The company has had several disputes with ITV plc in recent years over network programming.

Despite STV's explanation of expense, ITV plc were angered by the decision, as a recent schedule change had made The Bill central to their programming, and broadcast the programmes on ITV3 as well to ensure Scottish viewers could see the programmes.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

Commercial station Channel 4 has been more successful than ITV with situation comedies in recent years.

In recent years, Lumley has worked extensively with ITV, and in 2010 Lumley was executive producer and presenter of Joanna Lumley's Nile, where she journeys down the Nile from source to sea, for ITV.

In recent years, Gibb sang the vocals to the opening titles to the British ITV show The Dame Edna Treatment.

On 29 October 2005, Family Fortunes returned as the " grand final " of Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon, a series of revivals of former popular ITV game shows shown to mark the channel's 50th anniversary, and hosted by its most ubiquitous presenters of recent years.

Channel's most recent significant on-screen contribution to the ITV network was the gameshow Simply the Best ( 2004 ) which was produced in Jersey as a co-production between Channel and London-based Carlton Television.

Presenters Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood took the opportunity to praise Matthew, as they are fans of Tiswas, and also to dispel recent tabloid rumours of Dick and Dom resurrecting Tiswas on ITV.

In recent years, changes in rules concerning media ownership enabled Carlton to buy out many of the other ITV stations, including Central Independent Television, Westcountry, and part of HTV ( via Granada ), as well as the rights to the archives of ITC Entertainment and its former sister company ATV, and the Rank film archive.

Two of its more recent sitcoms found more success when they transferred away from ITV – Men Behaving Badly, which moved to the BBC in 1994 and Is It Legal ?, which moved to Channel 4 in 1997.

Broadcasting in the UK has historically been dominated by the state-run British Broadcasting Corporation or BBC, although independent radio and television ( ITV, Channel 4, Five ) and satellite broadcasters ( especially BSkyB which has over 10 million subscribers ) have become more important in recent years.

The ITV television drama The Royal and its recent spin-off series, The Royal Today, are filmed in the area.

In Britain ( where cable television, although already having a notable number of subscribers, had not yet developed as much as in Central and Northern Europe ), market research gave it a 13 % audience share in cable homes, surpassing both BBC2 and Channel 4 in those homes, with its children's programming ( the station's then most successful field ) increasing to a share of 22. 4 % ( similar to the programmes seen on both Children's BBC and Children's ITV ) ( although in more recent years Sky1's popularity has fallen and the current viewing shares are below 1 %).

The resumed talks had followed shortly after both Virgin and BSkyB had launched appeals against a recent Competition Appeal Tribunal ruling on BSkyB's 17. 9 % stake in ITV plc.

Davies and Red's founder Nicola Shindler took the project to the BBC, who quickly turned it down ; it found a home on ITV, a channel that had gained a reputation for producing mainstream, unchallenging, " middle-of-the-road " drama in recent years.

In recent years though, and especially since the formation of ITV plc, the need for studio space has become unnecessary.

A recent version of this piece was recorded by the girl choristers that make up the group " All Angels "; the words set to the music from the ITV series Brideshead Revisited by Geoffrey Burgon.

However, in more recent years, the original version has been shown ( on ITV, a commercial channel ), usually with the stronger language edited out, often quite awkwardly and noticeably.

Birtwistle and Davies then offered the first three scripts to ITV in late 1986 to build on the guaranteed BBC audience, but the recent TV adaptation led to a delay.

Videoguard has been used by the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 to restrict non-UK viewing, although in recent years these broadcasters have moved to broadcasting FTA on the more geographically restricted footprint of the Astra 2D satellite which is mainly, although not entirely, focused on the UK and Ireland.

In recent years, she has enjoyed some success with a local ITV Meridian series, River Walks, in which she walks along various rivers in Southern England, visiting landmarks and attractions along the way, as well as meeting people who live and work on the rivers.

The flagship ITV News at Ten has won numerous BAFTA awards, the most recent in June 2010.

In recent years, Palin has written and presented occasional documentary programmes on artists that interest him.

He co-directed The James Dean Story ( 1957 ), a documentary rushed into theaters to capitalize on the actor's recent death and marketed to his emerging cult following.

No Maps on My Taps, the Emmy award winning PBS documentary of 1979, helped begin the recent revival of tap dance.

His most recent appearance was on June 25, 2007 when he appeared wearing a mini-turban strapped to his head to accompany a joke about his own fictional documentary titled An Unappealing Hunch ( a wordplay of An Inconvenient Truth ).

He also appears in the recent anti-fur documentary " Skin Trade.

Historians and archaeologists continue to develop our understanding of British castles, while vigorous academic debates in recent years have questioned the interpretation of physical and documentary material surrounding their original construction and use.

Although it was long believed that Ramesses III's body showed no obvious wounds, a recent examination of the mummy by a German forensic team, televised in the documentary Rameses on the Science Channel in 2011, showed excess bandages around the neck.

As a result, a recent documentary series from the BBC entitled ' Trawlermen '

Although there is no hard evidence to support the reality of the Feuerball drone, this theory has been taken up by other aviation / ufology authors, and has even been cited as the most likely explanation for the phenomena in at least one recent television documentary on Nazi secret weapons.

Perle states this in the recent PBS documentary series " America At A Crossroads ", and refers to President Bush's 9 / 11 speech in which Bush stated: " We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.

Black Thought made an appearance in the film Love Rome as Tariq Trotter, and Questlove currently appears in the recent documentary movie about TBC Brass Band called From the Mouthpiece on Back, which lists The Roots as one of the executive producers of the movie.

The Crystal Method's most recent track " I'm Not Leaving ," featured a collaboration with Motown's Martha Reeves for the Re: Generation Music Project documentary.

* A documentary, Something Ventured, chronicled the recent history of American technology venture capitalists.

These allegations have also been explored in the recent documentary film Secrets of the Tribe by Brazilian director José Padilha and in a peer-reviewed publication in the journal Human Nature by Alice Dreger, an historian of medicine and science, and an outsider to the debate, who concluded that Tierney's claims were " baseless and sensationalistic charges ".

The most recent DIVA TV-genre video program documenting the history and activism of ACT UP ( New York ) is the feature-length documentary: " Fight Back, Fight AIDS: 15 Years of ACT UP " ( 2002 ), screened at the Berlin Film Festival and exhibited worldwide.

He was the subject of an ABC television documentary called Difficult Pleasure directed by Don Featherstone in 1989, which showed him talking about many of his main works, and his recent works such as ones done on a month long trip to Paris, one of his last overseas trips.

His recent films include As White as in Snow ( Så vit som en snö, 2001 ), based on the life of Swedish aviatrix Elsa Andersson, a documentary called Presence ( Närvarande, 2003 ), and his latest film Everlasting Moments ( Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick, 2008 ).

Excerpts of his diary are featured in most recent historical documentary film called A Film Unfinished.

His most recent film was Rittenhouse Square ( 2005 ), a documentary capturing life in a Philadelphia park.

In recent years, the network has moved from that style of programming to focusing solely on live news programs and documentary programs, including The Passionate Eye and Rough Cuts, both formerly hosted by Michaëlle Jean, and Politics, a political affairs program which was hosted by Don Newman and aired twice daily.

Their purpose and full extent remains unknown, but they have been under investigation in recent years by at least one local group and a documentary has been made.

In recent years, there has been a cultural resurgence in Canada's aforementioned documentary stream.

The recent documentary Tapped argues against the bottled water industry, asserting that tap water is healthier, more environmentally sustainable, and more ecologically sound than bottled water.

Many of the views expressed are shared by political writers like Noam Chomsky in his book Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance and a recent BBC documentary called The Power of Nightmares -- all of which sharply criticise the neo-conservative movement in the U. S.