American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

More recently, the horn section of Antibalas have been guest musicians on TV On The Radio's highly acclaimed 2008 album Dear Science, as well as on British band Foals ' 2008 album, Antidotes.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

She has also been the subject of a 1978 British TV series, Warrior Queen, starring Siân Phillips as Boudica.

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

File: England ; London-The British Museum, Facade South Front ~-Main Entrance + West Wing-Collonade + The Africa Garden. 2. JPG | African Garden-created by BBC TV programme Ground Force

* Class ( TV series ), a British television programme, which airs on CBBC

* Cyril " Blakey " Blake, the bus depot inspector from the 1970s British comedy TV series On the Buses

Cable TV faces intense competition from British Sky Broadcasting's Sky satellite television service.

The song " Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps " was included in the soundtrack of the Australian film Strictly Ballroom, and became a theme song for the British TV show, Coupling, with Mari Wilson performing it for the title sequence.

* FBi ( Fully Booked Interactive ), a British children's TV show-a 2000 reformat of the series Fully Booked

* 1964 – Ray Mears, British survival expert and TV presenter

In 1995 the show won Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards, with O ' Hanlon receiving Top TV Comedy Newcomer Award.

At the 1996 British Comedy Awards the show won Top Channel 4 Sitcom Award, McLynn took the Top TV Comedy Actress award.

* Father Ted at British TV Resources

* 1960 – Carol McGiffin, British TV and radio presenter

In 1965, a weekly show for British TV titled Groucho was poorly received and only lasted 11 weeks.

After the popularity of game shows hit a nadir in the mid-1990s ( at which point The Price Is Right was the only game show still on daytime network TV ), the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

* Hex ( TV series ), a British television programme

Jane Goldman, wife of British TV and radio personality Jonathan Ross, owns a similar style " hearse " built from a Jaguar XK8 convertible.

* Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD BBC / Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; TV series A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603 – 1776 BBC / Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; A History of Britain-The Complete Collection on DVD BBC 2002

Around the same time, he appeared in two episodes of a twist-in-the-tale episode of the British TV series, Tales of the Unexpected, with Wendy Hiller ( 1979 ), and Gloria Grahame ( 1980 ).

In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times ; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe .. Kabir also recently starred in a prime-time Italian television series, Un Medico In Famiglia, on RAI TV, the country's biggest broadcaster.

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

He is best known for playing Dave Lister in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, and Lloyd Mullaney in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.

Father Ted is an Irish sitcom that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4.

* Gary: Tank Commander, a British television sitcom

* Hole ( Bottom episode ), an episode of the British television sitcom Bottom

* Yes Minister, a satirical sitcom about a generic British government, widely described by politicians as accurate

In 1989, he played the title role in the sitcom Colin's Sandwich, playing a British Rail employee with aspirations to be a writer.

In Episode 4 (" Animals ") of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Series 1, Dermot ( played by Harry Enfield ) says to Gary ( played by Martin Clunes ), " There she was, just standing there, making Michelle Pfeiffer look like Neil Kinnock.

The British sitcom Peep Show is shown entirely through the viewpoints of the characters and lets the audience hear the two lead characters ' thoughts.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

* The Thin Blue Line ( TV series ), a British sitcom set in a police station, starring Rowan Atkinson, David Haig and Serena Evans

The White Russian is also the drink of choice of Maurice Moss, an IT guy on the British sitcom The IT Crowd.

* Hyperdrive, a British sitcom features the adventures of the crew of the HMS Camden Lock as they pursue Britain's interests in 2151.

Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1968, in 1970, and from 1972 to 1975.

The ale is mentioned in the popular blues rock song " Thirty Days in the Hole ", by British group Humble Pie and was recently seen drunk in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

A British sitcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television and tends, as it does in most other countries, to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode.

The first British sitcom was Pinwright's Progress, broadcast by the BBC from 1946 to 1947, but the form didn't really take off until the transfer of Hancock's Half Hour from BBC radio in 1956.

The 1970s is often regarded as the golden era of British sitcom.

Desmond's ( 1989 – 94 ) was the first British sitcom with a black cast set in the workplace, and Drop the Dead Donkey ( 1990 – 98 ) brought topicality to the form as it was recorded close to transmission.

* Martin Wainwright, The Guardian, 7 June 2005, " Del Boy is top of the class, say sitcom scientists " – scientist develops formula for measuring ( British ) sitcom success

* The Young Ones ( TV series ), a 1980s British sitcom about four students living together ( which uses the song " The Young Ones " as its theme tune ).