In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

ITV's most successful sitcom of this period was probably The Army Game ( 1957 – 61 ), featuring some of the comedians who would soon appear in the Carry On film series.

The most notable satirical comedies are the ground-breaking 1960s series That Was The Week That Was and ITV's controversial puppet show Spitting Image.

From 1955 Taylor was a panellist on ITV's rival discussion programme Free Speech, where he remained until the series ended in 1961.

In 2001 the railway was featured in the finale of ITV's comedy series The Grimleys, named The Grimley Curse, and then in 2007 on the finale of BBC One's award-winning drama series Life on Mars.

In 2003, he starred in and also directed ITV's comedy-drama series fortysomething ( in one episode of which Stephen Fry appears ).

McGuigan appeared in the third series of ITV's Hell's Kitchen in September 2007, where he was eventually crowned the winner after winning the public vote.

* Since 2000 he has been presenting ITV's series Water World, a programme dedicated to ' the people who live and work on the canals of the Midlands '.

Wilton has also appeared on television as Barbara Poole, the mother of a missing woman, in the BBC television drama series Five Days in 2005 ; and in ITV's drama Half Broken Things ( October 2007 ) and the BBC production of The Passion ( Easter 2008 ).

He has performed in many audio plays, starring in the Doctor Who " Unbound " play Sympathy for the Devil ( 2003 ) as an alternative version of the Doctor, and in a series of plays based on ITV's Sapphire & Steel as Steel, both for Big Finish Productions.

Simon Nye has stated that ITV picked up the series partly because Enfield had agreed to star in it, and his departure influenced ITV's decision to cancel the show after just two series, when audience figures were poor.

Tiswas returned to the screens in November 1979 for its sixth series, as part of ITV's comeback ; this was directly referenced in the first edition of the new series, when the " Welcome Home To ITV " jingle was played to usher the programme in and out of the advert breaks, albeit replacing the vocals by the Mike Sammes Singers with a group of deliberately out-of-tune children.

Sullivan believed the key factor in it being accepted was the success of ITV's new drama, Minder, a series with a similar premise and also set in modern-day London.

ITV's plans for a new series were scrapped in 2006 after a dispute over Ant & Dec puppets.

Neither did it neglect other responsibilities: it established the long-running Sunday lunchtime political series Weekend World and ITV's most famous arts programmes Aquarius, and its replacement The South Bank Show ( cancelled by ITV after 30 years ).

Major programmes on LWT included most of ITV's weekend line-up, which included gameshows like Friday night favourite Play Your Cards Right, Saturday night favourites Punchlines, Blind Date, and Gladiators, and long-running Sunday night drama series London's Burning.

Brian Park, famous for his overhaul of ITV's Coronation Street, which included the controversial writing-out of several long standing characters including Derek Wilton, was appointed as Family Affairs new producer and was tasked with remodelling the series.

* The castle and its tunnels served as locations in 2009 for the episode The Clocks in ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot series with David Suchet.

On the DVD commentary for ITV's Robin of Sherwood television series, which ran from 1983 to 1986, writer and creator Richard Carpenter explains that the stunt co-ordinator, Terry Walsh from the Robin of Sherwood series, was hired on to do stunt work for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

His other television roles include: Hagath in the episode " Business as Usual " in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ; Stilgar in the 2003 miniseries Children of Dune ; a gangster ( Mr Wiltshire ) in episode 8 of the BBC's Hotel Babylon series ; a lawyer ( Freddie Eccles ) in an episode of ITV's Marple entitled By the Pricking of My Thumbs ; and Adolf Hitler in the mini-series War and Remembrance, role he originally baulked at taking, primarily on moral grounds ; he later relented.

The final of the first series of Pop Idol in February 2002 received the highest-ever one-night vote for a UK TV show, making the show one of ITV's most profitable.

The Last Unicorn is owned by ITV Global Entertainment Ltd., with Lionsgate handling video distribution under ITV's license.

He starred in ITV's The Fattest Man in Britain in December 2009 and has made several guest appearances as ' Lenny ' on ' Last of the Summer Wine '.

Other noted appearances include Dandelion Dead ( 1994 ), A Royal Scandal ( 1996 ), The Last Contract ( Sista Kontraktet, 1998 ) a Swedish film about the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme, Paul Abbott's Alibi in 2003, Andrew Davies ' dramatisation of Falling in 2005, ITV's three-part drama series Mobile ( 2007 ) and Channel 4's phone hacking comedy Hacks ( 2012 ).

These have included the BBC's Juliet Bravo and The Chinese Detective during the 1980s and ITV's The Knock in the 1990s.

She has appeared in the " Observation " segment about Detective Samantha Smith made for the 1990 series of The Krypton Factor, the two-part drama serial The Missing Postman as WPC Rachel McMahon, the BBC drama Real Women from 1997 – 98, as Hetty in ITV's Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married ( 1999 ), and in BBC drama Casualty in 2003 as Jim Brodie's wife, Elizabeth.

In late 2005, ITV's Saturday morning show Ministry of Mayhem had a special edition featuring presenters from past Saturday morning shows, including Tiswas.

Wirksworth was the prime location of ITV's Sweet Medicine ( 2003 ), as well as featuring as an occasional location in its forerunner Peak Practice.

These include ITV's Cosmo And Thingy, set in prehistoric times featuring a cast of cavemen and cavewomen, and Football Crazy ( also for ITV ) which was a children's sitcom about the football team Wormwood Rovers.

In 2005, she became host of ITV's Saturday morning music show CD: UK, along with Myleene Klass and Johny Pitts, starting on 17 September with a programme featuring Laverne interviewing Sir Paul McCartney.

The programme was one of ITV's most watched, reaching its biggest audience in January 1960 while Bruce Forsyth was the host, in an edition featuring Cliff Richard and The Shadows, watched by more than 20 million people.

McLean started in such roles as Eddie Davies in ITV's Customs drama The Knock, and moved to small roles such as that of a police chief in The Fifth Element, his most acclaimed role being in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, playing the part of ' Barry The Baptist '.

Later, Jones played DC Rachel Bailey in ITV's new six-part detective series, Scott & Bailey, alongside Lesley Sharp, who plays DC Janet Scott.

In December 2009, Gates took part in ITV's All Star Family Fortunes, along with wife Suzanne, mum Wendy, sister Nicola and best friend Matt, and won £ 30, 000 for the Bobby Moore Fund for bowel cancer.

In August 2009, he appeared in ITV's Wuthering Heights, playing the part of Heathcliff, the classic love character who falls in love with his childhood friend Cathy ( played by Charlotte Riley ), " the love that destroyed everything it touched ".

The house and grounds have been used as filming locations for productions including ITV's Lewis ( episode The Dead of Winter ).

The novel was adapted again, this time by Russell Lewis for the fifth series of ITV's Agatha Christie's Marple starring Julia McKenzie in 2010.

Until it was moved to London ( and merged with the London News Network's operations to form ITV Sport Productions ), Central's sport department, under the leadership of Gary Newbon ( who also occasionally appeared on-screen as a reporter and presenter ), produced nearly all of ITV's football coverage ( from FA Cup to UEFA Champions ' League ).

This later paved the way for the eventual downgrading of all of ITV's regional identities, though the names were never fully dropped as their news programmes Central News and Westcountry Live continued, and eventually returned to the air ( albeit as ITV1 Central and ITV1 Westcountry ) in 2004.

It has been claimed that the series was axed partially because Anglia was one of ITV's smaller companies, with relatively little power within network negotiations ; some have claimed that a lingering resentment over this was the reason why Anglia was still showing Emmerdale Farm out of peaktime after all other regions had moved it into the peak hours ( also, Anglia may have resented the fact that Yorkshire Television, makers of that series, had replaced it as the company broadcasting from the Belmont transmitting station ).

ITV's other flagship soap opera Crossroads saw a marked increase in viewers at this time, as its established cast, such as Meg Richardson ( Noele Gordon ), grew in popularity.

For 50 years, Coronation Street has remained at the centre of ITV's prime time schedule.

Conceived as ITV's answer to Doctor Who, Lumley played a mysterious elemental being (" Sapphire ") who, with her collaborator, " Steel ", dealt with breaches in the fabric of time.

The series was notable for using a range of leading British actors, as well as many up-and-coming performers before they hit the big time ; at its peak was one of ITV's biggest ratings winners.

In early 1997 it was claimed on ITV's World in Action that the original leader of Combat 18 Charlie Sargent, who at the time was on remand for the murder of fellow C18 member Chris Castle, had acted as a paid informant for the police, although no evidence for this allegation was provided.

Derek Batey Border TV's Assistant Controller of Programmes became the frontman for one of ITV's most popular daytime quiz shows of the 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. and Mrs. ( A separate version of Mr. and Mrs. was also produced by HTV at the same time.

That same year they returned to football with ITV's Feet First starring Jonathan Barlow as Terry Prince, a local footballer given the chance to hit the big time.

During the 1990s, Children's BBC began to be referred to informally on-air as ' CBBC ' ( this occurred at around the same time that ITV's rival service " Children's ITV " began to be referred to as CITV in a similar manner ).

On 6 December 2010, Alexander spoke by telephone to ITV's This Morning to discuss her time on Coronation Street on the day of the 50th anniversary episode of the latter drama.

Quickshot's UK version of the Supervision was heavily featured for a time on ITV's gaming show Bad Influence!

After five series the show was abruptly cancelled by Simon Shaps, who was ITV's director of programmes at the time.

The name was a satirical reference to ITV's This Morning which was at the time popularly referred to as This Morning with Richard and Judy.

That was the last time the show was broadcast on ITV's main station.

The ITV's latest channel, ITV4, was launched at the same time, also as a free-to-air service.

Her first television role was as Anna Fitzgerald in ITV's 1930s series Shabby Tiger ( 1974 ), she appeared naked in the first couple of episodes which was quite rare and considered rather scandalous at the time.

Its creation was thought by many to be the BBC's response to the growing success of ITV's Tiswas-although at the time the latter was only broadcast in the ATV region in the Midlands and had yet to be taken up by other ITV franchises around the country.

The couple became, for a short time, the resident gardening experts on ITV's This Morning, but the timing was not good: within a few weeks the show was struck by the sex scandal that engulfed presenter John Leslie, and suddenly the couple's ' Naked Gardeners ' label did not fit.

He contributed to Granada TV's coverage of Roses Cricket throughout his time there and even described live netball for ITV's World Of Sport.