2008 BBC documentary which investigated bullying in the British Army in the wake of the Deepcut enquiry. For the programme, BBC journalist Russell Sharp went undercover as a soldier, enrolling in the army for six months basic training at the Infantry Training Centre, at the Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire. The one hour programme was shown on BBC One on Thursday 18 September 2008 at 9:00pm.
The programme did not show any filmed evidence of ill treatment, although Sharp himself claimed to have witnessed several incidents of bullying. The documentary led to the suspension of five instructors based at the camp. The show attracted relatively low ratings and the BBC was criticised by serving soldiers for the way the investigation was conducted.
Bitsa was a British television programme broadcast from 1991 to 1996 on BBC 1. It involved creative arts and "makes" very much like later show SMart. It was repeated for a time on the now defunct digital channel BBC Choice.
The show featured two presenters who would create craft projects from household junk and craft materials. Sometimes the items created were quite complex and advanced, but were always presented with instructions for viewers to follow. The show also featured a 'challenge' section, in which school children would shout three numbers corresponding to a selection of numbered boxes, each containing a different material, for example cardboard tubes, sticks or fabric. The presenters would then have three minutes to create something using only these materials. Much fervent use of a glue gun often ensued.
The theme tune for Bitsa was written by Peter Charlton and the original musical arrangement was by Bill Le Sage, but after the first series the tune was reworked by Mark Reader from the rock band Stride
Breakfast Time is British television's first national breakfast show, broadcast from 17 January 1983 until 1 September 1989 on BBC1 across the United Kingdom. It preceded TV-am, the commercial breakfast television station with their programme Good Morning Britain, to the air by two weeks and one day.
Melvin and Maureen's Music-a-grams was an educational CBBC show about music which ran from 1992 to 1996 starring Sophie Aldred and Matthew Devitt. The show was rerun on CBeebies in late 2000s.
Melvin and Maureen ran a music shop which sold "Music-A-Grams"- a recording of music for a certain purpose. Sometimes customers came asking for a particular music-a-gram. Melvin and Maureen also sang songs, and told stories to illustrate how musical instruments could be used to create different effects, or on a particular theme. The stories also involved a trio of soft toys, led by a teddy bear named Groovy Ted, who were on a constant quest for musical stardom.
Episodes
Pilot- Melvin and Maureen are set a riddle by Mr. Baggage; what is the funniest instrument in the world?
The Wriggle- The gang try different types of dancing, then invent a style of their own.
Dastardly Landlady- Melvin and Maureen use their music-a-grams to outwit their evil landlady
Repercussions- Melvin learns that a pair of his bongo drums may be pri
Stay Tooned is a series presented by Tony Robinson, in which he discusses in more details and explains in some depth about cartoon characters, the people behind the cartoons, studios, and also looks over the history as well. Unlike Rolf Harris - Cartoon Time, in which he performed as filler between the cartoons, Tony Robinson tried to provide greater details about the particular topic which he would focus on each week.
This meant that he range of depth of the series grow far wider that just run of the mill classics, and on occasions featured more obsure cartoons including Betty Boop, Animal Farm, and one made by independent producers .
Children's Emergency is a British television documentary series. It follows the Children's Acute Transport Service, which is dedicated to taking critically ill children to specialist paediatric hospitals.
Eight episodes were produced by September Films for the BBC, and it was first aired on BBC One between 4 May and 23 June 2010.
The documentary follow the mobile teams as they deal with a range of paediatric mobile emergencies, including a 14-year-old who has had a heart attack, a baby boy who needs emergency heart surgery, a seven-year-old who has a seizure, and a 10-year-old girl who needs to move hospitals for a heart transplant.
Decade of Doctors is a series of five-part, five-minute episodes broadcast after the main showing of the BBC daytime soap opera, Doctors, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series.
Sixty Minutes was a news and current affairs programme which ran each day at 5:40pm between 24 October 1983 to 27 July 1984 on BBC1. It replaced the Nationwide programme, and like Nationwide, it also integrated the BBC regional news programmes into a single magazine programme.
However, the BBC's News department stoutly maintained its independence from colleagues in Current Affairs, and the first 15 minutes of news was almost a separate programme, followed by 20 minutes from BBC regional news before the final 25 minutes of national current affairs. Accordingly the format was unwieldy, with neither the conciseness of a bulletin nor the softness of the show's predecessor, Nationwide.
The editor, David Lloyd, poached Nick Ross from the highly popular Breakfast Time to front the show, along with Desmond Wilcox, Sarah Kennedy, and Sally Magnusson. Sarah Kennedy was unable to join the team at the programme's launch but eventually began to present the show after Wilcox was dismissed early in the show's run. The news bull
Come and Have a Go If You Think You're Smart Enough, also known as The National Lottery: Come and Have a Go If You Think You're Smart Enough for series 2, is a BBC National Lottery game show the was broadcast on BBC One from 3 April 2004 to 25 June 2005. The programme was originally hosted by Nicky Campbell for the first series then Julian Clary took over to host the show for the second series. The rights to the programme are being contested in the High Court in London by Robin George le Strange Meakin who claims the BBC, Martin Scott, Celador Productions, Paul Smith and co-producers Tailor Made Films Limited misused his confidential information and have infringed copyright in certain of his own works. A claim for £20m has been lodged. The allegations are denied.