The $64,000 Question is a UK game show based on the US format of the same name that originally ran from 19 May 1956 to 18 January 1958 produced by ATV and was originally hosted by Jerry Desmonde, and called simply The 64,000 Question with the top prize initially being 64,000 sixpences, later doubling to 64,000 shillings.
Adam's Family Tree was a children's television comedy programme that was first broadcast in January 1997 and ran until February 1999. The show was broadcast on CITV, the children's segment of ITV. The show which was filmed in Yorkshire ran for three series and 20 episodes.
The premise of the show was that 12-year-old Adam was able to call upon his ancestors from throughout history to help him solve everyday problems. The title character was played by Anthony Lewis for the first two series, before the role was taken over by Alex Cooke.
Lookaround is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border from its studios in Gateshead, and serving Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders and overlap areas of Northumberland.
Globo Loco is a British children's game show that aired on CITV from 16 May 2003 to 28 January 2005, presented by Stephen Mulhern.
The show featured two teams of children, boys and girls, who tried to predict the outcome of often crazy challenges, each. If their prediction was closest they each won a prize. After all of the challenges, the team that predicted the most correctly would go into the final round. In the first season, the second-final game was 'Custard' where both teams challenge themselves to see if they can find out which bowl of custard is the trick custard by whacking every bowl they choose with a sledgehammer and whoever finds the only bowl with the real custard's team get to play the final round and in the first season, the final game was 'Couch Potatoes' where the team were sat on a sofa, which was spinning by 2 crewmen and they had to throw potatoes at television screens and smash them. In the second season, the final round was changed to 'The Memory Game'. The team had to try to predict how man
Rescue was a 13-part documentary series created and directed by Cameraman Paul Berriff. It focused on the air-sea rescue work of "Rescue 137", a Sea King belonging to 202 Sqn, Royal Air Force in and around their base at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland and the North Sea over a period of a year between 1988 -1989.
The series covered a multitude of incidents ranging from ferrying a sick child to hospital right up to the world's worst offshore disasters, the explosion and ensuing fire on the Piper Alpha oil platform.
STV has upload all the episodes, with the exception of "Piper Alpha" to the STV Player YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/show/rescue
Don't Try This at Home is a British game show produced by LWT with Golden Square Pictures and broadcast on ITV between 16 May 1998 and 7 April 2001. It took up the slot of the Saturday challenge game show slot left by its long-running and more sedate predecessor You Bet!. The executive producers were Nigel Lythgoe for LWT and Victor Glynn for Golden Square Pictures.
It featured real people facing tough challenges such as swinging under a bridge. It was hosted by Davina McCall with co-hosts including Darren Day, Kate Thornton and Paul Hendy. Russ Williams was the event commentator. A lifetime medal was awarded for winning a challenge or having a very good try.
Northern Life was a daily news programme on Tyne Tees Television, which aired from 6 September 1976 to 2 October 1992. The programme was aired at 6pm on weekday evenings, for some years at 6.25pm, and ran for 30, 35 or 60 minutes at various points in its run.
The programme was the successor to Today at Six, and was replaced by Tyne Tees Today in 1992 following the takeover by Yorkshire Television. The programme had a light-hearted approach and was notable for Paul Frost's monologues towards the end of many of the shows.
For much of its run Northern Life had a split-regional news service integrated into the second part of the programme, with the south of the Tyne Tees region served by the Middlesbrough studio anchored by Teesside-based news reporters such as Andy Kluz.
Presenters of the show included Bill Steel, Tom Coyne, Paul Frost, Jane Wyatt, Pam Royle, Eileen McCabe, Stuart McNeil and Sheila Matheson.
Simply the Best was a game show broadcast on the United Kingdom terrestrial network ITV in 2004.
Filmed in Jersey as a co-production of Carlton Television and Channel Television, it was hosted by Phil Tufnell and Kirsty Gallacher, and featured the cheerleaders from the American football team the Scottish Claymores.
Each week two teams from cities across the UK competed in a series of madcap games to go forward to a final, where the eventual prize was £50,000 for local community projects.
Howard Hughes provided the commentator of the show
The series was directly based on a French series entitled Intervilles, from which It's a Knockout had previously been adapted.
The 2004 winners were Leeds, while Sheffield were the runners-up.
The 2nd series of the show failed to broadcast in 2005 or subsequent years.
The Block was a British reality television series broadcast on ITV in the summer of 2004, based on the Australian series of the same name. The show was presented by Lisa Rogers.
Extraordinary People was a television documentary series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network in the United Kingdom between 1992 and 1993. Each programme focused on an individual or group of people who excel in their chosen field.
The programme ran for two series, with seven episodes in total.
Nightwatch with Steve Scott was a weekday late-night documentary series on ITV, first broadcast on 8 January 2008. The series was presented by ITV News journalist Steve Scott and was produced by ITV Central. Nightwatch featured various regional ITV programmes focusing on crime and emergency services. The series aired on ITV on various nights, anytime between midnight and 0300. The show was also repeated on ITV-owned digital channel Men & Motors. Nowadays, Nightwatch with Steve Scott is seldom shown on the ITV network but can be seen occasionally on ITV Channel Television.
The series is presented from a regional news studio at ITV Central's studios in Gas Street, Birmingham.
Suggs in the City is a television chat show made by Reef Television for ITV London. It was shot at The Colony Room in Soho, presented by Suggs and features interviews with celebrities and musical performances.
The 8 week run began on Thursday May 29, 2008 at 11.10pm on ITV London. Guests on the first show included former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who talked to Suggs about the election and his political past and future, band The Delays, Rowland Rivron and Harriet Thorpe.
Show 2–5 June - Suggs interviewed Robert Elms and Billy Bragg. Billy also sang both A New England and a new track.
Show 3–12 June - Guests included Fast Show co-creator Charlie Higson and Levi Roots. Also joining Suggs were 60s rockers The Zombies.
Show 4–19 June - Tim Burgess and Mark Collins of The Charlatans and Mark Dolan appeared on the show alongside Dev Hynes of Lightspeed Champion who sung Galaxy of the Lost.
Show 5–26 June - Paul Weller, Howard Marks and Johnny Vegas.
Show 6–3 July - Dirty Pretty Thin
Grundy's Wonders is a Tyne Tees Television architecture programme presented by John Grundy, which began in 2000.
On the programme, Grundy explores buildings in north-east England, as well as Cumbria and Yorkshire. Each programme has a particular theme or type of building, and Grundy names his favourite piece of architecture his "Grundy's Wonder", and gives a "Big Boot" to things he dislikes.
Grundy presents the programme in an enthusiastic way, while covering many aspects of the northern English region's history; this is also one of few architecture series on television.
The ITV News at 10.30 was the flagship news programme on British television network ITV, airing Monday to Friday at 10:30pm. It was produced by ITN. It was introduced into the ITV schedule as the ITV News at Ten-Thirty on 2 February 2004, following the demise of the ITV Nightly News.
There was a twenty-five minute broadcast of British national and international news, with a dedicated business, sports, and a review of the following morning' newspaper front-pages. It was followed by a five minute roundup of news from the ITV regions around the United Kingdom.
World of Sport was a British television sport anthology programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 to 28 September 1985 in response to competition from the BBC's Grandstand. Like Grandstand, the programme ran for several hours every Saturday afternoon.
The Big Call is an ITV quiz show created by Kevin Ball and Mast Media. It was made by Granada Productions and presented by Neil Fox with support from Big Call Professor Geoffrey Grimmett and announcer Peter Dickson. Six members of the public challenged it out, with the help of the celebrity of their choice.
The winner went onto the Pressure Point to decide between a guaranteed cash prize of £20,000 or 100,000 Lottery tickets chosen at different risk levels by the Big Call Professor. If the contestant chose the £20,000 cash prize, a phone-in viewer had the opportunity to win the 100,000 Lottery tickets.
In the final episode of the series, the studio contestant turned down the Lottery tickets and chose the £20,000 cash prize. The phone-in viewer who won the tickets received £172,000, as one of the tickets contained 5 numbers plus the bonus ball.
Looking Good, Feeling Great was a daytime programme in the UK, shown on ITV. Fern Britton and her panel of experts take viewers through a step-by-step guide on how to live a healthier lifestyle.
Fern was joined by personal trainer Julie Dawn Cole, life-coach Pete Cohen and science expert Dr Brian Cox.
There was also a four part empowerment course run by Pete Cohen were he will be joined by Martin Sterling. This course will aim to empower ordinary people with low self belief and aim to help them break barriers and over come fears. Martin Sterling will take them through a training seminar to physically prepare them, while Pete Cohen will prepare them all mentally for their life changing challenges. The course will include a firewalk, glasswalk & Board break. These unothadox stunts are used as a tool for overcoming fear and breaking barriers.