BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.

These programmes are simulcast with BBC World News and either BBC One or BBC Two.

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

On 25 February 2008, he started presenting Brainbox Challenge, a new game show, for BBC Two.

One of his early comedy writing projects was Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Rory McGrath for BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

A version of " Two Tribes " was originally recorded for a BBC John Peel session in October 1982.

* 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two.

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.

The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work and travel on London Underground.

A broadcasting organisation may broadcast several programs at the same time, through several channels ( frequencies ), for example BBC One and Two.

It began screening on BBC One on weekday afternoons on April 28, 2008 but after lower than desired ratings figures it was shifted to BBC Two from May 19, 2008.

Two series were made in 1963 and 1964 and ( presumably because it was shot on 35mm film rather than video ) the entire series has reportedly been preserved in the BBC archives.

An instrumental section of " Party Fears Two " was used as the theme music for the BBC Radio 4 satirical current affairs series Week Ending.

On 2 January 2001, a second series named Bill and Ben began on CBBC on BBC Two, this time involving stop-motion animation, 35mm film style and full color, and made by Cosgrove Hall Films with a team of ten animators.

The Weakest Link is a British television quiz show, mainly broadcast on BBC Two, but also on BBC One.

After the huge success of the show in its early evening slot on BBC Two, a prime-time edition was shown on BBC One, usually broadcast on Wednesday evenings.

There are five major analogue networks-BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

In 2003, the BBC showed a documentary reconstruction of Campbell's fateful water-speed record attempt in an episode of Days That Shook the World.

The BBC reported that in 2002 work done by Edward Castronova showed that Everquest was the 77th richest country in the world, sandwiched between Russia and Bulgaria and its GDP per capita was higher than that of the People's Republic of China and India.

A sketch in the BBC comedy series Not the Nine O ' Clock News showed Scotland Yard's rotating sign being hand-cranked by the Commissioner.

The Survey of English Dialects took a recording from a long-time resident of Hackney, and the BBC made another recording in 1999 which showed how the accent had changed.

The day after his death the BBC Parliament channel showed the BBC results coverage of the 1970 election.

A BBC documentary showed that Bess very much desired Arbella to become Queen, even imprisoning the young lady to prevent her from eloping.

On 10 January 2006, the BBC showed a drama / documentary retelling the story in the series Surviving Disaster.

* The BBC showed as part of its One Life series a documentary following United goalkeeper Harry Gregg retracing his route from England to Belgrade to Munich.

The BBC showed the 2010 FIFA World Cup, splitting the group stage matches with ITV.

* The BBC showed a documentary on the Hungerford Massacre on 7 December 2004.

It was hosted by Nia Peeples and even showed performances from the BBC version of the programme.

On 14 March, an illustrated BBC report showed a picture of the town, describing it as " almost completely flattened.

The BBC Television Service ( renamed " BBC tv " in 1960 ) showed popular programming, including drama, comedies, documentaries, game shows, and soap operas, covering a wide range of genres and regularly competed with ITV to become the channel with the highest ratings for that week.

This event was marked by the release of a DVD, which showed highlights of the BBC's television coverage of significant events over the half-century, as well as changes in the format of the BBC television news ; from the newsreel format of the first BBC Television News bulletins, to the 24-hour, worldwide news coverage available in 2004.

The Scheme caused much controversy within residents of the community, who believed that the BBC only showed the " worst parts ", leading to others believing that they were " pretty much the same ".

On 7th August, 1985, some members of the union engaged in a labour dispute with BBC, IBA, ILR stations and S4C, caused the disruption of broadcasting on BBC2 and Channel 4, BBC1 showed back-to-back cartoons instead of the normal service.

Coe was featured in an episode of the BBC TV series Who Do You Think You Are ?, which showed he is descended from Jamaican sugar farmers and slave owners, George Clarke, Lieutenant Governor of New York Colony, and Edward Hyde of Norbury.

This was brought to public attention by BBC TV's Have I Got News for You programme, broadcast on 22 May 2009, when the studio audience showed their opinion by booing Gray.

A BBC opinion poll conducted by ICM of 514 people by telephone showed that the public support on 12 September 2000 for the protesters stood at 78 % until the possibility of essential services being affected when it fell to 36 %.

Early BBC NICAM research showed that uncorrected errors in the least significant four bits were preferable to the reduced overall protection offered by parity-protecting all ten bits.

However, Astley showed his diversity by writing the music for Sir Kenneth Clark's celebrated 1969 BBC documentary series Civilisation, and scoring several British Transport Films including Diesel Train Ride ( 1959 ), Broad Waterways ( 1959 / 60 ) and The Signal Engineers ( 1962 ).

* Played by Alan David in the final episode of the BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart,

Frances ' daughter, Christine Lynch, appeared in an episode of the television programme Antiques Roadshow in Belfast, broadcast on BBC One in January 2009, with the photographs and one of the cameras given to the girls by Conan Doyle.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

In 1992, as a close friend of actresses Jill Bennett and Rachel Roberts, Anderson included a touching episode in his autobiographical BBC film Is That All There Is ?, with a boat trip down the River Thames ( several of their professional colleagues and friends aboard ) to scatter their ashes on the waters while musician Alan Price sang the song " Is That All There Is?

In a widely criticized episode, initial online BBC reports of the 7 July 2005 London bombings identified the perpetrators as terrorists, in contradiction to the BBC's internal policy.

The ' number of weapons ' joke echoes a similar joke in the first episode " The Man and The Hour " of the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, broadcast in July 1968.

* Giles Coren portrayed Mark Antony in the sixth episode of the second series of The Supersizers Eat ( aired BBC One, 9: 00 pm Monday July 27, 2009 )

* 1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

* 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who ( starring William Hartnell ) which is the world's longest running science fiction drama.

* The Romans ( Doctor Who ), an episode of the BBC production, Doctor Who

The first episode was broadcast on 28 May 1951 on the BBC Home Service.

* Guest star in the 3rd episode of the award-winning BBC Scotland drama series Takin ' Over the Asylum ( 1994 )

* The second episode of the BBC Radio comedy series 1835, entitled " Haircut, Sir?

The idea for the police-box disguise came from BBC staff writer Anthony Coburn, who rewrote the program's first episode from a draft by C. E. Webber.

" No More Heroes " was covered by Violent Femmes, used for the film Mystery Men and was also featured on the first episode of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes.

The first episode was broadcast by the BBC on November 16, 1969, and a further twenty-five episodes were made.

This special episode has not been seen since its original broadcast, although it still exists in the BBC archive.

As part of the production, Smallfilms had to send the scripts to the BBC, but on reading the script for episode three, they asked Postgate to remove some " Clanger-speak ", explaining that although whistled, " you can ’ t say that on children ’ s television [...] you just can ’ t ".

The final episode was titled " You Are The Weakest Link-Goodbye " and was aired on BBC One on 31 March 2012.

* April 24 – Patrick Moore presents the first episode of The Sky at Night, a BBC television programme for astronomy enthusiasts.

** The first episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

The building of the railway is covered by the 2004 BBC documentary series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World in episode 6, " The Line ".

Other small screen roles include performances in The Sweeney ( Thames Television for ITV, 1978 ), Lovejoy ( BBC ), Waking the Dead ( BBC ), Kavanagh QC ( Carlton Television for ITV, he played a concentration camp survivor in the episode Ancient History ), The Merchant of Venice ( BBC, 1980 ) and Gormenghast.