Blanche Hunt ( née Linfield ) is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

After several quiet years she returned to acting in the 1972 British television series Spyder's Web before accepting the role of Blanche Hunt in the top rated ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 1974.

The first was in Gloucester in 1950 and the process gathered pace over the next few years, especially after a second television channel, ITV, was launched in 1955 to compete with BBC.

Morris first came to public attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme Zoo Time, but achieved worldwide fame in 1967 with his book The Naked Ape.

In the 2005 ITV programme The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend, a full-size replica of the House of Lords was built and destroyed with barrels of gunpowder.

Defence Minister Jonathan Aitken was accused by the ITV investigative journalism series World In Action and The Guardian newspaper of secretly doing deals with leading Saudi princes.

* Paramount also owns ( through the Viacom merger ) US distribution rights to the 1951 film The African Queen, originally distributed by United Artists ( the international rights are with ITV Global Entertainment ).

They started in 1959 with Ivor the Engine, a series for ITV about a Welsh steam locomotive who wanted to sing in a choir.

The ITV network was compelled to use Band III, meaning that it was at first limited to TV sets with Band III converters which converted the Band III signal to a Band I signal.

A remake miniseries, in the works since 2005, premiered on 15 November 2009 on American cable TV channel AMC, made in cooperation with British broadcaster ITV after AMCs original production partner Sky1 had pulled out.

On 25 April 2008, ITV announced that the new series would go into production, and in June 2008, that American actor James Caviezel would star in the role of Number 6, with Ian McKellen taking on the role of Number 2 in all six episodes.

ITV produced a sequel series The New Avengers ( 1976 – 1977 ) with Patrick Macnee returning as John Steed, and two new partners.

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

In 1999, the British television network ITV broadcast a censored version with each of the twelve utterances of Nigger deleted.

* An adaptation of Northanger Abbey with screenplay by Andrew Davies, was shown on ITV on 25 March 2007 as part of their " Jane Austen Season ".

The commercial station ITV had popular successes with Rising Damp ( 1974 – 78, sometimes called the best of all ITV sitcoms ), Man About the House ( 1973 – 76 ) and George and Mildred ( 1976 – 79 ).

Canal + brought a lawsuit against News Corporation alleging that they, with the help of NDS, had been working on breaking the MediaGuard smartcards used by Canal +, ITV Digital and other non-Murdoch-owned TV companies throughout Europe.

A massive re-branding campaign was launched to support the new naming, with customers even being sent ITV Digital stickers to place over the existing ONdigital logos on their remote controls and set top boxes.

Indeed, the cost of the Football League deal proved one too many a burden for ITV Digital, and it was placed into administration on 27 March 2002, after the League refused to accept a £ 130m pay cut in its £ 315m deal with the ITV Sport Channel.

The League then filed a negligence claim against its lawyers for failing to press for a written guarantee at the time of the deal with ITV Digital.

Carlton and Granada stepped in and paid £ 2. 8m to have the boxes stay with their customers, as at the time the ITV companies received a discount on their licence payments based on the number of digital homes they had converted.

In 1992, fed up with the lack of investment at the BBC, he signed a golden-handcuffs deal at ITV to star as Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the long-running TV series A Touch of Frost ( Yorkshire Television / ITV ).

It was certainly planned some months in advance, but it may well be that the actual date of the death was changed during the scriptwriting stage to coincide with the start of ITV.

After two series of The Frost Report on the BBC, totalling 26 half-hour episodes, Frost moved to ITV after helping to set up London Weekend Television.

In 1957, 1957 – 1958 and 1961 he made a number of half-hour programmes on ITV in which he lectured without notes on a variety of topics, such as the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the First World War.

The Pilger half-hour documentary series was commissioned by Charles Denton, then a producer with ATV, for screening on the British ITV network.

The show was broadcast during the post-school half-hour on ITV earmarked for children and teenagers ; it was a big success.

In August 2008, ITV Meridian commemorated the 50th anniversary of Southern Television's first transmission with special reports on Thames Valley Tonight and Meridian Tonight ( South and South East editions ) alongside a half-hour programme presented by Fred Dinenage.

Its 39 half-hour episodes were originally screened on ITV in the UK and in syndication in the USA.

In 2002, the half-hour ITV programme Airbase documented life at the airfield.

This strand was made up of half-hour documentaries contributed by each of the ITV regions covering interesting aspects of their respective regions.

All six of Baxter's hour-long ITV specials were released on a two-disc DVD set in 2005 as The Stanley Baxter Collection with a further two-disc DVD set being released in 2006 under the title The Stanley Baxter Series & Picture Show featuring both of his series of half-hour shows for ITV.

The set includes both half-hour ITV series that Baxter made for ITV and six of his ITV specials.

In 1967, ITN editor Geoffrey Cox suggested launching a half-hour news bulletin for ITV, every weeknight.

ITV executives, however, were sceptical of that idea, because it was thought that viewers would not want a full 30 minutes of news every Monday to Friday ( there had only been one half-hour news programme in Britain previously-BBC2's Newsroom, launched in 1964 ).

In March 1999, the " ITV News " brand was introduced and, with the loss of News at Ten, the " bongs " were extended to all ITN bulletins ( despite all but one of them starting on the half-hour ).

There are 972 half-hour episodes but during the series ' original run in Australia, later episodes were shown in an hour-long format and the first pilot episode as shown in Australia ( and some UK ITV regions ) was actually a 90-minute special ; subsequent screenings have seen that episode split into three half-hours.

Written by Michael Eaton and directed by Peter Kosminsky, and produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, it was shown in two parts on 3 and 4 June 1990, with the second episode being followed by a half-hour studio discussion between Kosminsky, Conservative Member of Parliament Ian Gow ( assassinated by the Provisional IRA two months later ), Social Democratic and Labour Party MP Seamus Mallon, Ulster Unionist Party MP David Trimble, and Larry Cox of Amnesty International.

When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.

In 1995, Pertwee played the role one last time in a one-off special for ITV, which celebrated 40 years of the channel.

Both the BBC and ITV made special programmes to celebrate her 80th birthday in 1982 and the BBC ran a short season of her best films.

( not to be confused with the 1991 ITV special Further Up Pompeii ), the already-released Comedy Greats: Frankie Howerd DVD, and another Howerd series along a similar vein, Then Churchill Said To Me.

Returning to television, Sykes and Jacques appeared in the 1967 special Sykes Versus ITV with Tommy Cooper and Ronnie Brody.

In 1980 he played the Funny Uncle in a dramatisation of the John Betjeman poem " Indoor Games Near Newbury ", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's Britain that also starred Peter Cook and Susannah York.

They also appeared together recalling their music hall days in a one-hour special on ITV on 2 March 1983, called Eric & Ernie's Variety Days.

Morecambe and Wise's final show together was the 1983 Christmas special for ITV.

In November 2007 a special tribute programme was shown on ITV in the UK celebrating 60 years of the organisation called ' Happy Birthday BAFTA '.

* " Minder on the Orient Express " ( 1985 ): a special episode of the long-running ITV sit-com Minder.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles was adapted as a 103-minute drama and transmitted on ITV in the UK on Sunday September 16, 1990 as a special episode in their series Agatha Christie's Poirot to celebrate the centenary of the author's birth.

He worked for the BBC until 1999 on programmes including Songs of Praise, Public Eye and Panorama and then he joined ITV, working on special documentary programmes and features for Tonight with Trevor McDonald.

A successful revival of the show saw two series and a Christmas special shown on BBC One ( after ITV had failed to re-secure rights for the Network ) in 2002 and 2004.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was adapted as a 103-minute drama transmitted in the U. K. on ITV Sunday January 2, 2000, as a special episode in their series, Agatha Christie's Poirot.

The performance was recorded for a TV special by ITV.

The album was released on Polydor Records in December 1977 and the TV special was shown on the ITV network that same month through Granada TV.

( A one-hour TV special drawn from the performances aired on Britain's ITV network by London Weekend Television in December 1979 to coincide with the release of the Secret Policeman's Ball record album on Island Records, produced by Lewis, of the comedy performances.

The programme was made by the ITV franchise Yorkshire Television between 1987 and 1992, although the BBC made two special episodes ; one in 1988, the other in 1994.

The 1980 Christmas special of the ITV children's show Worzel Gummidge was filmed in the town during the summer of that year.

Scottish Television began broadcasting at 5: 30pm on Saturday 31 August 1957 with the variety special This is Scotland, broadcast live from the Theatre Royal studios-STV was the first ITV franchise to launch outside the three largest regions ( London, the Midlands & Northern England ) and thereby, the first to broadcast seven days a week.

Some of Sky's special programmes, mainly WWF wrestling specials, managed to surpass both BBC1 and ITV among cable audiences.

It first aired on ITV from 3 April 1987 to 19 June 1994 with a special that aired on 1 May 1995, then moved to Sky1 from 22 February to 23 December 1996.

He presented kids ' shows Let's Pretend on ITV and Jackanory on BBC One, and was a contestant on a charity special of The Weakest Link in 2005.