The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work and travel on London Underground.

The Smiths were the subject of a South Bank Show documentary produced by LWT and broadcast by ITV on 18 October 1987, four months after their break-up and three weeks after the release of Strangeways.

* The British ITV documentary Journey to the Edge of the World features Billy Connolly in the Canadian Arctic.

The Pilger half-hour documentary series was commissioned by Charles Denton, then a producer with ATV, for screening on the British ITV network.

This was followed by an ITV documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, which brought to people's living rooms the suffering of the Khmer people.

Following broadcast on ITV in the UK, Pilger's documentary Palestine Is Still the Issue ( 2002 ) was alleged by complainants including the Israeli embassy, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Conservative Friends of Israel to be inaccurate and biased.

In 2006, McLaren presented the documentary series Malcolm McLaren's Musical Map of London for BBC Radio 2, followed in 2007 by Malcolm McLaren's Life and Times in L. A. Also in 2007, McLaren competed in a reality TV show for ITV titled The Baron, filmed in the small Scottish fishing village of Gardenstown.

In 1969 Director / producer John Goldschmidt made the documentary film ' Bernadette Devlin ' for ATV, which was shown on ITV and on CBS's 60 Minutes and included footage of Devlin during the ' Battle of the Bogside '.

He worked for the BBC until 1999 on programmes including Songs of Praise, Public Eye and Panorama and then he joined ITV, working on special documentary programmes and features for Tonight with Trevor McDonald.

In 2003, Bashir conducted a series of interviews with pop singer Michael Jackson, as part of a documentary for ITV, which Uri Geller had fixed up as a friend of Michael.

In an interview with Louis Theroux, Geller said that he felt betrayed by Bashir, and claimed that the ITV documentary had ruined Geller's own relationship with Michael.

Opinions vary on the matter of political motivations ; some cite the documentary " Death On The Rock ", which may have caused displeasure to the then government, whilst others link it to a more general ideological dislike of the way ITV had been run at the time, with ' excessive over-manning ' and the fact that programme production was generally limited to franchise holders ( sometimes critically referred to as barriers to entry ) being seen as examples of why more commercial freedom and competition was needed within the network.

In May 2011 Connolly suffered a broken rib and a gashed knee when his motor trike rolled on top of him while filming for the ITV travel documentary Billy Connolly's Route 66.

On 29 November 2005, speculation that McDonald was about to leave ITV to work elsewhere ended when he signed a further two year contract involving producing both a documentary show and a new series of interviews which will be of a wider general interest.

Departures from presenting into other television roles, through a sitcom, a documentary series and fronting her own chat show, have all proven to be unsuccessful, and beyond Big Brother she has continued in the main as a presenter on Channel 4, ITV and Sky.

* Nightwatch with Steve Scott, a UK television documentary series hosted by Steve Scott airing on ITV nightly from around midnight

" David Elstein, then director of programmes at Thames Television, writes that there was a connection between Margaret Thatcher's dislike of the station in the wake of the documentary, and Thames ' subsequent loss of the ITV franchise in 1991.

The song also featured in an ITV documentary series about recording techniques, where Tzuke and her producers Mike Paxman and Paul Muggleton showed how the song had been constructed using sound bytes of her voice which were transposed into a synthesizer range.

On 28 March 1990, ITV broadcast the Granada Television documentary drama, Who Bombed Birmingham ?, which re-enacted the bombings and subsequent key events in Chris Mullin's campaign.

The Men Who Killed Kennedy is a nine-part UK ITV < REF > http :// www. imdb. com / title / tt0254033 /</ REF > video documentary series by Nigel Turner about the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Already by 1974, the ITV documentary This Week exposed the neo-Nazi pasts ( and continued links with Nazis from other countries ) of Tyndall and Webster.

Many ex-Tories returned to the fold from the NF or its myriad splinter groups, in particular after her " swamping " remarks on the ITV documentary series World In Action on 30 January 1978:

The station also produced various editions of several series co-produced by most ITV regions-namely the religious programme Highway, current affairs debate The Time, The Place, documentary strand About Britain and the Saturday morning children's shows Get Fresh and Ghost Train.

On 28 March 1990, ITV broadcast the Granada Television documentary drama Who Bombed Birmingham ?, which re-enacted the bombings.

In a recent ITV documentary on Spitting Image, Norman admitted initially hating the way his puppet looked on the programme ( mostly because it had a large inexplicable wart on its forehead ), but later somewhat moderated his attitude and felt flattered that the series found him famous enough to include him in its sketches.

The Prince of Wales made a cameo in the episode, appearing in a pre-recorded segment as himself in an ITV News bulletin report, presented by Trevor McDonald.

Rediffusion did not use the play ; instead, it was made as one of the first productions of the new ITV company Yorkshire Television, and broadcast posthumously on 26 August 1968.

In this period he made regular television appearances on the current affairs programmes In The News ( BBC ) and subsequently Free Speech ( ITV ).

Syndication did not exist as such in Britain until the arrival of satellite, cable and later, from 1998 on, digital television, although it could be argued that many ITV programs up to the early 1990s, particularly imported programming was syndicated in the sense that each ITV region bought in some programs independently of the ITV Network, and in particular many programs out of prime time made by smaller ITV stations were " part-networked " where some regions would show them and others would not.

Gerry Anderson made science fiction series for ITV using the puppet based ' Supermarionation ' technique including Fireball XL5 ( 1962 – 63 ), Thunderbirds ( 1965 – 66 ), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 & 68 ), and Stingray ( 1964 – 65 ) which all retain a following.

A remake miniseries, in the works since 2005, premiered on 15 November 2009 on American cable TV channel AMC, made in cooperation with British broadcaster ITV after AMCs original production partner Sky1 had pulled out.

The case was resolved in Scotland, and the Channel Islands and later still in Northern Ireland, allowing the ITV Sport Channel to launch in the non-Carlton and Granada regions ( although it was never made available in the Channel Islands, as the islands do not have DTT or Cable and it never appeared on Sky Digital ).

A consortium made up of the BBC, BSkyB and Crown Castle International was granted ITV Digital's old broadcasting licence, and launched the Freeview service on 30 October 2002, offering 30 free-to-air TV channels and 20 free-to-air radio channels including several interactive channels such as BBCi and Teletext but no subscription or premium services.

Three Cliffs Bay also made the final of the ITV series Britain's Favourite View – the only nomination in Wales and backed by singer Katherine Jenkins.

Timeslip is a British children's science fiction television series made by ATV for the ITV network and broadcast between 1970 and 1971.

The show was made for ITV and is often repeated today on Sky Real Lives, Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky 3 ( now Pick TV ) & ITV2.

Despite STV's explanation of expense, ITV plc were angered by the decision, as a recent schedule change had made The Bill central to their programming, and broadcast the programmes on ITV3 as well to ensure Scottish viewers could see the programmes.

This restored version made its debut at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, followed soon after by a DVD and Blu-ray release in the UK by ITV DVD as well as screenings at festivals around the world.

Both the BBC and ITV made special programmes to celebrate her 80th birthday in 1982 and the BBC ran a short season of her best films.

In January 1978, just after their record breaking 1977 Christmas show, the pair left the BBC for ITV signing a contract with the London station Thames Television, which made front page news.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

In 1991, in a consortium with David Frost, Richard Branson had made the unsuccessful bid for three ITV franchisees under the CPV-TV name.

For the United Kingdom, the Independent Television Commission banned Springer and other tabloid talk programs from being shown on television during daytime hours on school holidays in response to numerous parental complaints and concerns about children's potential exposure to the salacious content ( there was a short-running British version of the show made for ITV called The Springer Show that was lighter and more tongue-in-cheek ).

In 1957, 1957 – 1958 and 1961 he made a number of half-hour programmes on ITV in which he lectured without notes on a variety of topics, such as the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the First World War.

It also manufactured broadcast television cameras for British television production companies, mostly the BBC, although the commercial television ITV companies used them as well alongside cameras made by Pye and Marconi.

In October 1999, ITV made a new adaptation, as a made-for-television film.