After three years of consistent use across different platforms, the BBC began to drop the BBCi brand gradually ; on 6 May 2004, the BBC website was renamed bbc. co. uk, after the main URL used to access the site.

From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.

The BBC began simulcasting the channel overnight on terrestrial channel BBC One with the launch of the channel, ending the tradition of a closedown but at the same time effectively making the service available to many more viewers.

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.

In the second half of 1945, Thomas began reading for the BBC Radio programme, Book of Verse, broadcast weekly to the Far East providing Thomas with a regular income and bringing him into contact with Louis MacNeice, a congenial drinking companion whose advice Thomas cherished.

On 29 September 1946, the BBC began transmitting the Third Programme, a high-culture network which provided opportunities for Thomas.

The play-by-play announcer is former BBC Radio commentator Callum Williams who began broadcasting with the 2011 season.

This success turned Whitehouse and Higson's career, and they began to appear on shows such as Vic Reeves ' Big Night Out and extensively for the BBC, with Whitehouse appearing on A Bit of Fry and Laurie as a man with a clinical need to have his bottom fondled, and Paul Merton: The Series, then as performer on shows such as Harry Enfield's Television Programme, where he developed numerous characters including DJ Mike Smash of Smashie and Nicey alongside Harry Enfield as Nicey.

Soap operas in the U. K. began on radio and consequently were associated with the BBC.

It began screening on BBC One on weekday afternoons on April 28, 2008 but after lower than desired ratings figures it was shifted to BBC Two from May 19, 2008.

In 1963, the BBC began production of the longest-running science-fiction television series ever, Doctor Who, about a time travelling alien called the Doctor.

Russell T Davies, responsible for the latest Doctor Who revival in its earlier seasons, began working in the BBC children's department in the 1990s.

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.

On 2 November 1936 the BBC began transmitting the world's first public regular high-definition service from the Victorian Alexandra Palace in north London.

On 2 January 2001, a second series named Bill and Ben began on CBBC on BBC Two, this time involving stop-motion animation, 35mm film style and full color, and made by Cosgrove Hall Films with a team of ten animators.

The BBC World Service began as the BBC Empire Service in 1932 as a shortwave service aimed principally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire.

On 3 November 1936, from Alexandra Palace located on the high ground of the north London ridge, the BBC began alternating Baird 240-line transmissions with EMI's electronic scanning system which had recently been improved to 405 lines after a merger with Marconi.

After easing himself back into broadcasting as chairman of the radio panel game Twenty Questions, he began the second of his three major BBC radio series, Beyond Our Ken.

In 1994, the BBC World Service in Afghanistan began broadcasting Naway Kor, Naway Jwand (" New Home, New Life "), an everyday story of country folk incorporating pieces of useful information.

Douglas Smith ( c. 1910-15 October 1972 ) began his broadcasting career with the BBC European Service ( now the World Service ) in 1946 and later worked as an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme.

After filming for Fierce Creatures finished, Palin went on a travel journey for a BBC documentary and, returning a year later, found that the end of Fierce Creatures had failed at test screenings and had to be reshot.

A few days later, while Herzog was giving an interview to Mark Kermode for the BBC, an unknown individual shot Herzog with an air rifle during filming.

The cave was used for the filming of episodes of the BBC TV series Doctor Who: the serial Revenge of the Cybermen ( 1975 ) starring Tom Baker.

Bacup has been used as a filming location for the 1980s BBC TV police drama Juliet Bravo, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, parts of The League of Gentlemen and much of the film Girls ' Night.

Because of its Prisoner connection, Portmeirion has been used as the filming location for a number of homages to the series, ranging from comedy skits to an episode of the BBC documentary series The Celts which recreated scenes from The Prisoner.

Fortunately James Mason had just finished filming Doctor Fischer of Geneva for the BBC and the schedule was changed to allow him to take over the part of Sir Randolph Nettleby six weeks later.

Stars from the BBC TV serial The Onedin Line stayed in the town during filming in the late 1970s.

It was intended to be the final serial of the 1979 – 80 season ( Season 17 ), but was never completed due to a strike at the BBC during filming.

Location filming in Cambridge and the first of three studio sessions at BBC Television Centre were recorded as scheduled.

He had prior experience of filming in Paris having worked there on adaptations of Maigret ( 1960 – 63 ) and other Georges Simenon stories for the BBC.

An updated version of the series has been produced for BBC TV, in which Stephen Fry and Carwardine revisit the animals to see how they are getting on almost 20 years later, and in January 2009, they spent time filming the Kakapo on Codfish Island.

The Antrobus Arms and the former Plaza Cinema were both used as locations for the filming of a BBC Miss Marple mystery.

In the late 1990s the BBC was planning to film a five-part miniseries of the novel with Rahul Bose in the lead, but due to pressure from the Muslim community in Sri Lanka, the filming permit was revoked and the project was cancelled.

Todmorden has been used as a filming location for the 1980s BBC TV police drama Juliet Bravo, Territorial Army series All Quiet on the Preston Front, parts of The League of Gentlemen, BBC TV miniseries Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the award-winning BBC1 series Life on Mars and a film adaptation of the novel My Summer of Love.

There is some evidence to suggest that the BBC experimented with filming the output of the television monitor before the television service was placed on hiatus in 1939 due to World War II.

BBC executive Cecil Madden later recalled filming a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel in this way, only for film director Alexander Korda to order the burning of the negative as he owned the film rights to the book, which he felt had been infringed.

The BBC based its Film Department at the studios ; and at its peak 56 film crews used the studios as a base for location filming of dramas, documentaries and other programmes ; shot on 16mm and occasionally 35mm film.

Ozzy confirmed in an interview on BBC Radio 2 in May 2009 that he was " stoned during the entire filming of The Osbournes " and can no longer watch the episodes for this reason.

The BBC was forced to look around for locations because the Home Office refused permission for any production filming in or outside a real prison.

In an interview for a Dad's Army retrospective on BBC television in 2010, Lowe's co-star, Clive Dunn, described him sitting at the bar in the evenings when they were filming on location, consuming a drink which Lowe named ' Amazon ' after his yacht.

Alistair McGowan's Big Impression first aired on BBC One in 2000, with the couple splitting up just before filming began.

Concentrating on real India, its rituals and festivities, Malle fell afoul of the Indian government, which disliked his portrayal of the country, in its fascination with the pre-modern, and consequently banned the BBC from filming in India for several years.

The theatre was chosen for a special BBC filming of Steve Coogan's Paul & Pauline Calf's Cheese and Ham Sandwich programme and many a comedian has moved on from the Neptune to the Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival.

The local underground caves were used as the filming location for the underworld, ruled by the evil Lady of the Green Kirtle ( played by Barbara Kellerman ), in the 1990 BBC adaptation of The Silver Chair ( one of the Narnia books written by C. S.