Lloyd later got the opportunity to develop the idea that became the satirical BBC television series Not the Nine O ' clock News.

After retiring from playing in 1964, Benaud turned to full-time cricket journalism and commentary, dividing his time between Britain ( where he worked for the BBC for many years before joining Channel 4 in 1999 ), and Australia ( for the Nine Network ).

Benaud commentated for the BBC TV highlights of the 2006-07 Ashes in Australia as part of his continuing commentary work for Australia's Nine Network.

A sketch in the BBC comedy series Not the Nine O ' Clock News showed Scotland Yard's rotating sign being hand-cranked by the Commissioner.

* Nine part radio play from BBC Radio Gloucestershire

The phenomenon that was famously parodied by BBC television comedy program Not The Nine O ' Clock News who produced a spoof music video " Nice Video, Shame About The Song ".

In particular, it has broadcast its Nine Lessons and Carols on the BBC from the Chapel on Christmas Eve for many decades.

Not the Nine O ' Clock News is a television comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC 2 from 1979 to 1982.

Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the BBC Nine O ' Clock News on BBC 1, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, and spoof television formats.

The show's name derived from its schedule – it was originally on BBC 2 at the same time as the Nine O ' Clock News on BBC 1.

On 20 December 1989, in Fiji, Connolly married Pamela Stephenson, the New Zealand-born comedy actress he had met when making a cameo appearance on the BBC sketch show Not the Nine O ' Clock News, in which she was one of four regular performers.

In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge / Monty Python / Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson's colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O ' Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones ; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott.

* X07 One To Nine ( BBC 198?

From 1981 to 1987 he was the main presenter for the Nine O ' Clock News, the flagship BBC news television programme, and since 1987 he has been a presenter on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 programme, Today.

Shortly after he directed the series and the unbroadcast pilot of Not the Nine O ' Clock News, Spiers left the staff of the BBC to work as a freelance director.

Deeley interviewed Kylie Minogue for a television special which was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sky One on 16 July 2006, in Australia on Channel Nine on 17 July 2006 and BBC America on 9 September 2006.

Between 10 May 1999 – 15 October 2000, the programme would be advertised as the BBC News at Nine.

The show was carried on BBC One and inspired a BBC Two comedy show running in the same timeslot to take the name Not the Nine O ' Clock News.

The BBC News at Ten began simulcasting on the channel on 30 January 2006 as part of the Ten O ' Clock Newshour, followed by extended sport and business news updates.

From March 2012 Jones has appeared on the BBC talent show The Voice UK, where he is a judge alongside Jessie J, will. i. am and Danny O ' Donoghue of The Script.

A documentary was also made for BBC Radio 4 entitled The Story of O: The Vice Francaise, presented by Rowan Pelling, former editor of the Erotic Review, which looked at the history of the book and Pauline Réage.

In 1954, a full-length version of the play aired on BBC Home Service, directed and adapted for radio by Peter Watts, and starring Joseph O ' Connor and Mary Wimbush.

In a BBC Radio interview in January 2007, O ' Toole said that he had studied women for a very long time, had given it his best try, but knew " nothing.

The first radio commentary of the race was broadcast by Meyrick Good and George Allison on the BBC in 1927 ; the first televised coverage was in 1960 with commentary led by Peter O ' Sullevan.

* The popular BBC comedy series My Hero, produced between 2000 and 2006, and featuring Ardal O ' Hanlon and Emily Joyce, was set in Northolt.

As well as winning Bronze for his acclaimed The Huey Show on BBC Radio 6 Music, Huey has appeared on Jack Osbourne's Adrenaline Junkie, a Boy-Racer show Slips, sat in for Jonathon Ross and Dermot O ' Leary on BBC Radio 2, appeared in the Soul Boy as a Dick Van Dyke accented London record shop owner, voiced a character in the Scarface: The World Is Yours video game, and most bizarrely appeared with his dog, Sugar and Liza Tarbuck on Liza & Huey's Pet Nation on primetime SKY TV.

I used to show dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea ..." Lucy Vodden née O ' Donnell, in a BBC radio interview in 2007, said, " I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant ... Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school.

* A BBC television drama about the disaster, entitled United, written by Chris Chibnall and starring David Tennant as Jimmy Murphy and Jack O ' Connell as Bobby Charlton, was shown on BBC Two on 24 April 2011.

During 1986 and 1987, Sims starred as Annie Begley alongside Angela Thorne in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Farrington of the F. O .. Also in 1986, Sims appeared in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who in the four episodes of The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet as Katryca.

On the day of his death, the BBC 9 O ' Clock News was extended to an hour as opposed to the usual half hour.

In 1950 O ' Broin established his own committee on Irish Television and bought a television set to receive broadcasts from the BBC.

The show has been repeated on BBC One and G. O. L. D., and all six series are available on DVD.

As noted in The Eurovision Song Contest-The Official History by author and historian John Kennedy O ' Connor, the contest was originally planned to be held on 2 April 1977, but because of a strike of BBC cameramen and technicians, it had to be postponed for a month.

Gallagher along with Matt Morgan ( who was co-host on The Russell Brand Show ) sat in for Dermot O ' Leary's Saturday show on BBC Radio 2 on 10 September 2011.

In the episode, Satan disrupts Deborah's wedding to Irish jockey Rory O ' Donnell by taking the form of BBC reporter Jill Dando and accusing the presiding vicar of being a Satan worshipper ( which he actually is ).

Dando went on to present the BBC television programmes Breakfast Time, Breakfast News, the BBC One O ' Clock News, the Six O ' Clock News, the travel programme Holiday, the crime appeal series Crimewatch ( from 1995 until her death ) and occasionally Songs of Praise.

Some editions of The One O ' Clock Show were produced by David Croft, who would go on to co-write many BBC situation comedies.

These were reported by Andrew Gilligan on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on 29 May 2003, by Gavin Hewitt on the Ten O ' Clock News the same day and by Susan Watts on BBC Two's Newsnight on 2 June.

On weekdays PM is followed by another news programme, the Six O ' Clock News, at the same time as the flagship television news programme BBC News at Six broadcasts on BBC One.

The BBC initially declined to comment on why she was no longer being used, but rumours circulated within the BBC and commercial newsrooms that Stuart had been removed because she was considered " too old " at 57, although Anna Ford had continued anchoring the BBC One O ' Clock News until her retirement at 62.

* Four O ' Clock in the Morning Blues ( jazz opera for the BBC, with music by Malcolm Rayment, 1954 )

On 31 December 2011, Eccleston played the role of Pod Clock in an adaptation of Mary Norton's children's novel The Borrowers on BBC One.