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Coronation Street is produced by ITV Granada Television under ITV Studios and shown in all ITV regions.

The ITV network, like BBC1, began full colour transmissions on 15 November 1969 and it is therefore possible that the first transmitted colour episode is number 928 shown on 17 November.

The programme is currently shown in the UK in five episodes, over three evenings a week on ITV.

) is a television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969.

The BBC region is BBC North West and the ITV region is Granada.

The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work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

The Rovers Return is the pub in Coronation Street, the British soap broadcast on ITV.

It was recently discovered that the original copy had been wiped, which is unusual as the wiping of archive material at ITV is usually thought to have stopped around 1977.

Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.

Local TV content is currently provided by BBC Midlands Today and ITV Central News.

He is best known as the main character Derek " Del Boy " Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows and as Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992.

He is a qualified medical doctor, and was co-writer ( with Bill Oddie ) of several episodes of the medical comedy Doctor in the House on ITV ( appearing in the episode " Doctor on the Box " as a television presenter ).

Timeslip is a British children's science fiction television series made by ATV for the ITV network and broadcast between 1970 and 1971.

The show was made for ITV and is often repeated today on Sky Real Lives, Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky 3 ( now Pick TV ) & ITV2.

ITV is a major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom.

ITV is a network of television channels operating regional television services as well as sharing programmes between each other to be displayed on the entire network.

Similarly ITV1 is the brand used by ITV plc for the Channel 3 service in these areas.

In late 2011, ITV announced that it would be filming the remaining Poirot stories in 2012.

Syndication did not exist as such in Britain until the arrival of satellite, cable and later, from 1998 on, digital television, although it could be argued that many ITV programs up to the early 1990s, particularly imported programming was syndicated in the sense that each ITV region bought in some programs independently of the ITV Network, and in particular many programs out of prime time made by smaller ITV stations were " part-networked " where some regions would show them and others would not.

It would be three years before Britain's ITV network began full colour broadcasting.

A replica knitted monkey could be obtained by signing up to ITV Digital.

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.

In part, the number 3 was assigned as televisions would usually be tuned so that the regional ITV station would be on the third button, the other stations being allocated to the number within their name.

In exchange for this programming, the ITV network is available on all platforms free to air and can be found at the top of the EPG of all providers.

Each ITV region originally had its own studios, however the rise of publisher-broadcasters like Carlton Television | Carlton and the takeover of regions caused several studios to be closed.

On 23 September ITV was reported to be in the process of sueing STV for £ 20 million, as ITV plc felt dropping the shows constituted a breach of network agreements ; STV subsequently counter-sued ITV plc for £ 35 million.

( 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.

These cases tend to be the exception, however ; the former nature of the ITV network, in which private independent companies were awarded licences to serve geographical areas for a set period of time, meant that when companies lost their licences their archives were often sold to third parties and became fragmented – and / or risked being destroyed ( ownership and copyright remained with the production companies rather than with the network ).

Telewest had an agreement with both ITV and the BBC and claimed to be the only provider in the UK to offer all the 2006 World Cup matches in HD.

Following broadcast on ITV in the UK, Pilger's documentary Palestine Is Still the Issue ( 2002 ) was alleged by complainants including the Israeli embassy, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Conservative Friends of Israel to be inaccurate and biased.

It was announced on 7 November 2007 that McLaren would be one of the contestants in the seventh series of the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, set in the outback of Australia and premiering on British television on Monday 12 November 2007, but he pulled out the day he had flown to Australia.

When the final series ends, a final Complete Collection ( Series 1 – 13 ) will be released by ITV Studios on Region 2 in the UK.

Until late in her life, Yates believed her father to be Jess Yates, who was known as " the Bishop " and presented the ITV religious programme Stars On Sunday.

The ITV1 brand, however, should be distinguished from the UK-wide ITV, of which ITV1 forms a large proportion.

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he was a distinguished snooker commentator for ITV until snooker was dropped by the channel.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

For eleven weeks, between August and October 1979, industrial action forced Coronation Street and the whole of the ITV network ( apart from the Channel Islands ) off the air.

Aside from Granada, the programme originally appeared on the following stations of the ITV network: Anglia Television, Associated-Rediffusion, Television Wales and the West, Scottish Television, Southern Television and Ulster Television.

As the ITV network grew over the next few years, the programme was transmitted by these new stations on these dates onward: Westward Television from episode 40 on 29 April 1961, Border Television from episode 76 on 1 September 1961, Grampian Television from episode 84 on 30 September 1961, Channel Television from episode 180 on 1 September 1962 and Teledu Cymru ( north and west Wales ) from episode 184 on 14 September 1962.

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

The high transmission tower was re-sited from London, where it had been used for early ITV transmissions.

Until recently it was also common practice for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to repeat classic shows from their archives, but this has more or less dried up in favor of newer ( and cheaper ) formats like reality shows, except on the BBC where older BBC shows, especially sitcoms like Dad's Army and Fawlty Towers, are frequently repeated.

Dover was the home to television studios and production offices of Southern Television Ltd, the company which operated the ITV franchise for South and South East England from 1958-1981.

On 15 May 2011 he appeared alongside Laurie in the UK ITV series Perspectives, singing music from the album in New Orleans.

For the 4 seasons from 2008 to 2012, the FA has secured £ 425 million from ITV and Setanta for England and FA Cup games domestic television rights, a 42 % increase over the previous contract, and £ 145 million for overseas television rights, up 272 % on the £ 39 million received for the previous four-year period.

In Rising Damp, on ITV, he played Rigsby, the lecherous landlord of a house converted into seedy bedsits, reprising the role from its successful stage version, entitled The Banana Box.

In August 2007, a study by ITV television show Undercover Mothers found that a third of steaks served in Hungry Horse and two thirds served in Wetherspoon public houses in the United Kingdom were from Zebu or Zebu cross-breeds, as indicated by the presence of Zebu DNA markers in the meat ( and not that the steaks were 67 % zebu as reported in papers such as the Daily Mail ).