2004 in British television
This is a list of British television related events from 2004.
Events
January
- 2 January – The BBC cancels the appearance of Coca Cola sponsorship credits in the music charts in its BBC One Top of the Pops show, after criticism from politicians and health campaigners that it would be promoting junk food and unhealthy drink products to teenagers.[1]
- 4 January – ITV introduces a sixth weekly episode of Emmerdale airing on Sunday evenings at 7:00 pm. The episode is dropped in 2008 to allow for one-hour episodes on Tuesdays.
- 9 January – The BBC announces that the Kilroy talk show will be taken off air while the Corporation investigates negative comments its presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk made about Arabic people in the previous weekend's Sunday Express.[2]
- 13 January – Acclaimed US medical drama Nip/Tuck makes its British television debut on Sky One, attracting an audience of 1 million. The series had been heavily publicised on terrestrial television prior to its broadcast.[3]
- 16 January – Robert Kilroy-Silk resigns as a BBC One talk show host after 17 years following the controversy over comments he made about Arabs.[4]
- 28 January – The Hutton Inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Dr. David Kelly is published. This is taken by most of the press to strongly condemn the BBC's handling of the David Kelly affair and to exonerate the government. The BBC's Director-General, Greg Dyke, chairman of the Board of Governors, Gavyn Davies, and the journalist at the centre of the controversy, Andrew Gilligan, resign. The UK media in general condemns the report as a whitewash.[5]
- 29 January – Mark Byford becomes acting Director General of the BBC following Greg Dyke's resignation.
- 30 January – ITV's News at Ten ends for a second time, with its replacement, the News at 10:30, launching the following Monday.
February
- 2 February –
- 4 February –
- 5 February – Five actors from Coronation Street are axed by new producer Tony Wood. Adam Rickitt (Nick Tilsley), Susie Blake (Bev Unwin), Iain Rogerson (Harry Flagg), Katherine Hunt (Angela Harris) and Thomas Craig (Tommy Harris) will all leave when their contracts come to an end.[11]
- 9 February – Kerry McFadden wins the third series of ITV1's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.[12]
- 15 February –
- Debut of ITV's How to Holiday, presented by Jenni Falconer and Dominic Littlewood. The programme sees both presenters visiting the same location, with Falconer travelling in luxury while Littlewood travels on a budget.[13]
- Debut of Five's Back to Reality, a reality television programme featuring 12 contestants from other reality shows (such as Big Brother, The Salon and Pop Idol) spending three weeks in a purpose-built house, competing to become "Britain's most popular reality star".[14] Deriving many of its ideas from other shows, the programme receives poor ratings and a solicitor's letter from Endemol because of its perceived similarity to Celebrity Big Brother.[15]
- 16 February – BBC Network news titles are relaunched in the style of BBC News 24, which were introduced in December 2003.
- 27 February –
- Reports emerge of discussions between Channel 4 and Five aimed at a merger between the two channels.[16]
- Debut of the BBC Three spoof documentary Sex, Lies and Michael Aspel, which supposedly reveals how the television presenter Michael Aspel fathered a number of children who went on to become celebrities. Some viewers, however, perceived the show to have been factual.[17]
March
- 5 March – Major James Hewitt wins Five's Back to Reality.[18][19]
- 8 March –
- 13 March – Charles Ngandwe, performing as Paul Robeson, wins the fifteenth series of Stars in Their Eyes. The edition is also the last to be presented by Matthew Kelly, who had announced the previous day that he would be leaving the series.[22] The role of presenter is taken over by Cat Deeley.[23][24]
- 14 March – Channel 4 airs the documentary He's Starsky, I'm Hutch, a programme which prompts actor David Soul to write an open letter to the channel complaining about the way he was portrayed in the film. Soul had co-operated with the documentary, but felt it betrayed because it had concentrated too much on the negative aspects of his life.[25]
- 18 March – FremantleMedia confirms plans to bring the popular US TV series The Apprentice to the UK.[26]
- 22 March – Christopher Eccleston is announced as the ninth actor to play The Doctor in Doctor Who. A new 13-part series will be filmed in Cardiff later in the year and make its debut in 2005.[27]
- 29 March – BBC Two Controller Jane Root will leave her role to take up a position with the Discovery Network in the United States, it is reported.[28]
- March – Launch of the Islam Channel.
April
- 1 April –
- 2 April – Michael Grade is appointed as new BBC chairman, taking over the role from Gavyn Davies, who stepped down in the wake of the Hutton Report.[32]
- 7 April – Former Bad Girls actress Debra Stephenson is to join Coronation Street as new character Frankie Baldwin. She will be seen onscreen from June.[33]
- 15 April – ITV announce plans for Vote for Me, a Pop Idol-style contest to find a Parliamentary candidate. The series will be presented by Jonathan Maitland.[34]
- 20 April – BBC Two celebrates 40 years on air by broadcasting Happy Birthday BBC Two.[35]
- 23 April – ITV unveils plans for The X Factor, a new music talent contest developed by Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell that will see a panel of judges mentoring acts and competing against each other to have their act chosen as the winner.[36]
- 24 April – Computer programmer and quiz expert Pat Gibson becomes the fourth contestant to win the £1 million prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.[37]
- 26 April – Michael Parkinson is to take his Parkinson chat show to ITV after the network poached him from the BBC, it is reported. Parkinson's decision to make the move was also influenced by BBC plans to move his show to a different time slot to make way for the return of Match of the Day. His final BBC show is recorded on 29 April for transmission on 8 May.[38]
- 27 April – The BBC's Programme Complaints Committee rules that an episode of EastEnders that dealt with the aftermath of the rape of a character was unsuitable for family viewing after it received several complaints from viewers.[39] Complaints about the episode are also later upheld by Ofcom.[40]
May
- 2 May – Merseybeat actress Leslie Ash's publicist has released a statement saying that she is undergoing treatment in hospital for "an unknown infection", which she is believed to have contracted during an earlier hospital stay. Ash was treated for a broken rib and collapsed lung a few days earlier, which she said had occurred as a result of her falling onto a table during lovemaking with her husband, former footballer Lee Chapman. The infection has left Ash with partial loss of feeling below the waist, but she is said to be responding to treatment and is described as stable.[41] The infection is subsequently diagnosed as Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus, a bug that attacks the nervous system.[42] Following her recovery, Ash later speaks about how she almost died from the infection. She is also left requiring the aid of crutches to walk.[43]
- 7 May – The BBC airs its final episode of The Simpsons, having lost the broadcasting rights to Channel 4 in February 2002. Behind the Laughter is the last episode shown on the BBC. However, broadcasting rights were held until 2006, two years later.
- 8 May – The final edition of Parkinson to air on BBC One. Guests include The Corrs, Boris Becker, Jamie Cullum and Patrick Kielty.[44]
- 14 May – BBC Four Controller Roly Keating is appointed to succeed Jane Root as Controller of BBC Two.[45]
- 15 May – Paul Cowperthwaite, performing as Michael Jackson wins the third junior series of Stars in Their Eyes.[46]
- 19 May –
- A UK version of the popular US TV series The Apprentice is to be produced for the BBC, with Amstrad founder and chairman Sir Alan Sugar as presenter. Applications will be invited for 14 candidates to take part in the programme, which will air in 2005.[47]
- Martin Bashir is to leave ITV after signing a deal to work for the US ABC network, where he will be a correspondent on its 20/20 news programme.[48]
- 21 May – Mark Thompson is appointed new Director General of the BBC.[49]
- 24 May – Former pop star Billie Piper is announced as the new Doctor Who companion Rose Tyler.[50]
- 26 May – As part of a government trial to test the feasibility of switching the UK to digital television, Ferryside and Llansteffan, two towns in Carmarthenshire, have been chosen to become the first places in the UK to have their analogue signal switched off. Residents who do not currently have access to digital television will be provided with set-top boxes to enable them to receive a digital signal before the analogue transmitter is turned off later in the year. The government hopes to convert the UK to digital television by 2010.[51]
June
- 4 June –
- BBC News reports that having been axed by BBC America in September 2003, EastEnders will air in the US once again. Episodes will appear on the subscription channel Dish Network, beginning from where BBC America left the series.[52]
- Kitten Pinder is evicted from the Big Brother UK house, shouting against The Queen and the aristocracy on the way out. She is the first contestant to be evicted by the show's producers rather than through an audience vote after she repeatedly broke the rules during her stay in the house.[53]
- 7 June – Jane Danson returns to Coronation Street as Leanne Battersby after an absence of four years.[54]
- 9 June – BSkyB unveil plans to launch a free-to-air service to rival Freeview.[55]
- 12 June–4 July – Euro 2004 is held in Portugal.
- 14 June – Quiz TV launches in the UK, one of the country's first phone-in quiz channels. Many more launched over the next few years, though Quiz TV itself would close down in 2006.
- 17 June – The live feed of Big Brother is taken off air as the housemates become aggressive and fight. Security guards are sent in to break up the fight, while Hertfordshire Police ask to view footage of the incident after being contacted by members of the public.[56]
- 22 June – Mark Thompson takes over as Director General of the BBC.[57]
- 24 June – The highest rated audience of the year is recorded in the UK as 20.66 million watch England's football match against Portugal in the quarter finals of Euro 2004.[58][59] Viewing figures for any programme would not reach the 20 million mark again for another eight years, when England faced Italy at Euro 2012.[60]
July
August
September
October
- 1 October –
- As part of its response to the Hutton Inquiry the BBC launches Newswatch, a programme providing a viewer and listener right-to-reply on BBC News's reporting and coverage of news events.
- BBC Technology, incorporating the BBC's Broadcast Engineering division, is sold to Siemens AG Business Services for approximately £200m, and a £2bn, 10-year outsourcing contract.
- ITV talk show host Trisha Goddard will move to Five in 2005 after signing a two-year contract with the broadcaster.[78]
- 13 October –
- The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 announce that audio description, which helps people with sight loss to follow television programmes by describing some of the visual content, is now available through Sky.[79]
- It is announced that the entire Ferreira family will leave EastEnders in Spring 2005.[80]
- 21 October – BSkyB launch their free digital satellite TV service that offers viewers a selection of 140 TV and 80 radio channels for a one-off payment of £150.[81]
- 28 October – BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time from Miami, Florida, ahead of the 2004 US Presidential election.[82]
- 30 October – The BBC receives "hundreds of complaints" after reporter Barbara Plett describes herself crying when a frail Yasser Arafat was evacuated to France for medical treatment. Ultimately these complaints are partially upheld by the BBC Governors' Programme Complaints Committee.[83]
November
- 1 November – The digital television station ITV3 is launched at 9:00 pm, replacing Granada Plus.[84][85]
- 5 November –
- 15 November – It emerges that Mersey Television boss Phil Redmond wrote to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport offering to buy the publicly funded Channel 4. However, Ofcom says that the channel will not be privatised.[87]
- 17 November – It is reported that merger talks between Channel 4 and Five have been called off after complexities arose between the public broadcaster Channel 4 and its commercial counterpart.[88]
- 18 November – The video for the new charity single Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 20 airs simultaneously on all five main UK television networks, as well as over twenty satellite and cable stations. This unprecedented broadcast attracts 13.5 million viewers between 5:50 and 6:00pm.[89]
- 24 November – A report by Ofcom has recommended that elderly and visually impaired people should be given financial assistance to help them buy equipment capable of receiving digital television before the analogue signal is switched off. The report suggests the government may need to set aside £250m–£400m to cover the cost of this.[90]
- 29 November – The BBC announces that Top of the Pops will move from its Friday evening BBC One slot to BBC Two, where it will air on Sunday evenings.[91]
December
- 1 December – BBC News reports that the digital switchover trial has begun after Ferryside and Llansteffan had their digital signal switched on a few days earlier. The towns were chosen because they received their signal from a single relay which had poor reception, and residents report that their viewing experience has improved since digital transmission began.[92]
- 2 December – BBC Two unveils its winter season of programming, which will include a major documentary, Auschwitz, to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day.[93]
- 4 December – "Thunderbirds Are Go" by Busted is voted the 2004 Record of the Year by ITV viewers.[94]
- 6 December – Joe Pasquale wins the fourth series of ITV1's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!.[95]
- 7 December – Netwise, the company that handled text voting for ITV's Record of the Year show says that thousands of customers who were accidentally overcharged will receive refunds after it emerged that some Virgin and T-Mobile users were charged multiple times for a single vote.[96]
- 11 December – Steve Brookstein wins the first series of The X Factor.[97] On the same evening, actress Jill Halfpenny and dance partner Darren Bennett win the second series of Strictly Come Dancing.[98]
- 12 December –
- 25 December – The first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone makes its UK television debut on BBC One as part of the channel's Christmas lineup.[101][102]
- 26 December – Overnight viewing fitgures suggest BBC One beat ITV in the Christmas Day battle of the ratings, with EastEnders watched by 12.3 million viewers and The Vicar of Dibley achieving an audience of 11.8 million. The television premiere of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was seen by 7.9 million. On ITV, Coronation Street attracted 11.3 million, while the first Midsomer Murders Christmas special received 6.3 million viewers.[103]
- 31 December –
- New Year's Eve highlights on BBC One include the network television premiere of the psychological thriller Don't Say a Word.[104]
- After five and a half years, Channel 4 has another rebrand replacing the previous squares idents with objects that transform into the Channel 4 logo.
Debuts
BBC One
BBC Two
BBC Four
BBC News 24
CBBC
- 8 March – Bamzooki (2004–2010, 2011–present)
ITV (Including ITV1, ITV2 and ITV3)
Channel 4
Five
Sky One
- 17 October – Hex (2004–2006).
Television shows
Returning this year after a break of one year or longer
Changes of network affiliation
Channels
New channels
Defunct channels
Rebranded channels
Ongoing
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1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Ending this year
Deaths
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