2020 in British television

This is a list of events taking place in 2020 relating to Television in the United Kingdom.

List of years in British television (table)

Events

January
Date Event
1 Part One of Spyfall, the first episode of Series 12 of Doctor Who, is broadcast on BBC One. The episode sees the return of the Doctor's adversary, the Master, portrayed by Sacha Dhawan, as well as featuring Stephen Fry and Lenny Henry in prominent roles.[1][2] Overnight viewing figures indicate an audience of 4.88 million viewers, making it the second-highest overnight viewership for the night after Emmerdale with an audience of 5 million.[3]
Miranda Hart is reunited with the cast of her eponymous sitcom, Miranda to celebrate its tenth anniversary in a special show recorded at the London Palladium.[4]
BBC One airs Craig David Rocks Big Ben Live to welcome in the New Year.[5]
Dracula, a new three-part take on the Bram Stoker novel of the same name, begins airing on BBC One.[6]
2 Figures released by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) indicate the 2019 Christmas special of Gavin & Stacey to be the most viewed scripted television programme of the 2010s, with an audience of 17.1 million. Only sporting events and the 2010 series of The X Factor were seen by more viewers.[7]
The actress Amanda Henderson appears as a contestant on Celebrity Mastermind. By the following day a clip of her giving an incorrect answer to a question about the Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has been watched more than five million times. When asked to name the teenage activist, Henderson replies with "Sharon", a response that prompts Thunberg to change the name on her Twitter account to Sharon in jest, and leads to some online criticism of the actress.[8][9]
4 BBC Two airs an evening of programmes dedicated to Clive James, with two editions of Clive James's Postcard from... about Sydney and London, and an edition of Front Row Late featuring James from 2018.[10]
The Masked Singer, a reality show based on a South Korean series of the same name, makes its British television debut on ITV.[11][12]
5 Dancing on Ice returns for a twelfth series, and becomes the first UK competitive reality television show to pair a same-sex partnership, with Ian "H" Watkins teaming up with professional ice skater Matt Evers.[13][14]
6 ITV revamps and extends its breakfast programming. The changes see Good Morning Britain being extended by 30 minutes, running until 9 am, with Lorraine on air for a full hour, from 9 am until 10 am. The change removes the historic 9.25 am demarcation between breakfast and daytime programming that had existed since breakfast television launched on ITV in 1983.[15]
8 The Advertising Standards Authority upholds a complaint against Love Island contestant Molly Mae Hague over a social media post of her wearing an outfit from an online retailer that was not identifiable as advertising.[16]
10 Samira Ahmed wins an equal pay case she brought against the BBC over the difference in pay between herself for presenting Newswatch and Jeremy Vine for presenting Points of View.[17]
12 BBC Two airs Louis Theroux: Selling Sex, a documentary in which Louis Theroux examines the world of online sex workers in the United Kingdom.[18]
Love Island returns to ITV2 for its sixth series, with Laura Whitmore as presenter. Overnight viewing figures indicate the launch episode of what is the first series to be aired in winter is seen by an average audience of 2.51 million; the figure is down 800,000 on the launch episode of the previous series aired in summer 2019.[19]
13 ITV launches Week 3 of its "Creates" Ident package in 2020, designed by Saj Fareed and Asian Women's Resource Centre.[20]
14 Love Island contestant Ollie Williams voluntarily leaves the show after less than three days as a participant.[21]
15 BBC Director-General Tony Hall outlines plans that will see at least two-thirds of the BBC's staff based outside London by 2027.[22]
16 Legislation is drafted before Parliament allowing the use of television cameras during trials at Crown Courts in England and Wales, but only the judges will be filmed.[23]
Sandi Toksvig announces she is leaving her presenting role with The Great British Bake Off after three years.[24]
The actor Laurence Fox appears as a panelist on Question Time, where he clashes with an audience member who argues the media's treatment of Megan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has been racist.[25]
20 Tony Hall announces his intention to step down as Director-General of the BBC in Summer 2020 following seven years in the role.[26]
21 Netflix reveals that its drama The Crown has been watched by 73 million households worldwide.[27]
22 BBC media editor Amol Rajan confirms that The Victoria Derbyshire Show is to come to an end as part of £80m worth of savings being made to the BBC's news service.[28] The programme will end later in the year, with BBC Director of News Fran Unsworth stating that it is "no longer cost-effective" to keep it on air.[29]
23 The BBC announced that Brexitcast will be renamed Newscast after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union on 31 January.[30][31]
25 Fans of The Goodies asked to choose their favourite episode of the 1970s comedy show have selected the sketch "Kung Fu Kapers" to be screened at a festival celebrating the series' 50th anniversary.[32]
26 In the Doctor Who episode "Fugitive of the Judoon", Jo Martin makes history by becoming the first black actress to portray the role of the Doctor in a previously unseen incarnation of the Time Lord.[33]
27 A petition to save the BBC Red Button service and signed by more than 100 organisations is handed to the BBC and 10 Downing Street.[34]
ITV apologises following the broadcast of the previous weekend's installment of The Masked Singer during which panellist Jonathan Ross suggested one of the singers could be Natalie Cole, who died in 2015.[35]
28 ITV broadcasts the 25th National Television Awards, with David Walliams as host.[36]
29 BBC News announces it will shed 450 posts, including roles from Newsnight and BBC Radio 5 Live, as part of £80m worth of savings being made by the BBC.[37]
The BBC suspends its plans to discontinue the red button text service, which was due to close on 30 January.[38]
It is announced that ITV News presenter Alastair Stewart had been fired from his role after what ITV News described as "errors of judgment in [his] use of social media", though they have not elaborated on the nature of what happened.[39]
Channel 4's First Dates is to move to a new venue, relocating from London to Manchester for the next series.[40]
30 Brexitcast ends on TV 2 days prior to it ending on the radio.
31 Brexit Day, the day the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, is marked by all major broadcasters, including a BBC News special covering events, and editions of ITV News at Ten and Channel 4's The Last Leg dedicated to the occasion. There is also a pre-recorded speech from Prime Minister Boris Johnson scheduled for broadcast at 10.00 pm (an hour before the UK's official exit) in which he attempts to reassure viewers that Brexit is "not an end, but a beginning", but both the BBC and ITV main news bulletins choose not to broadcast the three-minute speech in its entirety.[41][42]
Imelda Staunton will play Queen Elizabeth II in the fifth and final series of the Netflix drama The Crown, it is announced.[43]
Harley Bird, the actress who voices Peppa Pig, will step down from the role after more than a decade, it is announced. She will be replaced by Amelie Bea Smith, who will make her debut in an episode of the cartoon shown on 14 February.[44]

February
Date Event
2 It is revealed that Caprice Bourret has left Dancing on Ice to "recover and look after herself and her family".[45]
4 To coincide with the broadcast of Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude on BBC Two, BBC Two announces Life Drawing Live!, a two-hour programme presented by Josie D'Arby in which life drawing experts guide a group of artists in how to create a life drawing while viewers are also encouraged to create their own work.[46]
5 Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan launches a public consultation about the possible decriminalisation of non-payment of the television licence.[47]
7 Coronation Street airs its landmark 10,000th episode.[48]
ITV announces that The X Factor will not return in 2020, but instead take a twelve-month break before returning in 2021[49]
This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield gives an interview to his co-presenter Holly Willoughby in which he speaks openly about his sexuality after releasing a statement on social media in which he comes out as gay.[50]
10 ITV launches Week 7 of its "Creates" Ident package in 2020, designed by Hermione Allsopp and Hastings Furniture Service.[51]
11 David Attenborough will present A Perfect Planet, a five-part series showing how natural forces help the world to thrive.[52]
ITV axes its dating game show Take Me Out after eleven series.[53]
12 The government announces plans to extend the remit of the media regulator Ofcom to include internet and social media content in the UK.[54]
13 Oliver Dowden is appointed as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in a cabinet reshuffle, replacing Nicky Morgan.[55]
The BBC announces that after forty-three years on BBC Two, Top Gear will move to BBC One for its twenty-ninth series.[56]
Bill Turnbull will stand in for Piers Morgan as co-presenter of Good Morning Britain for three days while Morgan takes a break later in the month.[57]
14 Fitness coach Joe Wicks becomes the latest celebrity to read a CBeebies Bedtime Story; he reads Love Monster and the Perfect Present by Rachel Bright.[58]
15 ITV2 pulls the day's edition of Love Island from its schedule following the death of the show's former presenter Caroline Flack.[59] The following day's episode is also cancelled.[60]
Nicola Roberts wins the first series of The Masked Singer as the "Queen Bee".[61] Overnight figures indicate the show's grand final had an average audience of 6.4 million viewers.[62]
17 Love Island returns to ITV2 with a tribute to Caroline Flack.[63][64]
18 ITV broadcasts the 2020 Brit Awards, presented by Jack Whitehall.[65]
19 EastEnders celebrates its 35th Anniversary.[66]
21 The BBC announces that its consumer affairs programme Watchdog will be subsumed into The One Show from Spring 2020.[67]
June Brown makes her final onscreen appearance in EastEnders as Dot Cotton.[68]
22 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway returns to ITV for a new series. The first episode attracts 87 complaints to Ofcom following a raunchy performance by the Pussycat Dolls.[69]
23 Finn Tapp and Paige Turley win series six of Love Island.[70]
26 ITV announces a shakeup of its weekend Breakfast schedule that will see the launch of two new programmes. Kate Garraway will present Breakfast at Garraway's on Saturday, while Sundays will see Martin and Roman Kemp presenting front Martin & Roman's Sunday Best.[71]
27 Singer-songwriter James Newman is chosen to represent the United Kingdom at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest with his song "My Last Breath".[72]
29 The controversial Ken Russell film Dance of the Seven Veils about German composer Richard Strauss, which was last aired in February 1970, is to be screened at the 2020 Keswick Film Festival. The film attracted complaints at the time because of its sex scenes, and prompted Strauss's family to withdraw their permission for the use of his music after he was depicted as a Nazi sympathiser, a move that effectively banned the film from being shown again until the copyright on his work had expired.[73][74]

March
Date Event
1 The final episode of the twelfth series of Doctor Who, The Timeless Children airs on BBC One, causing widespread controversy, as it is revealed The Doctor is not from Gallifrey, not born a Time Lord, and had many lives before William Hartnell’s incarnation.
2 As cases of coronavirus in the UK continue to increase, a BBC One programme Coronavirus: Everything You Need to Know addresses questions from the public on the outbreak.[75]
3 Sky and Disney secure a deal to make the Disney+ streaming service available on Sky Q when the channel is launched later in the month.[76]
4 Spitting Image co-creator Roger Law announces that it the show will return on BritBox after twenty four years.[77]
6 Kevin Clifton announces he is leaving Strictly Come Dancing after seven years.[78]
7 Michael and Jowita win the second series of The Greatest Dancer.[79]
8 Joe Swash and dance partner Alex Murphy win series twelve of Dancing on Ice.[80]
11 Georgie Mills wins series five of Got What It Takes?.[81]
13 Sport Relief 2020 goes ahead in front of a live audience in Salford despite the cancellation of a number of other events involving the gathering of large crowds due to the coronavirus pandemic.[82] The event raises £40 million by the end of the evening, with co-presenter Gary Lineker saying "a chunk" of the funds raised will go towards those affected by the pandemic.[83]
ITV confirms that the following day's edition of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will be broadcast live and in front of a studio audience as normal.[84] However, the series finale, scheduled to be broadcast from Walt Disney World in Florida will no longer go ahead after the resort announced its intention to close as a precautionary measure.[85]
14 Manchester's Victoria Baths, featured in a multitude of television series such as Coronation Street, Cold Feet and Peaky Blinders, is to open to the public for an exhibition highlighting its use as a backdrop for television series.[86]
15 The government announces plans to hold daily televised press conferences to update the public on the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, starting on Monday 16 March.[87]
16 The BBC delays its planned changes to TV licences for the over-75s from June to August because of the coronavirus pandemic.[88]
ITV announce that Coronation Street and Emmerdale will "remind people of important public health issues" like hand-washing because of the coronavirus pandemic. The filming schedule for both soaps has not so far been disrupted by the pandemic, but series such as Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty have delayed the filming of forthcoming series.[89]
ITV launches Week 12 of its "Creates" Ident package in 2020, designed by On The Mend & NHS Staff.[90]
17 The BBC announces major changes to the schedule across the network. While programmes such as Politics Live, Victoria Derbyshire, The Andrew Neil Show, Newswatch, The Travel Show and HARDTalk have been suspended, others such as Newsnight and The Andrew Marr Show will continue with a smaller number of production staff. Question Time is moved to an earlier 8 pm Thursday timeslot and will be broadcast without an audience from a fixed location. Podcasts programmes Americast, Beyond Today and The Next Episode are also suspended.[91]
18 The European Broadcasting Union announces the cancellation of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, which was scheduled to be held in Rotterdam during the week of 11 May. A special programme focusing on the artists that would have taken part in the contest, known as Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light, would later be announced to air on the date reserved for the grand final, which was 16 May.[92][93]
The BBC announces that due to the coronavirus pandemic, filming on Casualty, Doctors, EastEnders, Holby City, Pobol y Cwm and River City is suspended until further notice. Weekly episodes of EastEnders will also be reduced from four to two to keep it on the air for as long as possible.[94]
The BBC says that it will show more educational programmes to cater for children not attending school, and that it is in talks with the Department for Education and schools to support GCSE and A Level curriculums with extra programmes on BBC Four and the BBC Red Button service.[95]
ITV announce that the filming schedule for Coronation Street will change from the week beginning 30 March, with the number of weekly episodes reduced from six to three. Emmerdale will also change its pattern from the usual six episodes to three as well.[94]
The semi-final of the ninth series of The Voice UK, scheduled for Saturday 28 March, is postponed until later in the year, while the 21 March edition of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will go ahead without a live studio audience.[96]
The BBC and ITV announce major revamps of their schedules to include a weekly programme giving the public information about the coronavirus pandemic; the BBC will also air more programmes focused on health, fitness, education, religion and food recipes.[96]
19 Fitness expert Diana Moran, known as the Green Goddess when she presented keep fit sessions on BBC Breakfast Time during the 1980s, is to make a return to breakfast television to give fitness advice to people in self-isolation because of the coronavirus pandemic. She will present a slot on BBC Breakfast three times a week.[97]
20 The BBC brings forward its adaptation of Enid Blyton's Malory Towers series by two weeks, making it available on BBC iPlayer from Monday 23 March. The series is also scheduled to begin airing on the CBBC channel from April.[98]
Filming on the scripted reality television show The Only Way is Essex is suspended temporarily because of the coronavirus pandemic.[99]
22 ITV announces that filming on Coronation Street and Emmerdale will be temporarily halted from Monday 23 March. Its daytime programmes Lorraine and Loose Women will also temporarily cease live broadcasting.[100]
23 In a televised address, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a UK-wide lockdown with immediate effect, to contain the spread of the coronavirus. People can leave their homes only for "very limited purposes" – shopping for basic necessities; for one form of exercise a day; for any medical need; and to travel to and from work when "absolutely necessary". A number of other restrictions are imposed, with police given powers to enforce the measures, including the use of fines.[101][102][103] Overnight viewing figures indicate the address, the first such Prime Ministerial broadcast since that by Tony Blair at the time of the Iraq War in 2003, to have been watched by a collective audience of at least 27.1 million viewers, placing it high on the list of most watched television broadcasts in the United Kingdom with the greatest number since the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London.[104]
ITV revises its previous decision and announces that Emmerdale will now broadcast only three times a week from 30 March.
DisneyLife closes to be replaced by Disney+.
24 BBC News announces that it is delaying plans to cut 450 news jobs due to the pressure of covering the coronavirus pandemic.[105]
Disney+ launches in the UK, featuring The Mandalorian, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Forky Asks a Question and more. It is also the first streaming service in the UK to feature The Simpsons after Sky and Disney secured a deal to make Disney+ available on Sky Q.
26 Doctors celebrates its 20th anniversary with a 60-minute episode.[106] The episode sees the return of Julia Parsons (Diane Keen) after eight years.[107]
The fifteenth anniversary of Doctor Who's return to television is celebrated by fans across the world with a mass viewing of "Rose", the first episode from the 2005 series.[108]
BBC Scotland soap River City announces plans to donate medical props to the NHS to help fight coronavirus. The items include surgical gloves, masks and scrubs that would be used by actors during filming of the series.[109]
AJ Pritchard announces he is leaving Strictly Come Dancing after four years.[110]
29 The team who designed costumes for the TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series establish Helping Dress Medics, an organisation dedicated to manufacturing scrubs for medical staff fighting coronavirus.[111]
30 Matt Baker signs off as co-presenter of The One Show after nine years, doing so from home due to having to self-isolate after a relative tested positive for coronavirus. The BBC says it has no plans to replace him, but will instead draw on the show's existing team to co-present with Alex Jones.[112]

April
Date Event
3 The BBC announces it will offer daily educational programming to help children with schoolwork at home during lockdown beginning on 20 April, describing it as the biggest education push "in its history".[113]
5 Queen Elizabeth II makes a rare televised broadcast to the UK and the wider Commonwealth, something she has done on only four previous occasions (other than Christmas broadcasts). In the address she thanks people for following the government's social distancing rules and pays tribute to key workers, and says the UK "will succeed" in its fight against coronavirus but may have "more still to endure".[114] The broadcast gains 23.97 million viewers.[115]
6 Daily Kitchen, a sister programme of Saturday Kitchen begins a two-week run on BBC One, intended as a way of helping people isolated at home to cook a meal using limited food resources.[116]
10 The BBC has donated fully working ventilators from the set of Holby City to London's NHS Nightingale Hospital to help treat patients with coronavirus.[117]
15 Ofcom receive 643 complaints about an angry exchange between Piers Morgan and government minister Helen Whately on the day's edition of Good Morning Britain which occurs during a discussion about COVID-19 deaths in care homes.[118] A further 966 complaints are received following a second "car crash" interview on 22 April.[119]
17 Thomas Frake wins the 2020 series of MasterChef.[120]
19 BBC One airs highlights of the Together at Home concert, a virtual global concert staged to celebrate healthcare workers and featuring musicians playing from home. The lineup includes Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish and The Rolling Stones. This UK version of the concert also features the stories of frontline workers, as well as extra footage of British artists such as Paul McCartney, Elton John and Ellie Goulding. The coverage is presented by Claudia Winkleman, Dermot O'Leary and Clara Amfo.[121][122]
23 BBC One airs The Big Night In, a first-of-its-kind joint broadcast with Children in Need and Comic Relief, and featuring an evening of music and entertainment. The broadcast celebrates the acts of kindness, humour and the spirit of hope and resilience that is keeping the nation going during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, with viewers given a chance to donate to a fund helping local charities and projects around the country.[123] The event raises £27m for charity, with the government pledging to double that amount.[124]
26 Uncle and nephew Emon and Jamiul Choudhury win series two of Race Across the World.[125]
27 Ofcom says it will not investigate Piers Morgan over his "combative" interviews with government ministers. A total of 4,000 complaints have been generated over the interviews, 3,200 of them relating to two clashes with Minister for Social Care Helen Whately.[126]
ITV launches a new spin-off to The Chase titled Beat the Chasers.
29 Steph McGovern announces she is halting her home made daily lunchtime Channel 4 show, The Steph Show, so that her family can have their home back. McGovern has presented the show from her lounge because of the lockdown restrictions, but it will move to Channel 4's studios in Leeds when it returns later in the year.[127]
30 ITV announces plans to resume filming live studio-based shows such as Britain's Got Talent and The Masked Singer, but without the presence of an audience.[128]

May
Date Event
2 An episode of Casualty that details a fictional viral outbreak is pulled from BBC One's schedule after being deemed as inappropriate. The broadcast is replaced by the next episode in the series, with a recap of the skipped episode being shown beforehand.[129]
3 ITV announce that due to the suspension of production of soap operas Coronation Street and Emmerdale due to the COVID-19 pandemic back in March, that their ITV3 re-runs of Classic episodes of both soaps respectively will be made available shortly after broadcast on the streaming catch up ITV Hub from 5 May. A new collection of the best of episodes from Coronation Street and Emmerdale will also launch on BritBox on 14 May.[130]
4 BBC One introduces a set of new idents reflecting social distancing.[131]
Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan return to Channel 4 with Richard & Judy: Keep Reading and Carry On, a week-long programme where they recommend books to read during the lockdown. The programme is filmed from their home.[132]
ITV2 permanently cancels the summer 2020 series of Love Island, meaning the series will next air in 2021.[133]
6 Coronation Street producer Iain MacLeod says the soap will include storylines that see characters dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak when filming resumes, but it will not "dominate every single story".[134]
8 8 May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day and the occasion is marked by a series of special programmes on television. Highlights include a day of programmes on BBC One and a tribute to Captain Tom Moore on ITV.[135] The Queen also addresses the nation with a TV broadcast at 9 pm, at the exact moment her father, George VI did in 1945.[136]
12 The government give soaps including Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks permission to resume filming.[137]
E4 announces a series titled Big Brother's Best Shows set to air in the summer, to mark Big Brother's 20th anniversary.[138]
14 The BBC announces plans to resume the filming of EastEnders and Top Gear in June, with cast and crew practising social distancing, and doing their own hair and makeup.[139]
Mwaka Mudenda joins Blue Peter as its 39th presenter, joining the show from home because of the lockdown restrictions.[140]
16 BBC One airs Eurovision: Come Together and Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light to mark the permanently cancelled 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. In the first programme viewers choose their favourite Eurovision song (selecting ABBA's "Waterloo"), while the second programme, broadcast by all countries participating in the competition, showcases the forty one acts that would have appeared in Eurovision 2020.[141]
21 BBC Two airs the Horizon documentary "What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?" in which comedian Tony Slattery explores his psychological problems with experts, and attempts to confront addiction and childhood trauma.[142]
ITV announces that Emmerdale has started a "phased return to filming" with six new episodes being recorded at its studios in Leeds. The episodes will show characters dealing with lockdown and reflecting on past feuds.[143]
22 Doctors announce that they are filming a lockdown episode featuring Zara Carmichael (Elisabeth Dermot Walsh), filmed from Walsh's home using an iPhone X.[144]
The cast of the BBC's W1A have reunited for a one-off Zoom meeting, which is made available to watch on YouTube.[145]
26 The BBC announces plans to show classic performances from the Glastonbury Festival over the weekend of 26–28 June, when the festival was scheduled to take place.[146]
Laura Rollins announces her departure from her role as Ayesha Lee on Doctors.[147]
27 The BBC says that BBC Two's Newsnight breached impartiality guidelines with an introduction about government chief adviser Dominic Cummings on the previous day's edition. Referring to Cummings apparent breach of lockdown regulations, presenter Emily Maitlis said "the country can see" Cummings had "broken the rules".[148]
Sky launches Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature, and rebrands History to Sky History.
28 Royal Mail issues a set of stamps to mark the 60th anniversary of Coronation Street.[149]
Following the Premier League's decision to restart the 2020–21 season on 17 June, it is announced that all remaining 92 matches from the season will air live on television, including four on the BBC. Sky Sports will also air 25 matches free-to-air.[150]
29 The BBC appoints Richard Sambrook, its former director of global news and current director of journalism of Cardiff University, to review online behaviour of programmes and staff, particularly regarding their social media posting.[151]
The 2020 British Academy Television Awards, originally scheduled for 17 May, are rescheduled for 31 July and will be held virtually. The ceremony will be presented by Richard Ayoade with award recipients giving acceptance speeches via video conferencing.[152]

June
Date Event
1 ITV announces plans to resume filming of Coronation Street from 9 June following an eleven week break. ITV have aired three episodes a week since March, and the new filming schedule will allow that number of weekly episodes to continue airing going forward.[153]
2 The UK government is to scale back its daily Downing Street briefings to weekdays only, citing low viewing figures at weekends.[154]
3 The BBC announces plans to air an EastEnders spinoff series titled Secrets From The Square, hosted by Stacey Dooley, where Dooley interviews cast members on their experiences on the programme. They also announce that old episodes of EastEnders will be aired due to running out of episodes.[155]
4 The BBC announces that it will show highlights of every test match and one day international played by the England cricket team during 2020, starting with three test matches against the West Indies in July.[156]
5 Tim Davie, the current chief executive of BBC Studios, is appointed the next Director-General of the BBC, replacing Tony Hall from September.[157]
6 BT Sport viewers are given the option of hearing artificial crowd noises while watching coverage of Bundesliga football matches to make the experience seem more authentic. The option will also be available when English Premier League football returns on 17 June.[158]
7 Channel 4 broadcasts the entire 1966 FIFA World Cup Final between England and West Germany. Aired as Final Replay '66, special permission is given by FIFA for the match to be shown in aide of the National Emergencies Trust's Coronavirus Appeal. The programme is presented by Gabby Logan, with commentary from Geoff Hurst and Glenn Hoddle. The match is also livestreamed via All 4.[159][160]
8 Emmerdale episodes are reduced to two for three weeks on Mondays and Wednesdays.[161]
Hollyoaks launches an investigation after the actress Rachel Adedeji alleges she witnessed racism on the Channel 4 soap.[162]
9 BBC iPlayer, Netflix and Britbox all announce that all episodes of both Little Britain and Come Fly With Me have been removed, due to their use of white actors in black makeup.[163]
10 Vas J Morgan, a cast member of ITV's reality series The Only Way Is Essex, accuses the programme of "systematic racism" because he says he was treated differently to white cast members and "put into situations that perpetuated the same racial stereotype".[164]
Ant & Dec apologise for impersonating "people of colour" on their ITV show Saturday Night Takeaway.[165]
11 The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh are removed from Netflix due to their use of white actors in black makeup, but both series remain available on BBC iPlayer.[166]
12 Doctors airs an episode set in cast members' homes filmed using their mobile phones, marking it as a first for a soap opera.[167] The episode, titled "Can You Hear Me?", has an extended runtime of 45 minutes. The soap goes on its annual summer transmission break after the episode.[168] It was also announced that filming is set to recommence in July.[169]
With EastEnders due to go off air after 16 June because it has run out of pre-lockdown episodes, it is announced that the soap will return later in the year with shorter, 20 minute episodes, but will go back to airing four nights a week.[170]
John Cleese criticises the BBC as "cowardly and gutless" after an episode of Fawlty Towers is temporarily removed from the UKTV streaming service because it contains "racial slurs". UKTV says it will reinstate the 1975 episode, "The Germans", once it has updated it with guidance and contextual information.[171]
15 A BBC drama written by Jimmy McGovern is to portray the life of Anthony Walker, who was killed in a racially motivated attack in 2005. However, rather than showing the events that happened and the life he lived, the film will show the life the teenager may have lived had he not been killed.[172]
Misha B, a contestant on the 2011 series of The X Factor, accuses the show of having a "corrupted agenda" and pushing an "angry black girl narrative" on her when she participated.[173] Following her comments, Tulisa Contostavlos, who was a judge on the eighth series, apologises for accusing Misha B of bullying during the programme.[174]
16 BBC One airs the final episode of EastEnders to be recorded before filming was suspended in March.[175]
17–19 BBC Sport airs coverage of the V-Series Women's Tour, a virtual cycling tour held because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Commentary on the event is provided by Marty MacDonald and Joanna Rowsell Shand.[176]
20 A premiership match between Bournemouth and Crystal Palace becomes the first Premier League game to be aired by the BBC, and the first English top-flight match to be broadcast on BBC television since 1988. The match is watched by an average of 3.6 million, peaking at 3.9 million.[177][178]
21 BBC One debuts The Luminaries, a series based on book of the same name by Eleanor Catton. Although it receives positive reviews from some critics, the first episode attracts criticism from viewers and critics because of a number of scenes that are difficult to follow due to poor lighting.[179]
22 The BBC announces plans to invest £10m over three years to produce "diverse and inclusive content".[180]
23 Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads the UK government's final televised daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing. From now on press briefings will be held whenever there is a significant announcement.[181]
24 The BBC postpones series sixteen of The Apprentice in the interests of "production safety and the wellbeing of everyone involved".[182]
25 The BBC confirms that Strictly Come Dancing will return for its eighteenth series in the Autumn, but will be shorter than usual due to the COVID-19 epidemic.[183]
BBC Two airs the first episode of QI to be recorded without a studio audience; the edition was recorded in March 2020 during the COVID-19 outbreak.[184]
The Walt Disney Company announce that due to the launch of Disney+, Disney XD, Disney Channel and Disney Junior will close down on 30 September, as well as their respective timeshift channels.[185]

July
Date Event

August
Date Event

September
Date Event
30 Disney XD, Disney Channel and Disney Junior transmit their final programming, as well as their respective timeshift channels.[185]

October
Date Event
23 Hollyoaks celebrates its 25th anniversary.[186]

November
Date Event

December
Date Event
9 Coronation Street celebrates its 60th Anniversary.[187]

Debuts

BBC
DateDebutChannel
1 January Dracula BBC One
Earth's Tropical Islands BBC Two
Veganville BBC Three
4 January First and Last BBC One
9 January Baby Chimp Rescue BBC Two
15 January Good Omens
21 January Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting
25 January Shrill BBC Three
27 January Crime: Are We Tough Enough? BBC One
Great Asian Railway Journeys BBC Two
Love Monster CBeebies
The Windermere Children BBC Two
28 January Young, Sikh and Proud BBC One
30 January Life Cinematic BBC Four
2 February Art on the BBC
3 February Shock of the Nude with Mary Beard BBC Two
4 February Life Drawing Live! BBC Four
9 February The Pale Horse BBC One
14 February Get Even BBC Three
5 March Noughts and Crosses BBC One
10 March Five Bedrooms
15 March Trignometry BBC Two
17 March Cops Like Us
22 March The Nest BBC One
25 March Mister Winner BBC Two
23 April The Big Night In BBC One
26 April Primates
Normal People BBC Three
18 May Monkman & Seagull's Genius Adventures BBC Two
28 May The First Team
31 May Angels of the North BBC Three
1 June Comedians: Home Alone BBC Two
5 June The Other One BBC One
8 June The Bidding Room
10 June Staged
11 June You Are What You Wear
14 June The Salisbury Poisonings
15 June Art of Persia BBC Four
21 June The Luminaries BBC One
Unknown The Iraq War
ABBA: Thank You for the Music, An All-Star Tribute
Little Mix: The Search[188]

ITV
DateDebutChannel
4 January The Masked Singer ITV
8 January White House Farm
19 February Harry Redknapp's Sandbanks Summer
24 February Flesh and Blood
1 March McDonald & Dodds
4 March The Trouble with Maggie Cole
15 March Belgravia
18 March Kate & Koji
13 April Quiz
26 April Gemma Collins: Diva on Lockdown ITVBe
27 April Beat the Chasers ITV
4 May Isolation Stories
18 May Harry's Heroes: Euro Having a Laugh
30 May Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow
Unknown Rollin' In It
Because the Night
Tenacity
The Singapore Grip
Des
The Pembrokeshire Murders
How to Spend It Well on Holiday

Channel 4
DateDebutChannel
8 January Meat the Family Channel 4
10 January Deadwater Fell
21 January Crazy Delicious
3 February Baghdad Central
19 February Jon Snow's Very Hard Questions More4
10 March Five Guys a Week Channel 4
30 March The Steph Show
2 April Maxxx E4
26 April Reasons to Be Cheerful with Matt Lucas Channel 4
18 May Work on the Wild Side
14 June Big Brother: Best Shows Ever E4

Channel 5
DateDebutChannel
22 March How to Deep Clean Your Home Channel 5
Filthy Family Swap
Most Shocking Celebrity Fallouts

Other channels
DateDebutChannel
Unknown Little Birds Sky Atlantic

Channels

New channels/streaming services
Date Channel
27 January Sky Comedy[189]
24 March Disney+
27 May Sky Documentaries
Sky Nature[190]

Defunct channels/streaming services
Date Channel
7 January 5Spike[191]
VH1
9 January Box Upfront
24 January ITV Box Office
27 January Universal TV
30 April Disney XD +1
1 June Challenge +1
GEO Kahani
Trace Latina
Starz TV
9 June Sony Crime Channel
30 September Disney XD
Disney Channel
Disney Channel +1
Disney Junior
Disney Junior +1

Rebranding channels
Date Old Name New Name
21 January Home HGTV
27 May History Sky History
H2 Sky History 2

Television programmes

Changes of network affiliation
Programme Moved from Moved to
Taskmaster Dave Channel 4
The Great British Sewing Bee BBC Two BBC One
Top Gear
The Simpsons (UK Streaming Rights) Channel 4,

Sky One

 Disney+,

Sky One

WWE Sky Sports BT Sport
The Trip Sky Atlantic Sky One
30 Rock Comedy Central Sky Comedy
The Dukes of Hazzard Bravo Forces TV
Supermarket Sweep ITV2 ITV

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)
Crackerjack! 21 December 1984 BBC TV/BBC One 17 January 2020 CBBC
She-Ra: Princess of Power 30 March 1989 ITV 1 February 2020 CBBC (as She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 21 March 2009
7 April 2018		 22 February 2020 N/A (same channel as original)
Ready Steady Cook 2 February 2010 BBC Two 2 March 2020 BBC One
Liar 16 October 2017 ITV N/A (same channel as original)
Our Girl 24 July 2018 BBC One 24 March 2020
ThunderCats 28 December 1989 CBBC 1 6 April 2020 Cartoon Network (as ThunderCats Roar)
Van der Valk 1973
1977
19 February 1992		 ITV 26 April 2020 N/A (same channel as original)
Paddington Station 24/7 27 December 2018 Channel 5 14 May 2020
Gameshow Marathon 29 October 2005
26 May 2007		 ITV 30 May 2020 N/A (same channel as original) (as Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow)
Ackley Bridge 6 August 2019 Channel 4 TBA[192] N/A (same channel as original)
Spitting Image 18 February 1996 ITV TBA[77] BritBox

Continuing television programmes

1950s
Programme Date
Panorama (1953–present)
The Sky at Night (1957–present)
Final Score (1958–present)
(part of Grandstand 1958–2001)
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–present)
(only at Christmas 2006–present)
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)
Arena (1975–present)
One Man and His Dog (1976–present)
Top Gear (1977–2001, 2002–present)
Antiques Roadshow (1979–present)
Question Time

1980s
Programme Date
Children in Need (1980–present)
Countdown (1982–present)
ITV Breakfast (1983–present)
Thomas & Friends (1984–present)
EastEnders (1985–present)
Watchdog
Comic Relief
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
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–present)
Loose Women

2000s
Programme Date
2000
Bargain Hunt (2000–present)
BBC Breakfast
Click
Doctors
A Place in the Sun
The Unforgettable (2000–2002, 2010–
Unreported World (2000–present)
2001
BBC South East Today (2001–present)
Rogue Traders (2001–present)
(part of Watchdog 2009–2020)
2002
Escape to the Country (2002–present)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Inside Out
Most Haunted (2002–2010, 2014–present)
River City (2002–present)
Saturday Kitchen
2003
QI (2003–present)
Eggheads
Extraordinary People
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 Culture Show
Football First
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, 2009–2012, 2013–present)
The Andrew Marr Show (2005–present)
The Adventure Show
The Apprentice
Dragons' Den
The Hotel Inspector
Mock the Week
Springwatch
2006
The Album Chart Show (2006–present)
Animal Spies!
The Apprentice: You're Fired!
Banged Up Abroad
Cricket AM
Dickinson's Real Deal
Don't Get Done, Get Dom
Horrid Henry
Monkey Life
Not Going Out
The One Show
People & Power
Peschardt's People
The Secret Millionaire (2006–2008, 2010–present)
2007
Britain's Got Talent (2007–present)
Would I Lie to You?
Benidorm
The Big Questions
Don't Tell the Bride
The Graham Norton Show
Heir Hunters
Helicopter Heroes
London Ink
Shaun the Sheep
Real Rescues
The Hot Desk
2008
An Là (2008–present)
Big & Small
Celebrity Juice
Chuggington
Only Connect
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Police Interceptors
Rubbernecker
Seachd Là
2009
Pointless (2009–present)
The Chase
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Countrywise
Cowboy Trap
Piers Morgan'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
Little Crackers
Lorraine
Luther
The Only Way Is Essex
Sherlock
Sunday Morning Live
2011
All Over the Place (2011–present)
The Amazing World of Gumball
Black Mirror
Four Rooms
Junior Bake Off
Made in Chelsea
Match of the Day Kickabout
Sam & Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up
Show Me What You're Made Of
Vera
2012
4 O'Clock Club (2012–present)
Endeavour
Call the Midwife
Great Continental Railway Journeys
Stand Up To Cancer
The Voice UK
Tipping Point
Naomi's Nightmares of Nature
Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
Operation Ouch!
Claimed and Shamed
2013
The Dumping Ground (2013–present)
Dani's Castle
Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom
Caught Red Handed
Officially Amazing
Shetland
The Dog Rescuers
Still Open All Hours
2014
Agatha Raisin (2014–present)
Boomers
The Dog Ate My Homework
The Jump
The Great Interior Design Challenge
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
Happy Valley
Holiday of My Lifetime (2014, 2016–present)
In the Club (2014–present)
Chasing Shadows
Judge Rinder
Grantchester
Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans
Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis
Scrambled!
Who's Doing the Dishes?
24 Hours in Police Custody
GPs: Behind Closed Doors
2015
The Almost Impossible Gameshow (2015–present)
The Dengineers
Doctor Foster
Eat Well for Less?
The Frankenstein Chronicles
Hetty Feather
Hive Minds
Hoff the Record
Hunted
In Therapy
The Kyle Files
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Ninja Warrior UK
Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords
No Offence
Real Stories with Ranvir Singh
Safe House
SAS: Who Dares Wins
Scream Street
Simply Nigella
So Awkward
Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week
Taskmaster
Thunderbirds Are Go
Victoria Derbyshire
Wild & Weird
10,000 BC
2016
The A Word (2016–present)
All Over the Workplace
Bake Off: The Professionals
Borderline
Cash Trapped (2016–2017, 2019–present)
Class Dismissed
The Crown (2016–present)
The Cruise
Got What It Takes?
Insert Name Here
The Level
Marcella
Masterpiece
Naked Attraction
No Such Thing as the News
The Premier League Show
Spot Bots
Tenable
Top Class
Upstart Crow
Victoria
The Windsors
2017
Ackley Bridge (2017–present)
All Round to Mrs. Brown's
Back
Bancroft
Beyond 100 Days
This Country (2017–2020)
Electric Dreams (2017–present)
The Good Karma Hospital
The Voice Kids
Impossible
Jamestown
Keeping Faith
Liar
The Mash Report
Numberblocks
The Playlist
Remotely Funny
The Repair Shop
Riviera
Sounds Like Friday Night
Strike
Taboo
Tracey Breaks the News
Trust Me
White Gold
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
2018
Bodyguard (2018–present)
Britannia
Bulletproof
The Circle
Defending the Guilty
Derry Girls
A Discovery of Witches
I'll Get This
In My Skin
Killing Eve
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
McMafia
Peston
The Real Football Fan Show
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
The Split
Stath Lets Flats
There She Goes
2019
Britain's Got Talent: The Champions (2019–present)
The Greatest Dancer (2019–2020)
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star (2019–present)
The Hit List

Ending this year
Date(s) Programme Channel(s) Debut(s)
23 January Baby Chimp Rescue BBC Two 2020
26 January The Trial of Christine Keeler BBC One 2019
30 January Brexitcast
31 January Deadwater Fell Channel 4 2020
10 February Take Me Out ITV 2010
12 February White House Farm 2020
16 February The Pale Horse BBC One
22 February Thunderbirds Are Go CITV 2015
7 March The Greatest Dancer BBC One 2019
23 March This Country BBC Three 2017
6 April Liar ITV
15 April Hetty Feather CBBC 2015
Quiz ITV 2020
28 April Strike Back Sky One 2010
10 May Van der Valk ITV 1972, 1977, 1991 & 2020
17 May Primates BBC One 2020
20 May Harry's Heroes: Euro Having a Laugh ITV
16 June The Salisbury Poisonings BBC One
TBA Victoria Derbyshire BBC News
BBC Two		 2015

Deaths
Date Name Age Broadcast credibility
3 January Derek Acorah[193][194] 69 Television medium and psychic (Most Haunted, Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns)
Christopher Beeny[195] 78 Actor (Upstairs, Downstairs, In Loving Memory, Last of the Summer Wine)
12 January Tony Garnett[196] 83 Television and film producer (Kes, Earth Girls Are Easy, Cathy Come Home)
17 January Derek Fowlds[197] 82 Actor (Yes Minister, The Basil Brush Show, Heartbeat)
18 January Peter Hobday[198] 82 News presenter (Today, Newsnight, World at One)
21 January Terry Jones[199] 77 Actor, writer, comedian and film director (Monty Python, Ripping Yarns)
28 January Nicholas Parsons[200] 96 Actor and presenter (Sale of the Century, Just a Minute)
31 January Andrée Melly[201] 87 Actress (The Brides of Dracula)
1 February Charles Wood[202] 87 Screenwriter (The Knack ...and How to Get It, Help!, Iris)
6 February Raphaël Coleman[203] 25 Actor (Nanny McPhee, It's Alive, The Fourth Kind)
14 February John Shrapnel[204] 77 Actor (Nicholas and Alexandra, England, My England, 101 Dalmatians, Bodyguards, Gladiator, Troy, Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
15 February Caroline Flack[205][206] 40 Television presenter (TMi, The X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing)
16 February Pearl Carr[207] 98 Singer (Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson) and UK Eurovision contestant (1959)
Frances Cuka[208] 83 Actress (Scrooge, Casualty, Friday Night Dinner)
19 February Heather Couper[209] 70 Astronomer and broadcaster (The Sky at Night)
26 February Michael Medwin[210] 96 Actor (Shoestring, Scrooge, The Army Game)
27 February Natasha Reddican[211] 31 Television producer (The Jeremy Kyle Show)
15 March Roy Hudd[212] 83 Actor (Coronation Street, The Blood Beast Terror, Up the Chastity Belt, The Alf Garnett Saga) and comedian
23 March David Collings[213] 79 Actor (Scrooge, The Thirty Nine Steps, The Invisible Woman)
2 April Ron Graham[214] 93 Actor (Home and Away, Waterloo Station)
Eddie Large[215] 78 Comedian (Little and Large)
4 April Jay Benedict[216] 68 Actor (Emmerdale, Foyle's War)
5 April Honor Blackman[217] 94 Actress (The Avengers, Goldfinger, Jason and the Argonauts, The Upper Hand)
12 April Tim Brooke-Taylor[218] 79 Actor (The Goodies, At Last The 1948 Show, One Foot in the Grave)
15 April Sean Arnold[219] 79 Actor (Grange Hill, Bergerac)
24 April Lynn Faulds Wood[220] 72 Television presenter (Breakfast Time, Watchdog, World in Action) and journalist
28 April Jill Gascoine[221] 83 Actress (The Gentle Touch, C.A.T.S. Eyes, The Onedin Line)
5 May June Bernicoff[222] 82 Reality show participant (Gogglebox)
12 May George Mikell[223] 91 Actor (Kill Her Gently, The Guns of Navarone, The Great Escape)
22 May Heather Chasen[224] 92 Actress (Crossroads, EastEnders, Les Misérables)
27 May Tony Scannell[225] 74 Actor (The Bill)
30 May Michael Angelis[226] 76 Actor (Boys from the Black Stuff, G.B.H., Thomas & Friends, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, The Liver Birds)
19 June Ian Holm[227] 88 Actor (Alien, Chariots of Fire, The Lord of The Rings)
23 June Margarita Pracatan[228] 89 Singer (The Clive James Show)

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