) 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 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.

These include Skullion in Porterhouse Blue ( for Channel 4 ), Sidney " Pop " Larkin in the rural idyll The Darling Buds of May ( Yorkshire Television / ITV ) and based on the H. E. Bates novel, which also featured the then unknown Catherine Zeta-Jones.

The Broadcasting Act 1990 changed the nature of ITV ; the then regulator the IBA was replaced with a light-touch regulator the ITC, companies now able to purchase other ITV regional companies and franchises were now being awarded based upon a highest-bidder auction, with few safeguards in place.

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

He then moved to ITV to front two more game shows, Bob's Your Uncle and the $ 64, 000 Dollar Question, neither of which were popular successes.

Todmorden and the nearby towns and villages then received BBC Yorkshire analogue television from Leeds, whilst ITV regionalisation was from Yorkshire Television at Leeds and not Granada Television from Manchester.

ITV already owned some of SDN due to the consolidation of the ITV industry: Granada bought UNM's stake in SDN, and this was then incorporated into the united ITV plc.

Secondly, there was a problem of connecting the islands to the rest of the ITV Network-the solution was to build a relay station on Alderney, the northern-most island, which would then send the network feed from Westward Television and occasionally Southern Television to Channel Television's studio in Jersey ; this was initially a problem, because the existence of the relay station meant that Alderney itself could not have a broadcast service from the start of broadcasting, and the local authorities refused to lease land to the ITA for the relay station.

ITV have recently released The Krypton Factor Interactive DVD Board Game via their website in 2010, and then again in 2011.

The then federal structure of ITV, with its independent regional companies, meant that not all of these operations broadcast the show when it became available for networked transmission.

Granada then went on to purchase all of UNM's television interests ( including its ITV franchises ), which brought Meridian, Anglia and HTV into its power, however due to regulation Granada was forced to sell HTV to Carlton.

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.

Opinions vary on the matter of political motivations ; some cite the documentary " Death On The Rock ", which may have caused displeasure to the then government, whilst others link it to a more general ideological dislike of the way ITV had been run at the time, with ' excessive over-manning ' and the fact that programme production was generally limited to franchise holders ( sometimes critically referred to as barriers to entry ) being seen as examples of why more commercial freedom and competition was needed within the network.

When it transferred to television on the ITV network, first in 1956 and then again from 1964, it began the show business careers of Les Dawson, Lena Zavaroni, Pam Ayres and Mary Hopkin, among others.

TOTP was traditionally shown on a Thursday night, but was moved to a Friday starting on 14 June 1996, originally at 7 pm, but then shifted to 7. 30 pm, a change which placed the programme up against the hugely popular soap opera, Coronation Street, on ITV.

From 1955-67 the theatre was the setting for the top-rated ITV variety show Sunday Night at the London Palladium hosted first by Tommy Trinder, then by Bruce Forsyth.

Because, the series was shown on all ITV companies late at night ( just before closedown at first, then as the first programme of night-time programming with the advent of 24-hour broadcasting in the late 1980s ), it became a favourite of the local continuity announcers.

Graeme Thompson was appointed MD and Controller of Programmes at ITV Tyne Tees in 2004, having been appointed Director of Broadcasting in December 1997 and then Controller of Programmes in 2001.

The Tyne Tees logo was last seen on production end boards until 2004, when they were replaced with, first an ITV logo, and then with an ITV Productions caption.

ITV confirmed to its fans via e-mail that no more new episodes will be made until Ben Shephard is once again available for filming.

ITV plc has confirmed to TiswasOnline that many more programme elements ( other than those officially known to exist ) have been kept, but as yet these have not been fully catalogued.

Their position among the classic advertisements of British television was confirmed when Creature Comforts was voted fourth in ITV ’ s Best Ever Adverts by viewers of ITV in 2005.

In June 2012 ITV confirmed that Martine would be one of a panel of judges on a news sports talent show called Let's Get Gold, set to air in July 2012.

In court, Smith confirmed that his company had previously produced a television programme involving witnesses about the case, for broadcast on ITV after the trial.

In December 2005 it was confirmed that the channel would close down in 2006, in order to use its Freeview bandwidth ( which was already timeshared with ITV4 ) to launch the CITV channel based on the existing CITV brand, and to use its funding to boost ITV News coverage on the main ITV Network.

It was confirmed on 5th October 2011 that she would host the new Health Lottery Draws on ITV 1 and Channel 5.

* On 9 July 2010 it was confirmed that the new ITV plc breakfast show name from 6 September 2010 would be named Daybreak and that GMTV with Lorraine is set to become a standalone show with the title Lorraine and GMTV Limited was being rebranded ITV Breakfast Limited

It was confirmed at the end of the broadcast that a DVD had been released and was available to buy from the ITV Website and in stores.

It was later confirmed by ITV that three episodes had been commissioned for 2013.

At the time the audience figures for the final episode were released ( 28 % and an average of 7. 3 million ), ITV confirmed that it had entered and was continuing " early discussions " with Horowitz and Greenlit.

In February 2009, ITV confirmed plans for a fourth series with eight episodes.

ITV confirmed the commissioning of a fifth series of Doc Martin in a press release on 1 April 2010.

However, speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on 25 August 2007, former ITV Director of Drama Nick Elliot confirmed that the drama would not be shown " in its present form ", though it has since been shown on French TV.

This was confirmed when, on 9 February 2009, ITN refreshed ITV News to bring it more in line with the News at Ten studio set.

On 4 April 2011, ITV confirmed that presenter of travel items on the show Jenni Falconer, and Friday co-presenter Ruth Langsford would cover Holly Willoughby, from 14 April for the first six weeks.

ITV plc chairman Michael Grade, on Wednesday 31 October 2007, confirmed plans to reintroduce News at Ten, announcing that the bulletin would be restored to its traditional slot in early 2008.

A possible merger with ITV4 had been on the cards, but in September 2007, ITV confirmed that it plans to dispose of Men & Motors.

This has not been confirmed by ITV or LWT.

( 2008 ) On 5 August ITV confirmed that Matt would be leaving Emmerdale.

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 ).

After the departure of Adam Crozier to ITV on 27 May 2010, Royal Mail appointed Canadian Moya Greene as Chief Executive, the first woman to hold the post.

With the passage of the Television Act 1954, Rediffusion joined forces with Associated Newspapers, a subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust, to form Associated-Rediffusion, and won the coveted London weekday ITV broadcast franchise.

The judging panel comprised ITV Central representatives, leaders from industry, the arts, education and community groups, and senior staff from the award's media partners who are The Birmingham Post, Birmingham Evening Mail, The Sentinel ( Stoke on Trent ), Coventry Evening Telegraph, Shropshire Star, Worcester Evening News, 100. 7 Heart FM ( Birmingham ), Trent FM ( Nottingham ), Ram FM ( Derby ), Leicester Sound and Fox FM ( Oxford ).

* ITV may be on menu for Hollick, Daily Mail, 13 January 2005