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Victorian Television

Published 10 May 2018

The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction

Christmas Day on Thames, LWT and Channel 4… in 1987

Published 24 December 2017

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

► Twist and shouting

Published 16 October 2017

On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV

Now for the good news – there isn’t any bad

Published 17 August 2017

Television in the People’s Republic of China in 1979

Life is what they make it…

Published 10 April 2017

Behind the scenes of This Is Your Life in 1972

Six acts that made opportunity knock

Published 27 February 2017

A look back, from 1971, at six acts discovered by Hughie Green and his team

Face up to colour

Published 15 November 2016

The changes the make-up artists at Thames, Yorkshire and ATV had to make for the introduction of colour TV

► This summer on Thames!

Published 3 November 2016

A promo for Thames on Rediffusion

► Lunch on Thames

Published 5 September 2016

An off-air audio recording of the first half hour of Thames’s first proper programme.

Tonight’s Thames, Southern, Anglia, Westward and Harlech… in 1969

Published 28 April 2016

A printers’ strike gives us the opportunity of comparing what was on ITV on Monday 28 April 1969

Behind the scenes at ‘Dangermouse’

Published 16 December 2015

A quick glimpse behind the scenes of the original Cosgrove-Hall ‘Dangermouse’.

Rockalong with Thames

Published 23 November 2015

Thames swings into colour

#ThamesDay

Published 23 November 2015

It’s #ThamesDay across Transdiffusion’s social media channels

Salute to ABC

Published 19 October 2015

Thames keeps up the traditions set by ABC Television

Take that, Thames

Published 24 July 2014

LWT tries to strike back

The filth and the fury

Published 24 February 2013

The influence of punk upon television, and the influence of television upon punk

The art of the title sequence: George & Mildred

Published 23 July 2012

The twitches and turns of a comedy classic, as seen through a show’s title sequence

The strange case of HD Thames

Published 29 January 2012

BLOG: An interesting exchange on Twitter about a strange subsidiary of Thames from its post-franchise days

The Bill stops here

Published 11 October 2010

Andrew Bowden notices it’s very strange to be living in Sun Hill

Bryan Cowgill

Published 25 April 2009

Pioneer of Pioneers

Verity Lambert

Published 22 June 2008

Dr Who’s first producer dies

Rise and fall of a comedy king

Published 11 February 2008

Benny Hill and the winds of change in TV comedy

Cinema for television

Published 8 January 2008

From ITC to Euston…

London ITA 1968

Published 24 November 2006

One of the most radical changes to hit the ITV network

Thames studios

Published 3 September 2005

From the Euston Road to the banks of the Thames

Missing the river

Published 3 September 2005

The loss of Thames damages ITV

The ITV Top 10: 2 – Thames

Published 3 September 2005

Without you, I’m nothing

Strange Magic – 2

Published 1 May 2005

Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV – part 2

The God Slot

Published 1 February 2005

David Brockman on British religious television

Identity crisis

Published 24 May 2004

At Independent Television

Who killed the continuity announcers?

Published 24 May 2004

We ask the question

Thames

Published 24 May 2004

Worthy successor

Down in front

Published 24 May 2004

The important information was at the start of the programme

No more till Monday

Published 1 February 2003

Who knew that Saturday and Sunday had television?

Deregulation

Published 1 January 2002

Leave well enough alone, cautions James Barrington

Year zero

Published 1 January 2002

Every new ITV company has reinvented the wheel

All Change

Published 1 September 2001

Colm O’Rourke recalls the last franchise round

Sweet lavender

Published 1 September 2001

Gavin Sutherland on the composer of the Thames ident

Missing the river

Published 1 September 2001

James Barrington on the harm done to ITV by the loss of Thames

Emergency measures

Published 1 June 2001

The first national ITV service

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