2005 in British television

Events

January

February

  • 3 February – An audience member on the evening's edition of Question Time uses the show's final question to propose to his girlfriend, who says yes. It is the first time a marriage proposal has occurred on the programme in its 25-year history.[15]
  • 8 February – Teachers' TV, run by the Department for Education and Skills, launches on Sky Digital (channel 686) and Freeview.[16][17]
  • 9 February – The Africa-based BBC journalist and producer Kate Peyton is killed in a shooting incident in Mogadishu, Somalia while reporting on that country's nascent peace process.[18]
  • 16 February – The first series of the UK version of The Apprentice debuts on BBC Two.[19][20]
  • 18 February – Adele Silva will reprise her role as Emmerdale temptress Kelly Windsor five years after leaving the series, it is reported.[21]
  • 19 February – EastEnders celebrates its 20th anniversary on the air, airing a special episode in which Dirty Den Watts is killed by his new wife Chrissie. 14.34 million watch the episode (shown on 18 February).[22] It is the UK's second highest rated programme of 2005 (the first was an episode of Coronation Street three days later).[23]
  • 21 February – MasterChef relaunches as MasterChef Goes Large.
  • 22 February – Eamonn Holmes announces he will step down from his role as a GMTV presenter after twelve years.[24]
  • 23 February – UKTV Style Gardens, a channel dedicated to gardening programmes, launches.
  • 24 February – ITV airs another episode of its police drama The Bill to feature a storyline in which characters are killed off in a fire at Sun Hill police station. Computer generated imagery was used because producing a real explosion and fireball ripping through the station corridors was not possible.[25]
  • 26 February – Sound TV, known pre-launch as The Great British Television Channel, launches on Sky Digital (588). It closed in the Autumn.

March

April

May

June

July

August

  • 1 August – BBC Broadcast, formerly Broadcasting & Presentation, and responsible for the playout and branding of all BBC Channels, is sold to Creative Broadcast Services, owned by the Macquarie Capital Alliance Group and Macquarie Bank. It is renamed Red Bee Media on 31 October.
  • 2 August – Five announces its soap, Family Affairs will be axed at the end of the year.[63]
  • 4 August – BBC One airs Sinatra: Dark Star, a documentary investigating rumours of Frank Sinatra's links to organised crime.[64]
  • 12 August – Anthony Hutton wins series six of Big Brother.[65]
  • 17 August – ITV announces plans to launch a children's channel to rival CBBC.[66]
  • 22 August - Peppa Pig makes it debut in the United States, on Cartoon Network's Tickle U programming block, re-dubbed with American voice actors. This turned out to be a flop, so Nick Jr aired the original British version where American children are learning to speak with British accents.

September

  • 3 September – After several revamps and presenting changes, BBC One airs the final edition of its children's entertainment series The Saturday Show.[67]
  • 7 September – The BBC and ITV announce plans to launch Freesat, a Free-to-air satellite television series to rival Sky.[68]
  • 8 September – Faze TV, a British digital channel aimed at gay men, cancels its launch after failing to secure sufficient funding to deliver "sufficient quality."[69]
  • 11 September – BBC One launches Sunday AM, a Sunday morning current affairs programme presented by Andrew Marr.[70]
  • 12 September – In an interview with The Guardian, the BBC Director of News and Current Affairs Helen Boaden defends the broadcaster's decision to stick with initial reports of a power surge on the London Underground on the morning of 7 July until actual events could be corroborated, saying it was the right thing to do. "Some of our competitors talked immediately of 90 dead. They talked about three bus bombs. That was off a range of various wire services and it was complete speculation and we wouldn't go with that. We would be careful – we would try to check things out."[71]
  • 19 September – The most famous children's classic television character Muffin the Mule (who has disappeared from TV screens for a very long time) is back with a brand new 2D animated series on BBC Two.
  • 20 September – After seven and a half years, Emmerdale saw a new sequence to the opening titles of the series, with the same 1998 theme music alongside another helicopter montage, this time marginally slower and without the actors and the closing credits were generic ITV Network style credits over a continuous shot of the village, again from a helicopter, but filmed from a different angle. On the same evening, BBC One airs Derailed, a docudrama dealing with the 1999 Ladbroke Grove rail crash.[72]
  • 22 September – ITV airs a second live episode of The Bill to mark the broadcaster's 50th year on air.
  • 23 September – It is announced that Des Lynam will succeed Richard Whiteley as presenter of Channel 4's Countdown, with his first episode airing on 31 October.[73]
  • 25 September – ITV1 airs an episode of A Touch of Frost called "Near Death Experience" to mark the broadcaster's 50th year on air. On the same evening, BBC One airs the network premiere of the 2003 Christmas-themed romantic comedy film Love Actually starring Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson and Mr. Bean star Rowan Atkinson.
  • 26 September – The BBC is censured by Ofcom for its coverage of the London bombings on 7 July. Of particular concern to them was an incident in which footage of a man being carried by stretcher into the Royal London Hospital was shown as a BBC News 24 presenter commentated "Let's just take a look at some of the pictures coming from the Royal London." Ofcom concludes that "the pictures were used generically and the commentary did not reflect the seriousness of the images being transmitted". Channel 4 News is also criticised for not "fully reflecting the enormity of the images being reflected", although it had not breached the Ofcom regulations as the images were not used casually. ITV News is not criticised, however, because it provided a "clear narrative context [with] sensitive accompanying reporting".[74]
  • 26–27 September – No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese's documentary on Bob Dylan, receives its broadcast premiere on BBC Two in the UK, under the Arena banner.[75][76]
  • 30 September – CBBC identity relaunched, with its second marketing campaign since the launch of the CBBC Channel.
  • September – ITV celebrates its 50th anniversary with a collection of special programmes, under the name ITV 50.

October

November

December

Debuts

BBC One

BBC Two

BBC Four

ITV (1/2/3/4)

Channel 4

More4

  • 10 October – Launch of More4 News on new digital channel More4 (2005—2009).

Five

Cartoon Network UK

Boomerang UK

Playhouse Disney UK

Nickelodeon UK

Jetix UK

Channels

New channels

Date Channel
10 October More4
31 October Sky Three
1 November ITV4

Defunct channels

Date Channel
23 December ITV News Channel

Rebranded channels

Date Old Name New Name
31 October Sky Mix Sky Two

Television shows

^[e] signifies that this show has a related event in the Events section above.

Changes of network affiliation

Show Moved from Moved to
Trisha ITV1 Five
Pinky and the Brain BBC One
{Family Guy (Terrestrial rights) Channel 4 BBC Two
Top of the Pops BBC One
24 BBC Two Sky One
South Park Sky One Paramount Comedy 1
WWE SmackDown! Sky One Sky Sports
WWE Bottom Line
WWE After Burn
WWE Heat
American Dragon: Jake Long Disney Channel ITV1 on CITV

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Continuing television shows

1920s

  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)

1930s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

present)

Ending this year

DateShowChannel(s)Debut(s)
30 January Andy Pandy CBeebies 1950 & 2002
Angelina Ballerina CITV 2002
Up on the Roof CITV on GMTV
Diggin' It 2003
Superstars BBC
Call My Bluff 1965
Cathedral 2005
14 February The Crouches BBC One 2003
25 March The Powerpuff Girls Channel 5 & Cartoon Network 1998
29 May Breakfast with Frost BBC 1993
16 June UK Top 40 CBBC 2002
12 July 50/50 1997
20 July To the Ends of the Earth BBC 2005
24 July Ground Force 1997
3 August Born and Bred 2002
18 August Should I Worry About...? 2004
15 October Star Spell 2005
23 October Monarch of the Glen 2000
4 December Rocket Man 2005
16 December Bleak House
25 December The Two Ronnies Sketchbook
30 December Family Affairs Channel 5 1997

Births

DateNameCinematic Credibility
25 February Noah Jupe British actor

Deaths

DateNameAgeCinematic Credibility
2 January Cyril Fletcher 91 British comedian (That's Life!)
5 January Gabrielle Daye 93 actress (Bless Me Father, Coronation Street)
9 February Kate Peyton[18] 39 BBC journalist and producer
11 February Stan Richards 74 actor (Seth Armstrong in Emmerdale)
10 March Dave Allen 68 Irish comedian, host of solo shows on BBC1 and ITV.
15 April Margaretta Scott 93 English actress, best known for "All Creatures Great and Small".
26 June Richard Whiteley 61 presenter, host of Countdown.
4 July Bryan Coleman 94 actor
11 July Gretchen Franklin[105] actress (Ethel Skinner in EastEnders)
9 August Kay Tremblay 91 Actress (Road to Avonlea)
31 August Michael Sheard[106] 67 actor (Mr Bronson in Grange Hill)
3 October Ronnie Barker 76 actor and comedian (The Two Ronnies, Porridge, The Frost Report, Runaway Railway)
17 October Leslie Duxbury 79 television producer (Coronation Street)
25 October Barbara Keogh 76 actress (EastEnders)
31 October Mary Wimbush 81 actress (Poldark, Jeeves and Wooster, Century Falls)

See also

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