Jenny Abramsky had originally planned to have a television version of the informal news radio channel BBC Radio 5 Live, or a TV version of Radio 4 News FM both of which she had run.

In 2007 the BBC announced the cancellation of a planned television special Planet Relief, which would have highlighted the global warming issue and included a mass electrical switch-off.

The BBC was unable to secure the rights to turn Busman's Honeymoon into a proposed fourth and last part of the planned 13-episode series, so the series was produced as ten episodes.

" BBC News stated, " The 26-year-old magician has outdone his hero, Harry Houdini, who had planned a similar feat but died in 1926 before he could perform it.

These initial tests were inconclusive, and ape conservation expert Ian Redmond told the BBC that there was similarity between the cuticle pattern of these hairs and specimens collected by Edmund Hillary during Himalayan expeditions in the 1950s and donated to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and announced planned DNA analysis.

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

The BBC and Fabulous Films planned to issue the series in four DVD box sets, but this was disrupted by conflicts with rights-holders B7 Enterprises.

As a result, a minor political crisis in Britain was launched which prompted the BBC to remove all planned repeat screenings of the film.

The hostage takers told the BBC that a special representative of President Putin planned to come to the theater for talks the next day.

He then kept an appointment to appear on a show on BBC Radio 1, with Richard Skinner, but instead of promoting the new Boomtown Rats material as planned, he announced the plan for Band Aid.

Premium TV planned to launch a live sports channel in September 2001 called British Sport, which would have combined archive footage from the BBC with live coverage of rugby union, basketball and ice hockey.

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.

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After the second series ended, Max Beesley told BBC Radio 1's The Chris Moyles Show that an additional one or two episodes were being planned to conclude the series.

BBC Four launched on 2 March 2002 at 19. 00 GMT, having been delayed from the original planned 2001 launch.

In 2010, BBC Scotland filmed residents on the town's Onthank and Longpark area for the TV program The Scheme which broadcast in 2010 for two episodes so far, out of a planned four.

In September 2006 it was announced that the BBC Prime brand was to be phased out and replaced by BBC Entertainment, one of a number of new international channels planned by BBC Worldwide.

In 2004, the BBC planned to show a cartoon series called Popetown, which poked fun at the Roman Catholic Church.

The BBC reported that after being warned by Commodore Bainimarama not to " incite violence ", Prime Minister Qarase planned to return to Suva, from which he was banished, but was warned that he faced arrest if he returns.

This included, most notably, the planned closure of BBC Television Centre and the extension and renovation of Broadcasting House, stage one of which would construct a huge wing, mirroring Broadcasting House in shape, size and structure named Egton Wing.

At this stage, it was planned that the series would open with a serial entitled The Giants, to be written by BBC staff scriptwriter C. E. Webber.

Originally planned for BBC TV's arts programme Omnibus, it featured documentary footage and a fantasy sequence, ' The Pirate and the Crystal Ball ', illustrating their attempt at an idyllic communal lifestyle.

He joined the organisation in1962. He gained a much higher profile after he was recruited in 1979 to be the main presenter of the new late evening BBC Two in-depth news programme Newsnight, which began almost a year later than planned, in January 1980.

The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.

The Dark Dimension was the working title of a feature-length BBC Doctor Who episode, planned to celebrate the programme's Thirtieth Anniversary.

Also of note is the feature-length BBC adaptation of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, UK ( 1989 ).

In 2007 it was made into a feature-length film for BBC One ( UK ).

He adapted his own novel Chimera for ITV and directed the adaptation of Oktober as well as writing the feature-length episode The Kingdom of Bones for the BBC series Murder Rooms.

Joyner has also appeared in the feature-length drama Night Flight, and on television in Fat Friends, Silent Witness, Clocking Off, the 2004 BBC adaptation of North and South and as one of the stars of the Five comedy sketch show Swinging ( 2005 ).

He would also play the lead in the BBC Scotland feature-length adaptation of the William McIlvanney short story " Dreaming " ( 1990 ).

Between 2008 and 2010, she was featured as Anne-Britt Hoglund in Wallander, six feature-length adaptations of Henning Mankell's Wallander novels, for the BBC.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

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.

As a journalist for the BBC, he travelled around the world looking at problems " in out-of-the-way places ," though mostly arguing about whether they could film there.

* 1978: Dylan: Life and Death of a Poet, a BBC Wales film of Thomas ' final two visits to America ; directed by Richard Lewis.

The story of Donald Campbell's last attempt at the water speed record on Coniston Water was told in the BBC television film Across the Lake in 1988, with Anthony Hopkins as Donald.

Commissioned by Philips to publicise the museum, it was shown as a trade test colour film on the BBC from 1968 to 1972.

In 1959 Daphne Oram produced a novel method of synthesis, her " Oramics " technique, driven by drawings on a 35 mm film strip ; it was used for a number of years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

The film is presented as a BBC television documentary which includes fake television ads for racist products which at the end of the movie are revealed to have been real at some point in the 20th century.

* Hitler: A Film from Germany, a 1978 film co-produced by the BBC

Hildegard has been portrayed on film by Patricia Routledge in a dramatized BBC biographical documentary called " Hildegard Von Bingen In Portrait: Ordo Virtutum.

Joe Orton was played by the actor Kenny Doughty in the 2006 BBC film Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa !, starring Michael Sheen as Kenneth Williams.

Perhaps more importantly still, the film was shunned by the BBC and ITV, who declined to show it for fear of offending Christians in this country.

In October 2011, BBC Four premiered the made-for-TV comedy film Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris.

In 1992, as a close friend of actresses Jill Bennett and Rachel Roberts, Anderson included a touching episode in his autobiographical BBC film Is That All There Is ?, with a boat trip down the River Thames ( several of their professional colleagues and friends aboard ) to scatter their ashes on the waters while musician Alan Price sang the song " Is That All There Is?

( Autobiographical film for BBC, 1993 )

A 30-minute TV short film A Boy In Darkness ( also made in 2000 and adapted from Peake's novella ) was the first production from the BBC Drama Lab.

An example of a comedy film that targets a more general audience is Strange Company's Tum Raider, produced for the BBC in 2004.

BBC film critic Jane Crowther said that " Cruz is wonderfully ditzy as the innocent abroad " but remarked that " it's Harold Perrineau Jr as Monica who pockets the movie.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

* In the BBC Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, the Film Club round usually includes a film name based on Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

Two series were made in 1963 and 1964 and ( presumably because it was shot on 35mm film rather than video ) the entire series has reportedly been preserved in the BBC archives.

Romero revolutionized the horror film genre with Night of the Living Dead ; per Almar Haflidason, of the BBC, the film represented " a new dawn in horror film-making ".

" No More Heroes " was covered by Violent Femmes, used for the film Mystery Men and was also featured on the first episode of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes.