"entirely, while a new programme, ""South East Today"" was to be created for the new South East region. BBC London, as it came to be called, replaced the long-running ""Newsroom South East"". Greater London and its environs have had a regional BBC television news service for many decades, but the boundaries of the region have always been somewhat nebulous due to the coverage areas of the transmitters used, as television signals do not tend to stick neatly to administrative or historical boundaries. Therefore, while the main focus of ""regional"" news coverage for this area has always been on the capital"
"The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities is a British television documentary series based on the Pepys estate in Deptford, south-east London. The eight-part series premiered on 25 June 2007, on BBC One. In 2004, Lewisham council sold one of three adjacent public housing tower blocks on the economically deprived Pepys Estate to a private property developer. The tower was converted into luxury apartments and sold to people who, for the most part, did not grow up in the local area. The documentary was filmed over three years and chronicled the difficulties faced"
"together with annotations from public and experts alike. In December 2003 the blog won the best specialist blog award in ""The Guardian""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Best of British Blogs. In 1958 the BBC produced a serial called ""Samuel Pepys!"", in which Peter Sallis played the title role. In 2003 a television film ""The Private Life of Samuel Pepys"" aired on BBC2. Steve Coogan played Pepys. The 2004 film ""Stage Beauty"" concerns London theatre in the 17th century and is based on Jeffrey Hatcher's play ""Compleat Female Stage Beauty"", which in turn was inspired by a reference in Pepys's diary to the actor Edward"
"by. Pepys Street Pepys Street is a street in the City of London, linking Seething Lane in the west to Cooper's Row in the east. Savage Gardens crosses the street. When the Port of London Authority Building was erected in 1923, Colchester Street was extended to Seething Lane and renamed after the diarist Samuel Pepys, who lived there during the Great Fire of London. The modern Pepys Street is home to hotels and offices. The nearest London Underground station is Tower Hill and the nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway. The mainline railway terminus Fenchurch Street is also"
"Pepys Street Pepys Street is a street in the City of London, linking Seething Lane in the west to Cooper's Row in the east. Savage Gardens crosses the street. When the Port of London Authority Building was erected in 1923, Colchester Street was extended to Seething Lane and renamed after the diarist Samuel Pepys, who lived there during the Great Fire of London. The modern Pepys Street is home to hotels and offices. The nearest London Underground station is Tower Hill and the nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway. The mainline railway terminus Fenchurch Street is also close"
"BBC and Phelps have come under criticism for changing the plot with many online users stating that Agatha Christie knew what she was writing about. One user said, ""Why doesn't [Phelps] write her own books if she thinks she can do better than someone who's sold millions of books.""[""recte""?] The three-parter was filmed in, and around, the town of Inverkip in the Inverclyde district west of Glasgow. Ardgowan House was used as the Argyll family home of Sunny Point. The series was originally supposed to have been broadcast over the Christmas and New Year holidays of 2017/2018, but was cancelled"
"House on Oxford Road, just south of the city centre. The hit series ""Cutting It"" was set in the city's Northern Quarter and ran on BBC1 for five series. ""Life on Mars"" was set in 1973 Manchester. Also, ""The Street"", winner of a BAFTA and International Emmy Award in 2007 is set in Manchester. Manchester is also the regional base for the BBC One North West Region so programmes like North West Tonight are produced here. The BBC intends to relocate large numbers of staff and facilities from London to MediaCityUK at Salford Quays. The Children's (CBBC), Comedy, Sport (BBC"
"at Piccadilly after 52 years. Regular production in Studio A continued until 2000, when it was mothballed. Meanwhile, the BBC launched a joint facilities venture with ITV Granada, called 3SixtyMedia, which saw both broadcasters pool their studio resources at both Oxford Road and Granada's Quay Street complex. As a result, Studio A was re-opened in 2005 as a four-waller, primarily for drama productions including ""Life on Mars"". BBC North West moved into new studios at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays during Autumn 2011. The new development houses all departments previously based at New Broadcasting House alongside BBC Children's, BBC Sport, BBC"
"the BBC in late 2009, following a move away from ""bonnet dramas"". ITV was looking to recreate its period drama success with ""Downton Abbey"" with a new series ""Mr Selfridge"", written by Davies and starring Jeremy Piven. An initial ten-part series first aired on 6 January 2013 and it has run for 4 series by 2016. Davies' six-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ""War & Peace"" was broadcast on BBC One in January and February 2016. Following its success, the BBC announced in July 2016 that it would be followed up with a six-part adaptation of Victor Hugo's ""Les Misérables"" to"
"in London in 1908, during a time period when women were enjoying an ever-increasing amount of freedom, it tells the story of Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridges department store and includes members of his family, particularly his wife Rose Selfridge. It was originally planned to be screened in 2012. However, it is claimed that ITV was forced to push back airing the drama due to rival BBC airing a similarly themed drama series ""The Paradise"". A set to the north of London was built to house a replica of the 1909 Selfridge's store interior. The exterior of the"
"and Rose Bruford College buildings. Aragon Tower on the Pepys Estate was sold by Lewisham Borough to fund regeneration plans for the estate; the award-winning refurbishment into privately owned accommodation was featured in the BBC1 documentary, ""The Tower"". Deptford Market, a street market in Deptford High Street sells a range of goods, and is considered one of London's liveliest street markets. In February 2005, the High Street was described as ""the capital's most diverse and vibrant high street"" by Yellow Pages business directory, using a unique mathematical formula. The Albany Theatre, a community arts centre with a tradition of ""radical"
"Sex, Drugs & Murder: Life in the Red Light Zone Sex, Drugs & Murder: Life in the Red Light Zone is a thirteen-part documentary series broadcast on BBC Three from 2016 to 2017. The series centres around prostitutes working in a tolerance zone in Holbeck, Leeds. On the 1st October 2014 Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police enacted a managed zone in the North East of the city's Holbeck district. In recent years the city's main red light area had moved away from its traditional area around Spencer Place in Chapeltown towards Holbeck. The decision was made to contain"
"""Past Encounters"", published under the name Davina Blake, (2014, ) is a story set in Carnforth which features the filming of ""Brief Encounter"" at Carnforth railway station in 1944 and uncovers a husband's wartime secrets. ""Pleasing Mr Pepys"" (28 September 2017, ) is a "" re-imagining of the events"" from the diary of Samuel Pepys Deborah Swift Deborah Swift (born 1955), who has also written as Davina Blake, is an English writer of historical fiction, based in north west Lancashire. Her first published novel was ""The Lady's Slipper"" (2010, Macmillan, ), which alludes to the lady's slipper orchid found in"
"Ripper Street Ripper Street is a British TV series set in Whitechapel in the East End of London and starring Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, and Adam Rothenberg. It begins in 1889, six months after the infamous Jack the Ripper murders. The first episode was broadcast on 30 December 2012 during BBC One's Christmas schedule and was first broadcast in the United States on BBC America on 19 January 2013. ""Ripper Street"" returned for a second eight-part series on 28 October 2013. On 4 December 2013, it was reported that a third series would not be made due to low viewing"
"part of inner London. Pepys lived there until his death on 26 May 1703. He had no children and bequeathed his estate to his unmarried nephew John Jackson. Pepys had disinherited his nephew Samuel Jackson for marrying contrary to his wishes. When John Jackson died in 1724, Pepys' estate reverted to Anne, daughter of Archdeacon Samuel Edgeley, niece of Will Hewer and sister of Hewer Edgeley, nephew and godson of Pepys' old Admiralty employee and friend Will Hewer. Hewer was also childless and left his immense estate to his nephew Hewer Edgeley (consisting mostly of the Clapham property, as well"
"climax at Epsom racecourse on 31 May 1922 – Derby Day . Series three starts and ends in 1924 as it follows Tommy and his family enter an even more dangerous world as they once again expand, this time, internationally. Internet-based film and TV news company ""Screen Rant"" said: Series Three also features Paddy Considine as Father John Hughes; Alexander Siddig as Ruben Oliver, a painter whom Polly enlists to paint her portrait; Gaite Jansen as Russian Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna; and Kate Phillips as Linda Shelby, wife of Arthur. Series Four begins on Christmas Eve 1925 and ends following"
"Pitt Crawley. Amanda Murray appeared as Ann Dobbin in three episodes. The story is set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Becky Sharp, a poor orphan girl, schemes for money and position. Her most-used stepladder is her old school friend, Amelia Sedley. Both women marry soldiers, and both of them are affected by the Battle of Waterloo. Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial) Vanity Fair was a BBC Pebble Mill Production consisting of 16 half-hour episodes. Shot on location and in studio. Locations included Winchester and Thetford. Virtually all the interiors were shot in Studio A at Pebble Mill. The"
"of York, and Betty married Charles Long, Vicar of Risby. Samuel Pepys was fond of both Bab and Betty, although he grumbled at the cost of entertaining them during their lengthy visit to his house in February 1669. Roger Pepys Roger Pepys (3 May 1617 – 4 October 1688) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1678. He is chiefly remembered as Samuel Pepys's ""Cousin Roger"": he and his children appear regularly in the great Diary. Relations between the two men were always good. Pepys was born at Heydon, Norfolk, the"
"""Death Comes to Pemberley"", written by Juliette Towhidi (""Calendar Girls"") was made by Origin Pictures for BBC One. It was telecast in the UK over three nights from 26 December 2013 as part of BBC's Christmas schedule and stars Anna Maxwell Martin as Elizabeth, Matthew Rhys as Mr Darcy, Jenna Coleman as Lydia, Matthew Goode as Mr. Wickham and Trevor Eve as Sir Selwyn Hardcastle. Death Comes to Pemberley Death Comes to Pemberley is a British novel by P.D. James that continues Jane Austen's ""Pride and Prejudice"" with a murder mystery. The novel begins in October, 1803, six years after"
"second series was nominated for the Best Drama prize at the 2008 Rose d'Or ceremony. Though it did not win, it received Special Mention from the jury. In November 2010, the third series won the International Emmy Award for Best Drama and Best Actor (Bob Hoskins). The third series began airing on 13 July 2009 and concluded on 17 August 2009. This was the final series to be made due to cutbacks at ITV Studios in Manchester (ITV produced the series, although it is shown by the BBC). The filming location was Rock Street, Higher Broughton in Salford. The McEvoys"
"filming was conducted at the disused remains of the East Greenwich Gas Works (the present-day site of The O). A shot of Chief Superintendent Gordon Spikings (Ray Smith) in front of ""Cutty Sark"" was incorporated into the series' opening credit sequence. ""Dempsey and Makepeace"" ran for three series between 11 January 1985 and 1 November 1986. A total of 30 episodes were produced. The show was originally broadcast on ITV between 11 January 1985 and 1 November 1986. From July 2009, the series was repeated on ITV3 in the UK. It was sold to many countries in Europe, including Eastern"
"having a relationship. Series 1–7 have been released on DVD. Peak Practice Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale—a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District—and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. The series"
"Three, following a BBC investment of £10m to allow the online-only platform to commission and publish some of its short-form content in the city, including its ""Amazing Humans"" series. The channel also films comedy series ""Man Like Mobeen"" in Birmingham. The BBC Drama Village, based in Selly Oak, is a production facility specialising in television drama and is the home of nationally networked programme ""Doctors"". Birmingham-based BBC Two television crime drama ""Peaky Blinders"", created by Brummie native film director Steven Knight, is partly filmed in the city, where it has had several of its red carpet premieres. Birmingham used to"
"ended on 6 June. Reece Shearsmith has officially announced that there will not be a third series. The series revolves around five different characters from different parts of England: David Sowerbutts (played by Pemberton), a serial killer-obsessed man-child who still lives with his mother Maureen (Shearsmith); Mr. Jelly (Shearsmith), an embittered one-handed children's entertainer; Oscar Lomax (Pemberton), a blind millionaire who collects stuffed toy animals; Joy Aston (French), a midwife who treats a practice doll as if it is her real child; and Robert Greenspan (Tompkins), a panto dwarf in love with his Snow White who believes he has the"
"in Laburnam Way, Penarth in Wales. The opening episode features location shooting in Leicester Square in London which was filmed in 2006. After the debut of the show on BBC Three, a second series was soon commissioned. Speaking about the second series, Corden said ""It's the show that we wanted to make. If people like it, they like it: if they don't, they don't. That's a nice feeling, that's quite freeing... There's more of a journey and more of a story. We hope the viewers will feel like they've been taken on a little trip by it"", while Jones said"
"through the streets of London. On reaching a specially erected scaffold in St. Giles’ Field, near Holborn, they were hanged, drawn and quartered. After this, the executioner distributed the parts of their bodies to prominent locations around the city to warn all of the consequences of disloyalty to the monarch. Babington's final letter to his friend and betrayer, Poley (""farewell sweet Robyn..."") is one of the more strikingly poignant documents in the case. ""A Traveller in Time"" by Alison Uttley is set at Thackers, the fictional name for the Babington Manor House, actually at Dethick, in Derbyshire. The narrator, Penelope"
"It is filmed in studios at the BBC Elstree Centre in Hertfordshire, with the 1960s office building Neptune House being used for multiple exteriors and interiors in the series. It has occasionally featured special episodes filmed on location abroad. From October 2010, ""Holby City"" moved to high definition broadcasting. In September 2016, as part of the broadcaster's Compete Or Compare Strategy, the BBC confirmed the show would be one of the first put up for tender. In the tender released in October, it was confirmed the contract, open to independent producers and BBC Studios, would be for 3 series of"
"with cast members travelling between the two locations. In October 2007, BBC cutbacks led ""The Daily Telegraph"" to report that the Elstree site would be sold, and ""Holby City"" relocated to share a set with ""Casualty"", possibly in Cardiff. In March 2009, the BBC confirmed that ""Casualty"" would move to a new set in Cardiff, however in the following month, ""The Guardian"" announced that the BBC would retain Elstree Studios for at least another four years. Several episodes of the series have been shot on location abroad. In 2004, the romance between nurse Jess Griffin (Verona Joseph) and anaesthetist Zubin"
"Telegraph"" calling it ""a gripping, gory corker. The show achieves a perfect balance between thrills and chills and a knowing, tongue-in-cheek humour."" Further screen success followed. Eylot adapted Patrick Hamilton's trilogy ""Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky"" into a three-part miniseries for the BBC, starring Sally Hawkins and Bryan Dick. ""Clapham Junction"", for Channel 4, weaves together five stories of contemporary gay life during one hot summer's night, from a civil partnership ceremony to a heated dinner party, and from school and work to bars and clubs. The cast included Samantha Bond, Rupert Graves, Rachel Blake, Luke Treadaway, Richard Lintern"
"kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London. Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London on 23 February 1633, the son of John Pepys (1601–1680), a tailor, and Margaret Pepys (""née"" Kite; died 1667), daughter of a Whitechapel butcher. His great uncle Talbot Pepys was Recorder and briefly Member of"
"North Square North Square is a British television drama series written and created by Peter Moffat, and broadcast by Channel 4 from 18 October to 20 December 2000. Starring an ensemble cast, including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd, the programme is set around the practice of a barristers' chambers in Leeds. The series was filmed in and around the real life Park Square, Leeds. This is the area in the city where the majority of barristers' chambers are concentrated. Despite gaining considerable critical acclaim, the show failed to garner a substantial audience resulting in only the"
"three-part television series, first broadcast by BBC television in October 2011, and rebroadcast in April 2012. In 2012 Sandhurst accepted a £15 million donation from the government of United Arab Emirates for the Zayed Building, an accommodation block, named after the UAE's founding ruler. In 2013 Sandhurst accepted a donation of £3 million from the government of Bahrain for the refurbishment of Mons Hall, named in honour of the men who fell in the Battle of Mons. It was renamed as King Hamad Hall in honour of the King of Bahrain, which generated some controversy in the United Kingdom. In"
"paranormal and supernatural. The drama opens in 1901 London, shortly after the publication of Doyle's ""The Great Boer War"". Houdini and Doyle become involved in the investigation of several mysterious deaths. They debate over whether the causes are natural or supernatural, and often bet on the cause, which causes their police liaison, Constable Adelaide Stratton, some embarrassment. The series was filmed on two stages at The Space Project in Manchester with Liverpool Town Hall and Water Street being used for some of the exterior filming. The series premiered on ITV in the United Kingdom 13 March 2016. It premiered on"