Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.

BBC Text pioneered an early form of " on-demand " interactive television, called Enhanced TV.

Similarly, BBC interactive television services all offered a horizontal i-bar along the bottom of television screens, with four colour-coded interactions linked to the four colour buttons on TV remote controls.

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

Generally, BBC Red Button offers text and video based services, as well as enhanced television programmes which offer extra information, video or quizzes.

BBC News ( also referred to as the BBC News Channel ) is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom.

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

Since then, with several relaunches, an increase in funding and resources from the BBC and improvements in digital television technology, the channel has been able to diversify content, with two minute looped bulletins available to view via BBC Red Button, BBC News Online and the BBC's mobile website, alongside individual weather and sport bulletins.

BBC News 24 was originally available only to analogue cable television subscribers.

A further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

From 1984 to 1992, the BBC adapted all of the original Miss Marple novels as a series titled Miss Marple.

* Aquila ( TV series ), a BBC TV production for children based on the Norriss book

In 1989, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first of three series based on Morton's work.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC One period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.

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

In 1999 the series came first place in a BBC poll selecting the nation's favourite children's show.

As well as starring in Coronation Street and occasional Red Dwarf series, Charles continues to host his Funk and Soul Show on BBC radio, and performs DJ sets at numerous clubs and festivals nationally.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

In 1987, Charles provided the poem track used for the opening credits of the BBC series The Marksman, which he also acted in, and the track is included on the album " The Marksman: Music from the BBC TV series ".

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

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.

* Conspiracies ( TV series ), a series airing on BBC and TechTV in 2003

In 2008, he presented a reality TV talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC entitled Maestro, starring eight celebrities who are " famous amateurs with a passion for classical music.

He also hosted six series of Clive Anderson's Chat Room on BBC Radio 2 from 2004 – 2009.

* The 1981 BBC series The Borgias, starring Oliver Cotton as Cesare Borgia.

* Clone ( TV series ), a 2008 BBC comedy series

* The Human Animal ( 1994 ) — book and BBC documentary TV series

Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for broadcast on BBC1.

The BBC released music and sound effects from the series, and several companies made Blake's 7 toys and models.

Blake's 7 is a science fiction television series that was created by Terry Nation and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ).

The BBC had planned to conclude Blake's 7 at the end of its third series, but a further series was unexpectedly commissioned.

Series creator Terry Nation pitched Blake's 7 to the BBC as " The Dirty Dozen in space ", a reference to the 1967 Robert Aldrich film in which a disparate and disorganised group of convicts are sent on a suicide mission during World War II.

Terry Nation had the idea for Blake's 7 in a moment of inspiration during a pitch meeting with Ronnie Marsh, a BBC drama executive.

The special sounds for Blake's 7 were provided by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Richard Yeoman-Clark and Elizabeth Parker.

He added " Blake's 7s triumph lay in its vivid characters, its tight, pacey plots and its satisfying realism ... For arguably the first time since the 1950s Quatermass serials, the BBC had created a popular sci-fi / fantasy show along adult lines.

In 2006 the BBC produced a 30-minute documentary The Cult of ... Blake's 7 that was first broadcast on 12 December on BBC Four, as part of a Science Fiction Britannia series.

In 1998 Blake's 7 returned to the BBC on the radio.

The Blake's 7 theme was also released on an album BBC Space Themes, and Liberator was featured on the album sleeve.

From 1991 BBC Video released Blake's 7 in episodic order on 26 VHS cassettes with two episodes per tape.

Paul Darrow ( born Paul Valentine Birkby on 2 May 1941 ) is an English actor best known for his portrayal of Kerr Avon in the BBC science fiction television series Blake's 7.

In July 2011 Big Finish obtained a licence to produce audiobooks and novels based on the BBC television series Blake's 7.

In 1967, BBC Radio 4 aired a popular series of Sexton Blake radio adventures starring William Franklyn as Blake, David Gregory as Tinker and Heather Chasen as Blake's secretary, Paula Dane.

Roberts subsequently worked on the BBC series Blake's 7, in which the shelter was used to for the interior of the titular artificial planet in the 1980 story Ultraworld, although the episode itself was directed by Vere Lorrimer.

in the 1970s, and Miss Pendragon was played by Jacqueline Pearce, who was well known for her role as the villainous Servalan in the late 1970s / early 80s BBC science-fiction series Blake's 7, and known by Cant from working with her on the serial Moondial.

The show's unofficial fan consultant, Ian Levine, had seen Hurndall in Blake's 7, another BBC science fiction series, and suggested him to the producers as a possible replacement.

* Redemption, the fourteenth episode of the BBC television series Blake's 7

Also, Vila Restal in the BBC science fiction television program Blake's 7 mixed his skills as a thief with such tricks.

He was working at the time on " Hostage ", an episode of the BBC science-fiction series Blake's 7.

* Zen and Orac are both from the BBC television series Blake's 7.

He also worked as a producer, overseeing the first three seasons of another popular BBC science-fiction series, Blake's 7, during the late 1970s and early 80s.