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This is a list of British television related events from 1990. ==Events== *January – ITV networks ''Emmerdale'' to 19:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. *1 January – Mr. Bean debuts on ITV. *11 February – Live coverage is aired of the African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela's release from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa. *13 February – The US science fiction series ''Quantum Leap'' makes its British television debut on BBC2. *20 March – Chancellor John Major delivers the first budget to be shown on television. *25 March – British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) launches on cable in the UK as a rival to Sky Television which launched the previous year. *26 March – The science fiction soap ''Jupiter Moon'' makes its debut on the Galaxy channel. 150 episodes are commissioned, but only 108 are aired before the series is cancelled in December. *27 March – BBC 1 airs the first of two flashback episodes of ''EastEnders'' as part of the storyline in which Diane Butcher (played by Sophie Lawrence) ran away from home. The episodes show Frank Butcher (Mike Reid) going to meet his teenage daughter at King's Cross railway station after she contacted him following a three-month absence. Scenes showing Frank waiting for Diane and their subsequent reunion are interspersed with flashbacks to January showing her leaving home and living rough on the streets. Sophie Lawrence did research among real homeless people fro the storyline. *28 March – ITV broadcasts the Granada Television documentary drama, ''Who Bombed Birmingham?''. The programme, which looks at the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings and the conviction of the Birmingham Six names several people believed to have actually been behind the bombings.〔New York Times; March 29, 1990; (British TV Names Bombing Suspects )〕 *3 April – ITV airs the ''First Tuesday'' documentary ''Sonia's Baby'', the story of a woman's fight with the medical establishment to have a test tube baby using her late husband's sperm. *29 April – BSB launches on satellite television. *10 May – The Broadcasting Bill receives its third reading in the House of Commons and is passed with 259 votes to 180. *19 May – Helen Rollason becomes the first female presenter on BBC1's ''Grandstand''. *28 May – ITV airs a special edition of ''Coronation Street'' as part of its ''Telethon'' in which Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander) returns for a special visit. *8 June–8 July – The BBC and ITV provide television coverage of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. *15 June – The very first edition of Art Attack with Neil Buchanan is shown on Children's ITV. *2 July – * *ITV broadcasts Tom McGurk's film ''Dear Sarah'', a play about Giuseppe Conlon's letters to his wife, Sarah after he was convicted as one of the "Maguire Seven" for allegedly making IRA bombs. * *Channel 4 quiz show ''Countdown'' celebrates its 1000th edition. *6 July – Channel 4 introduced a third weekly episode of its soap ''Brookside'', airing on a Friday evening. The soap now airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. *7 July – In Rome, on the eve of the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup the Three Tenors sing together for the first time. The event is broadcast live on television and watched worldwide by millions of people. Highlight is Luciano Pavarotti's performance of Nessun Dorma from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot. *19 July – MPs vote to make televised proceedings of the House of Commons a permanent feature. *21 July – Debut of ITV's ''Stars in Their Eyes'', a series presented by Leslie Crowther in which members of the public impersonate their favourite singers. *18 August – BSB's second Marcopolo Satellite is launched. *25 August – The first series of ''Stars in Their Eyes'' is won by Maxine Barrie performing as Shirley Bassey. *2 September – The long-running animated series ''The Simpsons'' is broadcast in the United Kingdom for the first time, making its début on Sky1. ''Call of the Simpsons'' is the first episode to be shown on Sky. *5 September – New BBC building at White City opens. *7 September – After an 8-year absence, The Generation Game returns on BBC1 with Bruce Forsyth as returning host and Rosemarie Ford as hostess. *9 September – As part of the Screen One series, BBC1 screens the groundbreaking comedy drama ''Frankenstein's Baby'' which explores the subject of male pregnancy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Frankenstein's Baby )〕 *24 September – Joan Bunting wins the 1990 series of ''MasterChef''. *30 September – The BSB channel Galaxy airs the pilot episode of ''Heil Honey I'm Home!'', a controversial sitcom featuring a fictionalised Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. The show attracts much criticism and is cancelled after one episode. Several other episodes were recorded, but none have ever been broadcast. *2 October – The ''First Tuesday'' documentary ''Swing Under the Swastika'' airs on ITV. The programme looks at jazz music under the Nazi regime and is narrated by Alan Plater. *23 October – David Lynch's critically acclaimed serial drama ''Twin Peaks'' receives its British television debut at 9.00pm on BBC2. *29 October – Debut of the Patricia Routledge starred sitcom Keeping Up Appearances on BBC1. *2 November – BSB merges with Sky Television, becoming British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). Of BSB's five channels, only two, The Movie Channel and The Sports Channel, remain on air long term, though both are eventually renamed. Galaxy is closed with its transponders handed over to Sky One, Now is replaced in the most part with Sky News and The Power Station remains on air until 8 April 1991 before being replaced by MTV. *18 November–23 December – The BBC's serialisation of the Chronicles of Narnia concludes with the fourth and final story, ''The Silver Chair'', being aired in six parts. *20 November – Broadcaster John Sergeant's famous encounter with Margaret Thatcher on the steps of the British embassy in Paris. He was waiting for Thatcher in the hope of hearing her reaction to the first ballot in the party leadership contest of 1990, only to be pushed aside by her press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham, when Thatcher emerges from the building. Sergeant later wins the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year. *November – The Broadcasting Act 1990 receives Royal Assent. The Act paves the way for the deregulation of the British commercial broadcasting industry, and will have many consequences for the ITV system. *1 December – With the media watching, the two ends of the service tunnel of the Channel Tunnel are joined together, linking Britain and France for the first time since the Ice Age. A handshake then takes place between Englishman Graham Fagg and Frenchman Phillippe Cozette, after which British and French workers board trains to complete the first journey between the two countries. *7 December – BBC2 broadcasts ''Your Move'', a pioneering interactive show in which the home audience are invited to play chess against grandmaster Jonathan Speelman using telephone voting to select each move. *9 December – Cilla Black hosts ''Happy Birthday Coronation Street'', an evening of entertainment on ITV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the long–running soap. *25 December – Channel 4 airs ''The Coronation Street Birthday Lecture'', a talk delivered by Labour politician Roy Hattersley in which he discusses aspects of the soap in front of an invited audience, which includes some ''Coronation Street'' cast members. The programme also includes some classic clips from the series. *Unknown – The Greek language channel Hellenic TV – the UK's first foreign-language service to be given a broadcast licence by the Independent Television Commission – goes on air in London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1990 in British television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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