2004 in British television

List of years in British television (table)

This is a list of British television related events from 2004.

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Debuts

BBC One

BBC Two

BBC Four

BBC News 24

CBBC

ITV (Including ITV1, ITV2 and ITV3)

Channel 4

Five

Sky One

Television shows

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Changes of network affiliation

Show Moved from Moved to
What Not to Wear BBC Two BBC One
The Kumars
The Simpsons (UK Terrestrial Rights) Channel 4
Tots TV ITV CBeebies

Channels

New channels

Date Channel
8 March UKTV Documentary
UKTV Documentary +1
UKTV People
UKTV People +1
27 September ABC1
1 November ITV3

Defunct channels

Date Channel
8 March UK Horizons
UK Horizons +1

Rebranded channels

Date Old Name New Name
8 March UK Bright Ideas UKTV Bright Ideas
UK Drama UKTV Drama
UK Food UKTV Food
UK Food +1 UKTV Food +1
UK Gold UKTV Gold
UK Gold +1 UKTV Gold +1
UKG2 UKTV G2
UK History UKTV History
UK History +1 UKTV History +1
UK Style UKTV Style
UK Style +1 UKTV Style +1
27 July Pop Plus Tiny Pop

Ongoing

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Ending this year

Deaths

Date Name Age Cinematic Credibility
27 January Rikki Fulton 79 Scottish actor and comedian.
18 March Richard Marner 82 Russian-born British actor. ('Allo 'Allo!)
28 March Sir Peter Ustinov British actor.
30 March Alistair Cooke 95 BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator.
Hubert Gregg 89 BBC broadcaster.
13 April Caron Keating 41 television presenter
14 May Shaun Sutton 85 writer, director, producer and longest-serving Head of Drama at BBC Television.
16 May Harry Elton 74 television producer (Coronation Street)
29 May Jack Rosenthal[105] 72 playwright
23 June Peter Birrel 68 English actor (Frontier in Space, Alexander the Greatest)
18 August Hugh Manning 83 English actor (Emmerdale, Mrs Thursday)
1 September Richard Everitt 71 television producer (Coronation Street)
29 September Christopher Hancock 76 English actor (EastEnders)
13 October Ivor Wood 72 Children's TV director (The Magic Roundabout, The Wombles, Paddington Bear and Postman Pat etc.)
6 November Fred Dibnah 66 presenter and steeplejack
9 November Emlyn Hughes 57 Former footballer and A Question of Sport captain

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