Television
Huge website with pages related to individual BBC TV and radio programmes, themed sections, such as News, Sport, Entertainment, Lifestyle, History, Health and Science, and children's CBBC and CBeeBies areas. The BBC's website contains many interactive features including fun and games, message boards and programme streaming.
BAFTA promotes and rewards excellence in television.
Channel 4's website includes areas linked to programming in themed areas including News, Sport, Culture, Music, Life, Learning, Cars and Money. The website also has sections headed E4, More4 and FilmFour.
Information about the UK digital switchover and how to get digital TV.
Detailed episode guides for over 2,500 TV programmes showing, or that have shown, in America and the UK. Information about individual episodes is provided by
TV Tome, a database of over 2,100 complete guides of current and classic shows, and biographical details about actors, writers and directors links from the
IMDb: Internet Movie Database.
Programme information from Five (formerly Channel Five).
Check Freeview coverage for where you live and find out about digital boxes, setting up and available channels.
Information on ITV programmes and sections including News, Sport, Love, Motoring, ITV Day, Soaps and Kids. Full TV listings for terrestrial, satellite and cable programmes are included.
Register to use this free, searchable, database of contacts within the film, TV, video and commercials production industries
Office of Communications, the regulator for UK TV, radio, and telecoms, for advice and complaints.
Online version of the BBC's listings magazine.
Developed by the
British Film Institute, Screenonline tells the history of British film and television, and the social history of Britain as shown on film and television. The Television section includes hundreds of hours of video clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Film and Television Archive, together with thousands of stills, posters and press books and several hours of recorded interviews with television personalities.
[If you would like to watch clips from Screenonline in a library, please ask a member of staff to make arrangements for access, which may take several days.]
Website of the satellite service including sections headed News, Sports, One, Movies, Showbiz and TV guide.
Comprehensive information about "classic" and "influential" tv programmes, from the early 1950s to the present.
Information about UK TV Licences and how to get one.
Directory of nearly 1,000 British TV sit-coms, with brief details about each show, actors and writers.
Check digital radio coverage, stations and DAB digital radios.
Information about "significant" shows past and present on British tv.
