Category: Television programs based on plays

The film was first aired on Television New Zealand's channel TV ONE in a time slot usually dedicated to plays and mini-series, but was billed and introduced as a serious documentary.

* March 4 – The BBC Television Service broadcasts one of the first plays to be written especially for television, Condemned To Be Shot by R. E. J. Brooke.

* Tracey Hoyt-actress who plays Aurora Farqueson on the CBC Television series The Tournament

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a set of television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.

Television in the 1950s offered many actors the opportunity to appear in plays broadcast live.

Television dramas were usually adaptations of stage plays and invariably about the upper classes.

An alumnus of both The Second City, Toronto and the sketch comedy series Second City Television, Levy often plays unusual supporting characters with nerdish streaks.

The series was broadcast shortly after the BBC Television Shakespeare productions of Shakespeare's four plays about the Wars of the Roses, the three-part Henry VI plays, followed by Richard III, which was first shown on 23 January 1983.

* A instrumental version plays in the 10th episode of School House airing in 1949 on DuMont Television Network.

There were also TV adaptations of his stage plays Hitting Town ( 1976 – Thames Television / ITV Play for Britain ) and City Sugar ( 1978 – Scottish Television / ITV The Sunday Drama ).

Delaney currently plays Claudia Joy Holden on the Lifetime Television series, Army Wives.

He acted as magic consultant for many plays, opera, ballets and TV shows including David Nixon's Magic Box, The David Nixon Magic Show for Thames Television and The Paul Daniels Magic Show for the BBC.

He began writing for BBC Television in 1958, beginning with the play Incident at Echo Six, and he wrote four further plays for the BBC over the following three years, before in 1961 creating his first series, Storyboard, a six-part anthology series that consisted both of original scripts and adaptations.

Probably the two best-remembered examples of this are Rumpole of the Bailey, which was produced as a one-off in the Play for Today strand in 1975 and three years later became a series for Thames Television with the same star, Leo McKern, and Gangsters, and a single series of science fiction-based plays styled as Play for Tomorrow.

Television programmes had a much shorter lead time in this era, and Dennis Potter's first four accepted television plays were shown during the course of 1965.

Television dramas were usually adaptations of stage plays, and invariably about upper classes.

He was one of the first producers to work in the field of drama for the BBC, producing and directing several plays for the fledgling BBC Television Service in the 1930s, before it was placed on hiatus for the duration of the Second World War in 1939.

Students in the Radio and Television Program operate a college radio station at 89. 1 MHz, WVJC The Bash that reaches as far east as Perry County, Indiana and as far west as Clinton County, Illinois that plays alternative music and hard rock, manned by student DJs.

In the 1991 Granada Television The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes series adaptation, Jude Law plays Josiah ( Joe ) Barnes, a male servant who cross-dresses the innkeeper and new dog-owner.

Three stories of the stories in the collection, The Girl in the Train, Jane in Search of a Job and The Manhood of Edward Robinson were adapted for by Thames Television in 1982 as part of their ten-part programme The Agatha Christie Hour, a series of one-off plays from short stories by the writer.

Currently, she plays Laurie Keller in the television series Cougar Town for which she won a Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Critic's Choice Television Award in 2011.

Television has yet to work out a living arrangement with jazz, which comes to the medium more as an uneasy guest than as a relaxed member of the family.

He published a column (" Wrong Turn Onto Sesame Street ") challenging federally funded Public Television endowments in favor of educational comics — which, according to Capp, " didn't cost a dime in taxes and never had.

Television broadcast stations: 77 of which 48 are privately owned ( 2010 )

Licenses for TV and radio broadcasters are issued by the Republican Commission on Television and Radio Broadcasting, the chair of which is the minister of information.

At the end of July 2000, the government-owned Botswana Television ( BTV ) was launched, which is Botswana's first national television station.

Philip Hayton and Anna Jones were the first two presenters on the set, the relaunch of which had been put back a week due to previous power disruptions at Television Centre where the channel is based.

Television programs like 24, in which actors have to appear as if it is the same day for 24 consecutive episodes, have raised public recognition of continuity.

Prior to 1976, it was known as the Canadian Radio and Television Commission, which was established in 1968 by the Parliament of Canada to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors.

When the infant BBC Television service was started in 1936, Rediffusion, which had supplied cable radio services since 1928, started providing " Pipe TV " to its customers who had difficulties tuning into the weak TV broadcast signal.

Both Desilu, Too and Lucille Ball Productions work hand-in-hand with MPI Home Video in the home video re-issues of the Ball / Arnaz material not currently owned by CBS ( successor-in-interest to Paramount Television, which in turn succeeded the original Desilu company ).

The extent to which drug addiction was now affecting Bowie was made public when Russell Harty interviewed the singer for his London Weekend Television talk show in anticipation of the album's supporting tour.

At age 11, he began his acting career, appearing on the British television soap opera Coronation Street, which was produced at Granada Studios by Granada Television in Manchester.

This is a reference to The Philco Television Playhouse, in several episodes of which Wallach actually appeared in 1955.

* African festivals Significant African festivals based on the continent include the biannual Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou FESPACO in Burkina Faso, the annual Durban International Film Festival which has grown in importance for industry with the addition of a co-production forum and Talent Campus.

Premavision owns the distribution rights to the Gumby cartoons ( having been reverted from previous distributor Warner Bros. Television ), and has licensed the rights to Classic Media of which said licensing ends in September 2012.

Its major interests include 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, and more than 300 magazines around the world, including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle and O, The Oprah Magazine ; 29 television stations through Hearst Television Inc. which reach a combined 18 % of U. S. viewers ; ownership in leading cable networks, including A + E Networks, and ESPN Inc .; as well as business publishing, Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

Many large countries in turn have internal rules on how and where specific subsets of their callsigns can be used ( such as Mexico's XE for AM and XH for FM radio and Television broadcasting ), which are not covered here.

He denied all accusations and promised to wield the " sword of truth " in libel proceedings which he brought against The Guardian and the producers of World In Action Granada Television.

In 2005, he received the Governors Award of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors, which is the highest Emmy Award presented.

He remained active, becoming a committed advocate of the new technology of Television which included serving as the first president of the Television Society.

In 1982, Loach and Central Independent Television were commissioned by Channel 4 to make Questions of Leadership, a documentary series on the response of the British trade union movement to the challenge posed by the policies of the Thatcher government, which also gave members an opportunity to call their own leaders to account.

MTV's original logo with the caption " Music Television ", which was used in various forms from 1981 to 2010.