1 9 7 8 – Current (USA) This hour-long current affairs show from ABC has always featured award-winning journalists covering social issues and current events. The…
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1 9 6 8 – Current (USA) 1 9 7 9 – Current (Australia) In 1967 Don Hewitt conceived of his new programme, 60 Minutes, as a strategy…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) 1 9 8 8 – current (Australia) An Australian magazine programme that started life as…
1 9 7 0 – Current (UK) Fresh from the studio soccer game Quiz Ball, David Vine first introduced A Question Of Sport at 6:20 pm on Monday 5 January…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 3 (Australia) 30 minute episodes This weekly television panel discussion show from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) had…
1 9 9 2 – 2 0 0 2 (UK) Departing from the established news and magazine-based format of other breakfast TV shows, The Big Breakfast placed the…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 7 2 (UK) The clear ancestor of That’s Life, Braden’s Week – which aired on Saturday evenings on BBC1 – not only…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 9 (UK) Selina Scott joined nice “uncle” Frank Bough on BBC1’s Breakfast Time at 6.30 am on 17 January…
1 9 8 9 – Current (USA) Cops features cameras following real-life police officers around their headquarters, on street patrols and raids, at stakeouts, and sometimes even…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 6 (UK) The idea for the Fantasy Football League TV show came from hosts Frank Skinner and David Baddiel who,…
1 9 6 1 – Current (Australia) Four Corners debuted on the Australian ABC network on 19 August 1961 and went on to become that country’s longest-running…
1 9 5 5 (UK) ITV introduced Free Speech, political cross-talk between Robert Boothby, W J Brown, Michael Foot and historian and writer A J P Taylor,…
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1 9 8 3 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) Produced by the newly formed TV-am, ITV debuted its first breakfast show on 1 February 1983…
1 9 5 8 – 2 0 0 7 (UK) Wives everywhere threw up their hands in horror on Saturday 11 October 1958 as Saturday…
1 9 8 3 (UK) A series of programmes from ITV featuring a Boy’s Club Boxing tournament, with former British, Commonwealth and European champion Henry Cooper (who…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 8 (UK) 72 x 30 minute episodes The Indoor League was broadcast on ITV at lunchtime in the mid-1970s.…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 6 (UK) Boxing promoter Jack Solomons introduced action from big fights in Jack Solomons’ Scrapbook. Solomons showed film of…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 35 x 30 minute episodes Originally hosted by the hairy cornflake himself, radio DJ Dave…
1 9 8 5 – 2 0 1 0 (USA) For 15 years, Larry King Live was the most-watched programme on CNN, regularly reaching over one million viewers…
