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    1.2 February
    
  
  
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    1.3 March
    
  
  
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    1.5 May
    
  
  
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    1.6 June
    
  
  
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    1.7 July
    
  
  
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    1.8 August
    
  
  
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    1.9 September
    
  
  
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    1.10 October
    
  
  
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    1.11 November
    
  
  
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    1.12 December
    
  
  
  
  


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    2.2 BBC Two
    
  
  
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    2.3 BBC Three
    
  
  
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    2.5 ITV
    
  
  
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  3 Changes of network affiliation
  


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  4 Channels
  
  
  
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    5.2 1920s
    
  
  
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    6.1 Celebrity Big Brother 5
    
  
  
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  7 Ending this year
  


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  8 Top 10 highest rated shows of 2007
  


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  9 Death
  


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  10 See also
  


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  11 References
  

Events

January

Date	Event
2 January	This Life returns for a ten-year reunion special.
	Des O'Connor takes over from Des Lynam as co-presenter (with Carol Vorderman) of Channel 4's long-running quiz show Countdown.
3 January	Celebrity Big Brother 5 launched on Channel 4, with celebrities such as Jermaine Jackson, Dirk Benedict and Leo Sayer.[1]
5 January	Leslie Ash officially opens the Centre for Healthcare Associated Infections (CHIA), a national facility at the University of Nottingham dedicated to conducting research into superbug infections. Ash is also the Centre's patron.[2]
	Former Big Brother contestant Jade Goody returns to the Big Brother House to take part in the fifth series of Celebrity Big Brother. On the same evening musician Donny Tourette walks off the show after just 48 hours.[3]
7 January	Laura Pearce, a 24-year-old civilian employee of Gloucestershire Constabulary, becomes the first contestant to win the £250,000 on the British version of Deal or No Deal.[4]
	Hannah Waterman and Marti Pellow win the second series of BBC One's Just the Two of Us.[5]
	Film director Ken Russell becomes the second contestant to leave Celebrity Big Brother in two days, following a row with Jade Goody.[3]
8 January	Michael Grade takes over as chief executive of ITV plc.[6]
	The Calendar East and Calendar South regions are merged to form a new Calendar South region covering central and east Lincolnshire, east and south east Yorkshire, east Nottinghamshire and north Norfolk. The Calendar North region, broadcasting from the Emley Moor transmitter continues as before.
9 January	Sky News hires Meridian Tonight presenter Charlotte Hawkins to co-present Sunrise alongside Eamonn Holmes; she makes her debut on 15 January.[7]
12 January	Singer Leo Sayer becomes the third person to leave Celebrity Big Brother 5 after walking out of the show.[8]
13 January	Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton wins the second series of ITV's Soapstar Superstar.[9]
	ITV1 airs the British terrestrial television premiere of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The film achieves the highest audience of the day, with overnight figures indicating an audience of eight million.[10]
17 January	Protests are held in India and the UK against Celebrity Big Brother after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara are alleged to be racially abusive to Bollywood star, Shilpa Shetty. The programme has also attracted several thousand complaints from viewers to Ofcom, Channel 4 and the police, and is criticised by senior politicians both in the UK and India.[11][12][13]
19 January	Jade Goody is evicted from Celebrity Big Brother following the racism row. Goody and Shilpa Shetty had both faced eviction, with Goody receiving 82% of the public vote. During a post-eviction interview, from which the wider public is banned, Goody says that she is "embarrassed and disgusted" by her behaviour. She had also apologised to Shetty before leaving the Big Brother house.[14]
22 January	BBC News 24 re-branded with new titles and on-screen graphics.
26 January	Jo O'Meara is evicted from Celebrity Big Brother. Viewing clips of her behaviour in the Big Brother house during a post-eviction interview, she says that it looks "very bad", but says she is not a racist.[15]
28 January	The final edition of Grandstand, the flagship BBC sports programme, is aired after nearly 50 years on television screens.[16]
	Shilpa Shetty wins the fifth series of Celebrity Big Brother. During the live final, Danielle Lloyd apologises for her behaviour toward the actress during the series.[17]

February

Date	Event
2 February	Plans by Channel 4 to air a series of documentaries about masturbation in March are postponed after the event attracted controversy and criticism from senior television figures. The programmes would be shown separately at a later date and not as part of a season.[18]
9 February	Paul Merton presents his last edition of Room 101.
14 February	BBC One airs the biopic Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin.[19]
	Samuel Preston walks off live on an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks after insults about his wife Chantelle Houghton. Team captain Bill Bailey replaced him with a member of the audience, Ed Seymour.[20]
15 February	Michael Starke, who played Sinbad in Brookside, is to join the cast of Coronation Street as take-away owner Jerry Morton. He will be seen onscreen from 18 March.[21]
18 February	BBC Two launches 14 new idents designed by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and produced by Red Bee Media, with the "2" becoming a "Windows of the World" a portal through which the world is seen differently.
	Richard & Judy is scrutinised when it is claimed that the winners were already chosen for its premium-rate phone-in quiz, "You Say, We Pay". This results in the start of the phone-in scandal.
20 February	The newly launched Virgin Media launches its new on-demand channel Virgin Central.[22]

March

Date	Event
1 March	A channel agreement between Virgin Media and BSkyB for Virgin to broadcast non-premium Sky channels ends at midnight. Virgin Media and Sky had failed to reach agreement on the issue and subsequently Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Travel, Sky Travel Extra, Sky Sports News and Sky News were removed from the Virgin line-up.
2 March	The Attorney General for England and Wales, Lord Goldsmith, obtains an injunction from the High Court preventing the BBC from broadcasting an item about investigations into the alleged cash for honours political scandal.
5 March	ITV's quiz channel ITV Play comes under attack from the scandal. As a result, ITV allow independent auditor Deloitte to review programmes with phone-ins that generate revenue such as Dancing on Ice and The X Factor.
7 March	The BBC's correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Alan Johnston, who is the only foreign reporter from a major media organisation based in Gaza, is kidnapped, All the main Palestinian militant groups called for his release.
	Louise Redknapp presents the controversial ITV documentary The Truth About Size Zero in which she attempts to drop to a size zero in 30 days by following a strict weight loss regime in order to highlight eating disorder issues.[23][24][25]
	Five's game show BrainTeaser is axed after only 5 years.
9 March	The BBC's Castaway returns for a second, but shorter series.[26]
13 March	ITV Play is shut down permanently to be rebranded as ITV Bingo due to the phone-in scandal.
14 March	BBC children's programme Blue Peter is now involved with the phone-in scandal, after it is discovered they used a girl who was visiting the studio to pose as a caller live on the show.
15 March	Steven Wallis wins the 2007 series of MasterChef Goes Large.
16 March	During Comic Relief night, the last ever episode of The Vicar of Dibley is broadcast. BBC One's Red Nose Day 2007 also includes a special episode of Mr. Bean, a celebrity edition of The Apprentice, and a Catherine Tate sketch in which Lauren Cooper meets Tony Blair while on work experience at 10 Downing Street.[27][28]
17 March	Rugby player Kyran Bracken and skating partner Melanie Lambert win the second series of Dancing on Ice.[29]
19 March	In the Night Garden appears to the BBC on the same month as the Teletubbies 10th anniversary.
20 March	Dancing on Ice reveals they lost 11,500 phone calls, as they were not delivered to Vodafone until next Monday morning (26 March)
22 March	Four years after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a special edition of BBC One's Question Time debates the war's legacy.[30]
26 March	Singer Katherine Jenkins will make a cameo appearance in Emmerdale, the soap's producers confirm. Her appearance will be in may, and coincide with the resolution of the Tom King murder storyline.[31]
27 March	Moira Stuart is replaced as presenter of the news bulletin during Sunday AM, leaving her without a regular news slot.[32] The decision to remove her from the programme prompts media allegations of ageism at the BBC, something which is rejected by Director-General Mark Thompson, who in April tells the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee that Stuart was replaced because of the changing role of television news presenting, which is moving towards television journalism rather than traditional news presenting.[33] Stuart continues to present for the broadcaster, but on 3 October, it is confirmed that she will leave BBC News.[34]
	The teleshopping channel iBuy closes after just under two years on air.
30 March	ITV announces that Dermot O'Leary will replace Kate Thornton as host of The X Factor after Thornton was sacked from the programme after presenting three series.[35]
	Five celebrates ten years of its launch.
31 March	Freema Agyeman makes her debut as Doctor Who assistant Martha Jones as the science fiction drama returns for a third series. Any Dream Will Do, a search for someone to play Joseph in the Lloyd Webber musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat also debuts on BBC One.[36]
	The Teletubbies celebrate their 10th anniversary for a TV comeback after 5 or 6 years of absence.

April

Date	Event
1 April	The Sky at Night celebrates 50 years with a special anniversary edition.
7 April	Debut of ITV's Grease is the Word which will search for two actors to play Danny and Sandy in a new stage production of Grease.[37]
10 April	BBC One airs the concluding episode of the second and final series of Life on Mars.[38]
13 April	Have I Got News for You starts to produce a video podcast featuring unbroadcast material.
21 April	BBC sports journalist Jacqui Oatley becomes the first female commentator to appear on Match of the Day.[39]
23 April	A BBC Panorama disclosed that callers to GMTV's phone-in competitions may have been defrauded out of millions of pounds, because the telephone system operator, Opera Interactive Technology, had determined the winners before the phone lines had closed. GMTV responded by suspending the phone-in quizzes, but claimed that "it was confident it had not breached regulators' codes". Opera Interactive also denied any wrongdoing.
24 April	It was announced that the BBC celebrity singing contest Just the Two of Us would not return for a third series.
30 April	Channel 4 airs the Cutting Edge documentary Blind Young Things, a programme about students at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford. The film won a Royal Television Society award for Channel 4 and the Cutting Edge team in 2008.[40]

May

Date	Event
12 May	Serbia's Marija Šerifović wins the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest with "Molitva".
14 May	BBC One broadcasts "Scientology and Me" a Panorama investigation into Scientology by journalist John Sweeney. A clip from the programme of Sweeney losing his temper and shouting at a disruptive scientologist representative is widely released on the internet and by DVD by scientologists prior to airing.
16 May	Launch of Freesat, a free-to-air digital satellite television joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc.
17 May	In Emmerdale the Tom King whodunit storyline reaches its conclusion as the identity of the killer is revealed.[41] The killer is Tom's son, Carl King (Tom Lister).[42] The episode also features a cameo appearance by singer Katherine Jenkins, who plays herself attending a village pageant as its guest of honour.[43]
24 May	Ofcom rules that Celebrity Big Brother breached its code of conduct during the last series, and that Channel 4 made "serious editorial misjudgements" in the way it dealt with some of the incidents that sparked the racism row.[44]
29 May	ITV has axed its celebrity singing contest, Soapstar Superstar after two series, believing it to be too similar in format to The X Factor.[45]
31 May	The BBC Trust approves plans for several BBC departments, including BBC Sport, to be moved to a new development in Salford.[46]

June

Date	Event
4 June	It is announced that Dannii Minogue will replace Louis Walsh as a judge on the forthcoming series of The X Factor,[47] joining Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne. Walsh had intended to leave the show, but later decided to return after being invited back.[48]
7 June	Following the Celebrity Big Brother racism controversy earlier in the year, a contestant on the eighth series of Big Brother is removed from the show after her use of the word "nigger" during a conversation with another contestant.[49]
8 June	Adele Adkins, a 19-year-old singer from London makes her television debut on BBC Two's Later... with Jools Holland, performing her song "Daydreamer". She became one of the first artists to appear on the show without having released a record because producer Alison Howe booked her after hearing a demo tape. Adele's debut album, 19, is released in January 2008.[50][51][52]
9 June	Lee Mead wins BBC One's Any Dream Will Do and will take the lead role of Joseph in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at the Adelphi Theatre from 17 July. ITV's Grease is the Word is won by Danny Bayne and Susan McFadden, who will play Danny and Sandy in a forthcoming production of Grease beginning at the Piccadilly Theatre on 8 August.[53]
	Debut of Britain's Got Talent, a co-production between Talkback Thames and Simon Cowell's SyCo for ITV. The series is a search for a variety act to perform at this year's Royal Variety Performance. The winner will also receive a prize of £100,000.[54]
11 June	The Mirror reports that Emmerdale actress Adele Silva is to quit her role as Kelly Windsor.[55]
13 June	Simon Ambrose wins the third series of The Apprentice.[56]
15 June	A contestant on Britain's Got Talent is withdrawn from the contest after police contacted the series to alert producers that he is on the Sex Offenders Register.[57]
	Nadia Sawalha wins the 2007 series of Celebrity MasterChef.
17 June	Opera singer Paul Potts wins the first series of Britain's Got Talent.[58]
19 June	Nick Ross announces he is leaving Crimewatch, with July's edition of the show being the final one he will present.[59] The announcement renews media speculation that the BBC has an ageist policy towards its presenters.[60][61]

July

Date	Event
1 July	BBC One airs the Concert for Diana on what would have been the 46th birthday of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.[62]
2 July	Nick Ross presents his final episode of Crimewatch after 23 years at the helm. He had been on the programme since it began in 1984.[63]
	Launch of Press TV, an English-language global news channel owned by the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB.[64]
11 July	BBC Two debuts The Alastair Campbell Diaries, a series in which Campbell reads extracts from his memoirs over footage of key moments in the recently ended Blair government.[65] The three part series is aired over three nights, concluding on 13 July.[66][66]
18 July	Six BBC programmes, Children in Need, Comic Relief, Sport Relief, TMi and two radio programmes (The Liz Kershaw Show and White Label) have been discovered to have been involved in the phone in scandals.
26 July	The 2005 British Comedy Awards broadcast on ITV now become involved with the phone-in scandal, when it is discovered that people phoning in to vote for the People's Choice Award called when the programme was not being broadcast live, and last half-hour of the show had been recorded when ITV showed a news broadcast.

August

Date	Event
2 August	2007 sees the BBC celebrating their 75-year service in television (85 years for radio). The first BBC Television Service began on 2 August 1932.
8 August	Former Peak Practice actor Gray O'Brien joins the cast of Coronation Street as catalogue salesman Tony Gordon.[67]
9 August	The success of Australian soaps such as Neighbours on British television has led to the wide use of phrases such as "No worries" in British English since the late 1980s, a report on Australia's Nine News suggests.[68]
31 August	Brian Belo wins series eight of Big Brother.[69]

September

Date	Event
3 September	CBBC identity relaunched, with its third marketing campaign since the launch of the CBBC channel.
	Lauren McAvoy wins Cycle 3 of Britain's Next Top Model.
4 September	BBC One airs the 2004 romantic comedy Raising Helen, starring Kate Hudson.[70]
5 September	The BBC scraps plans for Planet Relief, a programme similar to Comic Relief and Sport Relief for fear of bias against critics of climate change and that people would prefer more factual programmes on the subject.
7 September–20 October	ITV provides coverage of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, hosted by France.
9 September	In an advertising first, eBay begin showing live auction adverts between programmes, showing an auction with picture, current bid, time auction ends, and postage and packaging charges
	The BBC One Sunday morning political programme Sunday AM is renamed The Andrew Marr Show when it returns after its summer break.
10 September	ITV and Trevor McDonald are cleared of racism by Ofcom over remarks made on McDonald's News Knight show. The remarks concerned comedian Bernard Manning, who had died a few months previously, with McDonald referring to Manning as a 'fat, white bastard'.[71]
13 September	The BBC has signed a two-year deal to provide coverage of the Super Bowl, the first time the event will be aired by the BBC. Super Bowl XLII will air in 2008, and Super Bowl XLIII in 2009.[72]
18 September	It is announced that E.ON is to end its sponsorship of ITV Weather after 16 years.[73] The sponsorship deal was the longest on UK terrestrial TV to date, beginning on 22 September 1991 (when sponsorship of ITV programmes was first allowed). Until June 2007, ITV Weather was sponsored by the energy supplier Powergen, and since then by Powergen's parent company E.ON.
21 September	ITV postpone broadcasting the 2007 British Comedy Awards due to the phone-in scandals.
26 September	ABC1 ceases broadcasting.
	The Bionic Woman returns after a break of nearly 30 years but is axed again 2 months later.
28 September	Trapped! appears as CBBC's first ever Halloween-themed game show since CITV's Terror Towers.

October

Date	Event
1 October	Virgin1 launches at 9 pm, replacing Ftn.
	The BBC announces that former 5 News presenter Kirsty Young will replace Fiona Bruce as presenter on Crimewatch from January 2008. Bruce is to take over as presenter of The Antiques Roadshow from Michael Aspel, who plans to retire.[60][61]
5 October	BBC newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky is to leave the broadcaster to present Five News, it is reported. She will take up the new presenting role in the New Year.[74]
8 October	Five has bought the rights to 8 Simple Rules starting on 21 October.
9 October	Sky One apologises to viewers after a "technical fault" during a public vote on the 7 October edition of its show, Cirque de Celebrite, meant some of the votes were not registered.[75]
14 October	UKTV Bright Ideas ceases broadcasting to be replaced on Freeview by Dave.
15 October	UKTV G2 is rebranded as Dave and becomes a free-to-air channel replacing newly defunct UKTV Bright Ideas.[76] The name for the channel, aimed at a young male audience, was chosen by UKTV because "everyone knows a bloke called Dave".[77]
17 October – 14 November	The town of Whitehaven in Cumbria becomes the first place in the UK to lose their analogue television signals and start the digital switchover, starting with BBC Two. The other four channels were switched off on 14 November.
20 October	The BBC Switch teenage block of shows is launched to cater for the underserved 12- to 16-year-olds.
29 October	Sky News issues an apology after an aside from presenter Julie Etchingham was accidentally broadcast during live coverage of a speech by Conservative Party leader David Cameron when Etchingham's microphone was accidentally left switched on.[78]
	The BBC announce that Patsy Palmer will return to EastEnders to reprise her role as Bianca Jackson.[79] The following day it is also confirmed that Sid Owen, who played her on screen husband, Ricky Butcher, will also return to the series.[80]
31 October	ITV confirms that Julie Etchingham will join the broadcaster to present a relaunched News at Ten alongside Sir Trevor McDonald from January 2008.[81][82]

November

Date	Event
21 November	Insurance firm esure is revealed as E.ON's successor as the sponsor of ITV's national weather bulletins. The two-year deal, rumoured to be worth £10 million, was negotiated by Carat Sponsorship and will take effect from 1 January 2008, with esure and Sheilas' Wheels as the sponsors, alternating between the two brands every two months.[83]
27 November	The BBC announces that Billie Piper will reprise her role as Rose Tyler in the fourth series of Doctor Who after previously departing at the end of the second series.[84][85][86]
30 November	Christopher Biggins wins the seventh series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.[87]

December

Date	Event
3 December	Jay Hunt is confirmed as the next Controller of BBC One, replacing Peter Fincham. She will take up the role in early 2008.[88][89]
9 December	Boxer Joe Calzaghe is named as this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year.[90]
15 December	Leon Jackson wins the fourth series of The X Factor.[91]
22 December	Singer Alesha Dixon and her dancing partner Matthew Cutler win the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing.[92]
25 December	BBC One gets its highest rated Christmas Day schedule in years, with "Voyage of the Damned", the Christmas special of Doctor Who getting the shows' biggest audience since 1979 (13.31 million) and a special episode of EastEnders getting 14.38 million, that shows' biggest rating in three years and the highest rated show of 2007. Another success was a one-off special of To the Manor Born, returning after 26 years, with an audience of 10.25 million.
	BBC iPlayer, an online service for watching previously aired shows, is launched.
27–28 December	"Assault on Sun Hill", a two-part The Bill story features an armed siege at the fictional police station that leaves several characters traumatised.

Debuts

BBC One

Date	Debut
1 January	The Sarah Jane Adventures
12 January	After You've Gone
16 March	Celebrity Apprentice
25 March	Play It Again
31 March	Any Dream Will Do
8 April	Inspector George Gently
13 April	Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul
8 May	HolbyBlue
25 May	Ronni Ancona & Co
16 June	Jekyll
	Would I Lie to You?
28 August	Outnumbered
16 September	Michael Palin's New Europe
28 September	Trapped!
15 October	Real Rescues
26 October	The Armstrong & Miller Show
17 November	The Omid Djalili Show
	Who Dares Wins
18 November	Cranford
19 November	// Animalia
18 December	Oliver Twist

BBC Two

Date	Debut
11 February	The Verdict
22 February	Fear, Stress & Anger
19 March	In the Night Garden...
20 March	The Underdog Show
12 April	Roman's Empire
16 April	Get 100
4 May	Maxwell
25 July	Heroes
30 July	India with Sanjeev Bhaskar
29 August	The Restaurant
4 October	The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
	The Peter Serafinowicz Show
5 October	/// The Tudors

BBC Three

Date	Debut
19 March	Rush Hour
23 May	Gavin & Stacey

BBC Four

Date	Debut
31 May	World News Today
15 October	Doctors to Be: 20 Years On
30 October	The History of the World Backwards

ITV

Date	Debut
1 February	Benidorm
10 February	Primeval
26 February	Instinct
11 March	Tokusou Excdraft
11 June	24 Hours with...
18 June	Golden Balls
	The Time of Your Life
9 June	Britain's Got Talent
24 June	News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald
3 September	The Alan Titchmarsh Show
19 September	Torn
8 October	Emu (2007)
24 October	Frankenstein
4 November	A Room with a View
11 November	My Boy Jack

Channel 4

Date	Debut
3 January	Celebrity Big Brother
	Desperate Housewives Season Three
	Embarrassing Bodies
25 January	Skins
30 May	Big Brother 8
16 July	Win My Wage
5 October	Other People
12 October	Ladies and Gentlemen
19 October	Plus One
2 November	Free Agents
9 November	The Kevin Bishop Show

Five

Date	Debut
12 March	The Beeps
7 May	Roary the Racing Car

Cartoon Network UK

Date	Debut
29 October	/ Storm Hawks

Changes of network affiliation

Show	Moved from	Moved to
// Fraggle Rock	Children's ITV	Cartoonito
Caillou	Living

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Channels

New channels

Date	Channel
9 February	Pixel TV
24 May	Cartoonito
6 August	Pop Girl
9 August	Ftn +1
20 August	Channel 4 +1
1 October	Virgin1
	Virgin1 +1
10 December	Channel 4 HD

Defunct channels

Main article: List of former TV channels in the United Kingdom § 2007

Date	Channel
13 March	ITV Play
27 March	iBuy
23 May	Toonami
26 September	ABC1
1 October	Ftn
	Ftn +1
5 October	Radio Music Shop
15 October	UKTV Bright Ideas

Rebranded channels

Date	Old Name	New Name
13 March	ITV Play	ITV Bingo
15 October	UKTV G2	Dave
	UKTV G2 +1	Dave +1

Television shows

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer

Programme	Date of original removal	Original channel	Date of return	New channel(s)
Dale's Supermarket Sweep	6 September 2001	ITV	12 February 2007	N/A (Same channel as original)
Teletubbies	16 February 2001	CBBC (BBC 2)	31 March 2007	CBeebies
The Hoobs	13 June 2003	Channel 4	May 2007	N/A (Same channel as original)
The Bionic Woman	13 May 1978	ITV	26 September 2007
To the Manor Born	29 November 1981	BBC One	25 December 2007

1920s

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  BBC Wimbledon (1927–present)

1950s

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  Panorama (1953–present).


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  What the Papers Say (1956–2008).


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  The Sky at Night (1957–present).


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  Blue Peter (1958–present).

1960s

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  Coronation Street (1960–present).


• 
  Songs of Praise (1961–present).


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  Doctor Who (1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present).


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  Match of the Day (1964–present).


• 
  Top of the Pops (1964–present).


• 
  The Money Programme (1966–2010).

1970s

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  Emmerdale (1972–present).


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  Newsround (1972–present).


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  Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010).


• 
  Arena (1975–present).


• 
  One Man and His Dog (1976–present).


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  Top Gear (1977–2001, 2002–present).


• 
  Grange Hill (1978–2008).


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  Antiques Roadshow (1979–present).


• 
  Question Time (1979–present)

1980s

• 
  Children in Need (1980–present)


• 
  Postman Pat (1981, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2004–2008)


• 
  Timewatch (1982–present).


• 
  Countdown (1982–present)


• 
  The Bill (1984–2010)


• 
  Channel 4 Racing (1984–2016)


• 
  Thomas & Friends (1984–present)


• 
  EastEnders (1985–present).


• 
  Comic Relief (1985–present).


• 
  Casualty (1986–present).


• 
  ChuckleVision (1987–2009).


• 
  Fireman Sam (1987–1994, 2005–2013)


• 
  This Morning (1988–present).


• 
  The Simpsons (1989–present)

1990s

• 
  Have I Got News for You (1990–present)


• 
  A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)


• 
  Heartbeat (1992–2010)


• 
  Time Team (1994–2013)


• 
  Room 101 (1994–2007, 2012–present)


• 
  The National Lottery Draws (1994–2017)


• 
  Top of the Pops 2 (1994–present)


• 
  Hollyoaks (1995–present)


• 
  Arthur (1996–present)


• 
  Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1996–2015)


• 
  Silent Witness (1996–present)


• 
  Midsomer Murders (1997–present)


• 
  King of the Hill (1997–2010)


• 
  South Park (1997–present)


• 
  Airline (1998–2007)


• 
  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998–2014)


• 
  Bob the Builder (1998–present)


• 
  Bremner, Bird and Fortune (1999–2010)


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  Ed, Edd n Eddy (1999–2009)


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  SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–present)


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  Family Guy (1999–2002, 2005–present)

2000s

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  The Weakest Link (2000–2012, 2017–present)


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  Big Brother (2000–2010, 2011–present)


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  My Family (2000–2011)


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  Real Crime (2001–present)


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  Flog It! (2002–present)


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  Foyle's War (2002–2015)


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  I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2002–present)


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  Harry Hill's TV Burp (2002–2012)


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  Spooks (2002–2011)


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  Daily Politics (2003–present)


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  New Tricks (2003–2015)


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  Peep Show (2003–2015)


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  All Grown Up! (2003–2008)


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  Politics Show (2003–2011)


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  QI (2003–present)


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  The Royal (2003–2011)


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  This Week (2003–present)


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  Doc Martin (2004–2019)


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  Sea of Souls (2004–2007)


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  Supernanny (2004–2008, 2010–2012)


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  Shameless (2004–2013)


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  Strictly Come Dancing (2004–present)


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  The X Factor (2004–present)


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  More4 News (2005—2009)


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  Love Soup (2005–2008)


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  Come Dine with Me (2005–present)


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  The Jeremy Kyle Show (2005–present)


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  It's Me or the Dog (2005–2012)


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  Deal or No Deal (2005–2016)


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  Sunday AM (2005–present)


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  Dancing on Ice (2006–2014)


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  Don't Get Done, Get Dom (2006–present)


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  Hotel Babylon (2006–2009)


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  Numberjacks (2006–2009)


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  Robin Hood (2006–2009)


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  That Mitchell and Webb Look (2006–2010)


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  Torchwood (2006–2011)


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  Waterloo Road (2006–2015)


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  Star Stories (2006–2008)


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  Ugly Betty (2006–2010)

Big Brother racism controversy

Main article: Celebrity Big Brother racism controversy

2007 saw Channel 4 reality show Big Brother involved in two high-profile race-rows.

Celebrity Big Brother 5

In January, Jade Goody, her mother Jackiey Budden and boyfriend Jack Tweed, along with Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara, were accused of racist bullying towards Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty. This resulted in protests in India and a record number of complaints to British TV regulator Ofcom and to Channel 4.

Big Brother 8

At the end of May, Channel 4 broadcast an apology for not intervening in the bullying just moments before the eight non-celebrity series started; all housemates in this series were given strict warnings about racism before entering. Just one week after the launch, Emily Parr was removed from the house in the early hours of the morning for saying the word "nigger" to black housemate Charley Uchea just hours before. This incident was widely discussed in the media; viewers complained about Channel 4 broadcasting the word, however, other viewers complained that Emily had been treated unfairly, as she did not use the word in a spiteful context, instead possibly imitating rappers who use the word in their songs.

Ending this year

Date	Show	Channel(s)	Debut(s)
4 January	Green Wing	Channel 4	2004
	CITV weekday afternoon block	ITV	1983
	The Holiday Programme	BBC	1969
	What Not to Wear		2001
7 January	Just the Two of Us		2006
12 January	The Price Is Right	ITV	1984
19 January	Airline		1998
28 January	Grandstand	BBC	1958
15 February	The Verdict		2007
3 March	PokerFace	ITV	2006
7 March	BrainTeaser	Channel 5	2002
13 March	Fallen Angel	ITV	2007
16 March	The Vicar of Dibley	BBC	1994
10 April	Life on Mars		2006
19 April	Sea of Souls		2004
23 April	Rush Hour		2007
31 May	The Last Detective	ITV	2003
13 July	Art Attack		1990
14 July	Popworld	Channel 4	2001
23 July	The Time of Your Life	ITV	2007
28 July	Jekyll	BBC
10 August	Win My Wage	Channel 4
26 August	The Chase	BBC	2006
31 August	Dale's Supermarket Sweep	ITV	1993 & 2007
1 September	School's Out	BBC	2006
13 September	Born to Be Different	Channel 4	2003 & 2006
3 October	Torn	ITV	2007
28 October	Michael Palin's New Europe	BBC
28 November	The Bionic Woman	ITV	1976 & 2007
16 December	Cranford	BBC	2007
22 December	Oliver Twist
	Parkinson	ITV	1971

Top 10 highest rated shows of 2007

Rank	Show	Rating
1	EastEnders	14.34 million
2	Doctor Who	13.31 million
3	Rugby World Cup 2007	13.10 million
4	Coronation Street	13.08 million
5	The Vicar of Dibley	13.08 million
6	X Factor results	12.23 million
7	Concert for Diana	12.22 million
8	Strictly Come Dancing	12.09 million
9	The X Factor	11.78
10	Britain's Got Talent	11.58 million

Death

Date	Name	Age	Broadcast credibility
7 January	Magnus Magnusson	77	Television presenter (Mastermind) on tv
22 January	Anna Cropper	68	Actress
9 February	Ian Richardson	72	Scottish actor (House of Cards)
8 March	John Inman	71	Actor (Are You Being Served?)
18 June	Bernard Manning	76	Comedian
29 July	Mike Reid	67	Comedian and actor (EastEnders, Runaround)
	Phil Drabble	93	Television presenter, author and countryman (One Man and His Dog)
6 September	Ronald Magill	87	Actor (Emmerdale)
1 October	Ronnie Hazlehurst	79	Theme tune composer. (Only Fools and Horses, Yes Minister, Are You Being Served? and The Two Ronnies)
16 October	Deborah Kerr	86	Actress (A Woman of Substance)
6 November	Hilda Braid	78	Actress (EastEnders)
9 November	Trish Williamson	52	TV weather presenter, journalist, producer and director[93]
19 November	Dick Wilson	91	Actor
22 November	Verity Lambert	71	TV producer (Doctor Who)
28 November	Tony Holland	67	Actor and television writer (EastEnders)
1 December	Anton Rodgers	74	Actor

See also

• 2007 in British music


• 2007 in British radio


• 2007 in the United Kingdom


• List of British films of 2007

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