Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

The trilogy as a whole took third place in the BBC's Big Read poll in 2003.

Romana II also appears with Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor in the 2003 remake of Shada, an audio play produced by Big Finish for the BBC's Doctor Who website and accompanied by Macromedia Flash animations, and also in Neverland and Zagreus.

In a 2003 interview on the BBC's Breakfast with Frost, Hoon asserted that the UK was willing to use nuclear weapons against Iraqi forces " in the right circumstances.

In a 2003 interview with BBC's Top of the Pops, keyboardist David Ball asserted, " I think history has kind of shown that we did make the right choice 1981.

He has been the regular narrator for BBC's history programme Timewatch since 2003.

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 studio also made Ghosts of Albion ( 2003 ) for the BBC's first fully animated webcast.

In March 2003, Wax was one of the celebrity contestants on Comic Relief does Fame Academy, which was a spin-off from the BBC's Fame Academy with all proceeds donated to Comic Relief.

* BBC's future in May 2003

" Dyke set a target that by 2003, 10 % of the BBC's UK workforce and 4 % of management would be from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Heggessey and Jane Tranter commissioned a new version of the series in September 2003, after Heggessey had spent two years persuading the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, to abandon their attempts to make a feature film version of the programme and allow it instead to return to BBC One.

Kay also appeared at the BBC's televised charity event Comic Relief in 2003 and 2005, sharing the stage with Alan Partridge ( actor Steve Coogan ) in 2003.

In March 2003, Jonsson was a contestant on the BBC's Comic Relief does Fame Academy.

In 2003, Soul appeared ( as himself ) in the first series of the BBC's Little Britain.

Following the revamp of the BBC's political programming in early 2003 Neil has been the presenter of the BBC One weekly political roundup show, This Week, and co-presenter of Daily Politics which broadcasts every day that Parliament sits.

In 2003, he took part in the BBC's Fame Academy and took the stage name James Fox.

In 2003, she appeared in the BBC's re-telling of The Canterbury Tales alongside John Simm, Billie Piper and Julie Walters.

The book placed 89th on the BBC's 2003 list " The Big Read Top 100 ".

In 2003, The Den introduced a daily news programme for children, news2day, somewhat similar to the BBC's Newsround.

In 2003, he acted in the BBC's dramatised documentary Pompeii: The Last Day.

Childwall was also the home of Brookside until 2003, and the BBC's Grange Hill between 2003 and 2008.

Although McGann played the Doctor on television only once, he gave permission for his likeness to be used on the covers of the BBC's Eighth Doctor novels and he has reprised the role of the Eighth Doctor in an extensive series of audio plays by Big Finish Productions.

The various references in the television series have been listed at the BBC's Bad Wolf website ( along with many inaccurate references to folklore and mythology ; some are blatantly intentional, such as a " French folk song " that's a French translation of " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ", albeit one with an Easter Egg hidden inside ).

LWT, desperate to end the BBC's long-running ratings success on a Saturday night, offered Forsyth a chance to change channel to host The Big Night.

In addition to the BBC's own orchestras it also has broadcast commitments to the BBC Big Band, which is externally managed, and also broadcasts some works of the Ulster Orchestra, which it part funds.

* BBC's " Big Read ", an attempt to find the " Nation's Best-loved book ", ranked it number four.

Along with This Week, Weekend World, TV Eye, First Tuesday, The Big Story and The Cook Report-and the news-gathering of ITN-World in Action gave ITV a reputation for quality broadcast journalism to rival the BBC's output.

The name ' Big Flame ' came from a television play, The Big Flame ( 1969 ), written by Jim Allen and directed by Ken Loach for the BBC's Wednesday Play season.

She rose to fame while co-presenting The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 between 1992 and 1996, and also presented the BBC's Children in Need charity appeal from 1994 to 2004.

Although the continuity of the audio plays and the BBC's Eighth Doctor Adventures diverge sharply from each other, they both broadly appear to maintain continuity with the Virgin series ; Big Finish's early Bernice Summerfield works did not.

She went on to feature in over 30 TV shows, including The Big Breakfast, Hotel Babylon, Ice Warriors ; and in 2002 the co-presenting role alongside Joe Mace on the first series of the BBC's flagship children's program The Saturday Show.

Originally created as a one-off tie-in series by Channel 4 in association with the BBC's Comic Relief charity telethon, Celebrity Big Brother is now a full spin-off of Big Brother, formerly shown on Channel 4, S4C and internet live streaming and downloading, backed up with email and SMS text news reports to subscribers.

Hits such as " This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us ", Amateur Hour " and " Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth " led to many appearances on the BBC's flagship music show Top of the Pops.

In April 2003 Birdsong came 13th in the BBC's Big Read initiative which aimed to identify Britain's best loved novels.

33 on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 survey with the goal of finding the " nation's best-loved book.

Dell's most celebrated programme, The Dance Band Days, ran from 1969 ( initially-and perhaps ironically-on Radio 1, the BBC's " pop " channel, launched in 1967 as a replacement for the offshore pirate stations ) until 1995 and, in later years, did so in a sequence on Monday evenings with Dell's " other side ", The Big Band Sound.

In 2003, Katherine was ranked 95 in the BBC's Big Read survey of Britain's best-loved novels.

On 23 October 2009, Graham performed at the Birmingham Town Hall with the BBC's Big Band, to perform special arrangements of Gershwin songs, in a show entitled Gershwin and Soul.

ZZ9 was featured on a programme in the BBC's Big Read series, that saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy voted the fourth best loved book in Britain.

In March 2007, a vulnerability was exposed in the BBC's " Most Emailed " and " Most Read " news sections which could allow for the popularity of a news article to be exaggerated and thus highlight it to other website visitors.

During the 1970s, he wrote the series The Ghosts of Motley Hall ( 1976 – 78 ), Dick Turpin ( 1979 – 82 ), parts of the series The Famous Five and Doctor Snuggles and seventeen episodes of The Adventures of Black Beauty for ITV companies ; and Cloudburst, The Boy from Space and The King's Dragon as part of BBC's Look and Read ( 1967 – 2004 ) programme for schools, some episodes of which he also presented.

Moving to radio comedy she was a regular performer in the BBC's I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again ( with John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and David Hatch ), and a member of the panel in the very first edition of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.