American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

More recently, the horn section of Antibalas have been guest musicians on TV On The Radio's highly acclaimed 2008 album Dear Science, as well as on British band Foals ' 2008 album, Antidotes.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

She has also been the subject of a 1978 British TV series, Warrior Queen, starring Siân Phillips as Boudica.

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

File: England ; London-The British Museum, Facade South Front ~-Main Entrance + West Wing-Collonade + The Africa Garden. 2. JPG | African Garden-created by BBC TV programme Ground Force

* Class ( TV series ), a British television programme, which airs on CBBC

* Cyril " Blakey " Blake, the bus depot inspector from the 1970s British comedy TV series On the Buses

Cable TV faces intense competition from British Sky Broadcasting's Sky satellite television service.

The song " Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps " was included in the soundtrack of the Australian film Strictly Ballroom, and became a theme song for the British TV show, Coupling, with Mari Wilson performing it for the title sequence.

* FBi ( Fully Booked Interactive ), a British children's TV show-a 2000 reformat of the series Fully Booked

* 1964 – Ray Mears, British survival expert and TV presenter

In 1995 the show won Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards, with O ' Hanlon receiving Top TV Comedy Newcomer Award.

At the 1996 British Comedy Awards the show won Top Channel 4 Sitcom Award, McLynn took the Top TV Comedy Actress award.

* Father Ted at British TV Resources

* 1960 – Carol McGiffin, British TV and radio presenter

In 1965, a weekly show for British TV titled Groucho was poorly received and only lasted 11 weeks.

After the popularity of game shows hit a nadir in the mid-1990s ( at which point The Price Is Right was the only game show still on daytime network TV ), the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

* Hex ( TV series ), a British television programme

Jane Goldman, wife of British TV and radio personality Jonathan Ross, owns a similar style " hearse " built from a Jaguar XK8 convertible.

* Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD BBC / Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; TV series A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603 – 1776 BBC / Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; A History of Britain-The Complete Collection on DVD BBC 2002

Around the same time, he appeared in two episodes of a twist-in-the-tale episode of the British TV series, Tales of the Unexpected, with Wendy Hiller ( 1979 ), and Gloria Grahame ( 1980 ).

In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times ; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe .. Kabir also recently starred in a prime-time Italian television series, Un Medico In Famiglia, on RAI TV, the country's biggest broadcaster.

* 1949 – Chris Langham, British actor, writer, producer, director

* 1981 – Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager ( b. 1935 )

British Steel PLC was a major British steel producer.

The film was produced by independent British producer Jeremy Thomas.

* 1943 – Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer

* 1946 – Janet Street-Porter, British journalist, producer and presenter

* 1888 – J. Arthur Rank, British film producer ( d. 1972 )

* 1948 – Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist

From 1898 American producer Charles Urban expanded the London-based Warwick Trading Company to produce British films, mostly documentary and news.

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

* 1940 – Alan Caddy, British musician ( The Tornados ), arranger and record producer ( d. 2000 )

* 1915 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director ( d. 2004 )

Walkers, a Leicester-based British producer of snack foods, temporarily named their salt and vinegar crisps after Lineker in the late 1990s — they were labelled ' Salt-n-Lineker '.

The British historian / television producer Laurence Rees noted for his 1997 series The Nazis: A Warning from History that every single person interviewed for the series who knew Ribbentrop expressed a passionate hatred for him.

* 1933 – Gerry Bron, British record producer

* 1931 – Gerald Potterton, British / Canadian director, producer and animator

* 2008 – Neil Aspinall, British record producer ( b. 1941 )

* 1978 – Adam Jennings, British actor, producer, and director

* 1925 – Peter Brook, British stage director and producer

* 1969 – Giles Martin, British record producer

A major figure in the development of British psychedelia was the American promoter and record producer Joe Boyd, who moved to London in 1966.

Around this time, the Pixies struck up a relationship with the British producer Gil Norton.

* 30-Mickie Most, 64, British music producer.

Rupert Parkes ( born 1972, St Albans, England ), known as Photek, is a Los Angeles-based British record producer and DJ.