A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

The programme currently rates as one of the most watched programmes on UK television for every day it is aired.

Most American television sets are cable-ready and have a television tuner capable of receiving older analog cable TV ( UK televisions are set up to receive Freeview digital terrestrial broadcasting ).

There are a small number of other surviving cable television companies in the UK outside of NTL including WightFibre ( Isle of Wight ) and Smallworld Cable ( Ayrshire, Carlisle and Lancashire ).

According to Moore's recounting, AIM impressed the UK which imported these ideas when establishing in 1969 The Open University, which initially relied on radio and television broadcasts for much of its delivery.

During recent years, the Fosters UK division of the brand focused on cultivating comedy-centric advertising and sponsorship arrangements and on 9 November 2011 they launched a trailer for their sponsored, online-only version of the hit 90s ' television show The Fast Show.

Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy, in hit shows such as the recent HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC television series Whose Line Is It Anyway ( and its spinoffs Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ), Nick Cannon's improv comedy show Wild ' N Out, and Thank God You're Here.

On New Year's Day 2007, and again on New Year's Eve, UK television station Channel 4 dedicated an entire evening to the Monty Python phenomenon during which an hour-long documentary was broadcast called The Secret Life of Brian about the making of The Life of Brian and the controversy that was caused by its release.

1-2-3 was originally written by Jonathan Sachs, who had written two spreadsheet programs previously while working at Concentric Data Systems, Inc. To aid its growth, in the UK, and possibly elsewhere, Lotus 1-2-3 was the very first computer software to use television consumer advertising.

The commercials are still shown on Australian and UK television.

* Napoleon, a 1993 television advertisement in the UK for Tango

The combined 30. 15 million audience figure often sees it attributed as the highest-rated program in UK television for the 1980s, comparable to the records set by the 1970 splashdown of Apollo 13 ( 28. 6 million viewers ), and Princess Diana's funeral in 1997 ( 32. 1 million viewers ).

In the 1960s Coronation Street revolutionised UK television and quickly became a British institution.

Daytime soap operas were non-existent until the 1970s because there was virtually no daytime television in the UK.

Channel Seven's Home and Away, a teen soap developed as a rival to Neighbours, has also achieved significant and enduring success on UK television.

After the second world war English became the main language for large television productions, which caused a blooming of science-fiction series in the UK, but not in continental Europe.

Recent television espionage programmes are La Femme Nikita ( 1997 – 2001 ), Alias ( 2001 – 2006 ), 24 ( 2001-2010 ), NBC's Chuck ( 2007-present ), and Spooks in the UK ( release as MI-5 in the USA and Canada ) 2002-2011.

In June 2008, Heinz began an advertising campaign in the UK for their new ' New York Deli Mayo ' products.

After the campaign appeared in the Metro newspaper London the business news website www. mad. co. uk remarked that the IKEA campaign had amazing similarities with the marketing activity of UK home refurbishment company Onis living who had launched their own Not For Sale advertising campaign two years prior and was awarded the Interbuild 2006 Construction Marketing Award for best campaign under £ 25, 000.

Outside of the UK, advertising is shown because the licence fee only applies to the BBC's British operations.

The site was funded by advertising and contributed to the online advertising market in the UK in the late 1990s.

Galaxy chocolate used the theme during their UK TV advertising campaign of the late ' 80s / early ' 90s.

The BBC, whose broadcasting in the UK is funded by a licence fee and does not sell advertising time, is most notable for being the first public service broadcaster in the UK.

S4C is financed from its advertising revenue and a fixed annual grant from the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport ( DCMS ), receiving £ 90m of funding in 2011.

* Strand Marketing, is a marketing and advertising agency north of Boston in Newburyport, MA and a retail marketing agency based in London, UK

The record company took no chances with this album, given the failure of their previous two, and so with a TV advertising campaign, the album entered the UK Charts, eventually peaking at Number eighteen-their most successful album so far.

The first TV ad broadcast in the UK was on ITV on 21 September 1955, advertising Gibbs SR toothpaste.

Coincidentally, several new CB Radios have recently been introduced to the UK market and their popularity with traditional CB users, such as truckers and farmers, combined with a prolific advertising campaign in Amateur Radio magazines sold in the high street, is resulting in a significant number of sales.

The album cover was designed by Phonogram's advertising agency Grant Advertising UK.

Sky News Australia and Sky News New Zealand are different channels that carry variable amounts Sky News UK programming, and share some of its style, but also have local programming and advertising.

In May 2008, following stocking of Oreo ( called Oreo biscuits in UK ) in the supermarket chain Sainsbury's, Kraft decided to fully launch the Oreo across the UK, repackaged in the more familiar British tube design, accompanied with a £ 4. 5M television advertising campaign around the ' twist, lick, dunk ' catchphrase.

" advertising campaign that was initially banned in the UK, but the amount of publicity this generated resulted in the official website for the campaign being swamped with requests to see the banned ad.

A billboard ( sometimes also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world ) is a large outdoor advertising structure ( a billing board ), typically found in high traffic areas such as alongside busy roads.

On 30 July 2011, Minnie and several of her Beano co-stars were a part of a UK advertising campaign for National Trust.

In 2011 TMG became the focus of an online petition by a group called the Motor Traders Advertising Union, proposing a mass pull out by UK motor dealers frustrated by increases in advertising charges.

In January 2010, she became the face on Danone's UK advertising campaign for its Activia yogurt brand.

It later became involved in other political campaigns, including Biafra, the Vietnam war and housing in the UK.

The latter condemned his strong support for the Algerian struggle for independence from France ; the Eden government of the UK was agitated by Egyptian campaigns undermining the Baghdad Pact which Nasser viewed as a disruption of " Arab solidarity.

World AIDS Campaign also conducts " in-country " campaigns throughout the world, like the Student Stop AIDS Campaign, an infection-awareness campaign targeting young people throughout the UK.

The UK could only just maintain three active campaigns, and immediate offensives in both the Middle East and Far East proved impossible due to lack of resources.

Its primary campaigns at the moment are centred around the cuts to public services being introduced by the UK government, demands for the establishment of an independent Scottish republic as well as the provision of free school meals.

Since 2000 Tatiana has appeared in numerous television programs and ad campaigns and magazines and has graced a number of magazines covers including from Inside Sport and Black + White to GQ in Italy and Esquire in the UK.

There were a number of secularist groups around the UK and they joined up to coordinate and strengthen their campaigns.

* Prosperity UK A monthly journal on Money Reform which campaigns for publicly created debt-free money

Noted work included their campaign " Labour isn't working " on behalf of the Conservative Party before the 1979 UK general election and ongoing campaigns for British Airways, and Silk Cut with whom the agency had long relationships.

They've been involved also with the following organisations: Free Tibet, Royal National Institute for the Deaf ( RNID ), Cancer Research UK, Byrne for Heart Attack and asthma awareness campaigns, Daily Star ’ s Reclaim Our Streets crusade, Filan for Irish Red Cross ( by Sligo Rover's Showgrounds football match ), Byrne for Oxfam's East Africa Famine appeal ( by Celtic v Manchester United football match ), Filan and Byrne for Soccer Aid, JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am, One World Beat, Egan for Strandhill Indonesian Relief Fund ( SIRF, in aid of the South Asian tsunami victims ), World Food Programme ( WFP ), Muscle Help Foundation, Feehily for Aware, Byrne for Children ’ s Hospice South West ( by Truro charity football match ), Global Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign and Real Man campaign.

* Lobby the UK government, lead and support campaigns for effective policies to prevent, alleviate and abolish child and family poverty

Wild Futures campaigns to end the primate trade in the UK and abroad, and to end the abuse of primates in captivity.

The BHA campaigns for reform of Religious Education in the UK on the grounds that " all pupils in all types of school should have the opportunity to consider philosophical and fundamental questions, and that in a pluralist society we should learn about each other ’ s beliefs, including humanist ones ".

The Campaign for Freedom of Information is a lobbying group based in the United Kingdom that campaigns for Freedom of information in the United Kingdom and against unnecessary secrecy by the UK Government.

The League campaigns to raise awareness of the prevalence of dog fighting in the UK.

Many veterans of the anti-M11 link road campaign went on to protest the construction of other road schemes such as the A34 Newbury bypass at Newbury in Berkshire ; campaigns such as these helped to shift public opinion in the UK away from the unfettered building of new roads.

This has subsequently been adopted by other students ' unions around the UK, although in many instances the expansion of the abbreviation has been dropped, leaving campaigns called " Shh ", " Sshh ", or variants.

He has recently been critical of the Iraq war: " the UK and US pour blood and treasure into overseas campaigns which seem to have no ending and no goal ... Clearly I was naive ".

In the UK, L ' Oréal has faced widespread condemnation from OFCOM regarding truth in their advertising and marketing campaigns concerning the product performance of one of their mascara brands.

Avery and Nicholson had been involved in previous high-profile campaigns against facilities in the UK that bred animals for laboratories.

He led successful campaigns for repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, the introduction of Civil Partnership for lesbian and gay people in the UK and the introduction of 2007 protections against discrimination in the provision of " goods and services ", covering areas from healthcare and housing to hotels and holidays.

To achieve its goal of poverty eradication, War on Want works with grassroots partner organisations in the developing world, and campaigns in the UK to raise public awareness and change government policy.

She currently advises HSBC on their UK and Pan-European campaigns to engage with businesswomen and female entrepreneurs, helping to put on networking events around the UK and in Europe.