2002 in British television

List of years in British television (table)

This is a list of British television related events from 2002.

Events

January

February

March

  • 2 March – BBC Knowledge ceases transmission in the early hours (the first BBC channel to permanently close) with BBC Four launching to replace it at 7.00 pm. The opening night is simulcast on BBC Two.[43]
  • 3 March –
    • Will Young's debut single tops the charts, having accrued calculated sales of 1,108,269.[44] It remains at the number one position for three weeks, before being replaced on 24 March by Pop Idol runner-up Gareth Gates, with a version of "Unchained Melody".[45]
    • The acclaimed US spy drama 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland as agent Jack Bauer makes its British television debut on BBC Two.[46]
  • 11 March – Somerville College, Oxford wins the 2001–02 series of University Challenge, beating Imperial College London 200–185.
  • 12 March – A report conducted for the Independent Television Commission and Broadcasting Standards Commission indicates that for the first time at least half of television viewers have access to multi channel television, i.e., channels other than the main five terrestrial channels.[47]
  • 13 March – A report by the Independent Television Commission indicates that viewer dissatisfaction with the quality of television stood at 64% in 2001, an 18% rise on the previous year. However, the authors of the report attribute the dramatic increase to the time at which their survey was conducted, shortly after the controversial Channel 4 spoof Brass Eye was aired.[48]
  • 15 March – Former Coronation Street actress Jane Danson will join ITV's The Bill as the series first lesbian police officer, it is reported. Her character, Gemma Osbourne, will be seen on screen in the summer.[49]
  • 19 March – The Office of Communications Act 2002 receives Royal Assent enabling the establishment of Ofcom.[50]
  • 21 March – Theo Paphitis and Neil Doncaster, the respective chairmen of Millwall and Norwich City football clubs, warn of serious financial consequences for their teams if ITV are allowed to renegotiate the £315 million agreement they signed to screen Football League matches.[51]
  • 26 March – BBC One announces that the current hot-air balloon idents. are to be axed and be replaced by a new set Rhythm & Movement idents on 29 March 2002.[52]
  • 27 March – ITV Digital is placed into administration after failing to reach an agreement with the Football League over the £315 million three-year deal to air league matches. The company still owes £180 million, which it says it cannot pay after its revenue was not as good as forecasts had predicted. Services will continue while negotiations to resolve the issue continue.[53]
  • 28 March – ITV announces the removal of Night and Day from its weekday teatime slot from 11 April, although late night episodes will continue to air on Thursdays, as well as a Sunday omnibus on ITV2. This is in response to the series attracting a relatively low audience of 1.5 million.[54]
  • 29 March –
  • 30 March –
    • The death of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother is announced at 5.49 pm. Most broadcasters abandon regular programming and begin airing tributes to her. Some rescheduling also happens on 31 March, before largely returning to normal on 1 April.[57]
  • March – Mark Thompson succeeds Michael Jackson as Chief Executive of Channel 4.[58]

April

  • 1 April – Naomi Russell, who leaves her role as Coronation Street character Bobbi Lewis this month, is to have a starring role in Sky One's new airline based drama Mile High, it is reported.[59]
  • 2 April – More than 1,500 viewers have complained to the BBC about its coverage of the Queen Mother's death, it is reported, with the majority of complaints concerning the rescheduling of favourite programmes and the belief that too much airtime was devoted to events surrounding the death. Peter Sissons is criticised by some newspapers, including the Daily Mail for not wearing a black tie to report the death, and by some viewers for what is perceived to have been an insensitive interview with the Queen Mother's niece, The Hon. Margaret Rhodes.[60]
  • 3 April – GMTV presenter Eamonn Holmes signs a three year contract to stay with the broadcaster until 2005.[61]
  • 6 April – ITV record a record low audience share of 3% for football programme The Goal Rush during the broadcast of the 2002 Grand National on BBC One.[62]
  • 9 April –
    • Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's funeral is held at Westminster Abbey and aired on all major television channels. The event makes UK television history as the country's largest ever outside broadcast, while proceedings are watched by an average 10 million viewers. Provisional viewing figures released the following day suggest BBC audiences peaked at 7.1 million, and ITV at 3.3 million. The BBC coverage is presented by David Dimbleby and ITV's by Sir Trevor McDonald.[63]
    • Emmerdale confirm the axing of their Soapstars family. Ruth Abram leaves the series immediately, with the other four actors appearing on screen until the summer.[64]
  • 10 April –
    • Producers of The Experiment are forced to re-edit parts of the programme ahead of its debut after some participants complain about the way they are shown in the series.[65]
    • BBC Four airs Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play, in which Patricia Hodge plays the role of Margaret Thatcher during the Falklands War.[66][67] The play was originally written in 1986, but shelved by the BBC because of an upcoming general election, and the play's perceived pro-Thatcher stance. The play has separate radio and television versions (airing on Radio 4 on 6 April), and gives BBC Four an audience of 174,000, the channel's highest audience since its launch.[68]
  • 17 April – The first Helen Rollason Cancer Care Centre, named for the sports presenter Helen Rollason, who died of cancer in 1999, is opened in Chelmsford, Essex.[69]
  • 18 April – An episode of The Bill in which six characters are killed off in a petrol bomb attack is watched by 8.6 million viewers, giving the show its largest audience of the year so far.[70]
  • 20 April – Final edition of The Generation Game to be presented by Jim Davidson.[71]
  • 21 April – Blackadder: Back & Forth makes its terrestrial television debut on BBC One,[72] the programme having been scheduled to air on 31 March, but postponed because of ongoing coverage of the death of the Queen Mother.[60]
  • 22 April –
  • 25 April – ITV Digital is officially put up for sale by administrators Deloitte & Touche, but the company must be sold in the next few days to avoid liquidation because owners Carlton and Granada have not put forward any extra money to keep it afloat.[76]
  • 26 April – Making her first appearance as a panellist on an edition of Have I Got News for You at the age of 16, singer Charlotte Church becomes the youngest person to appear on the show.[77][78]
  • 27 April – Stewart Duff wins the fourteenth series of Stars in Their Eyes, performing as Elvis Presley.[79]
  • 29 April – Launch of RI:SE, scheduled as a replacement for The Big Breakfast.[80]
  • 30 April – The 900 workers at ITV Digital's Pembrokeshire call centre are told they are likely to be made redundant as the firm's troubles continue.[81]

May

  • 1 May – ITV Digital's Pay-TV operations cease at 7.00am after administrators Deloitte & Touche decided to close the company, having failed to find a buyer for it. The ITV Sport Channel is re-designated as a free-to-air channel, enabling viewers to watch the final matches of the football season. The Independent Television Commission launches a fast track process to find a replacement provider for digital terrestrial television in the UK.[82]
  • 11 May –
  • 13–20 May – BBC One airs Ricky & Bianca, a two-part EastEnders spin-off leading up to the return of Ricky Butcher as a regular character.[86]
  • 14 May – The Experiment debuts on BBC One.[87]
  • 16 May – A UK version of The Chair, a US game show hosted by former tennis player John McEnroe in which contestants must control their heart rate while answering questions, will be produced for BBC One, it is reported.[88] McEnroe will also present the UK programme, which will air in the autumn.[89]
  • 20 May – Challenge TV is rebranded as Challenge.[90]
  • 21 May –
    • The Independent Television Commission grants a two-week extension to applicants planning to bid to run a digital service to replace ITV Digital. The delay is to allow the companies to develop their technical proposals, and means applications must be submitted by 13 June.[91]
    • More than 100 viewers have complained to the BBC about an episode of BBC One's new spy drama Spooks aired the previous evening, which depicted an MI5 agent having her head pushed into a deep fat fryer before being shot.[92]
    • 20th Century Fox Television are to remake ITV's 1970s based comedy The Grimleys for the US market, The Guardian reports. The series, scheduled for broadcast later in the year, will be set in the present and renamed The Grubbs.[93]
  • 22 May – Channel 5 announces it has axed the weekly Pepsi Chart show after it lost two thirds of its viewers, with the last edition scheduled to air on 25 June.[94]
  • 25 May – Latvia's Marie N wins the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest with "I Wanna".
  • 26 May – The Osbournes, a US reality television series about heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and his family, makes its British television debut on MTV, giving the channel a record audience of 500,000.[95]
  • 29 May – Jonny Gibb, a Detective Constable from Edinburgh, Scotland wins the second UK series of Survivor and the show's £1million prize money.[96]
  • 30 May – The Broadcasting Standards Commission rules that scenes showing domestic abuse in episodes of EastEnders that aired over the Christmas 2001 holiday were inappropriate for a pre-watershed audience. The scenes, in which Trevor Morgan attacked his wife, Little Mo went too far when families would have been watching the programme.[97]
  • 31 May–30 June – The BBC and ITV air live coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

June

  • 3 June – The Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. During Golden Jubilee Weekend BBC One airs the Party at the Palace, while BBC Parliament reruns footage of the Queen's Coronation from 1953.
  • 6 June –
    • BBC Two begins showing The Hunt for Britain's Paedophiles, a three part documentary series following investigations by Scotland Yard's specialist Paedophile Unit.[98] The programme proves to be controversial, even before going on air, as it is reported that after spending two years shadowing investigators, many members of the production team required counselling to deal with their exposure to the things witnessed by the unit's detectives. Executive producer Bob Long defends the programme, saying he hopes it will lead to better policing of the crime.[99] The series concludes on 20 June.[100]
    • An advert for Microsoft's Xbox console featuring a newborn boy who flies through the air while rapidly aging, before falling into his grave, is banned from being shown again on TV by the Independent Television Commission after complaints were received from 135 viewers who found the commercial to be "offensive, shocking and in bad taste".[101]
  • 10 June – ITV introduces a second Monday episode of Coronation Street. It is broadcast at 20:30 to usher in the return of Bet Lynch.[102] The Monday 20:30 episode is used intermittently during the popular Richard Hillman story line but becomes fully scheduled from Monday 25 August 2003.
  • 13 June –
  • 14 June – The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are among the six applicants who have submitted proposals for a licence to run a digital terrestrial television service. Three licences will be awarded, a process expected to happen in July.[105]
  • 17 June – ITV recommissions Crossroads for another year, despite falling audience figures. Yvon Grace is also hired as its executive producer, and announces plans to make it a "must see daytime show".[106]
  • 19 June –
    • BBC One airs Tomorrow's World: the Science of Spider-Man, a special edition of Tomorrow's World that looks at the scientific facts behind the Spider-Man film.[107]
    • As England prepare to take on Brazil in the World Cup, BBC One makes an eleventh hour decision to replace the scheduled film, Falling Down with a repeat of the England v Brazil match from the 1970 World Cup.[108]
  • 25 June – ITV has told the newspapers that Peak Practice is axed after ten years.[109]
  • 29 June – EastEnders actress Kim Medcalf is injured in a motoring accident while on holiday in France, suffering a broken hand, leg and breastbone.[110] She is airlifted back to the UK a few days later,[111] and discharged from hospital on 9 July.[112]

July

  • 1 July – The EastEnders character Mark Fowler (played by Todd Carty) has been axed after 12 years, it is announced. The character, who was involved in one of the soap's most controversial storylines after contracting HIV from a former lover, will leave the series in 2003.[113]
  • 2 July – Broadcast of an episode of Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks that sets a new world record for the longest on screen kiss. At three minutes fifteen seconds, the kiss, featuring actors Sarah Baxendale (who plays Ellie Hunter) and Marcus Patric (Ben Davies) surpasses the previous record of three minutes five seconds held since 1941 by Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman in the film You're in the Army Now.[114]
  • 3 July –
    • David Liddiment announces he will step down as ITV's head of programming. His decision comes after the network's viewership dropped below that of the BBC, and following the collapse of ITV Digital.[115][116]
  • 4 July – A joint venture between the BBC and media firm Crown Castle is awarded the licences for a digital terrestrial television service to replace ITV Digital. The free-to-air service will include 24 channels from the BBC and commercial television, including three from Sky.[117][118]
  • 6 July –
    • Lock Keepers Cottage in Bow, East London, used as studios for The Big Breakfast is to be sold as a private house for £1,000,000 it is reported.[119]
    • Home on Their Own debuts on ITV presented by Ulrika Jonsson.
  • 7 July –
  • 11 July – BBC One airs a special edition of Parkinson in which Michael Parkinson travels to South Africa to talk with their former President Nelson Mandela.[121]
  • 12 July –
    • Dani Behr and Joe Mace are dropped from The Saturday Show as the programme struggles to compete with its ITV rival SMTV Live. They will present their last editions of the show in September.[122]
    • After reprising his EastEnders role as Ricky Butcher for a one-off special earlier in the year, Sid Owen is to make a permanent return to the soap, it is confirmed.[123]
  • 13 July –
  • 22 July – Channel 4 is criticised by the Independent Television Commission after explicit content in Brookside was aired before the watershed. The scenes involved the characters Max and Jacqui Farnham, who became embroiled in a passionate embrace after Jacqui was taken to hospital following a car crash.[127]
  • 23 July – BBC Two airs a special "then and now" edition of TOTP2 in which present day performances of hits by artists and groups such as Robert Plant, Neil Diamond and A-ha are compared with archive performances.[128]
  • 25 July–4 August – The BBC broadcasts live coverage of the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
  • 26 July – Kate Lawler wins series three of Big Brother, becoming the show's first female winner.[129]
  • 28 July – Fearne Cotton and Simon Grant will succeed Dani Behr and Joe Mace as presenters of BBC One's The Saturday Show from September, it is announced. The programme will also be revamped to include a Top of the Pops spin-off in an attempt to compete with ITV's CD:UK.[130]
  • 31 July – The BBC is censured by the Broadcasting Standards Commission for failing to sufficiently warn viewers about the level of violence in an episode of Spooks depicting the murder of an MI5 agent. However, the watchdog does not criticise the nature of the scene itself, describing it as "shocking but...acceptable and important [in the context of] the [episode's] later narrative".[131]

August

September

  • 4 September – A two-day auction of ITV Digital assets begins at the company's headquarters to help pay off its debts. Among the 3,500 items up for sale are desks, televisions and video equipment, ITV Digital mugs and Monkey mascots.[143]
  • 7 September –
  • 8 September –
  • 9 September –
  • 10 September–3 December — ITV airs the four Star Wars films with the 1997 special edition versions of the original trilogy, including A New Hope (10 September), The Empire Strikes Back (8 October), Return of the Jedi (5 November), and the first showing of The Phantom Menace (3 December) during the four-month period on Tuesday evenings.
  • 10 September – Channel 5 airs the UK television premiere of the Steven Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan. Overnight viewing figures indicate it to have had an audience of 2.7 million.[151] The film, which includes graphic scenes depicting the Normandy landings, is aired uncut, and in an unusual move for mainstream UK television, it is shown again a few days later on 15 September.[152]
  • 11 September – BBC News 24, ITN News Channel and Sky News provide in-depth coverage of the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks as commemorative events are held around the world.[153]
  • 13 September –
    • Channel 5 has recommissioned its soap Family Affairs for a further year, The Guardian reports. The soap had been facing the axe, but was partially saved by an increase in ratings provided by Australian soap Home and Away, which airs in the schedule immediately before it.[154]
    • Top of the Pops airs its 2000th edition.[155]
  • 14 September – Joe Mace and Dani Behr present their final edition of The Saturday Show.[156]
  • 16 September – Channel 5 rebrands itself to Five, and drops its digital on-screen graphic.[157][158]
  • 21 September – Simon Grant and Fearne Cotton present their first The Saturday Show, succeeding Joe Mace and Dani Behr.[159]
  • 23 September – Live with Chris Moyles makes its debut on Five.[160] The nightly show is presented by Moyles from a London bar.[161] The series attracts an audience of between 400,000 and 700,000 in its 7.00 pm slot, and is recommissioned for a second run in October.[160] However, Moyles is replaced as presenter by Christian O'Connell when the programme returns in February 2003,[162] and it is subsequently axed in June 2003 following declining ratings.[163][deprecated source]
  • 24 September – Five announces plans to axe Open House with Gloria Hunniford as part of a revamp of its daytime schedule, despite the programme achieving a regular audience of 900,000, and relatively strong ratings for the channel.[164]
  • 26 September – Sky1 airs "The Truth", the season nine finale of The X-Files and the last episode in the series' original run.[165] On terrestrial television it is aired by BBC Two on 23 March 2003.[166]
  • 27 September – Castaway Television Productions Ltd, a company co-owned by Bob Geldof is to take legal action against Granada and London Weekend Television, the makers of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here, claiming the idea for the reality programme was stolen from Castaway's Survivor series.[167] However, the lawsuit is dropped in April 2003 after a similar case in the United States between CBS (makers of Survivor) and ABC (makers of I'm a Celebrity) held that the idea had not been stolen, but was part of a "continual evolutionary process involving borrowing frequently from what has gone before".[168]
  • 29 September – Michael Jackson's Face, a Five documentary about singer Michael Jackson's attempts to alter his appearance, is watched by 3.6 million viewers, giving the channel its highest audience to date (excluding ratings for football and films).[169]
  • 30 September –

October

November

December

Debuts

BBC One

BBC Two

BBC Choice

CBBC Channel

ITV (Including ITV1 and ITV2)

Channel 4

  • 29 April – RI:SE (2002–2003)

Channel 5/Five

Living TV

Sky One

  • 17 January – United States Scrubs (2001–2008)

Cartoon Network UK

Nickelodeon UK

Nicktoons UK

Disney Channel UK

Trouble UK

Channels

New channels

Date Channel
11 February CBBC
CBeebies
2 March BBC Four
4 July Avago
22 July Nicktoons TV
10 October Reality TV
14 October CNX
30 October The Hits
UK History
31 October Solent TV
TMF
5 December NASN
9 December Sky One Mix

Defunct channels

Date Channel
22 January UTV2
2 March BBC Knowledge
8 April Shop!
30 April Granada Breeze
Tara Television
12 May ITV Sport Channel
30 September Play UK
31 December F1 Digital+

Rebranded channels

Date Old Name New Name
1 July Sky Premier/Moviemax/Cinema Sky Movies Premier/Max/Cinema
16 September Channel 5 Five
30 September ITN News Channel ITV News Channel

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

Show Moved from Moved to
Dig and Dug Channel 4 Five
Blockbusters Sky1 Challenge
Knightmare Sci-Fi Channel
You Bet! ITV
Wheel of Fortune
United States Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies BBC Two/CBBC
United States The Fairly OddParents! Nickelodeon BBC One
United States SpongeBob SquarePants ITV
United States As Told by Ginger

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

1920s

  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–present)

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Ending this year

Deaths

Date Name Age Cinematic Credibility
17 January Peter Adamson[233] 71 actor (Coronation Street)
29 January Stratford Johns 76 actor (Z-Cars)
21 February John Thaw[234] 60 actor (Inspector Morse)
27 February Spike Milligan[235] 83 comedian
25 March Kenneth Wolstenholme[236] 81 BBC football commentator and presenter
27 March Dudley Moore[237] 66 comedian, actor
31 March Barry Took[238] 73 comedian, writer and television presenter
22 April Christopher Price[239] 34 television presenter
15 May Bryan Pringle 67 actor
18 May Gordon Wharmby 68 actor (Last of the Summer Wine)
25 May Pat Coombs[240] 75 actor
23 July Leo McKern[241] 82
3 August Carmen Silvera 80 actress (Allo 'Allo!)
7 September Michael Elphick[242] 55 actor
29 September Edmund Trebus[181] 83 compulsive hoarder who featured in the BBC's A Life of Grime
17 October Pattie Coldwell[243] 50 television presenter and journalist
24 October Charmian May 65 actress (You're Only Young Twice)
25 October Richard Harris[244] 72 actor (Harry Potter films)
17 December James Hazeldine[245] 55 actor (London's Burning)
20 December Joanne Campbell[246] 38 actor

See also

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