Frost on Sketch Shows
Mar 13, 2013Sir David Frost traces the development of the sketch show over the last fifty years, from variety theatre to primetime television.
Documentary
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The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse
Jan 03, 2011The extraordinary story of comedian Bob Monkhouse's life and career, told through the vast private archive of films, TV shows, letters and memorabilia that he left behind.
Comedy
The Trial of Jack The Ripper
Feb 24, 2002The Trial of Jack the Ripper (2002) The Trial of Jack the Ripper, was a TV Special, shown on the Discovery Channel, in 2002, the programme focused on four well known Ripper suspects - Francis Tumblety, Sir William Gull, James Maybrick and Aaron Kosminski.
The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar
Nov 25, 2014Michael Grade reveals the story of General Tom Thumb, the world's first global show business celebrity who went from humble beginnings in America to international superstardom.
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Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Jan 01, 2011A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.
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Best Ever Bond
Nov 22, 2002Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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The Story of Music Hall
Oct 25, 2011Michael Grade traces the raucous history of the music hall in a revelatory journey that takes him from venues such as Wilton's Music Hall in London to Glasgow's once-famous Britannia.
Burt Bacharach - A Life in Song
Feb 26, 2016A Life In Song célèbre la vie et la carrière du légendaire compositeur Burt Bacharach. Sur la scène du London Royal Festival Hall se succèdent de nombreux artistes qui interprètent ses plus grands titres : Alfie Boe, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Shaun Escoffery, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Hayward, Michael Kiwanuka, Laura Mvula et Joss Stone. Entre les chansons, le compositeur échange avec le célèbre producteur de télévision Michael Grade sur tous les aspects de sa carrière musicale. Le concert culmine lorsque Burt Bacharach dirige son orchestre pour un medley de ses plus grandes musiques de films, avant que les invités ne se retrouvent tous sur scène pour interpréter en choeur "That's What Friends Are For"..
Music
Goodbye Television Centre
Mar 22, 2013After 53 years Television Centre, the BBC's TV headquarters, is closing its doors and Michael Grade gathers together many of its best-loved faces to stroll down memory lane.
Documentary
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Sep 12, 2016Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.
Comedy
The Fight for Saturday Night
Dec 17, 2014Michael Grade tells a tale of television skullduggery and dirty dealings in the battle to win the Saturday night ratings crown.
Documentary
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Dec 10, 1988British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special. Watch her crack jokes, play the piano and answer light-hearted questions.
Comedy
Trials and Tribulations
Sep 30, 2008A retrospective of Colin Baker's turbulent three-years as the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), covering his casting, the 1985 hiatus, and his sacking on the orders of BBC One controller Michael Grade.
Documentary
Golazzo: The Football Italia Story
Mar 31, 2018
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes
Jul 28, 2021A series of sketches taken from the recently-unearthed Morecambe & Wise tape that contained footage which had not been seen for 50 years, and was believed to have been lost forever. The newly discovered half-hour show featured a series of gag-packed routines involving stage curtains, ventriloquism and a daring sketch in which Eric eavesdrops on a newly wedded couple in the flat next door. Now, contributors including Jonathan Ross, Ben Miller and Eddie Izzard look back at this rare slice of classic comedy once again.
Documentary
42nd Street
May 01, 2019The story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes who gets her big break on Broadway.
Comedy
Jonathan Creek
Mar 14, 2014Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
Mystery
Room 101
Apr 06, 2018Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.
Comedy
Open Air
May 18, 1990Open Air was BBC1's flagship programme for their new daytime service which began on 27 October 1986. It discussed all aspects of television and also tried to answer any questions which viewers had.
The Story of Variety with Michael Grade
Mar 07, 2011Documentary
An Audience with...
Jun 01, 2013An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.
Talk
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Dec 15, 2024The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.
News
Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story
Apr 05, 2022In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife began a 30-year battle against the permissive society. But how successful was the original ‘cancel culture’ warrior?
Documentary
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Dec 16, 2024Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.
News
A Life on Screen
Jan 07, 2018Documentary series that celebrates the incredible careers of the best of British talent.
Documentary
Days That Shook the BBC with David Dimbleby
Sep 14, 2022David Dimbleby goes behind the scenes to investigate major controversies that have affected the BBC and its viewers over the last sixty years.
Documentary
Morecambe & Wise in America
Jan 10, 2019Three part series hosted by Jonathan Ross, telling the story of Eric and Ernie's attempts to break America. Over the course of five years in the 1960s, Morecambe and Wise made multiple trips to New York to appear on the USA's biggest variety show, The Ed Sullivan Show. The untold story of their attempt to make it in the States is documented for the first time, including footage that has never been shown on British television before.
Comedy
Question Time
Jan 16, 2025This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.
News
French & Saunders
Nov 26, 2004French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
Comedy
Have I Got News for You
Dec 13, 2024Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.
Comedy
Have I Got News for You
Nov 19, 1985Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey Archer, that aired on CBS in 1985. It stars Peter Strauss as Rosnovski and Sam Neill as Kane.
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