[tellyblues]

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Broadcasting Press Guild members create unique Top 50 Landmark TV Programme List
Broadcasting Press Guild members create unique Top 50 Landmark TV Programme List…
  Source: www.broadcastingpressguild.org

1 7 Up series – ITV/Granada + BBC, 1964-2019
2 Life On Earth – BBC, 1979
3 The World At War – ITV/Thames, 1973
4 The Office – BBC, 2001
5 Big Brother – Channel 4, 2000
6 Planet Earth – BBC, 2006
7 Have I Got News For You – BBC, 1990
8 I May Destroy You – BBC, 2020
9 The Singing Detective – BBC, 1986
10 The Day Today – BBC, 1994

11 The Royle Family – BBC
12 Our Friends In The North – BBC
13 I’m Alan Partridge – BBC
14 Boys From The Blackstuff – BBC
15 Blackadder – BBC
16 Strictly Come Dancing – BBC
17 The Thick Of It – BBC
18 Fleabag – BBC/Amazon
19 Only Fools And Horses – BBC
20 The Naked Civil Servant – ITV/Thames

21 Spitting Image – ITV/Central
22 Queer As Folk –-Channel 4
23 The Family – BBC
24 Monty Python’s Flying Circus – BBC
25 House Of Cards – BBC
26 Gogglebox – Channel 4
27 Goodness Gracious Me – BBC
28 The Crown – Netflix
29 Newsnight – BBC
30 Derry Girls – Channel 4

31 Brideshead Revisited – ITV/Granada
32 Chernobyl – HBO/Sky
33 Cracker – ITV/Granada
34 Blue Peter – BBC
35 Inspector Morse – ITV/Central
36 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – BBC
37 The Beatles: Get Back – Disney+
38 I, Claudius – BBC
39 Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave – BBC
40 The Word – Channel 4

41 Death On The Rock – ITV/Thames
42 This is England – Channel 4
43 The Great British Bake-Off – BBC + Channel 4
44 Grange Hill – BBC
45 Pride and Prejudice – BBC
46 Pennies From Heaven – BBC
47 Desmond’s – Channel 4
48 The Big Breakfast – Channel 4
49 Parkinson – BBC + ITV
50 The Traitors – BBC

Surprised that Eastenders and Corrie aren't on there and being fresh in the mind probably accounts for The Traitors' inclusion.

[Neil Jones]

Think we need a bit of context here - from the above page: "What are the 50 landmark TV Programmes of the last 50 years? The shows that changed broadcasting, influenced how we look at the world and made us laugh or think in a new way. This is the challenge the Broadcasting Press Guild set its members to mark its 50th anniversary: the resulting Top 50 showcases the incredible breadth, diversity and evolution of British broadcasting over the last half century."

That might explain why the soaps aren't on there... they didn't "change broadcasting, influenced how we look at the world [save to say somebody else has a more miserable life than viewers] or made them laugh."

In fact it could be argued the "change" for broadcasting wise soaps did was clogging up the prime time schedule, particularly in the case of ITV...

[Brekkie]

Of course these lists are subjective but not much argument from me for the top 25, though then it gets a bit more questionable, and if it's from the last 50 years it explains Corrie's absence but not the inclusion of Blue Peter and 7Up. Certainly some recency bias in there.

[tellyblues]

Think we need a bit of context here - from the above page: "What are the 50 landmark TV Programmes of the last 50 years? The shows that changed broadcasting, influenced how we look at the world and made us laugh or think in a new way. This is the challenge the Broadcasting Press Guild set its members to mark its 50th anniversary: the resulting Top 50 showcases the incredible breadth, diversity and evolution of British broadcasting over the last half century."

That might explain why the soaps aren't on there... they didn't "change broadcasting, influenced how we look at the world [save to say somebody else has a more miserable life than viewers] or made them laugh."

In fact it could be argued the "change" for broadcasting wise soaps did was clogging up the prime time schedule, particularly in the case of ITV...

Not all the soaps' fault though. Perhaps if channels didn't get rid of kids blocks then the shows that ended up airing there could have been shown in primetime and the soaps wouldn't have had to be on so much?

I don't like the soaps either but there's no denying their influence and suitability for the poll as they meet the criteria that has been put forward. I guess maybe they just didn't get enough votes.

[JAS84]

Pointless would still exist in the exact same timeslot if CBBC was still on BBC One, because it replaced Weakest Link which took over the Neighbours slot when it moved to Channel 5. The rest of the gameshows, I'm not sure if they'd exist at all if the CBBC and CITV blocks still existed.

[Blubatt]

Think we need a bit of context here - from the above page: "What are the 50 landmark TV Programmes of the last 50 years? The shows that changed broadcasting, influenced how we look at the world and made us laugh or think in a new way. This is the challenge the Broadcasting Press Guild set its members to mark its 50th anniversary: the resulting Top 50 showcases the incredible breadth, diversity and evolution of British broadcasting over the last half century."

That might explain why the soaps aren't on there... they didn't "change broadcasting, influenced how we look at the world [save to say somebody else has a more miserable life than viewers] or made them laugh."

In fact it could be argued the "change" for broadcasting wise soaps did was clogging up the prime time schedule, particularly in the case of ITV...

Monty Python was 1969. Unless this is an older article that the OP is resharing, 1969 is 55 years ago, as of 2024

[Neil Jones]

Monty Python was 1969. Unless this is an older article that the OP is resharing, 1969 is 55 years ago, as of 2024

I only copied and pasted the blurb, I didn't verify it. Anyway the article's dated March 12 2024, and secondly Python was on the air in 1974 albeit without John Cleese by that point, so it is technically correct.