Articles about london weekend television

HTV’s programme controller on why we should see more from the smaller ITV companies

What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question

Inside LWT in 1988

World of Sport airs every Saturday on ITV – but work on the programme begins on Tuesday

A sitcom truly of its time

London Weekend’s Alec Taylor would like to try new things in 1975

Tom Scott on title sequences

Over on our refurbished Thames site, the Reading Evening Post looks in to what exciting programmes the new Thames Television will be offering us in 1968

The new ITV is about to begin in 1968. Will it be all new, part new or the same old faces?

What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976

A show is disrupted by unwashed sweary rebels. No, not that one.

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1978 to find out what was on the telly…

The leading television critics from the broadsheet newspapers gather in July 1968 to discuss what ITV should look like on weekends when the contracts change

Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development

A look at what was on London Weekend on Friday 2 August 1968

Programmes coming this week in July 1968 from all of the New ITV that you can see on Yorkshire

The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967

The IBA celebrates diversity on ITV in 1983

The strike over, the TVTimes looks ahead to the new-look ITV in 1968 and beyond

Part 1: Simon Dee talks about his upbringing in this interview from 1970

Part 2: Simon Dee talks about losing his Radio Caroline job in this interview from 1970

Part 3: Simon Dee talks about Dee Time in this interview from 1970

A look at what was on Thames Television, London Weekend and Channel Four on Christmas Day 1987

A look at how Doris Hare rose to fame from 1971

The TVTimes in 1971 interviews 29-year-old LWT producer Humphrey Barclay

Sorry, no, it didn’t happen, no matter how much you wanted it to.

Audio of David Frost introducing the new London Weekend before Trevor Lucas takes ATV London off air for the final ever time

The BBC’s “24 Hours” looks at the troubled life of LWT in an audio recording from 1971.

A new minisite from Transdiffusion devoted to the soon-to-be-gone Wembley studios.

A look at what was on LWT on Saturday 14 March 1981

A look at what was on London Weekend on Saturday 14 November 1981

Once Britain’s biggest star… and then gone. Why?

London Weekend relaunches in 1970

LWT tries to strike back