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Published 10 May 2018
The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction
Published 24 December 2017
A look at what was on Thames Television, London Weekend and Channel Four on Christmas Day 1987
Published 16 October 2017
On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV
Published 17 August 2017
Television in the People’s Republic of China in 1979
Published 27 February 2017
A look back, from 1971, at six acts discovered by Hughie Green and his team
Published 15 November 2016
The changes the make-up artists at Thames, Yorkshire and ATV had to make for the introduction of colour TV
Published 5 September 2016
An off-air audio recording of the first half hour of Thames’s first proper programme.
Published 28 April 2016
A printers’ strike gives us the opportunity of comparing what was on ITV on Monday 28 April 1969
Published 16 December 2015
A quick glimpse behind the scenes of the original Cosgrove-Hall ‘Dangermouse’.
Published 24 February 2013
The influence of punk upon television, and the influence of television upon punk
Published 23 July 2012
The twitches and turns of a comedy classic, as seen through a show’s title sequence
Published 29 January 2012
BLOG: An interesting exchange on Twitter about a strange subsidiary of Thames from its post-franchise days
Published 11 October 2010
Andrew Bowden notices it’s very strange to be living in Sun Hill
Published 11 February 2008
Benny Hill and the winds of change in TV comedy
Published 1 September 2001
James Barrington on the harm done to ITV by the loss of Thames