Timeline of BBC Two

This is a timeline of the history of BBC Two.

1960s

1962
  • The Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and that ITV lacked any culturally relevant programming. It therefore decided that Britain's third television station should be awarded to the BBC.

1963
  • No events.

1964
  • 4 January – Test transmissions begin for BBC Two.[1]
  • 20 April – BBC Two starts broadcasting at 7.20 pm.[2]
  • 22 August – The first Match of the Day airs on BBC2.[3] The following episodes moved to BBC1.
  • 6 December — BBC2 goes on air in the Midlands and East Anglia, because the Sutton Coldfield transmitter initially could not relay BBC2 beyond an area reception to the Midlands region, resulting in a staggered signal.

1965

1966

1967

1968
  • No events.

1969

1970s

1970
  • No events

1971

1972
  • No events

1973
  • 24 August – BBC2 broadcasts a trade test colour film for the final time, having done so during daytime closedowns to provide colour broadcasting in these intervals for use by television shops and engineers (the 'trade') to adjust their television sets.

1974
  • 30 January – BBC2 shows the first early morning Open University programming, airing between 6.40am and 7.30am.[15]
  • 22 February – BBC2 airs the drama Girl as part of its Second City Firsts anthology series.[16] The drama, which tells the story of an affair between two army officers, is the first on British television to feature a gay kiss, between two women.[17]
  • 5 December – Party Political Broadcast, the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, is broadcast on BBC2.

1975
  • January – When not broadcasting actual programmes, BBC2 begins fully closes down on weekdays between 11.30am and 4pm and continues to do so until September 1983.
  • 22 January – 26 February – Drama series The Love School, about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is shown on BBC2.
  • 19 September – The comedy series Fawlty Towers debuts on BBC2. The following episodes moved to BBC1 a leap year later.[18]

1976
  • No events.

1977
  • No events.

1978
  • 6 April – The four-part drama series Law & Order begins airing on BBC2. Each of the four stories within the series is told from a different perspective, including that of the Detective, the Villain, the Brief and the Prisoner. The series proves to be highly controversial upon its release due to its depiction of a corrupt British law enforcement and legal system.[19]
  • 13 July – The original series of Top Gear begins airing on BBC2[20] having started as a locally produced programme at BBC Pebble Mill the previous year.

1979

1980s

1980
  • 28 January – The first edition of Newsnight is broadcast on BBC2.[23] Its launch had been delayed for four months by the Association of Broadcasting Staff, at the time the main BBC trade union.[24]
  • 25 February – The first episode of the popular political sitcom Yes Minister, "Open Government", is broadcast by BBC2.[25]
  • March – The very first in-vision Ceefax transmissions are broadcast. These consist of 30-minute transmissions, which BBC2 broadcasts on weekdays between 1000 and 1030 and between 1530 and 1600.
  • BBC2 launches its computer generated clock.

1981
  • 5 January – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the television version of Douglas Adams' radio comedy of the same name debuts on BBC2.[26]
  • 20 January – BBC2 airs live coverage of the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States.[27]
  • 17 May – Sunday Grandstand launches. It broadcasts during the summer months on BBC Two.[28] The programme includes weekly coverage of Sunday Cricket which had been shown on BBC2 since 1965.
  • 23 October – The last ever teatime block of Open University programmes are transmitted today. From the 1982 season, only a single Open University programme is aired and is billed in TV listings as a general programme rather than as an Open University programme. This allows the channel to begin weeknight programmes at 5.35pm throughout the year, instead of at just before 7pm. The displaced OU programmes are moved to a late night slot, broadcast after the conclusion of regular programmes.

1982

1983
  • 2 May – From today Ceefax pages are broadcast during all daytime downtime although BBC2 continues to fully close down for four hours after Play School.
  • 27–28 August – BBC2 Rocks Around the Clock by broadcasting non-stop music programmes all day and also all night.[29]
  • 16 September –
    • Play School is broadcast on BBC2 for the final time.
    • BBC2 closes down during the day for the final time – all future daytime downtime is filled by Pages from Ceefax.
  • 19 September – Daytime on Two launches on BBC2. Broadcasting during termtime from just after 9 am until 3 pm, the strand encompasses the BBC Schools programming previously shown on BBC1 and the BBC's adult educational programmes which are shown at lunchtime. A special version of the BBC Two 'Computer Generated 2' ident is launched to introduce the programmes.

1984
  • 28–29 July – BBC2 hosts Jazz on a Summer's Day, a weekend of programmes devoted to jazz music.[30]
  • 25–26 August – For the second time, BBC2 goes Rock Around the Clock.[31]
  • 23 September – British single TV drama play Threads premiered on BBC2.[32]
  • 5 October – BBC2 broadcasts an Open University programme at teatime for the final time.
  • 8 October – BBC2 launches a full afternoon service, consisting primarily of repeats of Dallas and old feature films.
  • December – BBC2 stops broadcasting a late evening Saturday night news summary, meaning that the channel now only transmits a single 15-minute news and sport bulletin on Saturdays.

1985
  • 7 January – The BBC ends its experiment with afternoon broadcasting and from this date Ceefax pages are shown continuously on BBC2 between 9 am and 5.25 pm apart from when Daytime on Two is in season and when sporting events are being shown.
  • 11 January – BBC2 debuts Victoria Wood as Seen on TV.[33]
  • 28 April – The World Snooker Championship Final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis draws BBC2's highest ever rating of 18.5 million viewers.
  • 13 July – Live Aid pop concerts are held in Philadelphia and London and televised around the world. Over £50 million is raised for famine relief in Ethiopia.[34] BBC2 shows the London concert with the Philadelphia concert shown on BBC1.
  • 27 July – BBC2 airs "Blues Night", an Arena special dedicated to the Blues, and featuring artists from the genre, including Sonny Boy Williamson, B. B. King, Blind John Davis, and Big Bill Broonzy.[35]
  • 30 July – Debut of the pop music culture series No Limits on BBC2.[36]
  • 31 July – The War Game, made for the BBC's The Wednesday Play strand in 1965 but banned from broadcast at the time, is finally shown on television as part of BBC2's After the Bomb season.[37]
  • 1 August – The nuclear war docudrama Threads is repeated on BBC2 as part of the After the Bomb series.[38]

1986
  • 30 March – BBC2 airs the TWO ident, which is used until 1991.
  • 21 May – A Very Peculiar Practice debuts on BBC2.[39]
  • 2 September – Ahead of the launch of all-day television on BBC1, the weekly magazine programme for Asian women, Gharbar, transfers back to BBC2. The programme moves to a new day and new slot – 9 am on Tuesdays.
  • 9 September – The last ever non-stop all-day BBC2 Ceefax transmission takes place.
  • 20–21 September – For the third and final time, BBC2 goes Rock Around the Clock.[40]
  • 14 October – BBC2 begins regular late afternoon programming by showing a film during the second half of the gap between the end of Daytime on Two and the start of the evening's programmes.
  • 17 October – BBC2 broadcasts a teatime news summary with subtitles for the last time. For the past three years this bulletin, which had been broadcast at around 5.25 pm, had been the first programme of the day (apart from educational programmes and sports coverage).
  • 27 October – The BBC launches its daytime television service and BBC2 provides a full afternoon service for the first time. However, when Daytime on Two was not being shown, BBC2 continues to broadcast Pages from Ceefax and does not start broadcasting until 2 pm. It wasn't until 1989 that BBC2 started to show morning programmes when Daytime on Two was not on the air.
  • 8 December – Six weeks after launching its daytime service, BBC TV starts broadcasting hourly news summaries. BBC2 broadcasts three early afternoon bulletins (at 2 pm, 3pm and 3.50 pm), the latter is followed by the mid-afternoon regional news summary which had been transferred from BBC1 on 27 October. Each bulletin is followed by a weather forecast.

1987
  • 22 June – The BBC's lunchtime children's programme moves from BBC1 to BBC2. It is shown slightly earlier, at 1.20 pm.
  • 30 September – BBC2 debuts Malcolm McKay's screenplay The Interrogation of John, a film concerning the police questioning of a potential murder suspect.[41] Starring Dennis Quilley, Bill Paterson and Michael Fitzgerald, it later forms the first of a three-part series titled A Wanted Man, which further develops the story and airs in 1989.[42]
  • 31 December – BBC2 airs a five-hour Whistle Test special to welcome in 1988. The special, aired from 9.35 pm on New Year's Eve to 2.55 am on New Year's Day, takes a look back through the archives in what is the programme's final outing.[43] It will be three decades later in 2018 before a new edition of the programme is broadcast.[44]

1988
  • 15 February – Red Dwarf makes its debut on BBC2.[45]
  • 25 March – BBC2 shows Two of Us, a gay-themed television film.[46] It was produced as part of the BBC Schools SCENE series, and intended for young adults. It confronted the Thatcherite government's attempt to ban gay sex education in schools via the controversial (and since repealed) section 28 legislation.[47] Given this backdrop, the BBC opted not to show it during the day and it was screened late at night on this day, even though it was originally created for a school audience. In 1990 the play was finally shown during the day, when it was broadcast in a lunchtime slot.[48][49]
  • 9 May – The youth strand DEF II is launched on BBC2.[50]
  • 11 June – The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert is staged at Wembley Stadium, London,[51] and broadcast to 67 countries and an audience of 600 million. In the UK it was broadcast on BBC 2.[52]
  • 16 September – BBC2 broadcasts programmes for the Open University on weekday lunchtimes for the final time.

1989
  • 16 January – The Late Show, Britain's first daily television arts programme, which is presented by Sarah Dunant debuts on BBC 2 directly after Newsnight.[53][54]
  • 20 January – BBC2 airs live coverage of the inauguration of George Bush as the 41st President of the United States.[55]
  • 2 March – First transmission of My Brother David, an edition of the BBC2 schools series Scene in which Simon Scarboro talks about the life of his brother, David Scarboro, who originally played the EastEnders character Mark Fowler, and who fell to his death from Beachy Head in 1988. The programme is repeated again on 19 June for a general audience as part of BBC2's DEF II strand.[56][57][58][59]
  • 21 April – BBC2's 25th anniversary. Prigramming includes an edition of Arena in which the author Graham Greene sets out to trace a namesake who posed as him for many years, and an edition of The Late Show which looks at the early BBC2 jazz programme Jazz 625.[60]
  • 19 June – For the first time, BBC2 broadcasts during the morning when not showing Daytime on Two. Programmes begin at 10 am, as opposed to lunchtime.
  • 25 September – BBC2 airs The Interrogation of John, Malcolm McKay's 1987 screenplay, starring Dennis Quilley, Bill Paterson and Michael Fitzgerald. The film, about the police questioning of a murder suspect and first shown in 1987, now forms the first of a three-part series titled A Wanted Man, which further develops the story. The second part of the trilogy, The Secret, airs on 27 September, while Shoreland concludes the series on 28 September.[42][61][62]
  • 4 October – Jeremy Paxman makes his first appearance as presenter of BBC2's Newsnight.
  • 22 November – The Stone Roses are invited to appear on BBC2's The Late Show. During their performance the electricity is cut off by noise limiting circuitry, prompting singer Ian Brown to shout "Amateurs, amateurs" as presenter Tracey MacLeod tries to link into the next item.

1990s

1990
  • 2 February – The BBC Schools SCENE film gay-themed television film Two of Us is given its first daytime showing on BBC2.[63] The channel had opted to show it late at night at the time of its previous broadcast in March 1988.[64]
  • 13 February – The US science fiction series Quantum Leap makes its British television debut on BBC2.[65]
  • 14 April – BBC2 begins showing the 91-part 1988 Indian serial, Mahabharat, a dramatisation of the epic poem the Mahabharata. The programme is shown in Hindi with English subtitles.[66]
  • 3 October – The BBC Radio 1 comedy series The Mary Whitehouse Experience comes to television with a series on BBC2.[67]
  • 23 October – David Lynch's critically acclaimed serial drama Twin Peaks receives its British television debut at 9.00 pm on BBC2.[68]
  • 30 October – Debut of The Sentence, an eight-part BBC2 documentary series looking at life inside Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute near Leicester, Europe's largest prison of its type. It is the first time a television crew has been given access to the prison.[69]
  • 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.[70]

1991
  • 14 January – American television sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is broadcast in the United Kingdom for the first time, making its debut on BBC2 as part of the DEF II programming strand.[71]
  • 18 January – BBC2 airs a special edition of Arena in which playwright Arthur Miller meets ANC leader Nelson Mandela. In the film Mandela talks for the first time about his life and experiences from a personal standpoint.[72]
  • 12 February – A year after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, BBC2 airs an edition of its Assignment documentary strand in which journalist Donald Woods returns to South Africa to give his personal assessment of that country's future.[73]
  • 15 February – The BBC2 'TWO' ident is also seen for the final time after five years in use.
  • 16 February – BBC1 and BBC2 receive new idents, both generated from laserdisc and featuring the BBC corporate logo introduced in 1986. BBC1 features a numeral '1' encased in a globe, and BBC2 features eleven idents based around a numeral '2'.
  • 18 June – BBC2 airs the concluding episode of David Lynch's offbeat drama, Twin Peaks.[74]
  • 20 June – An edition of BBC2's The Late Show is the final programme to be broadcast from the BBC's Lime Grove Studios.
  • 30 July – Debut of Australian children's television series for pre-schoolers Johnson and Friends on BBC2.[75]
  • 26 August – BBC2 airs a day of programmes paying tribute to the Lime Grove Studios, which includes a remake of the 1950s soap opera The Grove Family featuring actors from the present day.[76]
  • 17 September – Comedy series Bottom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson debuts on BBC2.[77]
  • 20 September – BBC2 begins a rerun of Gerry Anderson's classic 1960s television series Thunderbirds.[78] The series proves to be popular, leading to a shortage of Tracy Island toys in stores during the run up to Christmas 1991, something that prompts the children's television series, Blue Peter to show viewers and their parents how to make their own Tracy Island model.[79] An instruction sheet produced by the programme receives more than 100,000 requests.[80]
  • 21 December – BBC2 airs A Perfect Christmas, featuring the best of Christmas programming from the BBC archives. Shows include festive episodes of The Flower Pot Men, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, and the 1986 Christmas Day episodes of EastEnders.[81]
  • 28 December – BBC2 shows the network television premiere of Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, Taylor Hackford's acclaimed documentary celebrating Chuck Berry's 60th birthday, with footage of two concerts from 1986.[82]

1992

1993
  • 20 January – BBC2 airs live coverage of the inauguration of Bill Clinton as the 42nd President of the United States.[92]
  • 15 February – BBC2 airs Oprah Winfrey's interview with singer Michael Jackson.[93][94]
  • 4 April – Children's BBC begin to repeat the children's drama series Grange Hill from its first series in 1978, on Sunday mornings on BBC2, as part of the show's 15th anniversary celebrations. These repeats end in 1999 with series 16, Prior to the repeats, Rugrats begins showing on the same date.[95][96]
  • 17 April – Arena presents a new 4 part series "Tales of Rock 'N' Roll" on BBC2 looking at the story of 4 rock songs of how they came about and the history behind them and who and what they involved. Starting with Peggy Sue who was tracked down in Sacramento, California to be found running her own drain-clearing company Rapid Rooter and then to be taken back to Lubbock, Texas to recall how she knew Buddy Holly and how her marriage to drummer Jerry Allison turned out. Heartbreak Hotel where the song came to be written after the 2 songwriters discovered an article about a suicide in a hotel in Miami after reading about it in the Miami Herald. Walk on the Wild Side looks at all the characters that were involved in the song and how Lou Reed used to spend time at Andy Warhol's studio where they all did (Holly Woodlawn & Joe Dallesandro were the only ones still around to tell the tale) and Highway 61 Revisited which looked at Bob Dylan's roots and everything that was connected with U.S. Route 61. The series ran for four weeks on Saturday nights on 17 April 24 April, 1 May, and 8 May.
  • 20 October – Kirsty Wark debuts as anchor on BBC2's Newsnight.
  • 26 December – The Wrong Trousers, the second short film starring Wallace and Gromit, premieres on BBC2.[97]
  • 31 December – BBC2 airs the first Hootenanny, an annual New Year's Eve music show hosted by Jools Holland. The show includes performances from Sting, the Gipsy Kings and Sly and Robbie.[98]

1994
  • 2 January – BBC2 begins a repeat run of the 1960s US television series The Fugitive.[99]
  • 10 January – The Welsh language soap opera Pobol y Cwm makes its debut in the rest of the UK when BBC2 begins airing episodes daily from Mondays to Thursdays.[100] The series was, shown with English subtitles, aired on BBC2 for three months,[101] and on an experimental basis.[102]
  • 4 March – BBC2 shows the network television premiere of Laurel Avenue, the acclaimed US miniseries that tells the story of an eventful weekend in the lives of an extended African American family living in St. Paul, Minnesota.[103] The second part is aired on 6 March.[104]
  • 16 April – BBC2 celebrates its 30th birthday (four days early) with an evening of programmes selected and introduced by former controller David Attenborough. Among them are episodes of Elizabeth R and The Barry Humphries Show, a 1967 documentary about politics in India and a new episode of Call My Bluff.[105]
  • 2 May – BBC2 airs Cry Freedom, Richard Attenborough's acclaimed film about South African journalist Donald Woods.[106]
  • 23 May – The BBC2 youth strand DEF II comes to an end after six years.[107]
  • 27 August – BBC2 presents a night of programming dedicated to ATV.[108]
  • 17 September – BBC2 airs the first edition of Top of the Pops 2, a programme showing footage from present day editions of Top of the Pops, as well as material from the series' archive.[109]
  • 19 September – The BBC launches a weekday lunchtime business, personal finance and consumer news programme. Called Working Lunch, the programme is broadcast on BBC2 for 42 weeks each year.
  • 21 September – University Challenge returns to British TV, making its debut on BBC2 with Jeremy Paxman as host.[90]
  • 18 November – Debut of The Trial, a series of documentaries aired on BBC2,[110] which were filmed largely inside Scottish courts in 1993 and early 1994. Filming of the series is possible because Criminal Justice Act 1925, the legislation banning photography in British courts does not apply in Scotland.
  • 17 December – BBC2 begins a season of films starring Burt Lancaster following his death in October. The season opens with Elmer Gantry, a 1960 film in which Lancaster stars alongside Jean Simmons.[111]

1995
  • 29 January – Start of BBC2's weekly roundup of proceedings in the O. J. Simpson murder trial with The Trial of O. J. Simpson.[112]
  • 15 February – As part of the Modern Times series BBC2 airs Death on Request, a Dutch documentary showing a doctor giving a terminally-ill patient a lethal injection of drugs. The programme is criticised by groups opposed to euthanasia.
  • 25 February – BBC2 airs a documentary about The Rev. W. Awdry called The Thomas the Tank Engine Man as part of their Bookmark series. The documentary is narrated by Hilary Fortnam, Awdry's daughter and includes a look at Thomas merchandise, the success of Thomas, images from the original Railway Series books with stock narration by John Gielgud, interviews with several people such as The Reverend himself, fans of Thomas, Awdry's son Christopher, children's author and poet Michael Rosen, various people who worked on the books and toys, Brian Sibley who also wrote the Reverend's autobiography, the people behind the television broadcasts and rights of Thomas in Japan and the producers of the television series Britt Allcroft and David Mitton, plus a special behind the scenes peek of the 100th episode Thomas and the Special Letter and the Reverend criticizing the series 3 episode Henry's Forest.
  • 29 June – Debut of Gaytime TV on BBC 2, the BBC's first gay magazine programme.[113]
  • 8 October – BBC2 airs the final edition of The Trial of O. J. Simpson as coverage of the trial draws to a conclusion.[114]
  • 12 November – BBC2 airs Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch's 1992 prequel to the acclaimed television series Twin Peaks. The film stars Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise and Kyle MacLachlan.[115]
  • 24 December – A Close Shave, the third short film starring Wallace and Gromit, premieres on BBC2.[116]

1996
  • 15 January – 11 March – Our Friends in the North, a nine-part serial spanning the 1960s to the 1990s in the lives of four friends, is shown on BBC2.
  • 19 July – 4 August – The BBC provides full live coverage of the 1996 Olympic Games. Live coverage runs for 15 hours a day (1.40 pm until 4.30 am) with highlights at breakfast time and morning-long extended highlights of the previous day's action.[117] In addition to BBC1's coverage, for the first time, the BBC provides alternative live action during the overnight hours on BBC2.[118]

1997

1998

1999

2000s

2000
  • 17 January – BBC Two begins a four-part adaptation of Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake's series of fantasy novels.[150] The series, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers is launched with a massive publicity campaign, but is panned by critics, and loses 40% of its viewership by the third episode. Figures indicate that the first episode is watched by 4.2 million, a healthy audience for a BBC Two programme, but that by the third episode, aired on 31 January, this has fallen to 2.5 million.[151]
  • 13 February – BBC Two airs Gimme Some Truth, a documentary featuring footage of John Lennon as he recorded his 1971 album Imagine.[145]
  • 22 July – The ten part popular culture series I Love the '70s debuts on BBC Two, with I Love 1970.[152] With each edition dedicated to a different year of the decade, the series concludes on 23 September with I Love 1979.[153]
  • 14 August – The UK version of The Weakest Link begins on BBC Two.[154]

2001
  • 13 January – Debut of the ten-part BBC Two series I Love the '80s, which examines the pop culture of the 1980s. The series debuts with I Love 1980, and concludes on 24 March with I Love 1989.[155][156]
  • 20 January – BBC Two airs live coverage of the inauguration of George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States.[157]
  • 15 August – Unveiling its autumn schedule, the BBC announces that ten-part World War II drama, Band of Brothers will air on BBC Two, instead of BBC One as originally planned. The broadcaster says the decision to move the series is to allow "an uninterrupted 10-week run", and not because it was considered not to be mainstream enough.[158]
  • 18 August – Debut of the ten-part BBC Two series I Love the '90s, which examines the pop culture of the 1990s. The series begins with I Love 1990, and concludes on 3 November with I Love 1999.[159][160]
  • 26 September – BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 featuring a live concert from Elton John.[161]
  • 5 November – BBC 2W is launched, broadcasting on digital services in Wales on weekday evenings.
  • 14 November – BBC Two announces that the current 1991 idents are to be axed and be replaced by a new set of four computer generated idents on 19 November 2001.[162]
  • 19 November – BBC Two introduces a new set of four computer generated idents at 7.00 am, replacing the previous set of over 20 (four of which dating back to 1991). ITV2 rebrands on the same day.

2002
  • 2 March – BBC Knowledge ceases transmission in the early hours (the first BBC channel to permanently close) with BBC Four launching to replace it at 7.00 pm. The opening night is simulcast on BBC Two.[163]
  • 3 March – The acclaimed US spy drama 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland as agent Jack Bauer makes its British television debut on BBC Two.[164]
  • 6 June – BBC Two begins showing The Hunt for Britain's Paedophiles, a three part documentary series following investigations by Scotland Yard's specialist Paedophile Unit.[165] The programme proves to be controversial, even before going on air, as it is reported that after spending two years shadowing investigators, many members of the production team required counselling to deal with their exposure to the things witnessed by the unit's detectives. Executive producer Bob Long defends the programme, saying he hopes it will lead to better policing of the crime.[166] The series concludes on 20 June.[167]
  • 20 October – BBC Two's motoring series Top Gear is relaunched with a brand new format.
  • 24 November – Sir Winston Churchill is voted the Greatest Briton of all time by viewers of BBC Two's 100 Greatest Britons.[168]

2003
  • 8 January – As a result of the review of the BBC's political output,[169] coverage of politics is relaunched resulting in the launch of Daily Politics.[170]
  • 11 January – Steven Spielberg's science-fiction miniseries Taken debuts on BBC Two.
  • 6 February – Prime Minister Tony Blair appears on BBC Two's Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman and a live audience, where he is questioned about the Iraq crisis. Blair is also taken aback when Paxman asks him about his Christian faith, and whether he and US President George W. Bush have prayed together.[171][172]
  • 9 February – After a long delay, BBC Choice is replaced by BBC Three. The opening night is simulcast on BBC Two.[173]
  • 5 April – BBC Two launches The Big Read, a nationwide search for Britain's favourite book. The project is designed to encourage the nation to read, while people will be asked to vote for their favourite novel.[174][175]
  • 17 May – Following a public vote to find the UK's favourite book, the BBC's The Big Read reveals the top 100 in a special programme on BBC Two.[176][177]
  • 15 October – BBC Two airs the documentary When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum in which former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo assumes the mantle of Merseyside single mother Jenny Miner for a week.[178][179]
  • 5 December – The third series of US spy drama 24 will not air on BBC Two after negotiations between Fox and the BBC ended without a deal being reached.[180]
  • 13 December – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy wins the BBC's The Big Read after receiving 23% of the vote.[181]
  • 16 December – BBC Two airs a special two-act edition of TOTP2 featuring performances from Fleetwood Mac and James Brown.
  • 26 December – Debut of That Was the Week We Watched on BBC Two, narrated by actor Simon Pegg, and showing six nights a week (except on New Year's Eve) to looking back the past television shows for the Radio Times and TVTimes schedules from the years 1967, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1982 and 1986. The series continues on New Year's Day 2004.

2004

2005

2006

2007
  • 28 January – BBC Two airs the final edition of Sunday Grandstand.[208]
  • 18 February – BBC Two launches 14 new idents designed by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and produced by Red Bee Media, with the "2" becoming a "Windows of the World" a portal through which the world is seen differently.
  • 8 June – Adele Adkins, a 19-year-old singer from London makes her television debut on BBC Two's Later... with Jools Holland, performing her song "Daydreamer". She became one of the first artists to appear on the show without having released a record because producer Alison Howe booked her after hearing a demo tape. Adele's debut album, 19, is released in January 2008.[209][210][211]
  • 11 July – BBC Two debuts The Alastair Campbell Diaries, a series in which Campbell reads extracts from his memoirs over footage of key moments in the recently ended Blair government.[212] The three part series is aired over three nights, concluding on 13 July.[213]
  • 17 October – The town of Whitehaven in Cumbria becomes the first place in the UK to lose their analogue television signals and start the digital switchover, starting with BBC Two. The other four channels are switched off on 14 November.

2008

2009

2010s

2010

2011
  • 13 June – BBC Two airs the controversial documentary Choosing to Die, a film presented by Terry Pratchett which examines the topic of assisted suicide.[221]
  • 6 October – BBC Director General Mark Thompson announces that BBC HD will close to be replaced by a high definition simulcast of BBC Two. This BBC Two HD will work much the same way as BBC One HD.[222] This move allows the corporation to save £2.1 million, used to count towards their budget deficit following the freezing of the license fee and the additional financial responsibility of addition services.[223]

2012
  • 18 January – A call by BBC Two's Stargazing Live for amateur astronomers to locate possible exoplanets, planets orbiting stars outside the Solar System, leads to the discovery of a new Neptune-sized exoplanet by two viewers, one in Peterborough. The planet is named Threapleton Holmes B in their honour.[224][225]
  • 12 March – BBC Two airs a programme in its This World strand concerning the Chinese television programme Interviews Before Execution in which death row inmates are interviewed by a reporter shortly before they are executed. Chinese authorities cancel the show following international interest generated by the documentary.[226][227]
  • 16 May – The BBC Trust confirms children's programmes will no longer air on BBC One and BBC Two following the completion of the digital switchover. Instead they will move to the dedicated CBBC and CBeebies channels.[228]
  • 19 May – Absent Friends, a fourth series episode of comedy Dad's Army, is repeated on BBC Two for the first time since its original broadcast in 1970. Before this, the episode was left out of repeat runs because of the controversial appearance of the IRA.
  • 9 August – The BBC commissions a one-off drama to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. The film, An Adventure in Space and Time will tell the story of the team behind Doctor Who's creation and will air on BBC Two in 2013.[229]
  • 23 October – After 32 years, Pages from Ceefax is shown for the last time during downtime on BBC Two. To mark the occasion the last broadcast is introduced by the symbol the channel was using 32 years earlier, older music is played and a final special image is shown thanking viewers for watching. The Plain English Campaign gives the service a lifetime achievement award for its "clarity" and use of "everyday words".[230]

2013

2014
  • 5 February – Debut of the dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9 on BBC Two.[233]
  • 6 February – The BBC announces Newsnight Scotland will end during 2014 and be replaced by Scotland 2014 as part of a shake up of BBC Scotland's referendum coverage.[234] The final edition is broadcast on 22 May.[235]
  • 15 February – Janice Hadlow will step down as joint Controller of BBC Two and BBC Four to take up a new role in charge of "special projects and seasons" at the BBC.[236]
  • 11 April – Kim Shillinglaw is named Controller of BBC Two and BBC Four, replacing Janice Hadlow.[237]
  • 20 April – 50th anniversary of the launch of BBC Two.[238]
  • 30 April – Jeremy Paxman announces he will leave Newsnight in June after 25 years with the programme.[239]
  • 2 May – BBC Two's Newsnight appoints The Guardian newspaper's investigations editor, Nick Hopkins as its investigations correspondent.[240]
  • 8 July – BBC Two brings back the "1991–2001" idents (based around a sans-serif '2') for the channel's 50th anniversary. Since then, the "1991–2001" idents have beyond their timeframe, meaning that they are now permanent and will air into 2015 and beyond.
  • 4 August – The BBC broadcast a series of memorial events in Great Britain and Belgium marking 100 years since Britain's entry into the First World War. BBC Two broadcasts a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, culminating at 11 pm, the hour at which Britain's entry was confirmed.[241]
  • 14 September – The closing ceremony of the inaugural Invictus Games takes place in London, with a music concert at Olympic Park featuring artists and groups such as Bryan Adams, Ellie Goulding, James Blunt and the Kaiser Chiefs.[242][243][244]
  • 22 September – The BBC apologises after seven viewers complained about an edition of TOTP2 that aired on 13 September on BBC Two which included a brief clip of Jimmy Savile from a 1971 edition of Top of the Pops. The footage has since been edited out of the programme.[245]
  • 1 October – BBC Two airs the This World documentary, Rwanda's Untold Story, which questions official accounts of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.[246]
  • 13 November – The BBC2 "Window on the World" ident package is seen for the final time after about 8 years in use. Although elements of it (programme slides) are retained.
  • 27 December – Part One of the Top Gear Patagonia Special is aired on BBC Two and seen by an average audience of 4.7 million viewers.[247] The second part, which features the controversial Argentina leg of the programme's visit to South America, airs the following day and is watched by an average of 4.8 million viewers.[248][249]

2015
  • 21 January – The television adaptation of Hilary Mantel's novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies debuts on BBC Two to much critical acclaim, but viewers quickly take to social media to complain about the poor lighting in the series.[250]
  • 3 February – Reinventing the Royals, a BBC Two documentary pulled from the 4 January schedule because of concerns over the broadcasting rights of archive footage, is rescheduled for 19 February.[251]
  • 16 February – The BBC unveils a series of new arts programmes, which will air in primetime slots. They include a new BBC Two series titled Artsnight and a one off debate, Artists Question Time, presented by Kirsty Wark, which will air on BBC Four.[252]
  • 4 March – BBC Two airs the Storyville documentary India's Daughter which includes an interview with the man convicted over the 2012 Delhi gang rape.[253]
  • 17 March – The BBC confirms it has bought the rights to broadcast BT Sport's The Clare Balding Show, which will air on BBC Two.[254] The programme makes its BBC Two debut on 3 April.[255]
  • 7 April – BBC News launches a new two-hour weekday current affairs programme called The Victoria Derbyshire Show. The programme is broadcast on both BBC Two and the BBC News Channel;[256]
  • 9 May – Contemporary dancer Connor Scott wins the inaugural BBC Young Dancer competition, broadcast live on BBC Two.[257]
  • 17 May – BBC Two begins airing The Detectives, a three-part documentary series following investigators at Greater Manchester Police's sex crimes unit. The series, aired over three consecutive nights, focuses on the investigation into historical sex crimes committed by disc jockey Ray Teret, and his subsequent trial and conviction for those offences.[258]
  • 17 June – BBC Two airs the first in a series of televised debates ahead of the 2015 Labour Party leadership election which sees the potential candidates hoping to succeed Ed Miliband go head-to-head in front of a studio audience.[259]
  • 28 June – BBC Two airs the final edition of Top Gear to be presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, a 75-minute compilation of footage shot before the trio quit the show. After its broadcast Clarkson says that he is "so sad and sorry it's ended like this".[260]
  • 5 July – The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final between the United States and Japan is aired on BBC Two.[261] The coverage is watched by an audience of 500,000.[262]
  • 4 October – The BBC admits that a volcanic eruption shown on the first episode of BBC Two's Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise was actually footage from two different volcanoes taken four years apart.[263]
  • 2 November – |BBC Two debuts Simply Nigella, the first cookery programme to be presented by Nigella Lawson since her personal life was the subject of a high-profile court case. The programme, aired at 8.30 pm, attracts 2.3 million viewers (a 10.8% audience share), but proves to be to the detriment of the quiz show Only Connect, which was moved forward an hour from its usual slot to make way for Lawson's new show. Having attracted an audience of 2.3 for its 26 October edition, Only Connect's new timeslot sees it garner a viewership of 1.7 million, a drop of 600,000. The show will return to its usual time once Simply Nigella has finished.[264] The first episode of Simply Nigella also becomes the subject of a social media storm after viewers are shown how to make avocado on toast, with many feeling the recipe is too easy.[265]

2016
  • 19 January – BBC One controller Charlotte Moore is appointed to the newly created role of controller of BBC TV channels and iPlayer, while Kim Shillinglaw, current controller of BBC Two and BBC Four is to leave the BBC and her position abolished.[266]
  • 15 February – BBC Two begins airing The People v. O. J. Simpson, the first series in the American true crimes anthology, American Crime Story.[267]
  • 29 May – Top Gear relaunches with Chris Evans as presenter.[268] The episode is seen by an average 4.4 million viewers.[269]
  • 25 June –
    • Following the EU referendum in which the UK voted to leave the European Union, Newsnight airs a special edition looking at life after Brexit.[270]
    • Adele headlines the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2016. The set, aired on BBC Two, is watched by a peak audience of 3.7 million, making it the most watched performance to be televised during this year's festival, and giving a single Glastonbury set the largest number of viewers since 2008.[271]
  • 1 July – Patrick Holland, current head of documentaries commissioning at the BBC, is appointed to the newly created role of BBC Two channel editor.[272]
  • 11 August – The BBC has signed Gabby Logan to present The Premier League Show, a midweek BBC Two magazine programme focusing on the Premier League, beginning on 25 August. Gary Lineker will also present a slot on the show.[273]
  • 6 September – BBC Two announces that it will dedicate its Saturday night scheduling to the arts from 1 October and throughout the autumn season, with programmes about literature, cinema and music.[274]

2017

2018

2019

2020s

2020
  • 29 January – BBC News announces it will shed 450 posts, including roles from Newsnight and BBC Radio 5 Live, as part of £80m worth of savings being made by the BBC.[304]
  • 17 March – The final edition of The Victoria Derbyshire Show is broadcast in order to focus on coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic. The programme had been due to come off air later in 2020 due to funding cuts.[305]

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