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2017 in British television
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This is a list of events that took place in 2017 relating to Television in the United Kingdom.
Events
January
| Date | Event |
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| 1 | BBC One launches a new set of idents, replacing the circle idents that have been shown before programmes for a decade. The new idents feature the photography of Martin Parr, who has attempted to capture portraits of modern Britain.[1] |
| EastEnders airs the deaths of characters Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell in a swimming pool freak accident.[2] | |
| Sherlock returns to BBC One for a fourth series. Overnight viewing figures indicate the first episode was watched by an average audience of 8.1 million, making it the second most watched programme of the 2016–17 festive period; The New Year's Eve fireworks had a viewership of 11.6 million.[3] | |
| 3 | The lunchtime edition of Midlands Today is taken off air after staff are evacuated from The Mailbox complex when a fire alarm is activated. The incident turns out to be a false alarm.[4][5] |
| 4 | Fawlty Towers is voted the best British sitcom of all time British sitcom in a survey of comedians, comedy writers and actors.[6] |
| 5 | Channel 4 announce they are to show the Monaco Grand Prix and Singapore Grand Prix live for the first time in five years and the United States Grand Prix live for the first time in a decade on free-to-air TV, as they announce their picks for 2017. As part of the C4F1 coverage, also the British Grand Prix and Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as contracted.[7] |
| 6 | The manufacturers of the Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway board game apologise after several of the quiz questions were found to have incorrect answers.[8] |
| 7 | The BBC airs the first Saturday evening National Lottery Draw to be shown via BBC iPlayer only, the Corporation having taken the decision to stop broadcasting the draw live on BBC One after agreeing a new deal with Lottery operator Camelot Group.[9] |
| BBC Two airs the documentary David Bowie: The Last Five Years on the eve of what would have been the singer's 70th birthday.[10] | |
| Let It Shine makes its debut on BBC One, while The Voice debuts on ITV. Overnight viewing figures indicate that an average audience of 6.3 million tuned in for Let It Shine, narrowly beating the 5.9 million who watched The Voice.[11] | |
| 10 | Former deputy governor of the Bank of England David Clementi is named as BBC chairman, heading the board of directors that will replace the BBC Trust.[12] |
| 11 | BBC Director-General Tony Hall unveils plans to revamp BBC iPlayer in order to make it the premier online television service by 2020.[13] |
| 12 | BBC One announces the launch of The Big Painting Challenge, a boot-camp style series that will see amateur artists compete for the title of Britain's best amateur artist. The prime-time Sunday evening show, which will begin in February, will be presented by will be hosted by Mariella Frostrup and the Rev Richard Coles.[14] |
| BBC Two has commissioned Terry Pratchett: Back in Black, a documentary about the fantasy author Terry Pratchett which takes a humorous look at his life story.[15] | |
| 13 | Sky says it has pulled an episode of its series Urban Myths about Michael Jackson following a complaint from his daughter. Paris Jackson had said that she was "incredibly offended" by the portrayal of her father in the programme due to be aired by Sky Arts.[16] |
| Richard Ayoade will present a new series of The Crystal Maze when it returns to Channel 4 later this year, the broadcaster announces. Stephen Merchant presented a one off edition of the game show last year.[17] | |
| Channel 5 weather presenter Sian Welby will join Heart Radio to present the weekday evening show from 16 January.[18] | |
| 14 | The Russian version of "The Final Problem", the last in the current series of Sherlock, is illegally uploaded to the internet prior to its transmission on 15 January.[19] The BBC launches an investigation into the leak.[20] Overnight viewing figures suggest the show episode was watched by an audience of 5.9 million.[21] |
| 15 | The BBC announce plans to adapt the John le Carré novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold for television.[22] |
| 18 | The BBC Trust rules that a BBC News at Six report from November 2015 discussing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's view on the shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland was impartial and inaccurate.[23] |
| Channel 4 announces that Wife Swap will return for a one-off Brexit special.[24] | |
| 19 | It is reported that Bill Emmott, a former board member of Ofcom, is seeking a judicial review into a decision by Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Karen Bradley to dismiss him from his post without compensation after he expressed support for the European Union.[25] |
| ITV announces that it has axed The Xtra Factor from ITV2. Future editions of the programme will appear online only.[26] | |
| 20 | BBC One and ITV provide live coverage of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States; BBC coverage of the event is presented by BBC World's Katty Kay, with ITV's coverage presented by Tom Bradby.[27] Also, BBC News announces that Kay would co-present 100 Days covering Trump's first 100 days, however in the end the programme carries on indfefinley apart from a summer break in August. |
| Angus Deayton is confirmed as the new host of Creme de la Creme, a Great British Bake Off spin-off series that will continue to air on the BBC.[28] | |
| 24 | BBC Two announce plans for Geri's Nineties: The Decade That Made Me, a series in which former Spice Girl Geri Horner will look back at the 1990s.[29] |
| 25 | At the 22nd National Television Awards, Ant & Dec are presented with the Television Presenter Award for the sixteenth consecutive year.[30] |
| 27 | BBC Two airs Eurovision: You Decide from London's Hammersmith Apollo, where former X Factor contestant Lucie Jones is chosen to represent the United Kingdom in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Never Give Up on You".[31] |
| 30 | Peter Capaldi announces his intention to leave Doctor Who at the end of the year.[32] |
| 31 | Dermot O'Leary and Emma Willis are chosen to host the 2017 Brit Awards after Michael Bublé pulled out because his son is receiving treatment for cancer.[33] |
| BBC Two airs the 1971 film 10 Rillington Place following the death of Sir John Hurt, who plays the role of Timothy Evans.[34] |
February
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is announced that Nick Jenkins and Sarah Willingham will leave Dragons' Den when the current series ends on 26 February.[35] |
| 2 | Kris Marshall announces he is leaving the role of DI Humphrey Goodman in BBC One's Death in Paradise at the end of the current series. His place will be taken by Ardal O'Hanlon who will appear as a new detective.[36] |
| Construction workers accidentally dig up and damage Blue Peter's Millennium Time Capsule while carrying out work at London's O2 Arena. The O2 has said it will work with the Blue Peter team to repair or replace the capsule, buried before the Millennium and due to be opened in 2050.[37] | |
| 3 | US human rights campaigner Kenneth Roth apologises to Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis after mistakenly accusing her of running an alleged CIA torture site. Roth had tweeted a picture of Maitlis instead of Gina Haspel, named as CIA deputy director by US president Donald Trump.[38] |
| With The Jump set to return to Channel 4 for a fourth series from 5 February, it is reported that the 2017 series has claimed its first casualty, with model Vogue Williams having to pull out because of a knee injury.[39] | |
| EastEnders fans express their disappointment on social media upon learning the evening's episode has been cancelled in favour of the BBC One documentary Spy in the Wild.[40] | |
| Coleen Nolan wins the nineteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother.[41] | |
| 4 | Sir Bradley Wiggins reveals that he has suffered a foot injury while training for the fourth series of The Jump, becoming the second participant to be injured during training for this year's series. However, Wiggins says he will continue as a contestant.[42] |
| 7 | Debut of The Moorside, a BBC One drama starring Sheridan Smith and telling the story of the Shannon Matthews case. The first episode is received positively by critics.[43] |
| Channel 5 announces that it will air a revamped and updated version of Blind Date.[44] | |
| 8 | Rolf Harris is cleared of three sex offence charges at Southwark Crown Court. |
| 9 | BBC Wales pulls a promotional trailer for the Six Nations rugby match between Wales and England to be held on 11 February after criticism that it was anti-English.[45] |
| 10 | BBC Four acquires its first Canadian drama, the six part Cardinal, a detective series based on Giles Blunt's 2002 novel Forty Words for Sorrow. The series will air later in the year.[46] |
| 13 | Sir Bradley Wiggins is forced to quit The Jump after sustaining what is described as a small leg fracture during snowcross training.[47] |
| 15 | It has been announced that Rolf Harris will face a retrial on 15 May over three alleged sex offence charges and one new charge of indecent assault.[48] |
| 16 | Edition of EastEnders in which Bex Fowler (played by Jasmine Armfield) performs the ballad "Boxed Up Broken Heart". The track, written by musician and singer Gwyneth Herbert, is part of a storyline in which the character pens the song after splitting from an onscreen boyfriend.[49] |
| 17 | The BBC confirms that Danny Dyer will take a short break from his EastEnders role following a report in The Sun that bosses were concerned about his health.[50] |
| 19 | The TV adaptation of Len Deighton's novel SS-GB, a series imagining an alternate history in which the United Kingdom is occupied by Nazi Germany, during the Second World War, debuts on BBC One. The first episode attracts a number of complaints from viewers unable to hear the dialogue, which is blamed on actors mumbling. The BBC says it will look at the sound quality before the next episode is transmitted.[51] |
| Piers Morgan announces he will not present the Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme awards following a campaign to remove him. A petition asserting it was "not acceptable" for Morgan to present the awards ceremony attracted some 200 signatures after the RTS confirmed him as host on 16 February.[52] | |
| 25 | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway returns for its fourteenth series. |
| 27 | Sky News relaunches its 10 pm bulletin with a new-look set and a focus on content from the Sky News team of specialists and broadcast from the new glass box studio at the heart of Sky's campus in Osterley, west London. |
| The Nightly Show is broadcast on ITV at 10 pm and runs for eight weeks and ITV News at Ten is moved to a temporary timeslot of 10.30 pm. |
March
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | The television licence will increase from £145.50 to £147 on 1 April, it is announced – the first time the annual licence has increased since 2010.[53] |
| 2 | Channel 5 announce plans to broadcast the Home and Away spin-off film Revenge, which gets its British television debut on 5Star on 13 March.[54] |
| 3 | Isabelle Heward is named the 2017 Mastermind champion.[55] |
| 4 | The BBC launches an investigation after a group of five intruders gained access to a studio at Broadcasting House during a live broadcast of the BBC News channel the previous evening. The individuals were not seen on air and left of their own accord.[56] |
| 16 | Ofcom confirms it has received one complaint about a child grooming storyline in Coronation Street involving the character Bethany Platt (Lucy Fallon), although the plot has generally won praise from children's charities.[57] |
| Channel 4 confirms Sandi Toksvig, Prue Leith and Noel Fielding will join Paul Hollywood when The Great British Bake Off returns later this year.[58] | |
| 20 | The final edition of Crimewatch is broadcast on BBC One. The programme ends as a monthly evening programme after nearly 33 years on air[59] although it isn't until October that its cancellation is confirmed when it is announced that its daytime spin-off series Crimewatch Roadshow (now Crimewatch Live) would continue to air, but will also air more episodes per year.[60] |
| 22 | The BBC and ITV interrupt their schedules to provide news coverage following a terrorist attack in Westminster. |
| 23 | Opening the first edition of BBC One's current affairs programme This Week to air in the wake of the Westminster attack, presenter Andrew Neil launches a scathing attack against those who commit acts of terrorism, describing them as "jumped up jihadis", and saying that Britain will never be "cowed" or "defeated" by them.[61] |
| Channel 5 airs the documentary The Last Days of George Michael, prompting Michael's former bandmate, Andrew Ridgeley to criticise the programme as "sensationalist and mucky". Channel 5 defends its decision to broadcast the film, citing a "legitimate public interest in the circumstances surrounding his death".[62] | |
| 24 | The BBC released The Curse of Fatal Death, a 29-minute parody episode made for Red Nose Day in 1999. Written by the future Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat, the episode features Rowan Atkinson as The Doctor, with several other actors portraying different versions of the Time Lord, including Joanna Lumley as the first female Doctor. The episode has been released to coincide with Red Nose Day 2017.[63] |
| 27 | BBC One airs Question Time: Britain After Brexit, a special edition of Question Time from Birmingham ahead of government preparations to trigger Article 50, the process of withdrawal from the European Union.[64] |
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