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Snooker

Snooker is played on a table twelve feet by six — considerably larger than an American pool table — with…

ITV — Independent Television — went on air on 22 September 1955, ending nearly twenty years of BBC monopoly. It…

EastEnders has run on BBC One since February 1985. It is set in Albert Square in the fictional East London…

Doctor Who first went out on BBC television on 23 November 1963 — the day after the assassination of John…

British television is shaped by two things: a public service tradition that predates commercial broadcasting, and a strong preference for…

The BBC is the world's oldest national broadcaster and one of the largest. It is publicly funded, editorially independent of…