Английская Википедия:2010 in British television

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This is a list of events that took place in 2010 related to British television.

Events

January

Date	Event
1 January	David Tennant makes his final regular appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the second part of the Doctor Who festive special "The End of Time", the final episode to be written by Russell T Davies, until 2023. The episode also sees the debut of the Eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith and was watched by 10.4 million viewers.
3 January	Celebrity Big Brother returns for its final series on Channel 4.
5 January	Filming of Coronation Street and Emmerdale are halted because of heavy snowfall.
7 January	Jonathan Ross announces he will leave the BBC when his contract expires in July.
20 January	ITV broadcasts the postponed 2009 National Television Awards. The venue was also switched from the Royal Albert Hall to The O2 Arena and was watched by 7.4 million viewers – a 30% share of the audience.
21 January	The rapper and former Celebrity Big Brother contestant Lady Sovereign is scheduled to appear on BBC One's political magazine programme, This Week to discuss the laws regarding self-defence for householders. She is shown backstage early in the show, waving to camera in anticipation of her appearance, but has disappeared by the time the segment begins. Presenter Andrew Neil apologises to viewers, explaining she has "done a runner" and instead discussed the topic with regular contributors Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott. In a subsequent interview with The GuardianШаблон:'s Rich Pelley, the rapper says she had a panic attack. "My hands went stiff and I started hyperventilating. I didn't want to do it hours before but I went anyway, then I just changed my mind at the last minute, I guess."
	CBeebies aired the last re-run of series 3 & 4 of Balamory, due to rights issues. Re-runs of the first 2 series continued until 2016.
25 January	Long running children's television series and giant children's favourite Thomas and Friends is back on Channel 5 with a brand new series brought to life with fully CGI animation by Vancouver-based animation studio Nitrogen Studios.
28 January	Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier is appointed as ITV plc's new chief executive.
29 January	While giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry, former Prime Minister Tony Blair addresses the interview he gave to Fern Britton in December, telling the hearing it was a mistake to say he would have got rid of Saddam Hussein regardless of whether or not the Iraqi leader had weapons of mass destruction. The inquiry is also told the interview had been recorded in July 2009, some months before the hearing was convened.
	Cage fighter Alex Reid wins the seventh series of Celebrity Big Brother, the final one to air on Channel 4.
31 January	BSkyB becomes the first broadcaster in the world to show a live sports event in 3D when Sky Sports screens a football match between Manchester United and Arsenal to a public audience in several selected pubs.
January	Coverage of proceedings from the National Assembly for Wales are moved from S4C2 to the new BBC Democracy Live website.

February

Date	Event
5 February	Channel 5 airs Episode 5000 of Home and Away.
9 February	Supernanny presenter Jo Frost returns to Channel 4 with a new series, Jo Frost Extreme Parental Guidance.
	Soap bosses confirm that Shane Richie and Jessie Wallace will reprise their roles as Alfie and Kat Moon in EastEnders, having last been seen on screen together in 2005.
10 February – 10 March	Analogue is switched off in the Blaenplwyf area
10 February	Channel 4's deal with Warner Brothers International Television to show episodes of Friends on Channel 4 and E4 will end from Autumn 2011 meaning the series will disappear from the network's schedules.
12 February	The events of the 2010 Winter Olympics start broadcasting worldwide.
13 February	Charlie Bruce wins series one of So You Think You Can Dance.
15 February	Fiona Armstrong and Julia Somerville join the BBC News Channel as regular presenters. They will be joined by Zeinab Badawi and Carole Walker as the BBC seeks to fight accusations that it has an ageist policy.
	On an edition of the BBC's regional Inside Out programme, broadcaster Ray Gosling confesses to killing a former lover who had AIDS He is arrested on suspicion of murder by Nottinghamshire Police two days later. The confession was later deemed to have been false. Gosling was charged with wasting police time, and given a 90-day suspended sentence at Nottingham Magistrates Court on 14 September.
19 February	BBC One soap EastEnders celebrates its 25th anniversary with a live episode. The episode, watched by 16.6 million viewers sees the culmination of the storyline concerning who killed the character Archie Mitchell (played by Larry Lamb), revealing that the deed was done by Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner).
24 February	News at Ten presenter Julie Etchingham is named as Presenter of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards, the first woman to win the accolade.
28 February	The events of the 2010 Winter Olympics end broadcasting worldwide.

March

Date	Event
3 March	ITV announces a pre-tax profit of £25m for 2009, compared with a loss of £2.7bn in 2008.
3 – 31 March	Analogue is switched off in the Wenvoe area.
4 March	Penny Smith announces she is to leave GMTV after 17 years to pursue other projects.
	Carol Vorderman appears as a panellist on BBC One's Question Time. Her performance is subsequently described by the New StatesmanШаблон:'s James Macintyre as "one of the worst by any panel member I have ever seen" because of her "clichéd, shrill, pub-boring, parochial approach" and because "she trotted out sluggish conventional wisdom at every turn".
13 March	ITV announces that This Morning will air seven days a week, with two new one-hour shows being broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays from Saturday 20 March. Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby will present the extra shows.
18 March	A debate on The Alan Titchmarsh Show in which the actress Julie Peasgood emphasises the negative effects of violent video games attracts criticism due to her contribution to the 2000 release Martian Gothic: Unification, and because her arguments were based on a single unfavourable report on the subject.
24 March – 7 April	Analogue is switched off in the Mendip area.
26 March	Doctors celebrates its 10th anniversary.
	ITV announced its intention to cancel its long running police drama The Bill from autumn 2010, saying that the decision was made as it reflects the "changing tastes" of viewers.
	Channel 4 quiz show Countdown celebrates its 5000th edition with a letter of congratulations from The Queen.
28 March	Gray O'Brien begins filming new scenes as Coronation Street villain Tony Gordon, who will break out of prison brandishing a gun after faking a heart attack.
	Actress Hayley Tamaddon and skating partner Daniel Whiston win the fifth series of Dancing on Ice.
29 March	Claudia Winkleman is confirmed as Jonathan Ross's replacement as host of Film 2010 when Ross leaves the show later in the year.
	The financial debate, the first of the 2010 election debates between Chancellor Alistair Darling, shadow Chancellor George Osborne and Lib Dem financial affairs spokesman Vince Cable is held on Channel 4.
31 March	The last analogue television services are switched off in Wales, making it the first part of the UK to have a fully digital service.
	S4C begins broadcasting solely in Welsh.
	BSkyB is told by the broadcasting regulator Ofcom that it must cut the price it charges rival cable, terrestrial and internet broadcasters to show its premium sports channels. Sky says that it will appeal against the ruling.

April

Date	Event
3 April	Doctor Who begins a new season (technically its 31st) with new leading actor Matt Smith. The first episode is watched by 8.4 million viewers.
5 April	Emmanuel College, Cambridge wins the 2009–10 series of University Challenge, beating St John's College, Oxford 315–100.
7 April	Dhruv Baker wins the 2010 series of MasterChef.
9 April	Long-running Coronation Street actor Bill Tarmey quits the soap after 31 years playing Jack Duckworth.
10 April	ITV airs the British terrestrial television premiere of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; the film is watched by 5.726 million viewers (25.7% of the audience share).
11 April	Coronation Street begins airing its first lesbian storyline, involving Sophie Webster (Brooke Vincent) and Sian Powers (Sacha Parkinson).
13 April	BBC One airs the 500th episode of its hospital drama Holby City.
15 April	ITV airs the first of three election debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg ahead of the 2010 General Election.
19 April	Adrian Chiles quits the BBC to join ITV and GMTV in a new four-year deal.
	Five launches a contest to find an aspiring British actress to appear in Neighbours to celebrate the soap's 25th anniversary.
21 April	Ben Shephard announces he is to quit GMTV after five years.
	ITV newsreader Katie Derham is to join the BBC. She will be given an arts brief, including fronting the coverage of the Proms for BBC Two and BBC Radio 3.
22 April	The second election debate is aired by Sky News, and is viewed by an audience of 3.355 million, giving the channel its largest ever peak time audience. The debate is also shown on Sky Three and the BBC News Channel, and collectively attracts a viewership of 4.1 million.
29 April	BBC News hosts the final leaders debate before the election.
	Rachel Leskovac, who plays hairdresser Natasha Blakeman in Coronation Street is to leave the soap.
30 April	Adrian Chiles presents his final edition of The One Show.

May

Date	Event
4 May	The premiere episode of Luther was aired on the BBC.
5–19 May	Analogue is switched off in the Bressay area.
6–12 May	A Coverage of the 2010 general election is shown on all major television networks. There is also extensive coverage of the aftermath as the election results in a hung parliament and the Liberal Democrats seek to broker a deal with both the Conservatives and Labour to form a coalition government. David Cameron becomes Prime Minister on 11 May.
12–26 May	Analogue is switched off in the Keelylang area.
12 May	Jeremy Hunt is appointed as Culture Secretary by David Cameron.
	Steve Rider quits as ITV Sport anchor after five years after his World Cup presenting role is given to Adrian Chiles.
	Junior Apprentice makes its debut on BBC One. The first episode sees Karren Brady succeed Margaret Mountford as a member of Lord Sugar's board room.
21 May	Final ever episode of the BBC drama Ashes To Ashes.
24 May	Channel 4 premieres a live telecast game show The Million Pound Drop which became an international game show franchise shortly after the broadcast. The series (that would rename to The £100K Drop in 2018) would continue to run until its finale episode on 23 August 2019.
28 May	Georgia Bradford wins the 2010 series of Junior MasterChef.
29 May	Germany's Lena Meyer-Landrut wins the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest with "Satellite".

June

Date	Event
2 June	Television schedules are changed in the wake of the Cumbria shootings. BBC One alters their programming to broadcast two BBC News Specials about the shootings, at 14:15 and 19:30 on the same day. The scheduled 21:00 episode of ITV's Coronation Street is cancelled as it contained a violent storyline featuring a gun siege. Episodes for 3 and 4 June were also cancelled and rescheduled to air the following week. An episode of the Channel 4 panel game You Have Been Watching, which was due to be broadcast on 3 June, was postponed because it is a crime special.
	The BBC have announced that long running comedy Last of the Summer Wine is to be axed after 37 years.
	ITN has announced that Nina Hossain is to replace Katie Derham as a new co-host on London Tonight.
2 – 16 June	Analogue is switched off in the Rumster forest area.
4 June	Penny Smith presents her final programme on GMTV after 17 years.
	BSkyB announces that it has finalised the terms of a deal to buy Virgin Media Television for £160 million.
5 June	Gymnastics troupe Spelbound win the fourth series of Britain's Got Talent.
9 June	Big Brother returns to Channel 4 for its final series.
10 June	Mathematics student Arjun Rajyagor wins the first series of Junior Apprentice and a £25,000 investment from Lord Sugar to kick start his business career.
11 June	The events of the 2010 FIFA World Cup start broadcasting worldwide.
	GMTV announces plans to rebrand itself in September, dropping the GMTV name after 17 years in a £1.5million overhaul. On the same day presenter Andrew Castle announces his intention to leave the station after 10 years on air.
20 June	ITV has announced that Christine Bleakley is to join GMTV to reunite with Adrian Chiles after signing a three-year contract with the broadcaster.
	Thousands of hours of programming from STV's archives will be made available online from later in the year after the Scottish broadcaster signed a deal with YouTube, the Daily Record reports.
23 June	Following the previous day's emergency budget statement, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are questioned by a live audience on its potential impact. The programme Britain's Economy: Cameron and Clegg Face the Audience is presented by Nick Robinson and aired on the BBC News Channel and BBC Two.
25 June	ITV is to suspend production of Heartbeat to catch up on a backlog of unbroadcast episodes, it is reported.
27 June	ITV experiences its lowest viewing figures in its history. Less than one in ten people watched the channel and no more than 4 million people watched a single programme. On the day, the BBC broadcast the 2010 FIFA World Cup last-16 match between England and Germany (with 17.8 million viewers). Lack of viewers was also blamed on good summer weather.Шаблон:Citation needed

July

Date	Event
1 July	It is announced that Emma Crosby will leave GMTV after only a year.
7 – 21 July	Analogue is switched off in the Eitshal area.
9 July	ITV announces the name of its new breakfast television service that will replace GMTV. Daybreak will launch in September.
11 July	The events of the 2010 FIFA World Cup finish broadcasting worldwide with the conclusion of the final match from Soccer City in Johannesburg.
13 July	BSkyB completes its deal to buy Virgin Media Television after receiving regulatory approval in the Republic of Ireland. Sky will rename its new acquisition Living TV Group.
14 – 28 July	Analogue is switched off in the Skriaig area.
16 July	Essex teenager Gabriella Darlington wins Five's Be a Star on Neighbours competition, and will make a four-week appearance in the show as Poppy Rogers. She will be seen on UK screens from 10 November.
19 July	S4C begins broadcasting in high definition when it launches a channel called 'Clirlun'.
20 July	The Teletext games magazine GameCentral is to move to the Metro website following an online petition by fans to keep it running.
23 July	Media tycoon Richard Desmond buys Five from RTL for £104m.
25 July	BBC One broadcasts the first episode of Sherlock, a modern-day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, written by Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson. The episode is watched by a total of 7.5 million viewers.

August

Date	Event
4 – 18 August	Analogue is switched off in the Angus area.
9 August	Viewers in Scotland complain to the BBC after hearing newsreader Kate Silverton swear at the end of a bulletin. The presenter had not realised the mic was still on when she uttered the expletive, which is only picked up by BBC One Scotland. The BBC later apologises for the incident.
14 – 22 August	The events of the 2010 IBSA World Blind Football Championship are aired.
20 August	Lisa Faulkner wins the 2010 series of Celebrity MasterChef.
23 August	Sky Sports News is removed from the Freeview platform after Sky decided to make it a subscription only channel.
24 August	Josie Gibson wins Channel 4's final regular series of Big Brother and Ultimate Big Brother launched immediately after becoming the final ever series of Big Brother to air on Channel 4.
29 August	After 37 years, the long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine is aired on BBC One for the last time.
31 August	After 26 years, the long-running police drama The Bill is aired on ITV for the last time, concluding with the second part of the series finale, Respect.

September

Date	Event
1 – 15 September	Analogue is switched off in the Durris area.
3 September	GMTV airs its last edition after 17 years on air.
	Virgin1 is rebranded as Channel One.
6 September	New ITV breakfast show Daybreak begins with former The One Show hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley presenting. The inaugural edition features an interview with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, while overnight viewing figures published the following day indicate the programme had an audience of over a million.
8 – 22 September	Analogue is switched off in the Knockmore area.
9 September	Five airs a special evening edition of its morning news themed programme The Wright Stuff to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
10 September	Barbara Windsor makes her final regular appearance as EastEndersШаблон:' Peggy Mitchell, exiting in a dramatic storyline that sees The Queen Vic destroyed by fire.
	Brian Dowling becomes Big Brother's Ultimate Housemate after winning Ultimate Big Brother which was the last ever series of the reality television show to air on Channel 4 before returning on 18 August 2011 this time on Channel 5.
12 September	Heartbeat airs its last ever episode after 18 years with the episode watched by 6.00 million viewers.
14 September	Jay Hunt announces she is leaving the post of Controller of BBC One to take up the role of chief creative officer at Channel 4.
15 September	BSkyB announces that it is to close down Bravo (and also Bravo 2) on 1 January 2011 and Channel One (formerly Virgin 1) on 1 February 2011 to focus on the Living brand as well as their own channels such as Sky1, Sky2 and Sky3. The gameshow channel Challenge is to take over Channel One's slot on Freeview, which will boost ratings for Challenge.
16 September	BBC One airs a special edition of Question Time featuring David Miliband, Ed Miliband, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham and Diane AbbottШаблон:Mdashthe five candidates in the forthcoming Labour Party leadership election.
	The Welsh language channel S4C2 is removed from Sky channel 507.
17 September	Jessie Wallace returns to EastEnders after five years.
21 September	Edd Kimber wins the first series of The Great British Bake Off.
28 September	ITV confirms that the noted 1950s red landmark "Granada TV" sign on the roof and entrance of Granada Studios on Quay Street, Manchester, has been removed for safety reasons after maintenance found it was badly corroded.

October

Date	Event
1 October	The very first 3D channel in the UK, Sky 3D launches.
4 October	Tiffany Pisani wins Cycle 6 of Britain's Next Top Model.
6 October	The Apprentice returns to BBC One for a sixth series, having been delayed from earlier in the year because of the general election, and concerns Lord Sugar's role as a government adviser could present a conflict of interest if the series was on air in the run up to polling day.
6 – 20 October	Analogue is switched off in the Rosemarkie area.
8 October	During a review of the following day's newspapers, Sky News presenter Steve Dixon is forced to make a hasty apology after asking Bee Gee Robin Gibb if his brother, Maurice (who died in 2003) is watching while discussing an article that makes reference to the late singer.
11 – 25 October	BBC Four show the first episode of Mark Gatiss' A History of Horror documentary. Each of the three episodes looks at the influence of the genre and features interviews with the likes of John Carpenter, George A. Romero and Roger Corman.
13 – 27 October	Analogue is switched off in the Torosay area.
14 October	Five confirms that Natasha Kaplinsky will leave the broadcaster at the end of the year.
15 October	BBC Three Controller Danny Cohen is named as the new Controller of BBC One, replacing Jay Hunt.
	Five airs Episode 6000 of Neighbours.
20 October	ITV confirms that Beverley Callard will leave her Coronation Street role as Rovers Return landlady Liz McDonald in 2011, after 22 years with the soap.
	The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announces that part of the responsibility for funding S4C is to be transferred to the BBC.
23 October	Channel 4 teen soap Hollyoaks celebrates its 15th anniversary.
28 October	Release of A Simples Life, the autobiography of the fictional meerkat Aleksandr Orlov, star of the Compare the Meerkat television ads that first appeared on screen in January 2009. The ads have proved popular with viewers, and have seen pre-order sales of the book on Amazon.co.uk out-perform those of autobiographies by people such as Tony Blair, Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue.
October	UKTV launches its second HD channel – for Eden.
	In Wales, S4C2 is removed from Virgin Media channel 168.

November

Date	Event
2 November	Claire Lara wins the third series of MasterChef: The Professionals.
4 November	Business Secretary Vince Cable orders Ofcom to investigate News Corporation's plan to take full control of BSkyB.
5 November	Members of the National Union of Journalists at the BBC begin a 48-hour strike in a dispute over proposed changes to the corporation's pension scheme. BBC News operates a reduced service.
	The BBC announces that Ready Steady Cook will not return for another series.
8 November	Bill Tarmey makes his final appearance on Coronation Street, dying in his armchair of incurable cancer. Elizabeth Dawn returns for a one-off appearance as the ghost of Jack's late wife Vera.
17 November	Analogue is switched off in the Channel Islands.
19 November	Cast members of EastEnders and Coronation Street take part in a crossover episode titled East Street for Children in Need.
26 November	Ofcom revokes the broadcast licenses of the four Tease Me television sex line channels for broadcasting sexually explicit content before the watershed.
30 November	In Wales, S4C2 is removed from Freeview channel 86.

December

Date	Event
4 December	Singer Stacey Solomon wins the tenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
6 December	S4C2 ceases broadcasting when it is removed from the Freesat platform.
9 December	ITV soap Coronation Street celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special live episode.
12 December	Matt Cardle wins the seventh series of The X Factor.
13 December	BBC journalist Ben Brown conducts an interview for the BBC News Channel with Jody McIntyre, a political activist with cerebral palsy who had been dragged from his wheelchair by Metropolitan police officers during a recent student protest march through London. Brown is subsequently criticised by viewers for adopting a "highly accusatory" tone during the interview.
18 December	Actress Kara Tointon and dancing partner Artem Chigvintsev win the eighth series of Strictly Come Dancing.
19 December	Stella English wins the sixth series of The Apprentice.
	Jockey Tony McCoy is named as this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
21 December	The European Commission approves News Corporation's bid to take full control of British satellite broadcaster BSkyB. However, the deal will be reviewed by Ofcom before a final decision is made.
	Responsibility for media and broadcasting policy is transferred from Business Secretary Vince Cable's Department to that of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt after Cable was secretly recorded by Daily Telegraph journalists saying that he had "declared war" on Rupert Murdoch over News Corporation's plans to take full control of BSkyB.
26 December	Upstairs, Downstairs returns after 35 years of absence moving from ITV to BBC One.

Debuts

BBC

Date	Debut	Channel
2 January	So You Think You Can Dance	BBC One
4 January	Great British Railway Journeys	BBC Two
8 January	Tracy Beaker Returns	CBBC
	EastEnders: E20	BBC Online
9 January	Driver Dan's Story Train	CBeebies
13 January	The Persuasionists	BBC Two
14 January	Material Girl	BBC One
18 January	Late Kick Off
21 January	Bellamy's People	BBC Two
22 January	The Review Show
	Spirit Warriors	CBBC
24 January	Rock & Chips	BBC One
	The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart	BBC Two
25 January	Alphablocks	CBeebies
30 January	The Virtual Revolution	BBC Two
31 January	The Seven Ages of Britain	BBC One
4 February	Hotter Than My Daughter	BBC Three
19 February	The Bubble	BBC Two
21 February	Banded Brothers
23 February	On Expenses	BBC Four
1 March	This is Jinsy	BBC Three
7 March	Wonders of the Solar System	BBC Four
9 March	The Gemma Factor	BBC Three
14 March	Tropic of Cancer	BBC Two
15 March	Big Babies	CBBC
18 March	Museum of Life	BBC Two
26 March	Over the Rainbow	BBC One
31 March	Canoe Man	BBC Four
5 April	ZingZillas	CBeebies
6 April	Great Ormond Street	BBC Two
18 April	America's Medicated Kids
23 April	Frank Skinner's Opinionated
25 April	Five Daughters	BBC One
26 April	Ceres with Russell & Kerrie	BBC One
1 May	I'm in a Rock 'n' Roll Band!	BBC Two
3 May	Everything's Rosie	CBeebies
4 May	Boats that Built Britain	BBC Four
	Luther	BBC One
10 May	High Street Dreams
12 May	Junior Apprentice
17 May	Royal Wedding	BBC Two
23 May	Money
31 May	The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
3 June	Pulse	BBC Three
4 June	Hounded	CBBC
10 June	Lee Nelson's Well Good Show	BBC Three
	Stanley Park
22 June	Mongrels
23 June	Lennon Naked	BBC Four
28 June	Rev.	BBC Two
30 June	Reunited	BBC One
	The Bionic Vet
10 July	101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow
11 July	Sunday Morning Live
15 July	Victorian Pharmacy	BBC Two
18 July	How to Be a Composer	BBC Four
19 July	Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum	BBC Three
24 July	John Bishop's Britain	BBC One
25 July	Sherlock
28 July	The Great Outdoors	BBC Four
3 August	The Deep	BBC One
6 August	Roger & Val Have Just Got In	BBC Two
9 August	Grandma's House
12 August	The Jungle Book	CBBC
15 August	Secret Britain	BBC One
	Vexed	BBC Two
22 August	Mountain Gorilla
24 August	Dive
2 September	The King Is Dead	BBC Three
6 September	Him & Her
	Climbing Great Buildings	BBC Two
12 September	A Concert For Heroes	BBC One
14 September	First Light	BBC Two
16 September	The Road to Coronation Street	BBC Four
17 September	The Rob Brydon Show	BBC Two
18 September	The Special Relationship
27 September	Ask Rhod Gilbert	BBC One
28 September	Whites	BBC Two
4 October	The Octonauts	CBeebies
9 October	The Song of Lunch	BBC Four
10 October	Law and Disorder in Lagos	BBC Two
12 October	Lip Service	BBC Three
1 November	The Trip	BBC Two
3 November	Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention	BBC One
15 November	Accused
	The Indian Doctor
25 December	Come Fly with Me
26 December	Upstairs Downstairs

ITV

Date	Debut	Channel
2 January	Take Me Out	ITV
15 January	Popstar to Operastar
1 February	FHM's Stand-Up Hero	ITV4
22 February	Married Single Other	ITV
27 February	Ant & Dec's Push The Button
5 March	STV Sports Centre	STV
26 March	Comedy Rocks	ITV
2 April	The Door
12 April	Joanna Lumley's Nile
16 April	Kitchen Burnout
17 April	The Prisoner
	The Whole 19 Yards
22 April	The Nightshift	STV
7 June	Father & Son	ITV
12 June	James Corden's World Cup Live
5 July	Identity
17 July	Magic Numbers
	Odd One In
2 August	3@Three
16 August	The Michael Ball Show
	Style Queen	ITV2
24 August	Jedward: Let Loose
6 September	Daybreak	ITV
	Lorraine
	Bouquet of Barbed Wire
10 September	Paul O'Grady Live
12 September	Albert's Memorial
22 September	Richard Bacon's Beer & Pizza Club	ITV4
26 September	Downton Abbey	ITV
27 September	DCI Banks
10 October	The Only Way Is Essex	ITV2
21 October	Mark Watson Kicks Off	ITV4
15 November	Party Wars	ITV
20 November	Simply Red: For the Last Time
20 December	Come Rain Come Shine

Channel 4

Date	Debut	Channel
18 January	Gordon's Great Escape	Channel 4
25 January	The Good Wife
31 January	Mo
5 April	Channel 4's Comedy Gala
7 April	A Comedy Roast
10 April	100 Greatest Stand-Ups
16 April	Facejacker
19 April	Happy Finish
	iCandy
21 April	Penelope Princess of Pets
22 April	Filth
23 April	Hung Out
	MovieMash
	The Ricky Gervais Show
24 May	The Million Pound Drop Live
31 May	The 5 O'Clock Show
21 June	Being... N-Dubz	4Music
25 June	Stand Up for the Week	Channel 4
6 August	Pete Versus Life
10 August	Help! My House is Falling Down
7 September	This Is England '86
26 September	Trinny & Susannah: What They Did Next
	Miliband of Brothers	More4
1 October	The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret	Channel 4
7 October	PhoneShop
16 October	The Pillars of the Earth
1 November	Coppers
8 November	Celebrity Coach Trip
21 November	Any Human Heart
30 November	Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights

Five

Date	Debut	Channel
11 January	Paul Merton in Europe	Five
9 February	Chinese Food in Minutes
29 March	Justin Lee Collins: Good Times
31 March	Heads or Tails
18 July	Don't Stop Believing
24 September	Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers
22 October	Warship
25 December	Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love

Other channels

Date	Debut	Channel
3 January	Got to Dance	Sky 1
8 January	Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza
1 February	The Cleveland Show	E4
10 January	What Do Kids Know?	Watch
14 February	Pineapple Dance Studios	Sky 1
11 March	A League of Their Own
19 March	Comedy Exchange	Dave
26 March	Liza & Huey's Pet Nation	Sky 1 and Sky 1 HD
6 April	The Bopps	Nick Jr.
2 May	Scream! If You Know the Answer	Watch
5 May	Strike Back	Sky 1
30 May	Terry Pratchett's Going Postal
10 June	Football's Greatest	Sky Sports 1 & 2
23 July	Suck My Pop	Viva
15 August	Must Be The Music	Sky 1
29 August	The Middle
3 September	Comedy Central at the Comedy Store	Comedy Central
23 September	An Idiot Abroad	Sky 1
10 October	Dave's One Night Stand	Dave
4 November	Carpool

Channels

New channels

Date	Channel
1 March	MTV Classic
17 March	Dance Nation TV
29 March	Lava
	Imagine TV
2 April	ITV1 HD
22 April	Sky News HD
1 May	Jewellery Maker
1 June	STV HD
5 July	Living Loves
13 July	Five HD
6 August	Sky Movies Classics HD
9 August	Comedy Central HD
23 August	Sky Sports News HD
	Sky3 +1
31 August	Good Food HD
1 September	Vintage TV
1 October	Sky 3D
4 October	Eden HD
5 October	Nickelodeon HD
	UTV HD
7 October	ITV2 HD
1 November	Film GB
3 November	BBC One HD
15 November	ITV3 HD
	ITV4 HD

Defunct channels

Date	Channel
1 March	Rockworld TV
	VH1 Classic
10 March	Virgin Central
17 March	Flaunt
29 March	Rockworld TV
	NDTV Imagine
31 March	S4C (analogue service)
1 April	Men & Motors
	GOD Europe
21 April	Unexplained Channel
5 May	Thomas Cook TV
2 June	Rural TV
24 June	Sky Travel
30 June	Music Choice Europe
1 July	Living +2
6 August	Real Madrid TV
19 August	Sky Real Lives
	Sky Real Lives +1
	Sky Real Lives HD
	Sky Real Lives 2
31 August	Teachers TV
1 September	oMusic TV
2 September	Original Black Entertainment TV
8 September	Edge Media Television
6 December	S4C2

Rebranded channels

Date	Old Name	New Name
6 January	Sky Sports Xtra	Sky Sports 4
1 March	MTV R	MTV Shows
	MTV Two	MTV Rocks
13 April	Sci Fi Channel	Syfy
	Sci Fi Channel +1	Syfy +1
	Sci Fi Channel HD	Syfy HD
3 September	Virgin1	Channel One
	Virgin1 +1	Channel One +1
15 October	Hallmark Channel	Universal Channel
	Hallmark Channel +1	Universal Channel +1
	Hallmark Channel HD	Universal Channel HD

Changes of network affiliation

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Golden Balls	ITV1	Challenge
The British Comedy Awards		Channel 4
Upstairs, Downstairs		BBC One
PhoneShop	Channel 4	E4
Robot Wars (repeats)	Bravo	Dave
Top of the Pops 2	Dave	Yesterday
South Park (on Freeview)	Channel 4	Viva
Pinky and the Brain	CBBC	Kix

Television shows

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Programme	Date of original removal	Original channel	Date of return	New channel(s)
Thomas & Friends	26 September 2008	Channel 5	25 January 2010	N/A (Same channel as original)
Jo Frost Extreme Parental Guidance	8 October 2008	Channel 4	9 February 2010
Children's Hospital	26 February 2003	BBC One	23 March 2010	ITV
Upstairs, Downstairs	21 December 1975	ITV	26 December 2010	BBC One

Continuing television shows

1920s

Programme	Date
BBC Wimbledon	1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present

1930s

Programme	Date
The Boat Race	1938–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present

1950s

Programme	Date
Panorama	1953–present
Eurovision Song Contest	1956–present
The Sky at Night	1957–present
Blue Peter	1958–present

1960s

Programme	Date
Coronation Street	1960–present
Points of View	1961–present
Songs of Praise
University Challenge	1962–1987, 1994–present
Doctor Who	1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present
Top of the Pops	1964–2006
Match of the Day
The Money Programme	1966–2010

1970s

Programme	Date
Question of Sport	1970–present
Emmerdale	1972–present
Mastermind
Newsround
Last of the Summer Wine	1973–2010
Arena	1975–present
One Man and His Dog	1976–present
The Krypton Factor	1977–1995, 2009–2010
Top Gear	1977–present
Ski Sunday	1978–present
Antiques Roadshow	1979–present
Question Time

1980s

Programme	Date
Children in Need	1980–present
Timewatch	1982–present
The Bill	1984–2010
Channel 4 Racing	1984–2016
Thomas & Friends	1984–present
EastEnders	1985–present
Comic Relief
Casualty	1986–present
Fireman Sam	1987–1994, 2005–2013
This Morning	1988–present
The Simpsons	1989–present

1990s

Programme	Date
Have I Got News for You	1990–present
Heartbeat	1992–2010
A Touch of Frost
Shooting Stars	1993–2002, 2009–2011
Time Team	1994–2013
The National Lottery Draws	1994–2017
Top of the Pops 2	1994–2017
Hollyoaks	1995–present
Never Mind the Buzzcocks	1996–2015
Silent Witness	1996–present
Midsomer Murders	1997–present
Y Clwb Rygbi, Wales
South Park
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?	1998–2014
Bob the Builder	1998–present
British Soap Awards	1999–2019, 2022–present
Family Guy	1999–2002, 2005–present
Futurama	1999–2003, 2008–2013
Bremner, Bird and Fortune	1999–2010
SpongeBob SquarePants	1999–present
Holby City	1999–2022

2000s

Programme	Date
The Weakest Link	2000–2012, 2017–present
Big Brother	2000–present
Real Crime	2001–2011
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!	2002–present
Harry Hill's TV Burp	2002–2012
Spooks	2002–2011
Daily Politics	2003–2018
New Tricks	2003–2015
QI	2003–present
Peep Show	2003–2015
Politics Show	2003–2011
The Royal
This Week	2003–2019
Doc Martin	2004–2022
Shameless	2004–2013
Strictly Come Dancing	2004–present
The X Factor	2004–2018
Coach Trip	2005–2006, 2009–2012, 2013–present
Come Dine with Me	2005–present
8 Out of 10 Cats
It's Me or the Dog	2005–2012
Deal or No Deal	2005–2016
The Andrew Marr Show	2005–2021
Mock the Week	2005–2022
Dancing on Ice	2006–present
That Mitchell and Webb Look	2006–2010
Torchwood	2006–2011
Waterloo Road	2006–2015
Britain's Got Talent	2007–present
Gavin & Stacey	2007–2010, 2019
M.I.High	2007–2014
Outnumbered
Trapped	2007–present
The Sarah Jane Adventures	2007–2011
Skins	2007–2013
The Tudors	2007–2010
Would I Lie To You?	2007–present
Argumental	2008–2012
Ashes to Ashes	2008–2010
Mistresses
Only Connect	2008–present
The Inbetweeners	2008–2010
Merlin	2008–2012
Survivors	2008–2010
Wallander	2008–2016
Bang Goes the Theory	2009–2014
The Chase	2009–present
The Cube	2009–2015
The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson	2009–2011
Miranda	2009–2015
Missing	2009–2010
PhoneShop	2009–2013
Pointless	2009–present
Psychoville	2009–2011
Russell Howard's Good News	2009–2015
School of Comedy	2009–2010
Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps	2009–2010
Rip Off Britain	2009–present

Ending this year

Date	Programme	Channel	Debut(s)
1 January	Gavin & Stacey	BBC One	2007
29 January	Celebrity Big Brother	Channel 4	2001
12 February	Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza	Sky 1	2010
23 February	Survivors	BBC One	2008
11 March	Bellamy's People	BBC Two	2010
14 March	Banded Brothers
26 March	Missing	BBC One	2009
29 March	Married Single Other	ITV	2010
3 April	The Door
5 April	A Touch of Frost		1992
22 April	Museum of Life	BBC Two	2010
25 April	Tropic of Cancer
27 April	Five Daughters	BBC One
4 May	Chinese Food in Minutes	Five
7 May	Divided	ITV	2009
21 May	Ashes to Ashes	BBC One	2008
26 May	Money	BBC Two	2010
30 May	The South Bank Show	ITV	1978
31 May	Terry Pratchett's Going Postal	Sky 1	2010
5 June	The Whole 19 Yards	ITV
16 July	Friday Night with Jonathan Ross	BBC One	2001
23 July	The 5 O'Clock Show	Channel 4	2010
30 July	Working Lunch	BBC Two	1994
9 August	Identity	ITV	2010
13 August	3@Three
22 August	Don't Stop Believing	Five
26 August	Mistresses	BBC One	2008
28 August	Magic Numbers	ITV	2010
29 August	Last of the Summer Wine	BBC One	1973
31 August	The Deep		2010
	The Bill	ITV	1984
3 September	GMTV		1993
5 September	Mountain Gorilla	BBC Two	2010
7 September	Raven	CBBC	2002
10 September	Big Brother	Channel 4	2000
	SkyNews.com	Sky News	2007
12 September	Heartbeat	ITV	1992
19 September	Must Be the Music	Sky 1	2010
24 September	The Michael Ball Show	ITV
28 September	Climbing Great Buildings	BBC Two
	This Is England '86	Channel 4
18 October	The Inbetweeners	E4	2008
	School of Comedy		2009
22 October	Suck My Pop	Viva	2010
2 November	Whites	BBC Two
7 November	Taggart	ITV	1983
	To Buy or Not to Buy	BBC One	2003
18 November	Reggie Perrin		2009
8 December	Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention		2010
17 December	The Restaurant	BBC Two	2007
	Trisha Goddard	Five	2005

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Broadcast credibility
5 February	Ian Carmichael	89	Actor
15 February	George Waring	84
1 March	Kristian Digby	32	Television presenter and director
20 March	Harry Carpenter	84	Sports commentator
7 April	Christopher Cazenove	66	Actor
25 June	Alan Plater	75	Television playwright
1 July	Geoffrey Hutchings	71	Actor
13 July	Gilly Coman	54	Actress
6 August	John Louis Mansi	83	Actor (Heer von Smallhausen in 'Allo 'Allo!)
4 October	Norman Wisdom	95	Actor and comedian
11 October	Claire Rayner	79	Broadcaster and writer
14 October	Simon MacCorkindale	58	Actor, director and producer
26 November	Gavin Blyth	41	Emmerdale producer, Coronation Street story maker
20 December	Brian Hanrahan	61	Television journalist

See also

• 2010 in British music
• 2010 in British radio
• 2010 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 2010

External links

• List of 2010 British television series at IMDb

Шаблон:Years in TV by country