On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

Anderson moved to the BBC in 1996 and the show's name changed to Clive Anderson All Talk and was aired on BBC One.

The Doctor was loomed in the House of Lungbarrow in the mountains of South Gallifrey, but unique among the house's cousins he has a belly button ( Lungbarrow suggests this is because he is a re-incarnation of The Other, but later BBC books featuring the Eighth Doctor suggest he actually has a Gallifreyan father and human mother as stated in the 1996 telemovie ).

Dobbs's novel was also dramatised for radio for BBC World Service in 1996, by Neville Teller, and had two television sequels ( To Play the King and The Final Cut ).

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

* Sam Peckinpah has been the subject of two documentaries including the BBC production Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron ( 1992 ), directed by Paul Joyce, and The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage ( 1996 ) directed by Paul Seydor.

In 1996, the BBC applied to the UK Patent Office to register the TARDIS as a trademark.

Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man ( 1990 ), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage ( 1998 ) ( with Tom Courtenay ), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996 and 1997.

The story of Caroline's marriage to George and her battle to be recognized as queen consort served as the basis for the 1996 BBC docudrama A Royal Scandal with Susan Lynch as Caroline and Richard E. Grant as George IV.

For 22 years, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue which he joined as a regular team member from the third series in 1974, and continued until death in 1996.

Series one, two, and three aired on the BBC from 1992 to 1995, followed by a series finale in the form of a two-part television movie entitled The Last Shout in 1996.

The Crow Road was adapted for television by Bryan Elsley for the BBC in 1996.

After Lighthill received a green-light from BBC Radio in 1996, he commissioned a script from Tony Mulholland, resulting in a new, two-part adaptation.

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two.

Neverwhere was first broadcast on BBC Two from September 12, 1996.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

* A radio adaptation of the film was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 13 January 1996 starring Edward Petherbridge and Margot Boyd.

Sir Alec Guinness presented him with a lifetime achievement honour at the inaugural British Comedy Awards in 1990, while he received another such honour at the BBC Centenary Programme in 1996.

( Parkinson BBC1 09 / 11 / 74 & BBC Audiobooks ( 5 February 1996 ))

Hill's 1996 world championship earned him his second BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Award, making him one of only three people to receive the award twice – the others being boxer Henry Cooper and Mansell.

Over a decade later Lumley's career was boosted by her portrayal of the louche, solipsistic and frequently drunken fashion director Patsy Stone, companion to Jennifer Saunders ' Edina Monsoon in the BBC comedy television series Absolutely Fabulous ( 1992 – 1996 ), ( 2001 – 2004 ), and ( 2011 – 2012 ).

Category: Television channels and stations established in 1996

The director also helmed two films for Turner Network Television in 1996 and 1997, Andersonville and George Wallace, that were highly praised.

The series won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama three times ( 1994, 1996, and 1997 ), and Duchovny and Anderson received multiple award nominations for their performances.

* The Paley Center for Media, formerly The Museum of Television & Radio, Beverly Hills, California, 1996

* Famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman directed the Bacchae three times: as an opera ( 1991 ) for the Royal Swedish Opera, as a TV-film ( 1993 ) for Sveriges Television and as a staged play ( 1996 ) for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

The show was produced by The Garth Ancier Company and was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television Distribution ( 1993 – 1996 ), then by Columbia TriStar Television Distribution ( 1996 – 2001 ), Columbia TriStar Domestic Television Distribution ( 2001 – 2002 ), and Sony Pictures Television Distribution ( 2002 – 2004 ).

A combination of factors led to the collapse of Saturday morning cartoons ; some include the near concurrent entries of Cartoon Network, Fox Kids and Nickelodeon ( with its Nicktoons ) into the animated market in 1992 with cartoons in non-traditional time slots, the implementation of the Children's Television Act educational television mandate in 1996, and a general erosion of sponsorship base and viewership for broadcast programs.

ACT's efforts to curb these trends resulted in the Children's Television Act, enacted in 1990 and strictly enforced by the FCC starting in 1996.

From 1976 to 1996 Esholt was used for the outside location shots for the Yorkshire Television drama series Emmerdale Farm later Emmerdale.

Animation and originally aired on The WB Television Network from September 6, 1996 to February 12, 2000.

* November 23 – Doctor Who premieres on BBC Television ( 1963 – 1989, 1996, 2005 – present ).

* Television: A FEAST FOR POPULAR CULTURE VULTURES-James Rampton, The Independent ( 1996 )

Broadcast to critical praise, Cybill was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards throughout its run and awarded the 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.

Baranski also received an American Comedy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Viewers for Quality Television Award for her portrayal, while Shepherd was awarded the 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

* Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama for Melrose Place ( 1996 ) ( Nominated )

In 1996, the series was adapted into the animated feature film Beavis and Butt-head Do America.

This was their second, having also had one in 1996, which ran for two series on CBBC, The Children's Channel, and Fox Kids.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

The company developed the inaugural entry in its Resident Evil survival horror series in 1996.

Even the United States Postal Service got into the act, issuing a series of commemorative stamps marking the comic-strip centennial in 1996.

Starting in 1996, Guest began writing, directing and acting in his own series of heavily improvised films.

Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven, a regular on the 1990 – 1991 NBC series American Dreamer, guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a supporting role in the short-lived 1996 – 1997 sitcom Pearl, which starred Rhea Perlman.

CuteFTP is a series of FTP ( file transfer ) client applications developed by GlobalSCAPE since 1996, with both a Windows-based or Mac-based interface and made for both home and professional use.

In August 1996, San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb published a series titled Dark Alliance, alleging that the contras contributed to the rise of crack cocaine in California.

These problems led to a series of crises in the 1990s, which nearly led to the election of Yeltsin's Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov, in the 1996 presidential election.

*** Dennis the Menace ( 1996 TV series ), an animated television series based on the Beano comic strip, known internationally as Dennis and Gnasher.

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* Rhapsody on a Theme by Clement Marot ( ISBN 0-910-15311-6 ) ( 1995, published 1996 ; volume 16 of series The Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values )

* In December 1996, the PBS series, American Masters, aired a special on the life of Danny Kaye.

This development was further strengthened by the establishment ( in 1996 ) of a series of conferences on the Evolution of Language ( now known as " Evolang "), promoting a scientific, multidisciplinary approach to the issue, and interest from major academic publishers ( e. g., the Studies in the Evolution of Language series has been appearing with Oxford University Press since 2001 ) and scientific journals.

In 1996 Action Concept engaged him for the role he has played successfully up to now: Semir Gerkhan in the German television series " Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei ".

The series began as an open specification, then tyres were standardized from 1986 onwards, followed by engines and chassis in 1996.

The series ran for forty-nine half-hour episodes, beginning on April 7, 1995 and ending on March 29, 1996.

After the series ended, two OVAs, compiling various scenes from the series along with a few minutes of new footage, were released in 1996 as Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor I, II and III.