2000:

2000:
o ’00: Big Brother
o ‘00: George Bush or Algore? (Problem with counting votes… – George Bush is elected president)
o ’01: Interactive Wimbledon
o ’01: Pop idol
o ’01: 9/11
o ’02: Launch of BBC4 (Aimed at ‘people who want more from TV’)
o ’02: Live autopsy
o ’03: More reality TV: The salon, Wife Swap.
o ’03: Start of Iraq war
o ’04: Hutton Report published: Conclusion –BBC’s claim that allegations had been ‘sexed up’ were unfounded. Dyke resigns.
o ’04: Asian Tsunami
o ’04: The secret policeman
o ’07: 7/7
o ‘07/’08: Phone in scandals

1990s:

1990s:
o ’90: Thatcher steps down, is succeeded by John Major
o ’91: Broadcasting Standards Council (Set up to monitor sex, violence and bad language on TV and radio).
o ’92: 'Black Wednesday: (Britain crashed out of the ERM – Huge devaluation of the £ - Gov loses £22bn)
o ’93: Creation of the EU
o ’95: Gaytime TV: On the BBC for gays and lesbians.
o ’97: Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister – Labour (BRINGS IN MORE WOMEN MPS)
o ’97: News 24 launches
o ’97: Queer as folk – (CH4 drama about 4 gay men living together- first to deal exclusively with gay storylines – receives complaints for its explicit sex scenes)
o ‘97- Channel 5 launches

1980s:

1980s:
o ‘80: Women Cops : Shows on BBC1 and ITV showing taking proper notice of female cops (women have been policewoman since 1949)
o ’81: Brixton race riots
o ’82: Falklands war
o ’84: Miners strike
o ’87: Ordination of female priests
o ’89: Launch of satellite TV
o ’89: Fall of Berlin wall

1970s:

1970s:
o ’70: Break up of the Beatles
o ’72: Newsround
o ’77: Death of Elvis
o ’73: Watergate Scandal/trial
o ’74: Nixon resigns as a result.
o ’75: The Naked Civil Servant (Defying moment in television’s depiction of gay lifestyles – tells the life story of a persecuted homosexual)
o ’76: Jeremy Thorpe Affair (trial following allegations that the MP had arranged to murder a man with whom he had a homosexual relationship)
o ’77: Roots (Programme about the slavery of African Americans – Historical dramas of this type defined the ‘70s)
o ’79: Thatcher Elected (Conservative party – ‘Iron lady’ – First female Prime Minister)
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1960s:

1960s:
o ‘6o: Debut of Coronation ST.
o ‘6o: JFK takes over as president from Nixon.
o ’60: Introduction of the contraceptive pill.
o ’62: Marylyn Monroe found dead (Drug overdose – age 36)
o ’63: JFK assassinated
o ’64: Nelson Mandela sentenced to imprisonment
o ’65: Vietnam war becomes first to be televised
o ’66: England win world cup.

1950S:

1950s:
o ’50: Korean War
o ’52 : Funeral of King George V| (Broadcast live on TV – First monarch event to do so)
o ’53: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth || (Important event in the evolution of British TV. Was the first time that TV drew in a bigger audience than radio)
o ’53: ‘The Quarter Mass Experiment’ (First Sci-Fi show, drew a mass audience, was performed live each week)
o ’54: ‘The Grove Family’ (First British soap for adults. About a couple who struggle to build a home for their family after the war. Had ¼ of the population as its audience)
o ’54: First Daily TV news programme: (Richard Baker, still images)
o ’54: Television Act 1954 (?)
o ’55: ITV starts broadcasting (Ends BBC’s monopoly. Has commercials)
o ’55: Montgomery bus boycott (US civil rights movement)
o ’57: Suez crisis (Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns as a result )
o ’57: First appointment at emergency award 10: (1st TV hospital drama)
o ’58: Black and White Minstrel show
o ’58: ITV screens the Arm Chair Theatre (represents the real working class in contrast to the BBC’s more conventional plays)
o ’59: Whickers World (Offering international news for the first time.)