BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

, Mr. T is presenting a clip show on BBC Three named World's Craziest Fools.

Three series of A Year at Kew were filmed in the gardens for BBC television and released on DVD, including a box set of all three series.

** BBC Choice closes for the final time at 12: 30 a. m., being replaced with BBC Three at 7 p. m.

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

The BBC has also begun using their digital channels BBC Three and BBC Four to build a following for off-beat series like The Thick of It.

The Abbey was also used on 19 March 2011 for the live BBC Three event Frankenstein's Wedding ... Live in Leeds.

The recording was broadcast live on the Comic Relief website at about 9: 30am, and, the edited compilation shows for the event, shown between 13 – 17 March on BBC Three.

Three series were broadcast on BBC Radio 2 between 1997 and 1999.

The compositions " Turquoise Hexagon Sun ", " Aquarius ", and " Sixtyniner " were used in the dark humour animated series Monkey Dust, which aired on BBC Three from 2003-2005.

Three hundred phone lines were manned by the BBC, so that members of the public could make donations using their credit cards.

He later appeared in the BBC Three comedy series Clone as Dr. Victor Blenkinsop also starring Stuart McLoughlin and Mark Gatiss.

BBC documentation shows that " Sheila " and two versions of " Three Cool Cats " were recorded and never broadcast, but the tapes were likely reused or discarded, a fate shared by some of The Beatles ' studio session tapes prior to late 1963.

Buxton also appeared in the BBC Three comedy sketch show Rush Hour, which premièred on 19 March 2007.

This was broadcast as MeeBOX on BBC Three in June 2008, but a full series was not commissioned.

They include Joe following the making of Little Britain series 2, which was screened on BBC Three and is included on the Little Britain Series 2 DVD ; a video diary of his brief cameo as a zombie, which appears on the UK Shaun of the Dead DVD ; and ' Hot Fuzz ': The Fuzzball Rally, where he followed his friends and collaborators, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg on the US press tour for their film, Hot Fuzz.

* BBC Three broadcast a modern musical version called Manchester Passion in 2006.

The fourth series was first broadcast on BBC Three in May and June 2004, although the six episodes were repeated on BBC Two a few months later.

In 2003, Buxton and Cornish presented Adam and Joe Go Tokyo, a Tokyo-based magazine show covering Japanese pop culture for BBC Three and BBC One.

In 2004, the series came tenth in a 2004 BBC poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ".

In 2004, One Foot in the Grave came tenth in a BBC poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom " with 31, 410 votes.

* BBC Britain's Best Sitcom

The show came 14th in a high-profile 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom, and was praised for portraying older people in a non-stereotypical, positive, and active manner.

In 2008, Bottom came in at number 45 in a poll to determine " Britain's Best Sitcom " by the BBC.

Yes Minister came sixth in a 2004 BBC poll to find ' Britain's Best Sitcom '.

Its original success has been reinforced by its regular repetition worldwide ( PBS in the US ; BBC One and Gold in the UK ) and when, in 2004, the sitcom was ranked 12th in the countdown of Britain's Best Sitcom.

It was voted Britain's Best Sitcom in a 2004 BBC poll.

In 2004 the BBC conducted a nationwide poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ".

After championing Yes Minister on the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom, Iannucci devised, directed and was chief writer of The Thick of It, a political satire-cum-farce for BBC Four.

Britain's Best Sitcom was a poll conducted in 2004 by the BBC, to identify the United Kingdom's best sitcom.

The term came to widespread public knowledge in 1986 when it was used in the BBC Sitcom Yes Minister, episode " One Of Us ".

In the BBC Sitcom, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, Bob Ferris and his wife Thelma purchase an Ashtons home in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Bilton's final role was that of Basil Makepeace in the BBC Sitcom Waiting for God, when filming began in 1990 he was already aged 71.

* Mongrels ( TV series ), a BBC Three puppet sitcom

He recently made a cameo on the BBC Three series Mongrels.

Kaye also plays the voice of Vincent on the BBC comedy Mongrels.

In 2010 Biggins played God in the BBC adult puppet comedy Mongrels.

Later in 2011, Will had a short guest starring role on the BBC Three comedy, Mongrels, in the final episode.

* Monsieur Alfonse, character in the BBC sitcom Allo ' Allo!

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

* The main character in the BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play That Man Attlee.

* Cleopatra ( Rome character ), in the HBO / BBC television series Rome

He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show ( 1951 – 60 ).

Ian Carmichael, who played the part of Wimsey in the BBC Television series adaptation and studied the character and the books thoroughly, said that the character was Sayers ' conception of the ' ideal man ', based in part on her earlier romantic misfortunes.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

* The HBO / BBC TV series Rome ( see Mark Antony ( character )) ( played by James Purefoy )

* Manu ( River City ), a character on a BBC Scotland soap opera

The Sontarans have also appeared as a character in the PC game Destiny of the Doctors released on 5 December 1997, by BBC Multimedia.

Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.

Herrick, a fictional character from BBC Three's Being Human, quotes the play's epilogue during his final soliloquy:

Baron Cohen has stated that BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood was an influence on the development of his character – Westwood hosts Radio 1's Rap Show and speaks in a faux Multicultural London English and Hip-Hop dialect.

* In the 2012 BBC Comedy series " Citizen Khan " the main character, Mr Khan, ignored a ' n email from a fellow Mosque member, originally from Africa, informing Mosque members about a charity fundraiser thinking it was the Nigerian email scam.

Pertwee is best known for a series of famous roles, firstly his 18-year stint on BBC Radio as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark, secondly his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974 and thirdly as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge.

He is best known as the main character Derek " Del Boy " Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows and as Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992.

In the BBC television series Blake's 7, the computer character Slave was described by Peter Tuddenham, who voiced it, as "... a Uriah Heep type of character ...."

The distinctive appearance of Triceratops has led to them being frequently depicted in films, computer games and documentaries, including the Don Bluth film The Land Before Time, which featured a young Triceratops as a main character, the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1999 BBC television documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.

* Trigger ( Only Fools and Horses ), a fictional character from the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses

Rambling Syd Rumpo was a folk singer character, played by the English comedian and actor, Kenneth Williams, originally in the 1960s BBC Radio comedy series, Round the Horne.

Notable acting roles include the lead in the film Wilde, Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, the titular character in the the television series Kingdom, a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the crime series Bones and as Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V for Vendetta.