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Motorway Cops
''Motorway Cops'' is a British documentary series broadcast on BBC One which follows Road Policing Units from various UK police forces. Concept The show follows the day-to-day role of traffic officers and the incidents they come across. The majority of filming takes place at the scene of incidents, with occasional cuts to police stations and interview rooms. Locations include Yorkshire, Cheshire, Humberside and the West Midlands. Series 1 followed Central Motorway Police Group, Cheshire Constabulary and Humberside Police, series 2, 3 and 4 followed Central Motorway Police Group, series 5 followed Central Motorway Police Group, West Yorkshire Police and Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Roads Crime Team, series 6 and 7 followed West Yorkshire Police. Production ''Motorway Cops'', along with its sister series ''Traffic Cops'', are produced by Folio Productions, a subsidiary of Mentorn Media. Both shows were broadcast on the BBC until 2016. Jamie Theakston narrated all seven s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Theakston
James Paul Theakston (born 21 December 1970) is an English television presenter, producer, narrator and actor. He has hosted television programmes for the BBC, ITV (TV network), ITV, Channel 4 and 5 (British TV channel), Channel 5. He co-presented the Saturday morning BBC One children's show ''Live & Kicking'' alongside Zoe Ball between 1996 and 1999, and occasionally hosted the music programme ''Top of the Pops'' between 1998 and 2003. He currently co-hosts the national breakfast show with Amanda Holden on Heart (radio network), Heart Radio. Theakston narrated the BBC documentary series ''Traffic Cops'' from 2003 to 2015, and on Channel 5 (British TV channel), Channel 5 from 2016 onwards. He has won a BAFTA award for ''Live & Kicking'' and numerous awards for his radio work, including a Sony Gold, 3 Silver awards and 4 Bronze awards, 2 Arqiva awards, 3 TRIC awards and 2 New York Radio Festival Awards. Education He joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of 13, where he ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bravo (UK TV Channel)
Bravo was a British and Irish television channel owned by Living TV Group, a subsidiary of BSkyB. Its target audience was males in their 20s to early 40s. It broadcast a variety of both archive programming (such as '' Knight Rider'' and ''MacGyver'') and original productions. The Bravo channel closed down on 1 January 2011, with the most popular programmes moved to other Sky channels. History Early history Bravo was launched on 20 December 1985 as a cable-only channel, created by United Artists Programming broadcasting black & white B-movies from the 1950s and 1960s and vintage TV series. Initially, the channel was a cassette-delivered service provided to cable headends for automatic play-out. In 1991, United Artists merged with their largest shareholder TCI ( Liberty Media), to form the largest cable operator in the United States. TCI and US West announced a joint venture and, in 1992, the joint venture company became Telewest Communications. In 1993, talks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Television Documentaries
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public broadcasting, public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a Royal charter#United Kingdom, royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual Television licensing in the United Kingdom, television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, BBC iPlayer, iPla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010s British Television Series
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2015 British Television Series Endings
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2008 British Television Series Debuts
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. Etymology English ''eight'', from Old English '', æhta'', Proto-Germanic ''*ahto'' is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European '' *oḱtṓ(w)-'', and as such cognate with Greek and Latin , both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective ''octaval'' or ''octavary'', the distributive adjective is ''octonary''. The adjective ''octuple'' (Latin ) may also be used as a noun, meaning "a set of eight items"; the diminutive '' octuplet'' is mostly used to refer to eight siblings delivered in one birth. The Semitic numeral is based on a root ''*θmn-'', whence Akkadian ''smn-'', Arabic ''ṯmn-'', Hebrew ''šmn-'' etc. The Chinese numeral, written (Mandarin: ''bā''; Cantonese: ''baat''), is from Old Chinese ''*priāt-'', ultimately from Sino-Tibetan ''b-r-gyat'' or ''b-g-ryat'' which also yielded Tibetan '' brgyat''. It has been argued that, as the cardinal nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV Network
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Camera Action!
''Police Camera Action!'' is a police video programme made by Optomen Television, originally broadcast on ITV with repeats airing on ITV4. It was originally commissioned through Carlton Television. It was presented by Alastair Stewart from 1994 until 2002, until his second drink-driving conviction led to a temporary suspension, before he resumed his role with Adrian Simpson from 2007 until its cancellation three years later. In 2010, the final series of the programme was presented by Gethin Jones. History The first episode broadcast on 7 September 1994 was known as ''Police Stop!'', which was also the name of a similar police programme available initially on VHS video and later on Sky1. To this date, it is the only episode not to be repeated on Men & Motors or ITV4. A spin-off book of the series was released in 1996 by Ebury Press, which was written by Peter Gillbe with a foreword by Alastair Stewart and which featured police footage of bad driving. The book had some footage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BSkyB
Sky UK Limited (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited (BSkyB)), trading as Sky, is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television, broadband internet, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of Sky Group (currently owned by Comcast) and is headquartered at the Sky Studios in Isleworth. Sky is a major media company and the largest British broadcaster by revenue. It operates the Sky News news media organisation, Sky Sports which is the largest sports TV broadcaster in the UK, and the Sky Studios film and TV production company. Sky is also the country's leading provider of pay-TV services (12.7 million customers as of the end of 2019) through its satellite TV platform Sky Q as well as the IPTV-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream products. Its flagship channels include Sky Showcase, Sky Max, Sky Witness, Sky Documentaries, Sky Atlantic, and Sky Cinema. Sky is also one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Wars (TV Series)
''Street Wars'' (sometimes named ''Street Law'') was a police reality television programme produced by Raw Cut TV for British Sky Broadcasting and broadcast on Sky1. A spin-off of '' Road Wars'', Street Wars began in 2005 and followed the Tactical Team from Kent Police in Medway, Kent and the Tactical Support Group from the Police Service of Northern Ireland in Derry, Northern Ireland. The programme also followed Surrey Police for a short while around Guildford, Surrey. The footage from the two teams is combined with video footage from CCTV cameras and police forces from around the world. The series is narrated by Lee Boardman. There are 15 editions of approximately 46 minutes each. See also * '' Police Interceptors'' * '' Brit Cops'' * ''Traffic Cops'' * ''Police Camera Action! ''Police Camera Action!'' is a police video programme made by Optomen Television, originally broadcast on ITV with repeats airing on ITV4. It was originally commissioned through Carlton Television. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pick TV
Sky Mix (formerly Sky Three, Sky3, Sky 3, Pick TV and Pick) is a British free-to-air television channel, owned by Sky UK. The channel originally launched on 31 October 2005 as Sky Three. The channel's current name, which was adopted in 2023, is the second time that the "Sky Mix" brand has been used. Sky Replay was originally known as 'Sky One Mix', and previously known as 'Sky Mix' from 2004 to 2005. History As Sky Three Sky Three was the first free-to-air general entertainment channel from Sky since Sky One became a pay channel in 1993. It launched on 31 October 2005, replacing the Sky Travel's EPG slot on Freeview in a bid to attract more subscribers to Sky's satellite service. It was essentially a barker channel for Sky's main entertainment channel Sky One and its other subscription services, which served to ''"offer digital terrestrial viewers the opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of popular programmes from Sky"''. From its launch on until 24 June 2010, the channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky2
Sky Replay is a British pay television channel operated by Sky that began broadcasting in December 2002 as Sky One Mix. The channel was previously known as Sky Two from 2005 to 2020. The brand name and format had earlier been used for a similar service which broadcast on analogue platforms for a year from 1996. Whereas Sky One had been available in HD since 2006, Sky Two has always been exclusively available in standard definition. On 27 August 2020, the service adopted its current branding. Sky Replay now serves as a sister channel to Sky Max and Sky Witness; broadcasting repeats of programmes aired on those channels and also broadcasts repeats of drama series that Sky no longer holds first run rights or rights that are soon to expire. History The Sky 2 brand was originally launched on 1 September 1996, and served as a sister channel to Sky 1 in the evening (timesharing with Fox Kids). The channel was introduced to offer an expanded range of general entertainment program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
