Articles about Val Parnell

ITV is two years old today. The managing directors celebrate, as does Associated-Rediffusion

What’s coming up for television and radio beyond 1957?

The most famous variety show in the country

The first ITV contracts are announced in November 1954… but, as Variety reports, politicians are worried

In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955

TVTimes interviews the man behind Sunday Night at the London Palladium in 1956

Meet the woman who sells dresses by day and reads the local ATV news by night in 1956

TVTimes announces ATV’s latest poach from the BBC – a producer named Brian Tesler – in 1957

Bernard Delfont explains how the viewers, not the producers, chose the stars in 1963