The Howerd Confessions was a British comedy television series which originally aired between 2 September and 7 October 1976 on ITV. It featured comedian Frankie Howerd "confessing" various indiscretions. The director/producer was Michael Mills, with scripts by Dave Freeman, Dick Hills, Hugh Stuckey and Peter Robinson.
A Room with a View is televised adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel, A Room with a View, written by Andrew Davies. It was announced in 2006 and filmed in the summer of 2007. A Room with a View was broadcast on 4 November 2007, on ITV.
Laura Mackie, ITV director of drama, has said that this adaptation "captures the spirit of Forster’s most memorable novel, but delivers it in a fresh, engaging way for a modern audience."
It was the first time real-life father and son Timothy and Rafe Spall had acted together.
Anita Rani hosts the quiz show where five contestants compete for a life-changing prize - a guaranteed place on the next series of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Documentary series filmed over 12 months and featuring unparalleled access to the elite Parachute Regiment following the process by which new recruits are turned into elite soldiers trained to kill.
Win, Lose or Draw is a British television game show that aired for nine series in the ITV daytime schedule from 1990 to 1998, produced by Scottish Television. The game was based on an American television game show of the same name.
Knight School was a comedy drama series shown on Children's ITV and made by Granada Television. It was written and created by Mark Billingham and Peter Cocks, who also starred in the series. Two series were broadcast, in the autumn of 1997 and 1998.
The Beiderbecke Trilogy refers to three television serials written by Alan Plater and made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in the United Kingdom between 1984 and 1988. Each serial centres around schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne who work at a rundown comprehensive school in Leeds. Woodwork teacher Trevor enjoys football and jazz music while English teacher Jill is a political activist concerned with saving the environment.
In each of the three serials – The Beiderbecke Affair, The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection – Jill and Trevor inadvertently become embroiled in a series of unlikely adventures involving such things as political corruption, nuclear waste dumping and serious fraud. In each serial, the plot rambles, moving from one seemingly unrelated event to another, all of which are eventually shown to be interconnected. However, it is the clever interplay between the characters that is the core of each these stories.
Each episode unfolds to a soundtrack of
For The Last Time... is a British entertainment show, celebrating music. The first episode aired on 25 September 2010, presented by Christine Bleakley, starring Simply Red and The Birmingham Irish Pipes and Drums. The second episode aired in December 2011, also hosted by Bleakley but featuring music by Westlife. The show is recorded at The London Studios.
Dracula is a video-taped television play adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, part of the series Mystery and Imagination. Denholm Elliott played Count Dracula with Susan George as Lucy Weston.
Ross Kemp goes inside the walls of HMP Belmarsh, the country's most notorious maximum security jail, that has housed the country's most dangerous - and infamous - convicts.
This is an update of 1999's powerful award winning documentary Malcolm and Barbara- a love story, which follows the couple Malcolm and Barbara Pointon as they deal with Malcolm's onset of Alzheimer's disease. Malcolm was a talented composer and musician before his illness and the film follows Barbara as she attempts to care for Malcolm in their home whilst struggling with the health service as the disease takes hold.
Bostock's Cup was a one-off British television comedy drama about a football team which appeared on ITV on the eve of the 1999 European Cup final. It was written by Chris England, directed by Marcus Mortimer and produced by Mark Robson. It starred Tim Healy as the club's manager, Neil Pearson as a veteran sportscaster, and Nick Hancock as his upstart rival. The film featured innovative use of old footage of seventies football matches to recreate the era. It was aired on 25 May 1999.
The Dales is a British television programme hosted by Ade Edmondson. The series follows Ade as he explores the Yorkshire Dales, getting to know the area and meeting the residents.
Wish You Were Here...? is a British television show that was first broadcast on 7 January 1974 on ITV. It was a series of 30 minute shows about travel and holidays. The show was broadcast during peak viewing hours and had gained a significant viewing audience in the United Kingdom. It is currently owned by Fremantle Media, who purchased its producers Thames Television in 1996.
The show was cancelled in 2003 after a reshuffling of the primetime Monday 19:00 slot on ITV.