2016 in British television

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This is a list of events taking place in 2016 related to British television.

Events

January

Date	Event
1	BBC One airs an extended version of its television special, Adele at the BBC, which includes comedy footage of a sketch in which Adele surprises a roomful of lookalikes. The footage had proved popular with viewers of the BBC's YouTube site following the programme's previous broadcast in November 2015.[1][2]
2	It is announced that British horse racing coverage will move from Channel 4 to ITV from January 2017 to January 2021 after ITV won the broadcasting rights to show free-to-air coverage of the sport. Events such as the Cheltenham Festival, Grand National, the Derby and Royal Ascot will be part of ITV's coverage, with fixtures airing on ITV and ITV4.[3][4]
	Figures indicate that The Abominable Bride, an episode of BBC One's Sherlock that aired on New Year's Day, was the most watched drama over the 2015–16 festive period, with an audience of eight million viewers. The Christmas Day finale of Downton Abbey had the highest viewership of that day, with an audience of 6.6 million.[5] Consolidated figures, which include catch-up viewers, subsequently indicate Downton Abbey to have been the most watched programme of the festive period, with an audience of 10.5 million.[6]
3	Debut of BBC One's adaptation of War & Peace, which is watched by an average audience of 6.3 million, peaking at 6.7 million.[7]
4	The BBC confirms 16 February as the date on which BBC Three will begin its transition to an online only channel. A new logo for the channel is introduced.[8]
5	Launch of the seventeenth series of Celebrity Big Brother.[9] Contestant Winston McKenzie causes controversy after expressing anti-gay sentiment in his entry video when he says that he will "cope with a homosexual in the house [by] standing against a brick wall all the time". The former UK Independence Party member and candidate for the 2016 London Mayoral election is booed by the audience as he enters the Big Brother house, while Ofcom have received 165 complaints about the comments by the following day. The regulator says it will assess the complaints before deciding whether to launch an investigation.[10]
6	Writer Charlie Higson confirms that ITV have cancelled Jekyll and Hyde after one series.[11]
	The Guardian newspaper appoints Newsnight's investigations correspondent, Nick Hopkins as its head of investigations.[12]
	The opening episode of the Eighteenth series of Midsomer Murders is unique in that its storyline features no actual murder.[13]
7	Police confirm that three bodies found at a house in London two days earlier are those of missing former EastEnders actress Sian Blake and her two children, who disappeared on 13 December 2015.[14] Her partner is subsequently arrested by police in Ghana.[15]
8	The BBC is forced to defend its decision to allow shadow defence minister Stephen Doughty to resign on an edition of The Daily Politics after the Labour Party's leadership accuses it of pursuing a "particular political narrative".[16] Doughty had resigned on the programme two days earlier, citing his unhappiness over a recent shadow cabinet reshuffle.[17][18]
	Sheridan Smith will play the head of a Dewsbury residents group who spearheaded the search for Shannon Matthews in a forthcoming BBC drama about the girl's 2008 kidnapping.[19]
	Archaeologists have called for Channel 5 to pull the series Battlefield Recovery from the schedule amid allegations of grave robbery. The programme, due to debut on 9 January, shows amateur enthusiasts unearthing war graves in Eastern Europe, and is believed to be a reworking of a 2014 programme titled Nazi War Diggers, which was pulled from the National Geographic schedules after criticism.[20]
11	Channel 4 have signed David Coulthard to present their Formula One coverage, ending speculation that he would appear in the new series of Top Gear.[21]
15	As Barbara Windsor makes her latest occasional return to EastEnders as Peggy Mitchell, the actress reveals that she has decided to quit the series for good and that her character will be killed off. Peggy will die from terminal cancer in scenes to be aired later in the year.[22] It is subsequently announced that Ross Kemp will reprise his role as Peggy's son, Grant as part of her exit storyline.[23]
18	Peter Fincham announces he will step down as ITV's director of television from February. He will be replaced by Kevin Lygo, the channel's current director of studios.[24]
19	BBC One controller Charlotte Moore is appointed to the newly created role of controller of BBC TV channels and iPlayer, while Kim Shillinglaw, current controller of BBC Two and BBC Four is to leave the BBC and her position abolished.[25]
31	The death is announced of broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan following a short illness. He was 77.[26]

February

Date	Event
2	The BBC announces a deal with Discovery Communications that enables it to broadcast coverage of the Summer and Winter Olympics up to and including the 2024 Summer Games. The agreement covers television, radio and online coverage.[27]
4	US Actor Matt LeBlanc has been signed as a presenter on the relaunched Top Gear, hosting alongside Chris Evans when the show returns in May.[28]
5	The media regular Ofcom is considering whether to investigate a party political broadcast by the UK Independence Party that urged people to vote to leave the European Union because Turkey could join. The film, which emphasized Turkey's Muslim population, suggested that country's accession to the EU could result in an influx of Turkish citizens into the UK. The four-minute film, which aired on 3 February, has resulted in 30 complaints, including allegations of inciting racial hatred.[29]
	It is reported that actress Tina Hobley has been forced to quit the third series of Channel 4's athletics-based reality show The Jump after sustaining a dislocated elbow that resulted from a fall while she was training for the series.[30]
	Reality television star Scott Timlin wins the seventeenth series of Celebrity Big Brother.[31]
8	Channel 4 launches an urgent safety review of its athletics-based reality series The Jump after olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle and swimmer Rebecca Adlington became the second and third contestants to be forced to withdraw from the competition as a result of injuries suffered during its making.[32]
9	Reality television star Mark-Francis Vandelli withdraws from The Jump after fracturing his ankle during training.[33]
11	The full Top Gear presenting line up is revealed: Chris Evans, Matt LeBlanc, Sabine Schmitz, Eddie Jordan, Rory Reid and Chris Harris.[34]
	After suffering a hamstring injury during training, athlete Linford Christie becomes the fifth contestant to withdraw from The Jump.[35]
	Channel 5, 5*, and 5USA get a new look as their stencil logos for their channels as they get their very first airing. 5* is also rebranded as 5Star on the same day.[36]
15	BBC Worldwide announces that Keeping Up Appearances is the Corporation's most exported television programme, having been sold to broadcasters overseas nearly 1,000 times.[37]
	BBC Three's final night on air sees it repeating episodes of some of its most popular series, including The Mighty Boosh and Family Guy. The final programme, aired in the early hours of 16 February, is a repeat of an episode of Gavin & Stacey. BBC Three becomes an online channel from 16 February.[38]
18	Sean O'Connor, current editor of BBC Radio 4's The Archers is to take over as producer of EastEnders, replacing Dominic Treadwell-Collins.[39]
19	The BBC Trust criticises two nature documentaries for serious editorial breaches over misleading content. In Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise, aired in September 2015, apparent footage of a volcanic eruption which occurred that year was actually of a similar event filmed in 2011, while a 2011 documentary apparently showing wild wolves hunting a baby camel was also faked. Producers used a semi-domesticated wolf for scenes in Human Planet: Deserts – Life in the Furnace, which was let off its lead shortly before filming commenced.[40]
	Nick Grimshaw confirms he has left The X Factor, and will not be a judge on the series when it returns later in the year.[41]
	This Morning agony aunt Denise Robertson, who has been with the series since it began in 1988, confirms she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.[42]
20	The family of Paul Daniels confirm the magician has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.[43]
23	The BBC announces three special debates ahead of the European Union membership referendum on 21 June—a young voters debate from Glasgow on 19 May, a Question Time special on 15 June, and what is biled as the BBC's "biggest ever campaign event" at Wembley Arena on 21 June.[44]
	Chef James Martin announces he will leave BBC One's Saturday Kitchen from the end of March; the programme will use a guest presenter format from the start of April.[45]
24	Jeremy Clarkson apologises to Oisin Tymon, the Top Gear producer he punched in 2015, after settling a £100,000 race discrimination and injury claim.[46]
25	Publication of the Dame Janet Smith Review, which concludes that serious failings at the BBC allowed Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall to sexually abuse nearly 100 people without detection.[47] BBC Director-General Tony Hall confirms that disc jockey Tony Blackburn has been sacked by the BBC because he failed to co-operate with an element of Janet Smith's report. Blackburn claims he has been "hung out to dry" by the investigation, and threatens to take legal action against his former employers.[48]
	Blue Peter presenter Lindsey Russell abandons her attempt to cross the Irish Sea in a giant inflatable ball due to bad weather.[49]
26	Bill Turnbull presents his final BBC Breakfast programme after fifteen years as a presenter. Sports presenter Dan Walker is announced as his replacement.[50]
	Channel 4 News economics editor Paul Mason announces he is leaving the broadcaster to pursue a freelance career.[51]
	Former The Voice UK contestants Joe and Jake are selected to represent the UK at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, with the uptempo "You're Not Alone", a song about unity and love. They are selected to be this year's UK Eurovision entry during a live show held at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, London, and which is broadcast on BBC Four.[52]
	The weekly newspaper review programme What the Papers Say, which aired on television for many years and of late has been part of the BBC Radio 4 schedule, is to be axed due to cost cutting measures at the network. It will end in March after being broadcast for 60 years.[53]
27	Singer Sarah Harding becomes the sixth person to withdraw from the third series of Channel 4's The Jump because of injury.[54]
29	Heather Mills becomes the seventh person to leave The Jump because of injury, having been brought in to replace previous contestants injured during the making of the programme.[55]

March

Date	Event
1	Peter Salmon is to step down as the BBC's Director of Studios to take up a position with Endemol Shine, it is announced.[56]
	Sir David Clementi's review of BBC governance has concluded that the BBC Trust is "flawed" and that Ofcom should take on responsibility for the role currently overseen by the Trust.[57]
2	The death is announced of Coronation Street creator Tony Warren, who died on the evening of 1 March, aged 79.[58]
	Culture Secretary John Whittingdale announces that the government will rush through legislation to close the loophole that allows viewers without a television licence to watch catch-up services on BBC iPlayer.[59]
6	Former Rugby Union international Ben Cohen wins Series 3 of The Jump. Cohen had been drafted in to replace one of a number of celebrities who had dropped out of the series due to injury.[60]
8	Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester will star in ground breaking BBC One crime drama Undercover, which debuts in April. The show is rare in that it will feature black lead characters in a prime time drama where their ethnicity is not a central part of the plot.[61]
	The full presenting team of Channel 4's Formula One coverage is confirmed as Murray Walker, Eddie Jordan, Steve Jones, David Coulthard, Alain Prost, Susie Wolff, Ben Edwards and Alex Zanardi.[62]
9	Former Newsround presenter John Craven is confirmed as the presenter of a new Countryfile daily spin off titled Countryfile Diaries, which will attempt to build on the popularity of the Sunday evening programme.[63]
10	A YouGov survey commissioned by the political organization 38 Degrees indicates that 53% of those questioned regard the BBC as their most-trusted source of news content.[64]
	A report published by TV industry marketing body Thinkbox suggests that viewers watched an average of 77 minutes per week of streamed television content from providers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime during 2015, almost doubling the average for 2014.[65]
	The BBC announces a landmark sitcoms season, which will see new one-off episodes of series such as Till Death Us Do Part, Porridge and Keeping Up Appearances.[66]
	BBC Director-General Tony Hall pledges to investigate increasing the availability of British Sign Language for entertainment programmes after being questioned on the issue by school students as part of the BBC's annual School Report News Day.[67]
14	Top Gear presenter Chris Evans apologises "unreservedly" after it emerged that scenes for a stunt in the forthcoming series of the motoring show were filmed around the Cenotaph, something Evans describes as "disrespectful" and which left him feeling "mortified" when he learned of it. Evans also says that footage of the stunt will never be broadcast[68] The BBC also confirms that the material will not be shown.[69]
	CBBC gets a new look and logo.[70]
	ITV confirms that the set of Emmerdale, which is situated on the Harewood Estate in Leeds, will be open for guided tours from April.[71]
15	Comedian Jack Dee confirms he is stepping down as presenter of The Apprentice: You're Fired due to other work commitments.[72]
16	As the second series of BBC One crime drama Happy Valley reaches its conclusion, screenwriter Sally Wainwright says that she would like to write a third series but needs time to develop the plot.[73]
17	Sky News presenter Kay Burley attracts ridicule over her response to the death of former newsreader Cliff Michelmore after confusing him with Malcolm Muggeridge, who died in 1990, and tweeting her condolences to Muggeridge's family.[74]
18	Sport Relief 2016 is aired across the BBC, raising more than £55m for good causes by the following day.[75]
19	Channel 4 begins its Formula One coverage with highlights of the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, the first race of the 2016 season.[76] The first live race to be aired by the channel is the Bahrain Grand Prix, held two weeks later.[77]
21	After the concluding two episodes of the BBC One thriller The Night Manager were posted online, producers of the series say they are working hard to remove the content.[78]
	An edition of The Jeremy Kyle Show aired on 18 January that included an expletive spoken with a Scottish accent escapes censure from Ofcom after ITV said that the person's accent meant the word had not been "understood" before the show was broadcast. No complaints about the incident were received by the regulator.[79]
22	Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid breaks down while interviewing a man who rescued a baby from drowning.[80]
24	Sky Sports signs an exclusive deal to broadcast live Formula 1 coverage from 2019, meaning live coverage with the exception of the British Grand Prix will no longer be free.[81]
25	A fire in the post room of ITV's London studios temporarily forces Good Morning Britain off the air as people are evacuated from the building and the fire tackled.[82]
26	James Martin presents his final edition of Saturday Kitchen after ten years.[83]
	Chloe Castro and Beth Morris, two contestants on this year's series of The Voice, withdraw from the contest hours before the live part of the show is due to begin. Castro cites health reasons for her decision, while Morris says she is withdrawing for personal reasons.[84] Morris subsequently confirms that she withdrew from the series because of cocaine addiction.[85]
27	The FA Cup trophy that was in use between 1911 and 1992 is valued at more than £1m on an edition of Antiques Roadshow, making it the most valuable item to appear on the programme.[86]
	The final episode of BBC One's thriller The Night Manager draws an audience of 6.6 million, beating ITV's Our Queen at 90, which airs in the same timeslot but has a million fewer viewers.[87]
28	Jeremy Kyle makes his presenting debut on Good Morning Britain, standing in for Piers Morgan.[88]
29	Dermot O'Leary confirms he is returning to present the next series of The X Factor just a year after leaving the role.[89]
31	Amy Stanning becomes the UK's first transgender continuity announcer after being hired by Channel 4 to provide voiceover for announcements to celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility.[90]

April

Date	Event
1	Steve November confirms he is to step down as ITV's head of drama after sixteen years with the broadcaster.[91]
5	Cheryl Fernandez-Versini confirms she will not be part of the X Factor judging panel when the series returns later in the year.[92]
6	ITV News presenter Mark Austin makes his presenting debut on Good Morning Britain.[93]
7	Alex Scott wins the second series of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.[94]
9	Kevin Simm, a former member of 2000s group Liberty X, wins the fifth series of The Voice UK, and releases his debut single "All You Good Friends".[95]
15	While reporting from the launch of the Vote Leave campaign in Manchester, Channel 4 journalist Michael Crick is interrupted by an audience member while doing a live broadcast after London Mayor Boris Johnson asked for someone to go and shut him up.[96]
19	Sky launches a new major rebrand of its channels, including Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, and Sky Arts.[95]
21	BBC One drama series Dickensian is cancelled after one series.[97]
23	Pearl Mackie is confirmed as the new Doctor Who companion, replacing Jenna Coleman, who left the series in 2015. The announcement is made on BBC One at half-time during the FA Cup semi-final between Manchester United and Everton.[98]
27	The BBC confirms that Top Gear will have a sister programme, Extra Gear, presented by Rory Reid.[99]

May

Date	Event
2	Sky Sports airs the moment Leicester City win the Premier League title after Tottenham's draw with Chelsea on the same evening that the BBC aired coverage of the "Jester from Leicester" Mark Selby winning the World Snooker Championship, completing a remarkable sporting double for the city.

June

Date	Event

July

Date	Event

August

Date	Event

September

Date	Event

October

Date	Event

November

Date	Event
2	BBC Television celebrates its 80th anniversary.

December

Date	Event

Debuts

BBC

Date	Debut	Channel
1 January	Billionaire Boy	BBC One
	The Joy of Rachmaninov	BBC Four
3 January	My Mediterranean with Adrian Chiles	BBC Two
	War & Peace	BBC One
4 January	For What It's Worth	BBC One
	Immortal Egypt with Joann Fletcher	BBC Two
	Insert Name Here	BBC Two
	I Know What You Weighed Last Summer	BBC Three
5 January	Victorian Bakers	BBC Two
	You Make Me Feel Like Dancing	BBC Two
6 January	Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley	BBC Four
	Got What It Takes?	CBBC
8 January	What to Buy and Why	BBC Two
11 January	Tracey Ullman's Show	BBC One
16 January	The Getaway Car	BBC One
17 January	The Rack Pack	BBC iPlayer
19 January	Phone Shop Idol	BBC Two
20 January	The Brain with David Eagleman	BBC Four
21 January	The Story of China	BBC Two
22 January	Bad Language	BBC One Northern Ireland
24 January	Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur	BBC One
25 January	Island Stories	BBC Two
	Mary Berry's Foolproof Cooking	BBC Two
26 January	The Real Marigold Hotel	BBC Two
	Murder Games: The Life and Death of Breck Bednar	BBC Three
27 January	Stonehenge: A Timewatch Guide	BBC Four
1 February	Great American Railroad Journeys	BBC Two
	Rise of the Superstar Vloggers	BBC Three
2 February	Back in Time for the Weekend	BBC Two
	The Supergamers	BBC Three
3 February	Webcam Boys	BBC Three
4 February	Sea Cities	BBC Two
	Cats V Dogs: Which Is Best?	BBC Two
5 February	Earth's Greatest Spectacles	BBC Two
7 February	Greece with Simon Reeve	BBC Two
8 February	Rick Stein's Taste of Shanghai	BBC Two
9 February	Professor Green: Hidden and Homeless	BBC Three
10 February	How To Die: Simon's Choice	BBC Two
15 February	The Best Dishes Ever	BBC Two
	The Renaissance Unchained	BBC Four
	The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On	BBC One
	Life and Death Row	BBC Three
17 February	One Child	BBC Two
20 February	Airmageddon	CBBC
	Kipling's Indian Adventure	BBC Two
21 February	The Night Manager	BBC One
22 February	Food: Truth or Scare	BBC One
23 February	Who's the Boss?	BBC Two
24 February	The Prosecutors: Real Crime and Punishment	BBC Four
27 February	Stag	BBC Two
28 February	Thirteen	BBC Three
29 February	Too Much TV	BBC Two
1 March	The Last Seabird Summer?	BBC Four
3 March	Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed with Mary Beard	BBC One
	Murder	BBC Two
4 March	Land of Hope and Glory - British Country Life	BBC Two
6 March	Steve Backshall's Extreme Mountain Challenge	BBC Two
7 March	Frontline Doctors: Winter Migrant Crisis	BBC One
	This Farming Life	BBC Two
8 March	Sex in Strange Places	BBC Three
9 March	Shop Well for Less?	BBC One
10 March	The Secret History of My Family	BBC Two
15 March	Mary Berry's Easter Feast	BBC Two
20 March	Tribes, Predators & Me	BBC Two
21 March	Think Tank	BBC One
22 March	The A Word	BBC One
23 March	Employable Me	BBC Two
26 March	Can't Touch This[100]	BBC One
27 March	Paul O'Grady: The Sally Army & Me	BBC One
	Natural Born Winners	BBC Two
29 March	Bake Off: Crème de la Crème	BBC Two
	Murdered By My Father	BBC Three
30 March	Delete, Delete, Delete	BBC One Northern Ireland
1 April	Two Doors Down	BBC Two
3 April	Life in the Air	BBC One
	Undercover	BBC One
12 April	Europe: Them or Us	BBC Two
13 April	Five Star Babies: Inside the Portland Hospital	BBC Two
	Normal for Norfolk	BBC Two
15 April	Food Detectives	BBC Two
16 April	Michael McIntyre's Big Show	BBC One
18 April	The Code	BBC One
	Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle	BBC One
	I Want My Wife Back	BBC One
	The Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain	BBC Two
20 April	Caravaner of the Year	BBC Two
21 April	Aliens: The Big Think	BBC Four
22 April	Rick Stein's Long Weekends	BBC Two
	Witless	BBC Three
	The Everly Brothers: Harmonies from Heaven	BBC Four
	Billy Fury: The Sound of Fury	BBC Four
24 April	Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion	BBC Two
25 April	Zig and Zag	CBBC
27 April	Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit	BBC Two
29 April	Down on the Farm	CBeebies
30 April	The Silk Road	BBC Four
	Redefining Juliet	BBC Four
5 May	Gareth's Invictus Choir	BBC One
6 May	Nick Baker’s Wild West	BBC Two
	The Extraordinary Collector	BBC Two
7 May	The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses	BBC Two
8 May	Attenborough at 90	BBC One
	Bruma's Secret Jungle War with Joe Simpson	BBC Two
9 May	Choose the Right Puppy for You	BBC Two
	Attenborough's Life That Glows	BBC Two
	Upstart Crow	BBC Two
May	No Such Thing as the News	BBC Two
Unknown	The Living and the Dead	BBC One
Unknown	Mum[101]	BBC Two
Unknown	Himalaya with Sue Perkins[102]	BBC Two
Unknown	Old School[103]	BBC Two
Unknown	More Cash Right Now	BBC One
Unknown	Taboo	BBC One
Unknown	Horizon: Stop Smoking	BBC Two
Unknown	Remembering 1966	BBC One
Unknown	Awful Auntie	BBC One

ITV

Date	Debut	Channel
3 January	Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands	ITV
4 January	Griff's Great Britain	ITV
5 January	Trawlermen Tales	ITV
	Saved	ITV
7 January	Jericho[104]	ITV
10 January	Bear Grylls' Survival School	CITV
21 January	Fearne & Gok: Off The Rails[105]	ITVBe
26 January	Sugar Free Farm	ITV
15 February	Masterpiece with Alan Titchmarsh	ITV
16 February	It's Not Rocket Science	ITV
19 February	Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury	ITV
23 February	The Inspectors Are Coming	ITV
28 February	Churchill's Secret	ITV
29 February	Davina McCall: Life at the Extreme[106]	ITV
3 March	The Cruise	ITV
6 March	The Story of Cats	ITV
	Doctor Thorne[107]	ITV
13 March[108]	Houdini and Doyle	ITV Encore
17 March	@elevenish	ITV2
28 March	Gok's Lunchbox	ITV
	Maigret	ITV
1 April	Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America[109]	ITV
3 April	The Durrells[110]	ITV
4 April	Marcella	ITV
5 April	How Not to DIY	ITV
	Drive[111]	ITV
10 April	The Wine Show	ITV4
16 April		ITV
11 April	Chopping Block[112]	ITV
14 April	Bargain Shop Wars	ITV
16 April	Bang on the Money	ITV
19 April	Fierce[113]	ITV
25 April	Wild Australia with Ray Mears	ITV
28 April	What Would Be Your Miracle[114][115][116]	ITV
29 April	The Secret	ITV
8 May	Peston on Sunday[117]	ITV
11 May	Killer Women with Piers Morgan[118]	ITV
Unknown	Tina and Bobby	ITV
Unknown	Tennison[119]	ITV
Unknown	The Next Great Magician	ITV
Unknown	The Lady in the Castle
Unknown	Judge Rinder's Crime Stories	ITV
Unknown	Life Inside Lockdown[120]	ITV
Unknown	Alphabetical with Jeff Stelling[121]	ITV
Unknown	Victoria	ITV
Unknown	The Good Karma Hospital	ITV
Unknown	HIM	ITV
Unknown	The Halcyon[122]	ITV
Unknown	The Level[123]	ITV
Unknown	Tutankhamun[124]	ITV
Unknown	A Very Public Education[125]	ITV
Unknown	Brief Encounters[126]	ITV
Unknown	When the Going Gets Tough	ITV
Unknown	This Time Next Year	ITV
Unknown	Dark Angel[127]	ITV

Channel 4

Date	Debut	Channel
5 January	Tricks of the Restaurant Trade[128]	Channel 4
11 January	How To Lose Weight Well	Channel 4
	Crashing	Channel 4
	All Hail The Veil	E4
23 January	The Girl Who Forgave the Nazis	Channel 4
26 January	Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge	More4
29 January	The Last Leg Goes Down Under	Channel 4
1 February	Supershoppers	Channel 4
2 February	The Secret Life of the Zoo	Channel 4
3 February	Discovering Britain	More4
4 February	Keeping Up with the Khans	Channel 4
6 February	Walking Through Time	Channel 4
8 February	Royal Navy School	Channel 4
22 February	A New Life in the Sun	Channel 4
25 February	Ugly House with George Clarke	Channel 4
7 March	Vet on the Hill	More4
8 March	The Aliens	E4
10 March	Live from Abbey Road Classics	Channel 4
21 March	The Food Chain	Channel 4
28 March	Guy Martin's Wall of Death: Live	Channel 4
6 April	The People Next Door	Channel 4
7 April	British Army Girls	Channel 4
8 April	Lookalikes	Channel 4
10 April	Hidden Britain by Drones	Channel 4
16 April	The Queen's Coronation: Behind Palace Doors	More4
	How to Be Queen: 63 Years and Counting	More4
17 April	The Fearless Chef: Bolivia	Channel 4
19 April	The Tiny Tots Talent Agency	Channel 4
25 April	Flowers	Channel 4
	Joe and Caspar Hit The Road	E4
4 May	Never Seen A Doctor	Channel 4
5 May	Grayson Perry: All Man	Channel 4
6 May	The Windsors	Channel 4
Unknown	Born to Kill	Channel 4
Unknown	Guy in China	Channel 4
Unknown	The Last Leg Road Trip	Channel 4
Unknown	The Body Coach[129]	Channel 4
Unknown	Alan Carr's Make or Break	Channel 4
Unknown	Crash Test Dieters	Channel 4
Unknown	Inside Marks & Spencer (working title)	Channel 4
Unknown	What Britain Bought in 2015	Channel 4
Unknown	The Island USA with Bear Gyrlls	All 4
Unknown	The Celebrity Island with Bear Gyrlls	Channel 4

Channel 5

Date	Debut	Channel
4 January	14 Years On Death Row[130]	Channel 5
5 January	Bargain-Loving Brits In The Sun
7 January	Celebrity Botched Up Bodies[131]
	Britain's Bloody Crown
8 January	Lip Sync Battle UK
9 January	Battlefield Recovery
	Chasing Monsters
12 January	The Secret Life Of The Family
22 January	That's So
1 February	America's Hidden Pyramid City
9 February	The Great British Benefits Handout
10 February	Violent Child, Desperate Parents
11 February	Flood Chaos: Winter Road Rescue
	Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
15 February	Weather Terror: Brits in Peril
10 March	Britain's Worst Crimes
11 March	Kitten Impossible
21 March	The Tube: Going Underground
24 March	Medical Mysteries
8 April	Cleopatra: Mother, Mistress, Murderer, Queen
	Secrets of the Egyptian Pyramids
15 April	Henry VIII and his Six Wives
	Elizabeth II: 90 Glorious Years
	Secrets of the Palace Pets
19 April	Tribal Teens… Here Comes Trouble
22 April	Ben Fogle: The Great African Migration
28 April	The Secret Life of Puppies and Kittens
9 May	Up Late with Rylan
10 May	Penguin A&E with Lorraine Kelly
Unknown	It's Not Me, It's You

Other channels

Date	Debut	Channel
6 January	100 Code	Sky Atlantic
11 January	My Kitchen Rules New Zealand	Sky Living
15 January	Tinkershrimp & Dutch	Nickelodeon
22 January	Stan Lee's Lucky Man	Sky 1
15 February	ON	W
	Get Me to the Church	W
28 February	Dogs Might Fly	Sky 1
12 April	Micky Flanagan's Detour De France	Sky 1
	Camping	Sky Atlantic
15 April	The Five	Sky 1
21 April	Shakespeare: The Legacy with John Nettles	Yesterday
June	Agatha Raisin	Sky 1
Unknown	Harry Hill's Tea Time	Sky 1
Unknown	Braking Badly	Sky 1
Unknown	I've Got Something to Tell You	W
Unknown	John Bishop: In Conversation With...	W
Unknown	untitled Amazon motoring show	Amazon Video Amazon Prime

Channels

New channels

Date	Channel
22 March	True Crime
	True Crime +1

Defunct channels

Date	Channel
16 February	BBC Three
	BBC Three HD

Rebranding channels

Date	Old Name	New Name
12 January	Sony Entertainment Television	Sony Channel
11 February	5*	5Star
15 February	Watch	W

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Don't Tell the Bride	BBC One/BBC Three	Sky 1
EastEnders (repeats)	BBC Three	W
Josh	BBC Three	BBC One (BBC Three Online)
Stacey Dooley Investigates	BBC Three	BBC One (BBC Three Online)
Coach Trip	Channel 4	E4
Britain's Next Top Model	Sky Living	Lifetime

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Programme	Date(s) of original removal	Original channel(s)	Date of return	New channel(s)
The Big Quiz	2012	ITV	1 January 2016	ITV (same channel)
Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model	2005 2013	Sky Living	14 January 2016	Lifetime
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge	2012	Sky Atlantic	8 February 2016	Sky Atlantic (same channel)
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em [132]	25 December 1978	BBC One	18 March 2016	BBC One (same channel)
Maigret	1993	ITV	28 March 2016	ITV (same channel)
Cold Feet	2003	ITV	2016	ITV (same channel)
Robot Wars	2004	BBC One BBC Two BBC Choice Channel 5	2016	BBC Two (same channel)
Animal Park	2011	BBC One/ BBC Two	2016	BBC One

1950s

Programme	Date
Panorama	(1953–present)
The Sky at Night	(1957–present)
Final Score	(1958–present) (part of Grandstand 1958–2001)
Blue Peter	(1958–present)

1960s

Programme	Date
Coronation Street	(1960–present)
Maigret	(1960–1963, 1992–1993, 2016–present)
Points of View	(1961–present)
Songs of Praise	(1961–present)
South Today	(1961–present)
University Challenge	(1962–1987, 1994–present)
Doctor Who	(1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present)
Horizon	(1964–present)
Match of the Day	(1964–present)
Top of the Pops	(1964–present) (only at Christmas 2006–present)
Gardeners' World	(1968–present)
A Question of Sport	(1968, 1970–present)

1970s

Programme	Date
Emmerdale	(1972–present)
Mastermind (including Celebrity Mastermind)	(1972–1997, 2003–present)
Newsround	(1972–present)
Football Focus	(1974–present)
Arena	(1975–present)
One Man and His Dog	(1976–present)
Top Gear	(1977–2001, 2002–present)
Antiques Roadshow	(1979–present)
Question Time	(1979–present)

1980s

Programme	Date
Children in Need	(1980–present)
Countdown	(1982–present)
ITV Breakfast	(1983–present)
Thomas & Friends	(1984–present)
EastEnders	(1985–present)
Watchdog	(1985–present)
Comic Relief	(1985–present)
Catchphrase	(1986–2002, 2013–present)
Casualty	(1986–present)
Fifteen to One	(1988–2003, 2013–present)
Red Dwarf	(1988–1999, 2009, 2012–present)
This Morning	(1988–present)
Countryfile	(1988–present)

1990s

Programme	Date
Have I Got News for You	(1990–present)
MasterChef	(1990–2001, 2005–present)
ITV News Meridian	(1993–present)
Junior MasterChef	(1994–1999, 2010–present)
Room 101	(1994–2007, 2012–present)
Hollyoaks	(1995–present)
Soccer AM	(1995–present)
Silent Witness	(1996–present)
Midsomer Murders	(1997–present)
Y Clwb Rygbi	(1997–present)
Robot Wars	(1998–2004, 2016–present)
Cold Feet	(1998–2003, 2016–present)
Holby City	(1999–present)
Loose Women	(1999–present)

2000s

Programme	Date
2000
Big Brother (including Celebrity Big Brother)	(2000–present)
Bargain Hunt	(2000–present)
BBC Breakfast	(2000–present)
Click	(2000–present)
Doctors	(2000–present)
A Place in the Sun	(2000–present)
The Unforgettable	(2000–2002, 2010–present)
Unreported World	(2000–present)
2001
BBC South East Today	(2001–present)
Rogue Traders	(2001–present) (part of Watchdog 2009–present)
2002
Escape to the Country	(2002–present)
Fifth Gear	(2002–present)
Flog It!	(2002–present)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!	(2002–present)
In It to Win It	(2002–present)
Inside Out	(2002–present)
Most Haunted	(2002–2010, 2014–present)
River City	(2002–present)
Saturday Kitchen	(2002–present)
2003
Daily Politics	(2003–present)
QI	(2003–present)
This Week	(2003–present)
Eggheads	(2003–present)
Extraordinary People	(2003–present)
Grumpy Old Men	(2003–present)
Homes Under the Hammer	(2003–present)
Traffic Cops	(2003–present)
2004
Doc Martin	(2004–present)
Match of the Day 2	(2004–present)
Strictly Come Dancing	(2004–present)
The X Factor	(2004–present)
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year	(2004–present)
The Culture Show	(2004–present)
Football First	(2004–present)
The Gadget Show	(2004–present)
Live at the Apollo	(2004–present)
NewsWatch	(2004–present)
SadlerVision	(2004–present)
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two	(2004–present)
Who Do You Think You Are?	(2004–present)
2005
8 out of 10 Cats	(2005–present)
Coach Trip	(2005–2006, 2009–2012, 2013–present)
Deal or No Deal	(2005–present)
The Andrew Marr Show	(2005–present)
The Adventure Show	(2005–present)
The Apprentice	(2005–present)
Dragons' Den	(2005–present)
The Hotel Inspector	(2005–present)
The Jeremy Kyle Show	(2005–present)
Mock the Week	(2005–present)
Springwatch	(2005–present)
2006
The Album Chart Show	(2006–present)
Animal Spies!	(2006–present)
The Apprentice: You're Fired!	(2006–present)
Banged Up Abroad	(2006–present)
Cricket AM	(2006–present)
Dickinson's Real Deal	(2006–present)
Don't Get Done, Get Dom	(2006–present)
Monkey Life	(2006–present)
Not Going Out	(2006–present)
The One Show	(2006–present)
People & Power	(2006–present)
Peschardt's People	(2006–present)
The Secret Millionaire	(2006–2008, 2010–present)
The Slammer	(2006–present)
2007
Britain's Got Talent	(2007–present)
Would I Lie to You?	(2007–present)
Benidorm	(2007–present)
The Big Questions	(2007–present)
Don't Tell the Bride	(2007–present)
The Graham Norton Show	(2007–present)
Heir Hunters	(2007–present)
Helicopter Heroes	(2007–present)
Inspector George Gently	(2007–present)
London Ink	(2007–present)
Real Rescues	(2007–present)
The Hot Desk	(2007–present)
2008
An Là	(2008–present)
Big & Small	(2008–present)
Celebrity Juice	(2008–present)
Chuggington	(2008–present)
Only Connect	(2008–present)
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is	(2008–present)
Police Interceptors	(2008–present)
Rubbernecker	(2008–present)
Seachd Là	(2008–present)
Snog Marry Avoid?	(2008–present)
Supersize vs Superskinny	(2008–present)
Wallander	(2008–present)
2009
PhoneShop	(2009–present)
Pointless	(2009–present)
Russell Howard's Good News	(2009–present)
The Chase	(2009–present)
The Cube	(2009–present)
Alan Carr: Chatty Man	(2009–present)
Bang Goes the Theory	(2009–present)
Countrywise	(2009–present)
Cowboy Trap	(2009–present)
Four Weddings	(2009–present)
Piers Morgan's Life Stories	(2009–present)
Rip Off Britain	(2009–present)

2010s

Programme	Date
2010
DCI Banks	(2010–present)
The Great British Bake Off	(2010–present)
Great British Railway Journeys	(2010–present)
A League of Their Own	(2010–present)
Little Crackers	(2010–present)
Lorraine	(2010–present)
Luther	(2010–present)
The Million Pound Drop Live	(2010–present)
The Nightshift	(2010–present)
The Only Way Is Essex	(2010–present)
Sherlock	(2010–present)
Sunday Morning Live	(2010–present)
Take Me Out	(2010–present)
2011
All Over the Place	(2011–present)
Black Mirror	(2011–present)
Four Rooms	(2011–present)
Fresh Meat	(2011–2016)
Friday Download	(2011–present)
Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands	(2011–present)
Made in Chelsea	(2011–present)
Match of the Day Kickabout	(2011–present)
Scott & Bailey	(2011–2016)
Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents	(2011–present)
Text Santa	(2011–present)
Trollied	(2011–present)
Vera	(2011–present)
2012
Endeavour	(2012–present)
Call the Midwife	(2012–present)
Prisoners' Wives	(2012–present)
The Syndicate	(2012–present)
Stella	(2012–present)
Stand Up To Cancer	(2012–present)
The Voice UK	(2012–present)
Tipping Point	(2012–present)
Last Tango in Halifax	(2012–present)
Claimed and Shamed	(2012–present)
2013
The Dumping Ground	(2013–present)
Mr Selfridge	(2013–2016)
Blandings	(2013–present)
Dani's Castle	(2013–present)
Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom	(2013–present)
Broadchurch	(2013–present)
Caught Red Handed	(2013–present)
Shetland	(2013–present)
Vicious	(2013–present)
The Village	(2013–present)
The Great British Sewing Bee	(2013–present)
The Fall	(2013–present)
Big Star's Little Star	(2013–present)
The Dog Rescuers	(2013–present)
Still Open All Hours	(2013–present)
2014
Agatha Raisin	(2014–present)
Boomers	(2014–present)
The Jump	(2014–2016)
Prey	(2014–present)
The Great Interior Design Challenge	(2014–present)
Hair	(2014–present)
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice	(2014–present)
Good Morning Britain	(2014–present)
Happy Valley	(2014–present)
Holiday of My Lifetime	(2014, 2016–present)
Tyger Takes On...	(2014–present)
Educating Joey Essex	(2014–present)
In the Club	(2014–present)
Weekend	(2014–present)
Judge Rinder	(2014–present)
Grantchester	(2014–present)
Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis	(2014–present)
The Big Allotment Challenge	(2014–present)
W1A	(2014–present)
Who's Doing the Dishes?	(2014–present)
2015
The Almost Impossible Gameshow	(2015–present)
Bring the Noise	(2015–2016)
Chewing Gum	(2015–present)
The Coroner	(2015–present)
Cradle to Grave	(2015–present)
Decimate	(2015–present)
The Delivery Man	(2015–present)
Dickensian	(2015–2016)
Doctor Foster	(2015–present)
The Great Pottery Throw Down	(2015–present)
Hive Minds	(2015–present)
Hoff the Record	(2015–present)
Home Fires	(2015–present)
Indian Summers	(2015–present)
The Interceptor	(2015–present)
The John Bishop Show	(2015–present)
Josh	(2015–present)
The Keith Lemon Sketch Show	(2015–present)
The Kyle Files	(2015–present)
Ninja Warrior UK	(2015–present)
Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords	(2015–present)
No Offence	(2015–present)
Ordinary Lies	(2015–present)
Peter Kay's Car Share	(2015–present)
Poldark	(2015–present)
Real Stories with Ranvir Singh	(2015–present)
Rebound	(2015–present)
Safe House	(2015–present)
The Saturday Show	(2015–present)
Simply Nigella	(2015–present)
SunTrap	(2015–present)
Thunderbirds Are Go	(2015–present)
Victoria Derbyshire	(2015–present)
1000 Heartbeats	(2015–present)
10,000 BC	(2015–present)

Ending this year

Date(s)	Programme	Channel(s)	Debut(s)
13 January	Great Barrier Reef	BBC One	2015
14 January	World's Sneakiest Animals	BBC Two
15 January	Bring the Noise	Sky 1
24 January	Walking the Himalayas	Channel 4
5 February	The Dumping Ground: I'm...	CBBC	2016
7 February	War & Peace	BBC One
21 February	Dickensian		2015
	Deutschland 83	Channel 4	2016
25 February	Keeping Up with the Khans
	The Story of China	BBC Two
	Jericho	ITV
2 March	One Child	BBC Two
7 March	The Renaissance Unchained	BBC Four
11 March	Mr Selfridge	ITV	2013
12 March	Stag	BBC Two	2016
20 March	Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands	ITV
	Doctor Thorne
27 March	The Night Manager	BBC One
	Thirteen	BBC Three
28 March	Fresh Meat	Channel 4	2011
7 April	The Cruise	ITV	2016
17 April	Life in the Air	BBC One
23 April	Airmageddon	CBBC
27 April	Scott & Bailey	ITV	2011

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Broadcast credibility
2 January	Leonard White[133]	99	Television producer and actor
9 January	Ed Stewart[134]	74	British TV and radio broadcaster (Top of the Pops, Crackerjack)
13 January	Brian Bedford[135]	80	Actor (Robin Hood, Nixon, Much Ado About Nothing)
	Conrad Phillips[136]	90	Actor (The Adventures of William Tell)
14 January	Alan Rickman[137]	69	Actor (Harry Potter, Die Hard, Love Actually)
	Robert Banks Stewart[138]	84	Writer and producer (Bergerac, Doctor Who, The Darling Buds of May)
19 January	Sheila Sim (Lady Attenborough)[139]	93	Actress (A Canterbury Tale, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, West of Zanzibar) and widow of Sir Richard Attenborough
26 January	Charlie Courtauld[140]	49	Television producer and journalist (Question Time)
30 January	Frank Finlay[141]	89	Actor (Othello, The Pianist, The Three Musketeers)
31 January	Sir Terry Wogan[142][143]	77	Broadcaster (Auntie's Bloomers, Blankety Blank, Children in Need, Wogan, Eurovision Song Contest, Stoppit and Tidyup, Wogan's Perfect Recall)
14 February	Drewe Henley[144]	75	Actor (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
20 February	Jon Rollason[145]	84	Actor (The Avengers, Coronation Street, Doctor Who, Softly, Softly, Z-Cars)
22 February	Douglas Slocombe[146][147]	103	Cinematographer (Indiana Jones, The Lion in Winter, Jesus Christ Superstar)
28 February	Frank Kelly[148][149]	77	Actor (Father Ted, Emmerdale, Aristocrats, Evelyn, Malice Aforethought)
1 March	Louise Plowright[150][151]	59	Actress (Mamma Mia!, EastEnders, Families)
	Tony Warren[152][153]	79	Television scriptwriter, creator of Coronation Street
13 March	Adrienne Corri[154]	85	Actress (Doctor Zhivago, A Clockwork Orange, Doctor Who)
15 March	Sylvia Anderson[155]	88	Television and film producer, writer and voice actress (Thunderbirds)
16 March	Cliff Michelmore[156][157]	96	Broadcast presenter and producer (Tonight)
17 March	Paul Daniels[158][159]	77	Magician and game show host (The Paul Daniels Magic Show, Odd One Out, Every Second Counts, Wipeout)
18 March	Barry Hines[160]	76	Author and screenwriter (Kes, The Price of Coal, Threads)
25 March	Terry Brain[161]	60	Animator, co-creator of The Trap Door
31 March	Ronnie Corbett[162][163]	85	Comedian, television presenter and actor (The Two Ronnies, Small Talk, You're Only Young Twice, Sorry!, The Frost Report)
	Denise Robertson[164][165]	83	Writer and television broadcaster (This Morning)
	Douglas Wilmer[166]	96	Actor (Sherlock Holmes, Octopussy, Jason and the Argonauts)
8 April	David Swift[167]	85	Actor (Drop the Dead Donkey)
13 April	Gareth Thomas[168]	71	Actor (Blake's 7, Children of the Stones, Star Maidens)
15 April	Morag Siller[169]	46	Actor (Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Memphis Belle, Casualty)
18 April	Karina Huff[170]	55	Actress (The House of Clocks, Time for Loving, Voices from Beyond)
20 April	Victoria Wood[171][172]	62	Comedian (New Faces, Victoria Wood as Seen on TV, Pat and Margaret, Dinnerladies, Housewife, 49)
26 April	Mark Farmer[173]	53	Actor (Grange Hill, Minder, Johnny Jarvis)
28 April	Barry Howard[174]	78	Actor (Hi-de-Hi!, Terry and June, You Rang, M'Lord?, The House of Windsor, Dad, Beautiful People)
3 May	Kristian Ealey[175]	38	Actor (Brookside, Hollyoaks)

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