2022 in British television

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List of years in British television (table)

This is a list of events taking place in 2022 relating to television in the United Kingdom.

Events[]

January[]

Date Event
1 Among those from the world of film and television to be recognised in the 2022 New Year Honours are Joanna Lumley and Vanessa Redgrave, who are given damehoods, Daniel Craig, who is made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and soap stars William Roache and June Brown, who become OBEs.[1]
BBC One airs The Big New Years & Years Eve Party, which sees Olly Alexander of Years & Years joined by Kylie Minogue and the Pet Shop Boys to see out 2021 and welcome in 2022.[2] London's annual fireworks display is also aired at midnight.[3]
3 Eamonn Holmes joins GB News to co-present their weekday breakfast programme alongside Isabel Webster.[4][5]
4 ITV's Good Morning Britain returns following a Christmas break to protect its staff against the Omicron variant of COVID-19.[6]
6 Deborah Turness, a former editor of ITV News and current CEO of ITN, is appointed the BBC's new CEO of news and current affairs, replacing Fran Unsworth.[7]
A suggestion by Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell that the BBC should be made to reinstate "God Save the Queen" at the end of daily broadcasts wins the backing of ministers after he raises the matter in the House of Commons. BBC One last played the national anthem at the end of broadcasts in 1997, but stopped doing so upon the launch of the BBC News channel when BBC One instead switched to relaying the news channel through the night.[8]
The Apprentice returns to BBC One for its sixteenth series, and for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.[9]
7 Grange Hill creator Sir Phil Redmond announces plans for a film version of the long-running school drama series that will reflect the realities of the modern day classroom. The film is due for release in 2023.[10]
8 Anne Diamond joins GB News to present their weekend breakfast programme alongside Stephen Dixon.[5][11]
The 1960s adaptation of Georges Simenon's Inspector Jules Maigret stories makes its Talking Pictures TV debut.[12]
Danny Dyer quits EastEnders to accept an offer to appear on a Sky original series. His contract with EastEnders had previously not allowed him to appear on rival networks.[13]
9 Emmerdale actors Isabel Hodgins and Matthew Wolfenden return to filming on the soap following their absence caused by a "race row". The pair were accused of mocking the accent of a mixed-race actress and making an "inappropriate comment".[14]
10 The media regulator Ofcom says it will not launch an inquiry into the ITV series Lorraine following an incorrect statement regarding COVID made on the 6 December 2021 edition of the programme by Dr Hilary Jones, who had said 90% of COVID hospital patients were unvaccinated. The figure equates to intensive care patients rather than general hospital patients, and a statement correcting this error was made two days later.[15]
A new 60-minute discussion-based programme Context is launched. It broadcasts from Mondays to Thursdays on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News and features two guests discussing the day's news.[16]
11 BBC Director-General Tim Davie says a "personal error" led to Alan Dershowitz, the former lawyer of Jeffrey Epstein, being interviewed in December 2021 following the conviction of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell for helping Epstein to groom underage girls.[17]
The new £86.7m exterior set of EastEnders is officially unveiled by the BBC replacing the original set built in 1984 and intended to be used for two years. Scenes from the new set will first be seen from the spring.[18]
12–13 David Tag, Andrea Ali and Lysette Anthony leave their roles as Sylver McQueen, Celeste Faroe and Marnie Nightingale from Hollyoaks respectively, following an explosion at Marnie's cafe, killing the three of them.[19]
13 Emmerdale producers Jane Hudson and Laura Shaw have teased the soaps upcoming 50th anniversary celebrations to air on ITV in October 2022 as "epic". With "mind-blowing stunts" and the possible return of past characters with former cast members reprising their roles.[20]
14 News UK have hired Sky News Political Correspondent Kate McCann to become Political Editor at talkTV.[21]
16 Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries says the next announcement about the television licence fee will be the last, and that the time has come to discuss new ways to fund and sell "great British content".[22][23] The following day she announces that the licence will be frozen at £159 until 2024.[24] At the same time Dorries also confirms that the Welsh-language TV channel S4C will receive an extra £7.5m per year from the licence fee from April 2022.[25]
18 At 5.59am GB News begins a daily broadcast of the national anthem before the start of its live programming.[26]
It is revealed that , a contestant on Series 16 of The Apprentice, has quit the show due to health reasons, describing taking part in the series as "physically demanding".[27]
19 Amazon Prime announces the title of its upcoming Lord of the Rings spin-off series, which is to be called The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.[28]
A spoof video produced by the campaign group Led By Donkeys, and purporting to show Prime Minister Boris Johnson being questioned about the Partygate scandal by characters from Line of Duty, has received 5 million views since being posted on Twitter the previous day.[29][30]
20 Aardman Animations animator and creator of Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park announces that a new untitled television film is in development. The new short is planned for release at Christmas 2024 for the BBC.[31]
24 ITV announces plans for a revised weekday evening schedule that will see the ITV Evening News at 6.30pm extended from 30 to 60 minutes, with greater focus on stories and events outside London. Emmerdale will move from 7pm to 7.30pm on weeknights, while Coronation Street will move from six 30 minute episodes to three 60 minute episodes airing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm rather than 7.30pm and 8.30pm on those days.[32]
26 Regional BBC One HD services launch across Virgin Media platforms in England on channel 101 replacing the SD version meaning viewers can now watch regional news in HD for the first time without having to switch over to the now defunct 108 national HD channel.[33]
A new regional programme for England launches on BBC One. Called We Are England, the programme chooses a subject and produces six editions tailored for six different pan-regional areas of England.[34] The series replaces Inside Out which ended last year.
28 Ofcom launches an investigation into the prolonged outage of subtitles on Channel 4 during 2021.[35]
31 BBC Three controller Fiona Campbell announces plans to launch a new soap opera for the channel.[36]

February[]

Date Event
1 BBC Three relaunches as a television channel six years after becoming an online service.[37][38][39]
5 It is reported that Channel 5 are considering pulling their funding from Neighbours, an Australian soap opera that the channel co-produce with Fremantle Australia. The lack of funding would result in the soap facing cancellation or looking for alternate funding.[40]
6 Channel 5 confirms reports that it will stop showing Neighbours from August. Australia's Network 10, which airs the series in Australia, says it will seek to find a new UK partner to keep the series on air as Neighbours relies on UK funding for its continued production.[41]
7 Channel 4 announces that in a global first 100% of its on-air team for the 2022 Beijing Paralympics will be disabled. Presenters include Ade Adepitan, Arthur Williams, Billy Monger and .[42]
8 ITV airs the 2022 Brit Awards, the first Brit Awards ceremony to be held without gender-related categories. Adele, who wins several awards on the night, makes a rare live appearance at the ceremony and offers her thoughts on the new nominations categories.[43][44]
Gobstopper TV, production company of Just Tattoo of Us cuts ties with ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) following an investigation into bullying.[45]
9 Amazon Prime have signed a multi-million pound long-term deal with the Shepperton Studios for exclusive use of new production facilities.[46]
10 Channel 4 announces that new episodes of Hollyoaks will premiere on streaming service All 4 the morning prior to their evening television broadcast.[47]
12 Channel 4 airs the first free-to-air Super League Rugby match (a game between Warrington and Leeds) after signing a two-year deal with the Rugby Football League that will see ten matches broadcast by the channel during 2022.[48]
Natalie Imbruglia wins the third series of The Masked Singer disguised as Panda. Overnight viewing figures show that the final was watched by 7.31 million viewers.
13 The Duchess of Cambridge reads a CBeebies Bedtime Story, making her the latest celebrity to do so. She reads The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by to mark .[49]
14 Virgin Media removes all of the standard definition versions of all BBC channels, apart from BBC Parliament as it currently does not broadcast in high definition.[50]
15 A mural commissioned by the BBC to mark the final series of Peaky Blinders appears in Birmingham, and reveals the start date of the series as 27 February.[51]
Singers Bryan McFadden and Keith Duffy lend their support to a campaign to save Neighbours when they raise the subject during an appearance on 5 News.[52]
16 Gemma Collins fronts the Channel 4 documentary Gemma Collins: Self-Harm & Me, based around her history with self-harm and her mental health.[53]
17 Sarah Smith, the recently-appointed BBC News North America Editor, has said she feels relieved to have left her job as Scotland Editor after enduring what she describes as years of misogynistic "bile and hatred" while covering Scottish politics.[54]
18 Producers of the BBC's MasterChef announce production of the programme will move to Birmingham from 2024.[55]
As the UK is affected by Storm Eunice, the YouTube channel Big Jet TV, which shows livestreamed footage of aeroplanes landing, receives 5.5 million viewers throughout the day, with a peak of 238,000 at one point; the channel usually receives around 100,000 daily views.[56]
Hit pre-school cookery show, Big Cook Little Cook announces a return after 16 years (last airing prior to this series in 2006). Ibinabo Jack stars as Big Cook Jen and Courtney Bowman as Little Cook Small in this 50 episode revival previously fronted by Steve Marsh and Dan Wright.[57]
21 The BBC One magazine programme moves to studios in Manchester as part of the BBC's drive to produce more content outside London.[58]
GB News presenter Dan Wootton launches The Lockdown Inquiry as part of his Dan Wootton Tonight show in which he looks at the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns in the United Kingdom.[59]
The BBC announces a revision to the broadcast schedules for flagship soaps Doctors and EastEnders. The change, set to take place from 7 March, will include repeats of daytime soap Doctors being shown on BBC Two at 7:00 pm, as well as EastEnders moving to a permanent slot of 7:30 pm on BBC One from Monday to Thursday.[60] The change marks firsts for both soaps, with Doctors receiving its first primetime slot (since a brief trial period in mid-2000) and EastEnders being permanently broadcast on a Wednesday for the first time.[61]
22 Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis announce they are leaving the BBC to join Global Radio, where they will front a podcast for Global and present a show together on LBC.[62]
Professional dancer Oti Mabuse announces she is leaving Strictly Come Dancing after seven years with the show.[63]
23 Amid the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine the UK government asks the media regulator Ofcom to review RT UK's output.[64]
24 Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest say that Russia will be allowed to participate in the 2022 contest as Eurovision is a "non-political cultural event".[65] However, they reverse this decision a day later by disqualifying Russia, and saying that its inclusion would bring the contest into disrepute "in light of the unprecedented crisis in Ukraine".[66][67]
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond suspends his talk show on RT UK following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and pressure for him to do so.[68]
25 Roisin and Joe from Glasgow make their Gogglebox debut, becoming the first Scottish family to appear in the series for six years.[69]
27 Peaky Blinders returns for its sixth series, with the opening episode dedicated to the memory of Helen McCrory who played the role of Polly Gray in the series.[70]
28 Ofcom launches 15 separate investigations into RT UK for its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[71]

March[]

Date Event
3 RT UK is removed from all broadcast platforms in the UK as part of an Europe-wide crackdown on Russian propaganda.[72][73]
After failing to secure another British broadcaster to finance the series, producers of Neighbours confirm production of the Australian soap will end in the summer.[74]
5 It is reported that Sky News correspondent Stuart Ramsay was shot and wounded by a Russian reconnaissance unit while covering the war in Ukraine on 28 February.[75]
The BBC temporarily suspends its journalists' work in Russia in response to a new law that threatens to imprison anyone deemed to have spread "fake" news about the country's armed forces, but Russian news will continue to be produced from outside Russia.[76] The service is restored three days later on 8 March.[77]
7 Ofcom rules that the BBC made a "significant mistake" in a television news report during which Sarah Smith incorrectly stated that former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond had said he believed his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, should resign. The error was not acknowledged and corrected on air.[78]
BBC Two begins repeating episodes of Doctors at 7:00 pm, while EastEnders moves to its permanent slot of 7:30 pm.[60]
ITV starts airing the ITV Evening News at the extended time of 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm, while Emmerdale spans from 7:30 pm to 8:00 pm and Coronation Street at 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.[79]
8 Coronation Street production designer Rosie Mullins-Hoyle announces a new exterior extension of its Trafford Wharf set of a new 7.7 acre site. Weatherfield Precinct will be based on 1960s architecture which will include new local shops, a piazza, maisonettes, balconies and a staircase which is due to be completed in six months time.[80]
Channel 4 airs a special episode of soap Hollyoaks in celebration of International Women's Day. The episode opens with a "time hop" to the 1950s to see how the treatment of women has changed, later showcasing the current treatment of women in the 2020s.[81]
9 ITV confirms plans to extend the Coronation Street set to include the shopping complex. Building work on the project will begin shortly and is expected to last for six months.[82]
10 Sam Ryder is chosen to represent the United Kingdom in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest with his song "Space Man".[83]
13 The 75th British Academy Film Awards are held in London, the first fully in person ceremony to take place since 2020.[84]
17 The BBC has paid damages to , the former private secretary to Diana, Princess of Wales, for the "harm caused to him" over Martin Bashir's 1995 Panorama interview.[85]
18 Ofcom revokes the UK broadcasting licence for Russian state backed new channel Russia Today "with immediate effect" because it its parent company is not "fit and proper to hold a UK broadcast licence".[86]
Zoe Ball, Kylie Minogue and Joel Dommett are forced to pull out of the Red Nose Day 2022 event after testing positive for COVID-19.[87] The Red Nose Day broadcast, aired by the BBC, raises £42.7m by the end of the evening.[88]
29 Medical drama Holby City airs its final episode after 23 years.[89][90]

April[]

Date Event

May[]

Date Event

June[]

Date Event

July[]

Date Event

August[]

Date Event
TBC Channel 5 ceases airing Australian soap opera Neighbours, 14 years after acquiring it in 2008.[91]

September[]

Date Event

October[]

Date Event
16 Emmerdale celebrates its 50th Anniversary.[20]
18 The BBC celebrates its centenary 100th Anniversary across the corporation special programmes will air including a three-part documentary series titled David Dimbleby's BBC: A Very British History, Here's One I Made Earlier celebrating 100 years of children's programming presented by Konnie Huq, and a programme presented by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse titled The Love Box In Your Living Room that takes a humorous look at the BBC's history.[92]

November[]

Date Event
2 Channel 4 and Countdown celebrates their 40th anniversary.

December[]

Date Event

Debuts[]

BBC[]

Date Debut Channel
1 January The Tourist BBC One
BBC Two
3 January Four Lives BBC One
4 January Toast of Tinseltown BBC Two
9 January The Green Planet BBC One
10 January BBC Four
11 January BBC One
24 January Great Coastal Railway Journeys BBC Two
The Nilsen Files
The Responder BBC One
26 January We Are England
1 February BBC Three
6 February Chloe BBC One
CBBC
8 February BBC One
This Is Going to Hurt
9 February BBC Three
14 February Rebel Cheer Squad
16 February
1 March Mood
7 March
8 March The Witchfinder BBC Two
21 March Then Barbara Met Alan
May Conversations with Friends BBC Three
TBC BBC One
Life After Life BBC Two
Marie Antoinette BBC Two
SAS: Rogue Heroes
BBC One
BBC Three

ITV[]

Date Debut Channel
2 January Anne ITV
8 January Ant & Dec's Limitless Win
11 January
13 January
23 January Trigger Point
7 February
12 February Starstruck
22 February
6 March The Ipcress File
7 March
14 March Holding
17 March
TBC Fastest Finger First
ITVX
The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Channel 4[]

Date Debut Channel
4 January Davina McCall's Language of Love Channel 4
6 January Screw
31 January
6 February The Curse
16 February Gemma Collins: Self-Harm & Me
16 July Big Boys (Welsh: Big Boys) BBC Three / S4C / Channel 4
TBC
Chivalry Channel 4
(Welsh: Y Golau) S4C / Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 5[]

Date Debut Channel
6 January Channel 5
31 January The Teacher
1 March

Sky[]

Date Debut Channel
10 February Sky Atlantic
11 February Little Darlings Sky Kids
14 February Sky Arts
11 March Sky Max
April The Lazarus Project
TBC
The Baby Sky Atlantic
The Midwich Cuckoos Sky Max
This Sceptred Isle Sky Atlantic

Other channels[]

Date Debut Channel
27 January Hotel Portofino BritBox
4 February Suspicion Apple TV+
10 February Magpie Murders BritBox
1 March
28 March Gold
1 April Netflix
Slow Horses Apple TV+
12 April [93] Netflix
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? BritBox
15 April Anatomy of a Scandal Netflix
22 April Heartstopper Netflix
13 May The Essex Serpent Apple TV+
May The Dry BritBox
TBC Anansi Boys Amazon Prime
The Devil's Hour
Emerald Apple TV+
Liaison
BritBox
Sneakerhead Dave
Pistol Disney+
Lockwood & Co Netflix
Paramount+
TBC

Channels[]

New channels[]

Date Channel
1 February BBC Three (relaunch)
1 April talkTV

New streaming services[]

Date Channel
11 January Dazzler+
TBC Paramount+
ITVX

Defunct channels[]

Rebranding channels[]

Date Old name New name
19 January Paramount Network 5Action

Television programmes[]

Changes of network affiliation[]

Programme Moved from Moved to
Bull Fox Sky Witness
NCIS: New Orleans Sky Max
NCIS: Los Angeles Sky One
A Discovery of Witches
Magnum P.I.
The Blacklist
Frayed
Resident Alien
The Simpsons (First run rights) Sky Showcase
RuPaul's Drag Race Netflix WOW Presents Plus
Star Trek: Discovery Paramount+
Yellowstone Paramount Network
Outlander Amazon Prime StarzPlay
This Is Us Disney+
Sanditon ITV BritBox
Toast of London Channel 4 BBC Two
When Calls the Heart Movies 24

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer[]

Programme Date(s) of original removal Original channel(s) Date of return New channel(s)
Celebrity Coach Trip 24 January 2020 E4 3 January 2022 N/A (same channel as original)
The Apprentice 18 December 2019 BBC One 6 January 2022
The John Bishop Show 18 July 2015 8 January 2022 ITV
Britain's Got Talent 10 October 2020 ITV April 2022 N/A (same channel as original)
Derry Girls 9 April 2019 Channel 4 TBC
Doc Martin 13 November 2019 ITV
Waterloo Road[94] 9 March 2015 BBC One

Continuing television programmes[]

1920s[]

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

1930s[]

Programme Date
The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)
BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–present)

1950s[]

Programme Date
Panorama (1953–present)
Crackerjack! (1955–1984, 2020–present)
Eurovision Song Contest (1956–present)
The Sky at Night (1957–present)
Final Score (1958–present)
Blue Peter (1958–present)

1960s[]

Programme Date
Coronation Street (1960–present)
Points of View (1961–present)
Songs of Praise
University Challenge (1962–1987, 1994–present)
Doctor Who (1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present)
Horizon (1964–present)
Match of the Day
Top of the Pops (1964–2006, 2006–present) (Christmas specials only)
Gardeners' World (1968–present)
A Question of Sport (1968, 1970–present)

1970s[]

Programme Date
Emmerdale (1972–present)
Mastermind (including Celebrity Mastermind) (1972–1997, 2003–present)
Newsround (1972–present)
Football Focus (1974–present)
Pobol y Cwm (1974–present)
Arena (1975–present)
One Man and His Dog (1976–present)
Top Gear (1977–2001, 2002–present)
Blankety Blank (1979–1990, 1997–2002, 2016, 2020–present)
Antiques Roadshow (1979–present)
Question Time

1980s[]

Programme Date
Children in Need (1980–present)
See Hear (1981–present)
Countdown (1982–present)
ITV Breakfast (1983–present)
EastEnders (1985–present)
Comic Relief (1988–present)
Catchphrase (1986–2002, 2013–present)
Casualty (1986–present)
Red Dwarf (1988–1999, 2009, 2012–present)
This Morning (1988–present)
Countryfile

1990s[]

Programme Date
The Crystal Maze (1990–1995, 2016–present)
Have I Got News for You (1990–present)
MasterChef (1990–2001, 2005–present)
ITV News Meridian (1993–present)
Top of the Pops 2 (1994–present)
Hollyoaks (1995–present)
Soccer AM
National Television Awards (1995-2008, 2010–present)
Silent Witness (1996–present)
Midsomer Murders (1997–present)
Teletubbies (1997–2001, 2007–2009, 2015–present)
Y Clwb Rygbi (1997–present)
Cold Feet (1998–2003, 2016–present)
Classic Emmerdale (1998–2004, 2019–present)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998–2014, 2018–present)
Holby City (1999–2022)[90]
Loose Women (1999–present)

2000s[]

Programme Date
2000
Bargain Hunt (2000–present)
BBC Breakfast
Click
Doctors
A Place in the Sun
Unreported World (2000–present)
2001
BBC South East Today (2001–present)
2002
Escape to the Country (2002–present)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002–2009, 2013–2018, 2020–present)
Most Haunted (2002–2010, 2014–present)
River City (2002–present)
Saturday Kitchen
2003
QI (2003–present)
Eggheads
Homes Under the Hammer
Traffic Cops
2004
Match of the Day 2 (2004–present)
Strictly Come Dancing
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
The Gadget Show
Live at the Apollo
Newswatch
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two
Who Do You Think You Are?
2005
8 Out of 10 Cats (2005–present)
Coach Trip (2005–2006, 2009–present)
The Andrew Marr Show (2005–present)
The Adventure Show
Dragons' Den
The Hotel Inspector
Mock the Week
Springwatch
2006
The Apprentice: You're Fired! (2006–present)
Banged Up Abroad
Dancing on Ice (2006–2014, 2018–present)
Dickinson's Real Deal (2006–present)
Horrid Henry
Monkey Life
Not Going Out
The One Show
Peschardt's People
Waterloo Road (2006–2015, 2022–present)
2007
Would I Lie to You? (2007–present)
Don't Tell the Bride
The Graham Norton Show
Shaun the Sheep
2008
An Là (2008–present)
Celebrity Juice
Chuggington
Police Interceptors
Seachd Là
2009
Pointless (2009–present)
The Chase
Kate Garraway's Life Stories
Rip Off Britain

2010s[]

Programme Date
2010
Dinner Date (2010–present)
The Great British Bake Off
Great British Railway Journeys
A League of Their Own
Lorraine
The Only Way Is Essex
Sunday Morning Live
2011
Junior Bake Off (2011–present)
Made in Chelsea
Vera
24 Hours in A&E
Top Boy (2011–2013, 2019, 2022–present)
2012
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (2012–present)
Endeavour
Call the Midwife
Stand Up To Cancer
The Voice UK
Tipping Point
Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
2013
The Dumping Ground (2013–present)
Shetland
Two Doors Down (2013, 2016–present)
2014
Agatha Raisin (2014–present)
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
Good Morning Britain
Happy Valley (2014, 2016, 2022)
Judge Rinder (2014–present)
Grantchester
2015
Hunted (2015–present)
SAS: Who Dares Wins
Taskmaster
Travel Man
The Last Kingdom (2015–2022)
2016
Bake Off: The Professionals (2016–present)
Celebs Go Dating (2016–present)
Class Dismissed (2016–2017, 2019–present)
The Crown (2016–present)
Got What It Takes?
Marcella
Naked Attraction
Upstart Crow
2017
Ackley Bridge (2017–present)
All Round to Mrs. Brown's
Back
The Good Karma Hospital
The Voice Kids
Impossible
The Playlist
The Repair Shop
Richard Osman's House of Games
Strike
2018
Britannia (2018–present)
Celebs on the Farm
Derry Girls (2018–2022)
A Discovery of Witches
Killing Eve
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema (2018–present)
Peston
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
Stath Lets Flats
2019
Almost Never (2019–present)
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star
The Hit List
Ladhood
Mandy
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
Sex Education
After Life (2019–2022)

2020s[]

Programme Date
2020
Beat the Chasers (2020–present)
It's Pony
Code 404
Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow
Mystic
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
The Masked Singer
Noughts + Crosses
2021
Bloods (2021–present)
Hope Street
The Masked Dancer

Ending this year[]

Date(s) Programme Channel(s) Debut(s)
5 January Four Lives BBC One 2022
Anne ITV
14 January After Life Netflix 2019
18 February A Discovery of Witches Sky Max 2018
9 March The Last Kingdom Netflix 2015
29 March Holby City[90] BBC One 1999
November Doc Martin[95][96] ITV 2004
TBC Peaky Blinders BBC One 2013
Derry Girls[97] Channel 4 2018
Killing Eve BBC Three

Deaths[]

Date Name Age Broadcast credibility
1 January Gary Burgess[98] 46 Radio and television presenter (ITV Channel Television)
5 January George Rossi[99] 60 Scottish actor (The Bill, Roughnecks, The Singing Detective)
9 January Nicholas Donnelly[100] 83 Actor (Grange Hill, Dixon of Dock Green, Lifeforce)
10 January Gary Waldhorn[101] 78 Actor (The Vicar of Dibley, Brush Strokes)
11 January Jana Bennett[102] 66 Television executive (BBC Worldwide)
14 January Sean Rice[103] 49 Canadian pair skater (Dancing on Ice)
25 January Barry Cryer[104] 86 Writer (The Two Ronnies, Doctor in the House), comedian and actor
29 January Leonard Fenton[105] 95 Actor (EastEnders)
Jo Kendall[106] 81 Actress (Emmerdale), comedian and writer
8 February Bamber Gascoigne[107] 87 Television presenter (University Challenge)
9 February Joseph Horovitz[108] 95 Composer (Rumpole of the Bailey) and conductor
13 February Beryl Vertue[109] 90 Television producer (Men Behaving Badly, Sherlock)
16 February Jack Smethurst[110] 89 Actor and comedian (Love Thy Neighbour)
22 February Anna Karen[111] 85 Actress (On the Buses, EastEnders)
24 February Henry Lincoln[112] 92 Writer (Doctor Who) and actor (The Avengers)
1 March Bob Wellings[113] 87 Television presenter and journalist (Nationwide)
2 March John Stahl[114] 68 Actor (Game of Thrones, Take the High Road)
4 March Dai Jones[115] 78 Television presenter (Cefn Gwlad)
5 March Lynda Baron[116] 82 Actress (Open All Hours, Come Outside, EastEnders)
6 March Kenneth Ives[117] 87 Actor (Doctor Who) and director (Poldark, Secret Army)
8 March Ron Pember[118] 87 Actor (Only Fools and Horses,Secret Army), stage director and dramatist
17 March Peter Bowles[119] 85 Actor (To the Manor Born, Rumpole of the Bailey, Only When I Laugh, Executive Stress)

See also[]

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