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.

The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence – funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV.

The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around since the inception of ITV in 1954 and its subsequent launch in 1955 ; the idea of an ' ITV2 ' was long expected and pushed for.

The episode was watched by over 24 million viewers – more ITV viewers than the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana two days later.

ITV honoured Blanche and Maggie with a half-hour special, Goodbye Blanche, which was aired after the funeral.

The anniversary was also constructed by a number of ITV specials and news broadcasts.

Like BBC1, the ITV network was officially broadcast in black and white ( though programmes were actually broadcast in colour as early as July that year for colour transmission testing and adjustment ) at this point so the episode was seen by most in black and white.

ITV then confirmed to the Mail that a second version had been recorded in the 1970s, but was only used for a very short while before reverting to Hunt's 1960 recording.

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.

At this point, the ITV network became complete and the programme was broadcast almost continuously across the country at 19: 30 on Monday and Wednesday for the next twenty-seven years.

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.

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.

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

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.

Rediffusion did not use the play ; instead, it was made as one of the first productions of the new ITV company Yorkshire Television, and broadcast posthumously on 26 August 1968.

Perhaps more importantly still, the film was shunned by the BBC and ITV, who declined to show it for fear of offending Christians in this country.

It was later sold to Television South, an ITV Franchise holder during the 1980s.

The show was not a popular success, owing in part to the publication of the ITV listings magazine, TV Times, being suspended because of a strike.

Michael Winner, whilst appearing on an episode of Piers Morgan's Life Stories ( an ITV production ), stated that Quentin Tarantino was a " big fan " of Death Wish.

Crowe told ITV Local Yorkshire the game was not a marketing exercise.

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.

Cameron is accused of paying excessive attention to image, with ITV News broadcasting footage from the 2006 Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth which showed him wearing four different sets of clothes within the space of a few hours.

He also caused controversy when he lost the rights to Premier League football to ITV, then accused the league of fixing the auction.

In 2003 he starred in a ITV mini-seires Unconditional Love ( TV drama ), In 2003 he starred in the BBC TV series Trust and in 2005, Green co-starred in the mini-series Like Father Like Son, as Dominic Milne, a teacher whose girlfriend's son is accused of murdering a school student.

In November 2002, John Whiston, then head of drama at Granada, accused the BBC of producing " ersatz parodies " of ITV drama, commenting that: " With Holby City cloned out of Casualty, the BBC has even ended up copying itself.

Mark Thompson, The BBC's director general, accused ITV of " copycatting " and said that Tycoon was " very like The Apprentice, and there's possibly a bit of Dragons ' Den in there ".

Programmes originally ran from 06: 00 to 09: 15, with Daybreak ( not to be confused with the post-2010 ITV breakfast show of the same name ) then Good Morning Britain filling weekday mornings, followed by engineering announcements before the start of the regional ITV franchises at 09: 25.

Some at the company considered ITV could only survive as a single merged entity in order to have sufficient resources to produce big-budget programmes, a concern that increased when BSkyB began to take ITV's viewing share, leading to less advertising revenue, the source of ITV's income.

Since the Broadcasting Act 1990, ITN has had to apply and bid for a licence to provide such services on these networks and would have to fight competition in order to preserve its services, as had become the case with other ITV franchisees.

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.

Its main source of income is from revenue companies, mainly in the UK travel sector, who pay in order to advertise on its services on ITV, Channel 4, Sky and digital television as well as the website teletext. co. uk.

ITV plc attempted to buy out Disney's stake in GMTV following it gaining 75 % control, in order to secure 24-hours control of Channel 3 in England and Wales, eventually paying £ 18m for the remaining 25 % on 26 November 2009.

In May 2006 it began broadcasting the first terrestrial HDTV signals in the UK to a trial group of 450 London homes to test HD broadcasts by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five, in order to assess the viability and potential problems of future nationwide HD broadcasting.

Satellite channel The Vault began repeating 1991-92 and 1996-97 episodes from December 2006 on Saturday mornings, similar to the shows original timeslot on ITV, though not in chronological order.

After a lengthy battle with the ITC, a half-hearted ITV News at Ten was introduced ( hosted by McDonald ) in January 2001, although as part of the agreement, the bulletin was only shown at 22: 00 for 3 days a week in order to accommodate other programming.

The first ten novels ( in the order shown below ) were adapted by Anglia Television for transmission on the ITV network and starred Roy Marsden as Dalgliesh.

On 25 February 2009, ITV announced that News at Ten would begin to air on Friday nights from 13 March ( replacing the 23: 00 The Late News bulletin ), in order to give the programme a " consistent home at the heart of the schedule ".

ITV regions varied date and order.

Airdate is for ATV Midlands ITV regions varied date and order.

ITV regions varied date and order.

ITV regions varied date and order.

ITV regions varied date and order.

ITV regions varied date and order.