2024 in British television

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This is a list of events that took place in 2024 relating to television in the United Kingdom.

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|BBC One sees in the New Year with the concert Rick Astley Rocks New Year's Eve. Rick Astley is joined by various guests, including Rylan Clark-Neal with whom he performs a rendition of the Dead or Alive track "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)".{{Cite web |first=Colin |last=Paterson |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67732552 |title=Rick Astley: Ready to roll into 2024 with BBC One New Year's Eve concert |date=31 December 2023 |access-date=1 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

STV's Bringing in the Bells is hosted by Alex Norton, Blythe Duff, Martin Compston and others to see in the New Year.{{Cite news|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/hogmanay-stv-line-up-confirmed-newsupdate/|title=Line of Duty and Taggart stars team up to celebrate Hogmanay on STV |first=Morgan |last=Cormack |work=Radio Times |date=6 December 2023 |access-date=19 December 2023}}
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|TV chef Simon Rimmer announces that Greens, a Manchester-based vegetarian restaurant of which he is co-owner, is closing with immediate effect after 33 years.{{Cite web |first=Jenny |last=Coleman |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-67864511 |title=Simon Rimmer's vegetarian restaurant in Didsbury shuts after 33 years |date=2 January 2024 |access-date=3 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

The running times of 'BBC Breakfast and Morning Live are extended. BBC Breakfast runs until 9.30 with Morning Live'' airtime extended to 75 minutes, giving that programme a transmission slot of 9.30 to 10.45.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/bbc-news-announces-savings-and-digital-reinvestment-plans/|title=BBC News announces savings and digital reinvestment plans|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=21 April 2024}}
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|Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi makes a guest appearance in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office as himself, questioning Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells in a 2015 House of Commons committee inquiry into the Horizon computer system.{{Cite web |first=Chas |last=Geiger |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67873197 |title=Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi plays himself in Post Office scandal TV drama |date=3 January 2024 |access-date=3 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

That's TV 2 begins airing episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H.{{Cite web |first=Jamie |last=Dyer |url=https://www.oldtimereview.co.uk/thats-tv-2-to-air-prisoner-cell-block-h/ |title=That's TV 2 to air Prisoner Cell Block H |date=3 January 2024 |website=Old Time Review |accessdate=13 February 2025}}
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|ITV criticises ex-footballer Joey Barton after he likened Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, who were commentating on a football match the previous evening, to serial killers Fred and Rose West. ITV describes the remarks on X as "vindictive".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67897623 |title=ITV criticises 'vindictive' Barton comments |date=5 January 2024 |access-date=5 January 2024 |publisher=BBC |work=BBC Sport}}

Lawyers representing potential victims of the British Post Office scandal say they have been contacted by a further 50 people following the broadcast of the four-episode series ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office.{{Cite web |first1=Vishala |last1=Sri-Pathma |first2=Emma |last2=Simpson |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67894818 |title=Post Office scandal: Dozens more seek legal help after TV drama |date=5 January 2024 |access-date=5 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|Ofcom delays the publication of research into politicians presenting news programmes until it has ruled on investigations open into GB News.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/01/gb-news-ofcom-delays-research-politicians-as-presenters-1235696005/ |title=Ofcom Delays Publishing Research On Politicians As Presenters Until Finalizing Key GB News Rulings |first=Jake |last=Kanter |date=8 January 2024 |access-date=8 January 2024 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

The BBC wins the free to air rights to rugby league's Super League and World Club Challenge, beating Channel 4. The rights are on a three-year contract, and matches will be shown on BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.{{cite web|last1=Turner|first1=Matt|title=BBC set to show 12 Super League matches live in 2024 |url=https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/wolves/wolvesnews/24036733.bbc-set-show-12-super-league-matches-live-2024/|website=Warrington Guardian|date=9 January 2024}}
The weekday editions of Sky News Breakfast are refreshed. The programme starts at the earlier time of 6am, and new presenters join the programme.{{cite web |title=Sky News Breakfast starts earlier, adds presenters and has a brand new look|url=https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/-sky-news-breakfast-starts-earlier-adds-presenters-and-has-a-brand-new-look|website=Sky|date=8 January 2024}}
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|Provisional viewing figures indicate that 9.2 million people have watched the ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, making it the most watched programme of 2024 so far.{{Cite web |first=James |last=Hibbs |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/mr-bates-most-watched-show-newsupdate/ |title=Mr Bates vs The Post Office is most-watched TV show of 2024 so far |website=Radio Times |date=9 January 2024 |access-date=12 January 2024}} Subsequent data, which includes catch-up, put the figure at 9.75m.{{Cite web |first=Lizo |last=Mzimba |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67994847 |title=Post Office drama finale seen by more than 10 million |date=16 January 2024 |access-date=16 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|The Liberal Democrats ask Ofcom to investigate GB News over alleged bias in its coverage of the Post Office scandal, including what the party's deputy leader, Daisy Cooper, describes as "a fictitious monologue" Nigel Farage delivered about leader Sir Ed Davey, which she says contained "a number of factual inaccuracies".{{Cite web |first=Sam |last=Francis |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67943541 |title=Liberal Democrats urge Ofcom to investigate GB News Post Office scandal coverage |date=11 January 2024 |access-date=11 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Gladiators returns for its third run on BBC One and BBC iPlayer with Bradley Walsh and his son Barney presenting. The show was previously aired on ITV from 1992 to 2000 and Sky One from 2008 to 2009. The revival has attracted an audience of 6 million viewers, becoming the biggest entertainment launch for the BBC in seven years.{{cite news |last1=Craig |first1=David |title=Gladiators reboot is BBC's biggest entertainment launch in 7 years as ratings revealed |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/gladiators-reboot-ratings-revealed-newsupdate/ |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=Radio Times |publisher=Immediate Media Company |date=30 January 2024}}{{cite web|title=Gladiators start date confirmed for new series on BBC One|url=https://tellymix.co.uk/tv/684317-gladiators-start-date-confirmed-for-new-series-on-bbc-one.html|last=Darvill|first=Josh|website=TellyMix|date=3 January 2024}}

EastEnders confirms that Patsy Palmer is to briefly reprise her role as Bianca Jackson later in the year following her departure from the series in 2019.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67967666 |title=Patsy Palmer to return to EastEnders as Bianca |date=13 January 2024|access-date=13 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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| Dancing on Ice returns for its sixteenth series on ITV with Stephen Mulhern and Holly Willoughby presenting, Mulhern having succeeded Phillip Schofield as co-presenter.{{cite news |title=Holly Willoughby to return to Dancing on Ice alongside Stephen Mulhern |work=BBC News |date=28 December 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67832517 |access-date=9 January 2024}}{{cite web |title=Holly Willoughby confirmed for Dancing on Ice 2024 return by ITV |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/holly-willoughby-dancing-on-ice-2024-return-confirmed-newsupdate/ |website=Radio Times |access-date=9 January 2024}} Willoughby makes her return to television following her departure from This Morning.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67961369 |title=Holly Willoughby back on TV screens in Dancing on Ice |date=14 January 2024 |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

Debut of Smooth Radio's new television advertising campaign featuring famous UK landmarks and its new strapline, "Always the best music", which launches in a commercial break during the opening edition of Dancing on Ice.{{Cite web |first=Roy |last=Martin |url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2024/01/smooth-radio-launches-new-television-and-multimedia-ad-campaign/ |title=Smooth Radio launches new television and multimedia ad campaign |date=15 January 2024 |access-date=15 January 2024 |publisher=Radio Today}}
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| Love Island returns with an "All Stars" series, with the launch show episode being broadcast simultaneously on ITV1 and ITV2, featuring former contestants from the past ten series.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-67911425 |title=Love Island All Stars: ITV reveals line-up for 2024 series |date=8 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

The BBC announces that Shini Muthukrishnan will become the 43rd presenter of Blue Peter.{{cite news |last1=Price |first1=Richard |title=TikTok star becomes new Blue Peter presenter |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cek5e53e4gxo |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=15 January 2024 |access-date=15 January 2024}}
Sky Showcase begins simulcasting selected programming from Sky Atlantic.
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|Rhodri Williams announces he has written to the UK government to ask them not to consider him for a second term as chairman of S4C following controversy at the TV channel.{{Cite web |first=Gwyn |last=Loader |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67999954 |title=S4C chairman Rhodri Williams doesn't want second term |date=16 January 2024 |access-date=16 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|The BBC has agreed a deal with insurance company Axa to sell its Elstree Studios, which includes the EastEnders set. The set will be leased back from Axa so that filming can continue there.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68004649 |title=BBC agrees to sell EastEnders set at Elstree to raise funds |date=17 January 2024 |access-date=17 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

An error with the calculation of viewing figures that had given GB News a million viewers for its New Year's Eve coverage is corrected by BARB, and shows the channel actually had 33,000 viewers that evening.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/gb-news-ridiculed-over-inaccurate-31900045 |title=GB News ridiculed over viewing figures of historic New Year's Eve fireworks |first=Daniel |last=Bird |date=17 January 2024 |website=The Mirror |access-date=17 January 2024}}
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| Kim Medcalf makes an unannounced departure from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, two years after returning to the soap as the character Sam Mitchell.{{Cite web |first=Sophie |last=Dainty |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/a46435117/eastenders-spoilers-sam-mitchell-exit-kim-medcalf/ |title=EastEnders airs exit for regular character in early iPlayer release |date=18 January 2024 |website=Digital Spy |access-date=18 January 2024}}

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|The World launches on Sky News. The hour-long international news programme airs Monday to Thursday at 9pm and is part of Sky News' evening sequence of individually branded, and focussed, hour-long programmes.{{cite news|last1=Thornham |first1=Marc |title=Sky News announces January changes to breakfast and primetime |url=https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/sky-news-announces-january-changes-to-breakfast-and-primetime/ |work=RXTV |date=7 January 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvnewsroom.org/news/the-world-with-yalda-hakim-starts-22nd-january-on-sky-news-291154/ |title=The World with Yalda Hakim starts 22nd January on Sky News |website=TV Newsroom |date=11 January 2024 |access-date=13 January 2024}}

The UK government announces plans to give Ofcom more powers over the BBC's online content, including BBC News.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68041713 |title=BBC review: Ofcom to gain more powers over BBC News website |date=22 January 2024 |access-date=23 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
The UK government rejects calls from Welsh MPs to add the Six Nations Championship to the list of guaranteed free-to-air sporting events on British television.{{Cite web |first1=David |last1=Deans |first2=Shelley |last2=Phelps |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-68056285 |title=Six Nations: Call to add championship to free-to-air list rejected |date=22 January 2024 |access-date=23 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|The 2024 Brit Award nominees are announced. Raye received the most nominations with seven in total, breaking the record for the most nominations received by a single artist in a year.

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|Campaigners for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) have criticised BBC One's Dragons' Den for promoting a product with "unfounded" claims after a businesswoman appeared on the show promoting a product she claimed had helped improve her ME.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68097756 |title=Dragons' Den: BBC defends show after ME criticism of Acu Seeds |date=25 January 2024 |access-date=25 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}} The episode is subsequently edited to include an onscreen message during the businesswoman's appearance.{{Cite web |first=Charlotte |last=Gallagher |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68119301 |title=Dragons' Den episode edited after ear seed complaints |date=27 January 2024 |access-date=27 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Harry Clark wins series two of The Traitors.{{Cite web |first=Grace |last=Henry |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/reality-tv/the-traitors-season-2-winner-harry-newsupdate/ |title=The Traitors season 2 reveals winner |date=26 January 2024 |website=Radio Times |access-date=26 January 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/breaking-harry-wins-bbc-traitors-31978708 |title=The Traitors announce show's winner in huge final twist after last roundtable |first=Jasmine |last=Allday |date=26 January 2024 |website=The Mirror |access-date=26 January 2024}}

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|Channel 4 announces the loss of 200 jobs as it seeks to slim down the organisation and focus on digital services.{{Cite web |first1=Yasmin |last1=Rufo |first2=Emma |last2=Saunders |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68127875 |title=Channel 4 confirms 200 jobs set to go due to tough economic climate |date=29 January 2024 |access-date=29 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|The BBC releases around 3,000 emails relating to Martin Bashir's 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales after a judge ordered their release.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68109349 |title=Martin Bashir: BBC releases 3,000 emails about Princess Diana interview scandal |date=30 January 2024 |access-date=30 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

Sky announces plans to cut 1,000 jobs in the UK during 2024 as it moves towards internet-based services.{{Cite web |first=Annie |last=Green |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68146692 |title=Sky to cut 1,000 jobs in move towards digital |date=30 January 2024 |access-date=30 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
ITV announces that Alison Hammond will replace Paul O'Grady as presenter of For the Love of Dogs.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Saunders |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68138798 |title=Alison Hammond to host ITV's For the Love of Dogs after Paul O'Grady's death |date=30 January 2024 |access-date=30 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Construction work begins on The Tea Factory, the BBC's new Birmingham & West Midland headquarters.{{Cite web |first=Josh |last=Sandiford |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-68175961 |title=BBC Birmingham Tea Factory: Construction starts on 'landmark' new HQ |date=2 February 2024 |access-date=2 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Kate Garraway makes her first television appearance since the death of her husband, Derek Draper, and gives an interview to Good Morning Britain.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68198589 |title=Kate Garraway to return to TV screens after husband Derek Draper's funeral |date=4 February 2024 |access-date=4 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Kate Garraway returns to her presenting role on Good Morning Britain, presenting alongside Ben Shephard.{{Cite web |first=Annabel |last=Rackham |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68238260 |title=Kate Garraway thanks 'incredible' viewers on return to hosting Good Morning Britain |date=8 February 2024 |access-date=8 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

TalkTV airs the final edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored to be shown regularly on the channel. In a subsequent interview with The Times, Morgan announces he is moving the show to his YouTube channel, where he can conduct longer and more in-depth interviews without the "unnecessary straitjacket" of television, and build a global following. TalkTV says some of Morgan's shows will continue to air on the channel.{{Cite web |first1=Christy |last1=Cooney |first2=Ian |last2=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68247739 |title=Piers Morgan to move TalkTV show Uncensored to YouTube |date=9 February 2024 |access-date=9 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
ITV announces that 25 James Bond films will be made available through the ITVX platform from March.{{Cite web |first=Katelyn |last=Mensah |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/james-bond-itv-itvx-air-free-newsupdate/ |title=25 James Bond films to air free on ITV and ITVX next month |website=Radio Times |date=8 February 2024 |access-date=6 April 2024}}
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|ITV and Guinness trial live audio described commentary for blind and partially sighted viewers of the 2024 Six Nations match between England and Wales.{{Cite web|url=https://www.marketing-beat.co.uk/2024/02/08/guinness-six-nations-rugby/ |title=Guinness and ITV bring live audio description to Six Nations |first=Scarlett |last=Sherriff |date=8 February 2024 |access-date=10 February 2024 |publisher=Marketing Beat}}

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|Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears on an hour long GB News People's Forum, where a selected audience of undecided voters are invited to ask him questions. The programme is presented by Stephen Dixon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/12/rishi-uses-his-big-break-on-gb-news-to-remind-us-he-cant-connect-with-people |title=Rish! uses his big break on GB News to remind us he can't connect with people |first=John |last=Crace |date=12 February 2024 |access-date=14 February 2024 |work=The Guardian}}

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|The BBC announces the closure of the BBC iPlayer downloads service for desktop and laptop computers from 8 April; downloads will still be available for users of the BBC iPlayer app on mobile and tablet, and streaming remains possible on all devices.{{Cite web |first=Chris |last=Vallance |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68283165 |title=BBC iPlayer to end programme downloads for PCs and Macs |date=13 February 2024 |access-date=13 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

The US entertainment website Deadline Hollywood reports that Gavin & Stacey will be returning for a 2024 Christmas special, five years after the last one. But there is some official announcement from BBC Studios.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/02/gavin-stacey-bbc-christmas-special-2024-james-corden-ruth-jones-1235823900/ |title=Another 'Gavin & Stacey' Christmas Special From James Corden & Ruth Jones In The Works At The BBC |first1=Max |last1=Goldbart |first2=Jesse |last2=Whittock |date=13 February 2024 |access-date=13 February 2024 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68293394 |title=Gavin and Stacey co-creator Ruth Jones plays down rumours about a return |date=14 February 2024 |access-date=14 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|The BBC confirms that Asif Munaf, a contestant on The Apprentice, will not appear on the spin-off show, The Apprentice: You're Fired, when he exits the show after posting antisemitic comments on social media.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68303830 |title=BBC cuts Apprentice contestant from spin-off show after antisemitism complaints |date=15 February 2024 |access-date=15 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|BBC Four airs four editions of Top of the Pops that were presented by Steve Wright as a tribute to the disc jockey following the announcement of his death a few days earlier.{{Cite web |first=Roy |last=Martin |url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2024/02/bbc-to-remember-steve-wright-with-special-programmes/ |title=BBC to remember Steve Wright with special programmes |date=15 February 2024 |access-date=15 February 2024 |publisher=Radio Today}}

ITV confirms that Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley will be the new permanent presenters of This Morning following the departure of Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield in 2023.{{Cite web |first1=Emma |last1=Saunders |first2=Ian |last2=Youngs |first3=Noor |last3=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67765358 |title=This Morning: Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard replace Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield |date=16 February 2024 |access-date=16 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|The 2024 BAFTA Awards are held at London's Royal Festival Hall and presented by David Tennant.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-67891357 |title=Baftas 2024: Doctor Who star David Tennant to host ceremony |date=5 January 2024 |access-date=5 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Ofcom launches an impartiality investigation into GB News's Q&A session with prime minister Rishi Sunak.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68336048 |title=Ofcom to investigate GB News show featuring Rishi Sunak |date=19 February 2024 |access-date=19 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

Piers Morgan Uncensored begins airing regularly on Morgan's YouTube channel.
Molly Smith and Tom Clare win the first series of Love Island All Stars. Overnight viewing figures from BARB estimate the finale, aired on ITV2, is viewed by an audience of just over a million, while ITV says that with catch-up viewing the total figure is 1.3 million.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-68353188 |title=Love Island All Stars final attracts 1 million viewers |date=20 February 2024 |access-date=20 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|The BBC announces plans to reshape the BBC Scotland TV channel, including axing the hour-long news programme The Nine and replacing it with a 30-minute programme.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68346649 |title=BBC Scotland to scrap news programme The Nine |date=20 February 2024 |access-date=20 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

Idles singer Joe Talbot becomes the latest celebrity to appear on CBeebies Bedtime Stories, where he reads Under The Love Umbrella by Davina Bell.{{Cite web |first=Owain |last=Evans |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c97v220v4z8o |title=Idles star Joe Talbot to read CBeebies bedtime story |date=20 February 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=20 February 2024}}
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|Maryam Moshiri relaunches The World Today at 7pm as an evening programme on BBC News.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://noelgay.com/client/maryam-moshiri/ |title=Maryam Moshiri |access-date=25 January 2024 |publisher=BBC |work=BBC News}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/the-world-today-with-maryam-moshiri-launches-on-the-bbc-news-channel/ |title=The World Today with Maryam Moshiri launches on the BBC News Channel |work=BBC Media Centre |publisher=BBC |date=21 February 2024 |access-date=21 February 2024}}

McFly band members Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones will share a chair on the judging panel of The Voice UK when the series returns. US country singer LeAnn Rimes will also join the panel, alongside Sir Tom Jones and Will.i.am.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68360864 |title=McFly stars Danny Jones and Tom Fletcher to share a chair on The Voice UK |date=21 February 2024 |access-date=21 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
The Metropolitan Police says it would take further action over allegations that Dan Wootton offered to pay colleagues for sexually explicit pictures of themselves.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68360867 |title=Dan Wootton: Metropolitan Police taking further action against broadcaster |date=21 February 2024 |access-date=21 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|Ben Shephard presents his final edition of Good Morning Britain ahead of his new role co-presenting This Morning.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68379350 |title=Ben Shephard hosts his last Good Morning Britain before move to This Morning |date=23 February 2024 |access-date=23 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Lee Anderson is suspended from the Conservative Party after "refusing to apologise" for claiming "Islamists" had "got control" of London Mayor Sadiq Khan during an edition of his GB News show the previous day.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68392621 |title=Lee Anderson: MP suspended from Tory party over criticism of London mayor |date=24 February 2024 |access-date=24 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|The BBC apologises for the way it dealt with a complaint about the newsreader Huw Edwards, saying the issue was not escalated quickly enough.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Saunders |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68413999 |title=BBC apologises over handling of Huw Edwards complaint |date=27 February 2024 |access-date=27 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

Comedian Jason Manford is to join the cast of Waterloo Road when the series returns later in the year.{{Cite web |first=Monica |last=Rimmer |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68413689 |title=Waterloo Road: Jason Manford joins cast of BBC series |date=27 February 2024 |access-date=27 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|The final day of recording of Doctors takes place at the BBC's Birmingham & West Midland studios; the series along with Classic Doctors is scheduled to end in December after nearly 5,000 episodes.{{Cite web |first=Oprah |last=Flash |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pj870xypyo |title=Axing Doctors is a 'disastrous decision' says screenwriter |date=1 March 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 March 2024}}

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|Following its investigation into the episode of GB News's Dan Wootton Tonight during which Laurence Fox made comments about journalist Ava Evans, Ofcom concludes that the programme was in breach of its regulations. The watchdog says the comments "constituted a highly personal attack on Ms Evans and were potentially highly offensive to viewers", and says that it has "significant concerns about GB News' editorial control of its live output" and is requiring it "provide further detailed information about its compliance practices in this area".{{Cite web |first=Yasmin |last=Rufo |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68468218 |title=Dan Wootton: GB News show with Laurence Fox breached rules, Ofcom says |date=4 March 2024 |access-date=5 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

Celebrity Big Brother returns to British television after a six-year break for a twenty-third series. Housemates include Gary Goldsmith, the uncle of Catherine, Princess of Wales.{{Cite web |first1=Yasmin |last1=Rufo |first2=Steven |last2=McIntosh |first3=Sofia |last3=Ferreira Santos |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68469116 |title=Celebrity Big Brother 2024: Princess of Wales' uncle Gary Goldsmith joins line-up |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=5 March 2024 |access-date=5 March 2024}}
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|News UK announces plans to close TalkTV in the summer, with its content switching to online format.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/05/talktv-to-close-down-television-channel-and-go-online-only |title=TalkTV to close down television channel and go online only |first=Matthew |last=Weaver |date=5 March 2024 |access-date=5 March 2024 |work=The Guardian}} TalkRadio will continue unaffected.{{Cite web |first=Roy |last=Martin |url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2024/03/talk-radio-to-continue-unaffected-as-talk-tv-drops-broadcast-platforms/ |title=Talk Radio to continue unaffected as Talk TV drops broadcast platforms |date=5 March 2024 |access-date=5 March 2024 |publisher=Radio Today}}

Dan Wootton announces his departure from GB News following the previous day's Ofcom ruling.{{Cite web |first1=Yasmin |last1=Rufo |first2=Ian |last2=Youngs |first3=Steven |last3=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68470283 |title=Dan Wootton no longer employed by GB News after Ofcom ruling |date=5 March 2024 |access-date=5 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|The winners of the BBC's 2024 500 Words young writers' competition are announced, with awards presented by Queen Camilla.{{Cite web |first=Vicky |last=Wong |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68507703 |title=Queen praises young writers in BBC writing competition |date=7 March 2024 |access-date=8 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Ryan Thomas and professional dance partner Amani Fancy win series 16 of Dancing on Ice. Greg Rutherford is forced to withdraw from the final after sustaining an injury during rehearsals.{{Cite web |first1=Charlotte |last1=Gallagher |first2=James |last2=Gregory |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68527790 |title=Dancing On Ice: Injured Greg Rutherford misses final as Ryan Thomas wins |date=10 March 2024 |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley make their presenting debut on This Morning.{{Cite web |first1=Mark |last1=Savage |first2=Bonnie |last2=McLaren |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68533029 |title=This Morning: Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard make their debut |date=11 March 2024 |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|The Radio Today website reports that Bauer Media Audio UK plans to remove its radio stations from Freeview in the coming months.{{Cite web |first=Roy |last=Martin |url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2024/03/bauer-radio-station-to-leave-freeview-platform-following-satellite-and-cable-exit/ |title=Bauer radio stations to leave Freeview platform following satellite and cable exit |date=12 March 2024 |access-date=12 March 2024 |publisher=Radio Today}}

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|Former Conservative MP Guto Bebb is appointed interim chair of S4C.{{Cite web |first=Nathan |last=Bevan |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68565650 |title=Guto Bebb: Former Tory MP to become chair of S4C |date=14 March 2024 |access-date=14 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Sir Lenny Henry presents the BBC's Comic Relief telethon for the last time, having previously announced he felt it was time for "new faces" to succeed him.{{Cite web |first=Alex |last=Taylor |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68135677 |title=Comic Relief 2024: Sir Lenny Henry to host for final time |date=31 January 2024 |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}} Sir Lenny was part of the team which had founded Comic Relief in the mid-1980s. Red Nose Day 2024 raises over £40m for charity.{{Cite web |first=Sean |last=Seddon |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68581772 |title=Red Nose Day: 'Irreplaceable' Sir Lenny Henry hosts his last Comic Relief |date=15 March 2024 |access-date=16 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Derek Thompson makes his final appearance in Casualty as the character Charlie Fairhead after 38 years with the series and appearances in more than 900 episodes.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68586368 |title=Derek Thompson: Casualty's Charlie Fairhead exits after 38 years |date=16 March 2024 |access-date=16 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Ofcom finds that five episodes of GB News shows, presented by Jacob Rees Mogg, Esther McVey and Phillip Davies, broke their rules, and warns the channel about its use of Conservative MPs to host news content.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68596973 |title=GB News: Ofcom says channel broke rules and warns over MPs presenting news |date=18 March 2024 |access-date=18 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon apologises to a member of the television channel's staff after a report finds that Channel 4 failed to investigate a complaint made against Russell Brand in 2009.{{Cite web |first1=Ian |last1=Youngs |first2=Noor |last2=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68624033 |title=Russell Brand: Channel 4 sorry after missing complaint about comedian |date=21 March 2024 |access-date=21 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

The UK government appoints a panel of nine experts from the world of radio, television and business to advise on the future funding of the BBC.{{Cite web |first=Roy |last=Martin |url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2024/03/panel-of-industry-experts-to-advise-on-the-bbcs-future-funding/ |title=Panel of industry experts to advise on the BBC's future funding |date=21 March 2024 |access-date=22 March 2024 |publisher=Radio Today}}
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|David Potts wins the twenty-third series of Celebrity Big Brother.{{cite web |first=Katelyn |last=Mensah |title=Who won Celebrity Big Brother 2024? Winner revealed for first ITV season |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/reality-tv/celebrity-big-brother-2024-winner-david-potts-newsupdate/ |website=Radio Times |date=22 March 2024 |access-date=23 March 2024}}

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|BBC Director General Tim Davie announces the BBC will look at ways of reforming the TV licence.{{Cite web |first1=David |last1=Sillito |first2=Yasmin |last2=Rufo |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68654318 |title=BBC to explore how to reform licence fee, director general says |date=26 March 2024 |access-date=26 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Luke Avaient and Gavin Sheppard of Cardiff are married by Lorraine Kelly live on her daytime ITV programme to mark the tenth anniversary of the first same-sex marriage to occur in the UK.{{Cite web |first=Paul |last=Pigott |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68680068 |title=Lorraine Kelly: Gay Cardiff couple marry on ITV programme |date=27 March 2024 |access-date=27 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|The BBC confirms that Freddie Flintoff, who was injured in 2022 while filming an episode of Top Gear, will return to television with a BBC One documentary about cricket titled Field of Dreams.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Saunders |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68683123 |title=Freddie Flintoff: Star returns to BBC with second Field of Dreams series after Top Gear crash |date=28 March 2024 |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Olly Alexander rejects calls to withdraw from the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest over the inclusion of Israel.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68693181 |title=Eurovision: Olly Alexander rejects boycott call over Israel-Gaza war |date=29 March 2024 |access-date=29 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Finlay Anderson and Marie-Louise Nicholson win the 2024 series of Gladiators.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68659313 |title=Gladiators 2024: Winners crowned after grand final |date=30 March 2024 |access-date=30 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|The cost of a TV licence increases by £10.50 from £159 to £169.50.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67646601 |title=BBC funding: TV licence fee to rise by £10.50, government says |date=7 December 2023 |access-date=7 December 2023 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

Ruth Hart wins the 2023–24 series of Mastermind.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/mastermind-2024-champion-named/ |title=Mastermind 2024 Champion named in nail-biting Grand Final |publisher=BBC |work=BBC Media Centre |access-date=1 April 2024}}
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|GB News hires Steven Edgington as its North America correspondent, making him the channel's first international correspondent.{{Cite web|url=https://p7ressgazette.co.uk/north-america/gb-news-hires-first-us-correspondent-america-expansion/|title=GB News hires first US correspondent in expansion of GBN America |first=Charlotte |last=Tobitt |date=4 April 2024 |access-date=13 April 2024 |publisher=Press Gazette}}

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|The BBC confirms it will broadcast a celebrity special of Gladiators,{{Cite web |first=Dan |last=Seddon |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a60408714/gladiators-celebrity-special/ |title=Gladiators to get Celebrity special |date=5 April 2024 |website=Digital Spy |access-date=11 April 2024}} having previously announced that the show will return for a second series.{{Cite web |first=Sam |last=Warner |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a60332122/gladiators-bbc-season-2-renewed/ |title=BBC's Gladiators reboot renewed for season 2 |date=28 March 2024 |website=Digital Spy |access-date=11 April 2024}}

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|Imperial College London wins the 2023–24 series of University Challenge, the fifth time they have become series champion.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/08/astonishing-speed-the-university-challenge-final-reviewed-by-last-years-winner |title='Astonishing speed!': the University Challenge final reviewed by last year's winner |first=Alex |last=Radcliffe |date=8 April 2024 |access-date=11 April 2024 |work=The Guardian}}

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|The Metropolitan Police says it will partly reinvestigate its decision to charge late television presenter Caroline Flack with assaulting her boyfriend because "new witness evidence may be available".{{Cite web |first=Francesca |last=Gillett |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68786078 |title=Caroline Flack: Met Police to re-examine decision to charge TV star |date=11 April 2024 |access-date=11 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

Sky News reports that hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall is to relinquish his seat on the board of All Perspectives Ltd, the company that owns GB News, as the television channel faces a major restructuring process.{{Cite web |first=Mark |last=Kleinman |url=https://news.sky.com/story/telegraph-suitor-marshall-to-quit-board-of-gb-news-owner-13112746 |title=Telegraph suitor Marshall to quit board of GB News owner |website=Sky News |date=11 April 2024 |access-date=13 April 2024}}
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|The BBC confirms that Varada Sethu will be joining Millie Gibson as a companion in the fifteenth series of Doctor Who.{{cite news|last1=Mzimba|first1=Lizo|author1-link=Lizo Mzimba|title=Doctor Who: Varada Sethu confirmed as new companion|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68802766 |work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=12 April 2024|access-date=12 April 2024}}

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|Boom Radio announces the launch of a £500,000 advertising campaign on ITV1, its first on the channel. Jo Brand has also been hired to present a series of programmes in which she interviews prominent television personalities, including Michael Grade.{{Cite web |first=Roy |last=Martin |url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2024/04/boom-launches-half-a-million-pounds-television-campaign-and-hires-jo-brand/ |title=Boom launches half a million pounds television campaign and hires Jo Brand |date=13 April 2024 |access-date=13 April 2024 |publisher=Radio Today}}

ITV1 airs the two-hour finale of the 2024 series of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, which is watched by an average audience of 4.6 million viewers.{{Cite web |first=Ruth |last=Comerford |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68812825 |title=Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway: More than 4m tune in for final show |date=14 April 2024 |access-date=14 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|Disney is reportedly planning to add linear cable-style streaming channels to Disney+. According to The Information, the company wants subscribers to spend more time in the app and, by offering more viewing options, it may entice users to stick around. In addition, by running ads on these channels, Disney could boost its bottom line.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to-keep-viewers-disney-plans-a-new-streaming-concept-old-style-tv-channels |title=To Keep Viewers, Disney Plans a New Streaming Concept: Old-Style TV Channels |publisher=The Information |access-date=18 April 2024}}

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|The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Johnny Ferraro is to bring back American Gladiators following the BBC's successful reboot of the British version.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/range-sports-american-gladiators-reboot-johnny-ferraro-1235875139/ |title='American Gladiators' Creator Johnny Ferraro Signs With Range Sports (Exclusive) |first=Alex |last=Weprin |date=17 April 2024 |access-date=18 April 2024 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter}}

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|Boutique gym boss Rachel Woodford wins Series 18 of The Apprentice.{{Cite web |first=Bonnie |last=McLaren |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-68839077 |title=The Apprentice 2024: Lord Sugar picks winner of Phil v Rachel final |date=18 April 2024 |access-date=18 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|GB News chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos announces 40 redundancies at the channel after it previously posted heavy financial losses.{{Cite web |first=Bron |last=Maher |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/gb-news-redundancies/ |title=GB News begins redundancy round, seeking to cut 40 roles |date=19 April 2024 |access-date=21 April 2024 |publisher=Press Gazette}}

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|BBC Two celebrates 60 years of broadcasting with several special programmes shown in the days surrounding the anniversary.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/20/tv-tonight-bbc-two-turns-60-with-stormzy-dolly-parton-and-the-rolling-stones |title=TV tonight: BBC Two turns 60 with Stormzy, Dolly Parton and the Rolling Stones |first1=Hollie |last1=Richardson |first2=Phil |last2=Harrison |first3=Graeme |last3=Virtue |first4=Simon |last4=Wardell |date=20 April 2024 |access-date=21 April 2024 |work=The Guardian}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yrm2 |title=BBC Two at 60 |website=BBC |date=20 April 2024 |access-date=21 April 2024}}

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|Newsreader Huw Edwards resigns from the BBC, nine months after being suspended following allegations of sexual misconduct and being admitted to hospital with "serious mental health issues".{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68873266 |title=Huw Edwards leaves BBC on medical advice |date=22 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 April 2024}}

Brenda Blethyn announces the next series of Vera will be her last after she decides to leave the show.{{Cite web |first=Helen |last=Bushby |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68875006 |title=Brenda Blethyn says 'cheerio' to TV drama Vera |date=22 April 2024 |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|It is announced that Olly Alexander will make a cameo appearance in EastEnders in May.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Saunders |url=https://www.bbc.com/articles/cge8xqrp2dlo |title=Olly Alexander: Eurovision meets EastEnders with Old Vic visit |date=23 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 April 2024}}

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|ITV's managing director of media and entertainment, Kevin Lygo, says that the drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office lost the broadcaster £1m.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c84z0lk0019o |title=Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says |date=24 April 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=24 April 2024}}

Ofcom warns radio and television stations with programmes hosted by politicians that they could be fined if they break impartiality rules in the run up to the next general election.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68887823 |title=Ofcom warns broadcasters over using politician hosts before general election |date=24 April 2024 |access-date=24 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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|Newsreader Rageh Omaar is taken ill while presenting News at Ten and subsequently receives medical treatment.{{Cite web |first=Vicky |last=Wong |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68913112 |title=Rageh Omaar recovering at home after becoming unwell on air on ITV News at Ten |date=27 April 2024 |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Talk switches from television to online streaming format.{{Cite web |first=Liam |last=O'Dell |url=https://www.indy100.com/tv/talktv-online-gaffe |title=TalkTV's big online change has gone as well as you'd expect |website=www.indy100.com |date=30 April 2024 |access-date=2 May 2024}} The cessation of linear broadcasting sees the channel drop the letters TV from its name. The Local TV network, which adopted the Talk name in October 2023, reverts to using the Local TV name.{{cite web|url=https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/talktv-closing-next-week/ |title=TalkTV closure brought forward; local Freeview channels revert back |date=24 April 2024 |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=RXTV Info}}

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|BritBox shuts down its standalone service in the UK with all of its content moving over to both BBC iPlayer and ITVX.

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|Television news presenters Martine Croxall, Annita McVeigh, Karin Giannone and Kasia Madera launch legal action against the BBC on the grounds of sex and age discrimination and equal pay.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68927258 |title=Martine Croxall, Annita McVeigh, Karin Giannone and Kasia Madera begin legal action against BBC |date=1 May 2024 |access-date=1 May 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}} Their case for equal pay is subsequently rejected, but the sex and age discrimination cases will be heard by a tribunal.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68944554 |title=Four presenters lose part of legal challenge against BBC |date=2 May 2024 |access-date=2 May 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|Don Gilet is named as the next lead detective in Death in Paradise; he will join the next series of the show as Detective Inspector Mervin Wilson.{{Cite web |first=Hafsa |last=Khalil |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pyw18g12yo |title=Death in Paradise: EastEnders star Don Gilet named new lead detective |date=2 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=2 May 2024}}

Welsh language broadcaster S4C announces that it will broadcast a Welsh language version of ITV programme The Voice. The show, titled Y Llais, will be hosted by BBC Radio 1 DJ Sian Eleri and will be broadcast in 2025.{{Cite web |first=Tomos |last=Evans |url=https://news.sky.com/story/wales-to-get-own-version-of-the-voice-hosted-by-radio-1-dj-13127444 |title=Wales to get own version of The Voice hosted by Radio 1 DJ |website=Sky News |date=2 May 2024 |access-date=3 May 2024}}
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|The BBC announces that Joanna Lumley will reveal the UK jury's results at the Eurovision Song Contest.{{Cite web |first=Mark |last=Savage |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4n1j83p92ko |title=Eurovision 2024: Joanna Lumley to announce UK jury scores |date=3 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 May 2024}}

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| Doctor Who returns for its 14th series, beginning with a two episode premiere on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and Disney+ internationally on the same evening, before airing in its normal Saturday night slot on BBC One the following day for the first time.{{Cite web |first=Patrick |last=Cremona |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-season-14-trailer-newsupdate/ |title=Doctor Who 2024 trailer teases Jinkx Monsoon villain, apocalyptic scenes |website=Radio Times |date=22 March 2024 |access-date=23 March 2024}}

The Rise of Race Hatred, a BBC Spotlight documentary exploring the rise in race hate attacks in Northern Ireland wins the nations and regions category at the Amnesty UK Media Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68989914 |title=Spotlight: Race hate documentary wins Amnesty media ward |date=10 May 2024 |access-date=10 May 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
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| Olly Alexander represents the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö, Sweden. The UK comes in 18th place out of 25 contestants. The contest is won by Switzerland with Nemo and their song "The Code".{{cite news|last1=Savage|first1=Mark|title=Switzerland's Nemo wins Eurovision as UK comes 18th|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c03drw23zewo|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=12 May 2024}}

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| The 2024 BAFTA Television Awards take place at the Royal Festival Hall, hosted by Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan.{{cite news|last1=McIntosh|first1=Steven|title=TV stars gear up for Bafta Awards, with Happy Valley and Succession most nominated|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1367jngrxyo |work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=12 May 2024}}

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|James Ward Anderson, boss of plumbing firm Depher, complains to Ofcom over a BBC News investigation alleging his company faked stories of good deeds.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Stanley |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jkqp5gdjxo |title='Hero plumber' accused of faking stories complains to Ofcom over BBC probe |date=17 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 May 2024}}

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|Ofcom says it is considering imposing a statutory sanction against GB News after concluding its programme People's Forum: The Prime Minister, a Q&A session with prime minister Rishi Sunak that aired in February, broke impartiality rules.{{cite news|last1=McIntosh|first1=Steven|title=GB News could face Ofcom punishment after breach |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyxxlge97deo|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=20 May 2024}}

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|ITV airs episode 10,000 of Emmerdale.{{Cite web |first=Steve |last=Jones |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-69043346 |title=Emmerdale: Cast praises show ahead of 10,000th episode |date=22 May 2024 |access-date=22 May 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

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|GB News announces plans to launch legal action against Ofcom after the regulator ruled the channel had broken broadcasting rules.{{Cite web |first=Helen |last=Bushby |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c800pk00d75o |title=GB News: Broadcaster launches legal action against media watchdog Ofcom |date=23 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 May 2024}}

Shona McGarty's final EastEnders scenes air as her character Whitney Dean leaves the series after 16 years.{{Cite web |last1=Tutton |first1=Charlotte |last2=Updated |date=2024-05-21 |title=EastEnders wedding in chaos as Whitney attacks Lauren and dumps Zack before exit |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bbc-eastenders-wedding-chaos-whitney-32861582 |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=The Mirror |language=en}}
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|A spokesperson for Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford confirms the presenting couple are to divorce after 14 years of marriage.{{Cite web |first=Emily |last=McGarvey |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8448yz7prgo |title=TV broadcasters Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford announce divorce |date=25 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=25 May 2024}}

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|Newsnight relaunches as a half-hour "interview, debate and discussion" programme, ditching its special reporting team. The change is part of cost-cutting measures across the BBC.{{cite web|title=Newsnight: New format to launch later this month|url=https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/newsnight-30minuteformat-date|website=TV Zone|date=19 May 2024}}{{Cite web |title=BBC News announces savings and digital reinvestment plans |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/bbc-news-announces-savings-and-digital-reinvestment-plans/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2023-11-29 |title=BBC's Newsnight to be cut back as part of savings plan |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67564479 |access-date=2023-11-29}}

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|BBC News announces that its election night coverage will be hosted by Clive Myrie and Laura Kuenssberg.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |title=Clive Myrie and Laura Kuenssberg to host BBC election night coverage |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv22px91700o |date=28 May 2024 |accessdate=28 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}}

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|Alfie Watts and Owen Wood win Series Four of Race Across the World.{{Cite web |first=Yasmin |last=Rufo |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6ppgye03ego |title=Race Across the World winners on keeping the final a secret |date=30 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=30 May 2024}}

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|ITV axes its pre-school programming block littleBe, doing so without any official announcement. It had aired on ITVBe on weekday mornings.{{Cite web|url=https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/broadcasting-u-turns-of-2024/|title=Broadcasting U-turns of 2024|website=RXTV|date=2025-01-01|access-date=2025-01-02}}

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|Singer Sydnie Christmas wins the 2024 series of Britain's Got Talent.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx77glgj53jo |title=Britain's Got Talent crowns 2024 winner |date=2 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2 June 2024}}

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|The BBC News at One is extended to an hour-long programme to coincide with its move from London to Salford.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nn9g55rjjo |title=BBC's News at One moves out of London to Salford for first time |date=30 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2 June 2024}}

Love Island returns for an eleventh series with a launch episode airing simultaneously on ITV1 and ITV2, which sees Joey Essex enter the villa as the first ever celebrity "bombshell".{{cite web |title=Love Island 2024 confirms Joey Essex as first celebrity Islander |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a60984418/love-island-2024-joey-essex-first-celebrity-islander/ |website=Digital Spy |access-date=4 June 2024 |date=3 June 2024}}
The first 2024 general election leaders debate takes place in Scotland, with the leaders of Scotland's four main political parties taking part in a debate on STV.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ddlkp9g9do |title=Party leaders clash over North Sea industry in election debate |date=3 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 June 2024}}
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|ITV1 airs Sunak vs Starmer: The ITV Debate, a head-to-head election debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer presented by Julie Etchingham.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqee7mdm5llo |title=General election debate: ITV to host Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer head-to-head |date=29 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=29 May 2024}}

Netflix confirms plans for a Peaky Blinders film in which Cillian Murphy will reprise his role as Tommy Shelby.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crggj21q8q1o |title=Peaky Blinders film starring Cillian Murphy confirmed |date=5 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=5 June 2024}}
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|ITV announces that Helen Worth has decided to leave Coronation Street after 50 years of portraying Gail Platt, with the character making her departure from the soap later in the year.{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/coronationstreet/articles/helen-worth-to-bid-farewell |title=Helen Worth to Bid Farewell After 50 Years on the Cobbles |date=5 June 2024 |publisher=ITV |accessdate=5 June 2024}}

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|A search is under way for television presenter Michael Mosley, who has disappeared while on holiday in the Greek island of Symi.{{Cite web |first1=Adam |last1=Durbin |first2=Nikos |last2=Papanikolaou |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cerr19d0z0go |title=Michael Mosley: TV presenter missing on Greek island of Symi |date=6 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=6 June 2024}}

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|Mishal Husain moderates the first of the BBC's election debates featuring representatives from seven of the UK's political parties.{{Cite web |first=Harrison |last=Jones |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq55qk7k847o |title=General election TV debates: BBC shows start on Friday |date=2 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2 June 2024}}

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|Katie Piper is forced to pull out of presenting her usual Saturday morning ITV Breakfast programme due to an "unexpected medical procedure". The programme is instead presented by Charlotte Hawkins.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz55k8ng0eyo |title=Katie Piper forced to pull out of ITV show last minute |date=8 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 June 2024}}

Around 20,000 motorbikers celebrate "Dave Day" by riding from London to Barrow-in-Furness in memory of Hairy Biker Dave Myers, who died in February.{{Cite web |first1=Pamela |last1=Tickell |first2=Jennie |last2=Dennett |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722j5gp65jo |title=Dave Myers: 'Proud' 20,000 bikers finish 'Dave Day' tribute ride |date=8 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 June 2024}}
9

|The body of Michael Mosley is found on a hillside near Agia Marina beach on Symi.{{Cite web |first1=Joe |last1=Inwood |first2=André |last2=Rhoden-Paul |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kk9gvw8l0o |title=Michael Mosley's wife pays tribute to kind husband |date=9 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=9 June 2024}}

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|An initial post-mortem concludes that Michael Mosley died from natural causes.{{Cite web |first1=Nikos |last1=Papanikolaou |first2=Kathryn |last2=Armstrong |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dd7ekyrpyo |title=Dr Michael Mosley: Post-mortem finds presenter died of natural causes, police say |date=10 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=10 June 2024}}

The BBC publishes the line up of dancers to appear on the 2024 series of Strictly Come Dancing. The list includes Amy Dowden, who is scheduled to return following cancer treatment, while Giovanni Pernice will not return.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Saunders |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeedq2zjjeo |title=Giovanni Pernice will not return to Strictly Come Dancing |date=10 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=10 June 2024}}
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|Sophie Raworth pulls out of presenting the BBC's The Prime Ministerial Debate, scheduled to air on 26 June, after fracturing her ankle; Mishal Husain will present instead.{{Cite web |first=Bonnie |last=McLaren |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmjj10zxm53o |title=Sophie Raworth steps down from BBC election debate |date=11 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=11 June 2024}}

BBC Scotland airs an election debate featuring the leaders of Scotland's five main political parties: John Swinney (SNP), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Anas Sarwar (Scottish Labour), Alex Cole-Hamilton (Scottish Liberal Democrats) and Lorna Slater (Scottish Greens).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmmm8nz1l2yo |title=Who are the leaders of Scotland's political parties? |date=11 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=11 June 2024}}
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|Sky News presenter Beth Rigby presents an election debate from Grimsby Town Hall, where Sunak and Starmer face questions from an audience.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0xx5le1qwxo |title=Sunak and Starmer face rough ride from TV audience in Grimsby |date=12 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=12 June 2024}}

13

|ITV holds a debate featuring senior figures from the UK's seven main political parties and moderated by Julie Etchingham.{{cite web|first=Hannah |last=Ward-Glenton |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2024-06-13/political-parties-itv-debate |title=NHS, immigration and no trust in politicians: Key takeaways after parties go head-to-head |publisher=ITV |work=ITV News |date=14 June 2024 |accessdate=14 June 2024}}

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|A coalition of commercial media and content businesses write to Labour to urge them not to introduce advertising on the BBC, fearing it could have a negative impact on consumers, licence fee payers and creative industries.{{Cite web |first=Roy |last=Martin |url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2024/06/labour-warned-against-allowing-the-bbc-to-introduce-advertising/ |title=Labour warned against allowing the BBC to introduce advertising |date=14 June 2024 |accessdate=14 June 2024 |publisher=Radio Today}}

BBC One airs the tribute programme Michael Mosley – The Doctor Who Changed Britain following Mosley's recent death.{{Cite web |first1=Kathryn |last1=Armstrong |first2=Ian |last2=Aikman |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czkkpkkeyn2o |title=Michael Mosley: BBC to air special programme for late presenter |date=11 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=11 June 2024}}
James Norton appears on the day's edition of CBeebies Bedtime Stories reading How to Manage a Mammoth by Dr Rose Stewart, a children's story that deals with type 1 diabetes.{{Cite web |first=Bonnie |last=McLaren |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11n2m1z2go |title=James Norton to read CBeebies Bedtime Story on type 1 diabetes |date=10 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=10 June 2024}}
Among those from the world of television to be recognised in the 2024 Birthday Honours are actress Imelda Staunton, who receives a DBE, Countdown lexicographer Susie Dent, who becomes an MBE, and professional dancer Amy Dowden from Strictly Come Dancing, who receives an MBE.{{Cite web |first1=John |last1=Hand |first2=Ben |last2=Fell |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511l0j4l2po |title=King's birthday honours 2024: Alan Bates, Tracey Emin and Mark Cavendish recognised |date=14 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=15 June 2024}}
16

|ITV Wales holds an election debate between senior figures from the three main political parties in Wales; David TC Davies (Conservative), Jo Stevens (Labour) and Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru).{{Cite web |first=David |last=Deans |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjjgl6gv52o |title=Most on sickness benefit can work – Tory minister |date=16 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 June 2024}}

18

|Cat Deeley apologises after making a joke about having a seizure on the previous day's edition of This Morning.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Saunders |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn00ndjg238o |title=Cat Deeley: This Morning host apologises for seizure joke |date=18 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=18 June 2024}}

19

|The BBC says its presenters are "regularly reminded" of its guidelines relating to clothing after Gary Lineker appeared to breach those rules by wearing an outfit from his own fashion range during England's opening Euro 2024 match against Serbia.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c877nnxplepo |title=Gary Lineker: BBC reminds presenters of clothing rules after apparent breach |date=19 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 June 2024}}

20

|BBC One airs a Question Time election special featuring the leaders of the UK's four main political parties.

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|BBC Wales airs a televised election debate featuring Vaughan Gething (Labour), Jane Dodds (Liberal Democrat), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru) and David TC Davies (Conservative).{{Cite web |first1=Mark |last1=Palmer |first2=Adrian |last2=Browne |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1rrxwy0x3wo |title=Tories and Labour pressed on two-child benefit cap in TV debate |date=21 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 June 2024}}

Professional dancer Robin Windsor, who appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, is given a special posthumous award at the 2024 LGBT Awards.{{Cite web |first=Josh |last=Parry |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgg3nx0zrdo |title=LGBT Awards: Strictly's Robin Windsor gets posthumous honour |date=21 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=22 June 2024}}
26

|Mishal Husain moderates The Prime Ministerial Debate, the BBC's head-to-head debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.

27

|The final televised debate of the 2024 general election takes place on BBC One Northern Ireland and features representatives from Northern Ireland's five main parties.{{Cite web |first=Jayne |last=McCormack |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czk07xgddmko |title=NI political parties face off in BBC TV debate |date=27 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 June 2024}}

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|The Box Plus Network's five channels – The Box, Magic, Kiss TV, 4Music and Kerrang! TV – close.{{Cite web |last= |date=2024-05-31 |title=Channel 4 confirms Sky, Virgin and Freesat music channel closure date |url=https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/channel-4-confirms-sky-virgin-and-freesat-music-channel-closure-date/ |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=RXTV |language=en-GB}} The closures come after Channel 4 had announced that they are among the "small linear channels ...[that] no longer deliver[ed] revenues or public value at scale".{{Cite news |last=Sweney |first=Mark |date=2024-01-29 |title=Channel 4 says it is to sell London HQ as it confirms job cuts |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/29/channel-4-sell-london-hq-jobs-cuts-ad-slump |access-date=2024-01-29 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |title=Channel 4 shares plans to become digital-first public service streamer by 2030 {{!}} Channel 4 |url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-shares-plans-become-digital-first-public-service-streamer-2030 |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=www.channel4.com}}

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|Steve Carson is to step down as Head of Multi-Platform Commissioning at BBC Scotland in September, in order to take up a senior role at Irish broadcaster RTÉ.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxe2l34p3j6o |title=Steve Carson to step down as head of BBC Scotland |date=1 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=1 July 2024}}

2

|Eamonn Holmes is forced to leave his GB News breakfast show halfway through the programme due to ill health.{{Cite web |first=Christopher |last=Leebody |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/eamonn-holmes-leaves-gb-news-breakfast-show-during-broadcast-after-feeling-unwell/a1482084435.html |title=Eamonn Holmes leaves GB News Breakfast show during broadcast after 'feeling unwell' |date=2 July 2024 |accessdate=3 July 2024 |publisher=Belfast Telegraph}}

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| The BBC announces that Tracy-Ann Oberman will be reprising her role of Chrissie Watts in EastEnders for a short time later in the year, 19 years after her departure.{{cite web |title=EastEnders' Chrissie Watts returns as Tracy-Ann Oberman reprises role this autumn |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/eastenders-chrissie-watts-tracy-ann-oberman |website=BBC Media Centre |access-date=3 July 2024 |language=en}}

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|2024 United Kingdom general election. The BBC's election night coverage is fronted by Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie.{{Cite web|title=Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie to host BBC network TV election night coverage|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/laura-kuenssberg-clive-myrie-bbc-network-tv-election-night-coverage/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240528131847/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/laura-kuenssberg-clive-myrie-bbc-network-tv-election-night-coverage|archive-date=2024-05-28|access-date=2024-05-28|website=BBC}} ITV's election night coverage is led by Tom Bradby, with Robert Peston, Anushka Asthana and Paul Brand. Sky News's election night programming is presented by Kay Burley, who covers her twelfth general election, and Channel 4's coverage is led by Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and former BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis.{{Cite web|url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/general-election-night-2024-broadcasters/ |title=Election 2024: How broadcasters are covering UK general election |first=Dominic |last=Ponsford |date=3 July 2024 |accessdate=13 July 2024 |publisher=Press Gazette}}

Security guard Gavin Plumb is found guilty of plotting to kidnap, rape and murder television presenter Holly Willoughby.{{Cite web |first1=Lewis |last1=Adams |first2=Laura |last2=Foster |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ngp983q4xo |title=Holly Willoughby: Gavin Plumb guilty in kidnap and murder plot |date=4 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 July 2024}}
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|Following Labour's election victory, Lisa Nandy is appointed as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, replacing Lucy Frazer.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/07/lisa-nandy-culture-secretary-uk-election-1236002020/ |title=Lisa Nandy Appointed Culture Secretary Following Labour's Landslide Win In UK Election |first=Peter |last=White |date=5 July 2024 |access-date=8 July 2024 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

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|Channel 4 announces 90% of its 2024 Summer Paralympics team are disabled, with 1,300 hours of live sport across Channel 4, More4 and streaming. Apart from Clare Balding, Vick Hope and Lee McKenzie, the rest are disabled, with Ellie Simmonds, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Lenny Rush, and Fury (Jodie Ounsley) from "Gladiators" making their presenting debuts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-unveils-ground-breaking-presenting-line-and-biggest-ever-broadcast-plans-paris |title=Channel 4 unveils ground-breaking presenting line-up and biggest-ever broadcast plans for Paris 2024 Paralympic Games |date=11 July 2024 |accessdate=12 July 2024 |publisher=Channel 4}}

A week after his election to Parliament, GB News announces that Nigel Farage is returning to his show on the channel, presenting on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 16 July.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/07/nigel-farage-gb-news-reform-uk-presenter-1236008260/ |title=Nigel Farage Returning To GB News After Being Elected To Parliament |first=Max |last=Goldbart |date=12 July 2024 |accessdate=13 July 2024}}
12

|Following his guilty verdict on 4 July, Gavin Plumb is sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 15 years.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crgk6k3x2l5t#player |title=Man who plotted to kidnap and murder Holly Willoughby sentenced to life |date=12 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 July 2024}}

13

|Professional dancer Graziano Di Prima confirms he is leaving Strictly Come Dancing.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ngl4qkjgeo |title=Graziano Di Prima to leave Strictly Come Dancing |date=13 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 July 2024}}

14

|BBC One and ITV1 both air the UEFA Euro 2024 final, which is watched by an average audience of 17.9m, peaking at 19.3m.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c9wv74y7xj7o |title=England: Euro 2024 final defeat by Spain watched by peak of 19.3 million across BBC |date=15 July 2024 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |accessdate=15 July 2024}}

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|Launch date for UKTV rebranding of its free-to-air channels under the name of "U", for example, Dave becomes "U&Dave" and W becomes "U&W".{{Cite web|url=https://corporate.uktv.co.uk/news/article/uktv-announces-creation-of-u-a-new-brand/|title=UKTV announces creation of 'U' – a new brand to unite its free TV and digital portfolio|date=2023-11-29|publisher=UKTV|language=en|access-date=2023-11-29}}{{cite web|title=UKTV to launch masterbrand U on 16th July 2024|url=https://corporate.uktv.co.uk/news/article/uktv-to-launch-masterbrand-u-on-16th-july-2024/|publisher=UKTV|year=2024|accessdate=2024-06-16}}

The BBC says it will put a member of Strictly Come Dancing production staff in all future rehearsals following complaints about the behaviour of two of its professional dancers.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2gkrlvkyno |title=Strictly Come Dancing: BBC to introduce chaperones in rehearsal rooms |date=16 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 July 2024}}
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|Following the previous day's 2024 State Opening of Parliament, BBC News ends its temporary UK only feed established to cover the general election.

A spokesman for Graziano Di Prima confirms he kicked dance partner Zara McDermott during training and was removed from the programme as a result.{{Cite web |first1=Katie |last1=Razzall |first2=Ian |last2=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clly0220gz5o |title=Graziano Di Prima kicked Zara McDermott in Strictly rehearsal, spokesman says |date=18 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=18 July 2024}}
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|Sky News and CBBC are taken off air due to the 2024 CrowdStrike incident.{{cite web|last=Warrington|first=James|title=Sky TV off air in Microsoft crisis |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/19/sky-tv-off-air-in-microsoft-crisis/|website=The Telegraph|date=19 July 2024|access-date=19 July 2024}}{{cite web|last=Kahn|first=Ellie|title=Sky News and CBBC off air after IT outage|url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/broadcasters/sky-news-and-cbbc-off-air-after-it-outage/5195590.article|website=Broadcast|date=19 July 2024|access-date=19 July 2024}}

Billie Eilish becomes the latest celebrity to appear on CBeebies Bedtime Stories, reading This Moose Belongs to Me by Oliver Jeffers.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y8z42gryo |title=Billie Eilish to read CBeebies bedtime story |date=15 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=15 July 2024}}
20

| Channel 4 announces the return of Educating Yorkshire, with a new series to air in 2025.

21

|Speaking to The Sun on Sunday, former Strictly contestant Amanda Abbington, who withdrew from the last series in October 2023, alleges dance partner Giovanni Pernice behaved unreasonably towards her, describing it as "unnecessary, abusive, cruel and mean".{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c720kqvnzw9o |title=Strictly: Amanda Abbington accuses Giovanni Pernice of 'cruel' behaviour |date=21 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 July 2024}}

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|Paralympian Will Bayley, who appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2019, says that performing a jump routine with dance partner Janette Manrara left him in "horrific pain" and with "injuries that still affect me to this day".{{Cite web |first=Yasmin |last=Rufo |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy08gz5xz3do |title=Strictly Come Dancing left Paralympian Will Bayley with injuries he'll 'never get over' |date=22 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=22 July 2024}}

It is announced that the BBC News channel's 11pm UK-produced bulletin, which featured during the election campaign, will be made permanent. This means that the news channel will have its first exclusively-produced bulletin for its UK stream since its merger into a global news service last year.{{Cite web|url=https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/20717/timeline/timeline-2024-week-30/ |title=Timeline: 2024 Week 30 |date=23 July 2024 |website=Clean Feed |accessdate=27 July 2024}}
23

|BBC Director-General Tim Davie apologises to contestants on Strictly Come Dancing after complaints about abusive behaviour, which he describes as "unacceptable". Davie also confirms the show will return later in the year.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp684zddgp2o |title=Strictly Come Dancing: BBC boss says sorry over complaints |date=23 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=23 July 2024}}

24

|RTÉ News bulletins are geoblocked in Northern Ireland because of broadcast licencing problems over coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics.{{Cite web |first=Hayley |last=Halpin |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng9x95zz8o |title=RTÉ: Irish broadcaster resuming bulletins in Northern Ireland |date=25 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=25 July 2024}}

25

|RTÉ confirms it will resume showing news broadcasts in Northern Ireland, although they will not be live during the Olympics.

26

|BBC One broadcasts the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, which culminates in a performance of Edith Piaf's "Hymne à l'amour" by Celine Dion at the Eiffel Tower. The ceremony is watched by an average 6.8 million viewers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/lady-gaga-celine-dion-bbc-french-london-b1173231.html |title=Paris Olympics opening ceremony has best TV audience figures since London 2012 |first=Charlotte |last=McLaughlin |date=27 July 2024 |website=Evening Standard |accessdate=27 July 2024}}

27

|Laura Whitmore becomes the latest Strictly contestant to allege she was the victim of inappropriate behaviour during her time on the show.{{Cite web |first=Charlotte |last=Gallagher |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6p2122r9xro |title=Laura Whitmore alleges 'inappropriate behaviour' on Strictly Come Dancing |date=27 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 July 2024}}

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|Former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards is charged with making indecent images of children.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgr49q591go |title=Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children |date=29 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=29 July 2024}}

Figures reveal that S4C spent more than £500,000 on its investigation into allegations of bullying and toxic culture at the broadcaster.{{Cite web |first=Mark |last=Palmer |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckmgv8dnjj1o |title=S4C: Bullying probe at TV channel costs £500,000 |date=29 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=29 July 2024}}
Mimii Ngulube and Josh Oyinsan win the eleventh series of Love Island, and become the first black couple to win the series.{{Cite web|url=https://www.capitalfm.com/news/tv-film/love-island/mimii-josh-season-11-2024-winners/ |title=Mimii Ngulube And Josh Oyinsan Win Love Island Season 11 |website=Capital |accessdate=30 July 2024}}{{Cite web |first=Jared |last=Evitts |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz47d7nedgqo |title=Love Island: Winners of ITV show announced |date=29 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=30 July 2024}}
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|Former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards pleads guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children at a hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.{{Cite web |first1=Ian |last1=Youngs |first2=Lucy |last2=Manning |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmj260e54x7o |title=Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children |date=31 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=31 July 2024}}

Ofcom's annual Media Nations survey is published, revealing that for the first time less than half of 16-to-24-year-olds (48%) are regularly watching traditional television.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgm9z1dpkpo |title=Gen Z: Less than half of 16-24-year-olds watch traditional TV, Ofcom says |date=31 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |first=Emma |last=Saunders |accessdate=31 July 2024}}

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| The Doctor Who episode "Fear Her" featuring Huw Edwards is removed from BBC iPlayer after Edwards pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children. The BBC confirms that the episode will be reinstated after Edwards had been re-dubbed.{{cite web|last1=Tinson|first1=Emma|title=Doctor Who episode featuring Huw Edwards pulled from BBC iPlayer|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a61774869/doctor-who-huw-edwards-bbc-iplayer-episode-removed/|website=Digital Spy|date=2 August 2024}}

BAFTA announces the creation of a new category for children's and family films, with those rated U, PG or 12A being eligible.{{Cite web |first=Yasmin |last=Rufo |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy686jwv8lno |title=Bafta awards add new children's and family film category |date=2 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 August 2024}}
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|The BBC removes a video promoting Children in Need 2018 from its website after it emerges the video features the suspect in the 2024 Southport stabbing.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced3dxeplp9o |title=BBC Children in Need video of Southport suspect removed |date=3 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 August 2024}}

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|The Observer reports that the BBC has started removing content that includes Huw Edwards from its website, beginning with family entertainment programming on BBC iPlayer.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0w44nz6nneo |title=Huw Edwards: BBC starts removing former newsreader from archive |date=4 August 2024 |website=BBC News |accessdate=4 August 2024}}

5

|Comedian Chris McCausland is officially announced as the first celebrity contestant for the 22nd series of Strictly Come Dancing, becoming the show's first ever blind contestant in the process.{{Cite web |first=Emma|last=Tinson |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a61789343/strictly-2024-chris-mccausland/ |title=Strictly Come Dancing 2024 confirms first contestant |date=5 August 2024 |website=Digital Spy |accessdate=6 August 2024}}

6

|Ofcom approves planned changes to the BBC Scotland television channel that will see cutbacks to its news, with its hour-long 9pm weekday programme The Nine replaced by a 30 minute programme at 7pm.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k33rw8yxxo |title=Changes to BBC Scotland news programming approved by Ofcom |date=6 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=6 August 2024}}

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|Further allegations of abuse emerge against Strictly Come Dancing as a number of junior members of staff allege a toxic culture behind the scenes of the programme.{{Cite web |first1=Noor |last1=Nanji |first2=Darin |last2=Graham |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxr2z4g7pz4o |title=Strictly: Workers face a 'toxic culture' amid claims from Amanda Abbington and Zara McDermott |date=7 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=7 August 2024}}

Ofcom have received more than 8,200 complaints about two interviews during the 5 August edition of Good Morning Britain – the first involving presenter Ed Balls who spoke to his wife, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, and the second involving an interview Balls and Kate Garraway did with Labour MP Zarah Sultana.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2xky7g9jdo |title=Good Morning Britain episode leads to 8,200 complaints to Ofcom |date=7 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=7 August 2024}}
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| Sky launches Sky Sports+, its new streaming service for its sports customers. The launch coincides with the start of the 2024/2025 football season.{{cite web|title=Sky Sports+: New channel and live streams will launch on Thursday August 8 offering fans more choice at no extra cost |url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13191376/sky-sports-new-channel-and-live-streams-will-launch-on-thursday-august-8-offering-fans-more-choice-at-no-extra-cost |website=Sky Sports|publisher=Sky|date=6 August 2024}}

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|The BBC asks Huw Edwards to repay over £200,000 that he received from the corporation after being arrested on child abuse image charges in November 2023.{{cite news|last1=Rufo |first1=Yasmin|title=BBC asks Huw Edwards to return more than £200,000|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynjvve0gvo|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=9 August 2024}}

Actress, comedian and writer Meera Syal appears on CBeebies Bedtime Stories to read Amma's Sari by Sandhya Parappukaran to mark South Asian Heritage Month.{{Cite web |first=Caroline |last=Gall |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5rweg6zwdo |title=Wolverhampton's Meera Syal to read CBeebies bedtime story |date=9 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=10 August 2024}}
12

|Viewing data indicates that programming from the 2024 Summer Olympics was streamed 218 million times during the 19 days of sporting events. Overall, 36 million people watched some Olympic content for fifteen minutes or longer, with a peak audience of 6 million on several days.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c86l33xy7x0o |title=Paris 2024 Olympics breaks BBC Sport record with 218 million streams |date=12 August 2024 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 August 2024}}

16

|Eden rebranded to U&Eden.

19

|A new game show succeeding Unbeatable hosted by Jason Manford. The Answer Run debuts on BBC One to replace repeats of The Finish Line.

20

|It is reported that Paramount Networks UK & Australia is planning a rebrand of Channel 5 to occur in early-2025, which would see its name shortened to "5". In addition, catch-up platform My5 will also be consolidated under the "5" branding to unify its linear and streaming outlets, following the lead of Channel 4. In addition, plans to consolidate Pluto TV with My5 are shelved.{{Cite web |last=Oakes |first=Omar |date=20 August 2024 |title=Channel 5 to become just '5': UK PSB's first 'unified' rebrand |url=https://the-media-leader.com/channel-5-to-become-just-5-uk-psb-in-first-major-rebrand-in-27-years/ |access-date=22 August 2024 |website=The Media Leader |language=en-GB}}

21

|Radio and television presenter Lauren Laverne reveals that she is being treated in hospital for cancer.{{Cite web |first=Yasmin |last=Rufo |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3vql39p5o |title=Lauren Laverne: Desert Island Discs presenter diagnosed with cancer |date=21 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 August 2024}}

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|Former footballer and presenter Jermaine Jenas is sacked by the BBC following allegations of inappropriate behaviour.{{cite news|last1=Nanji|first1=Noor|title=BBC sacks Jermaine Jenas after complaints|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy76pdz5152o|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=22 August 2024}}

The BBC announces plans to produce a celebrity version of its reality show, The Traitors, with a date to be confirmed.{{Cite web |first=Bonnie |last=McLaren |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70j84rvg91o |title=The Traitors: First UK celebrity series announced |date=22 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=22 August 2024}}
23

|Jermaine Jenas tells The Sun newspaper he is "ashamed" and has "let everybody down" after sending "inappropriate messages" to two colleagues on The One Show.{{Cite web |first=Hafsa |last=Khalil |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9enw5xp2qo |title=Jermaine Jenas says he is ashamed after BBC sacking |date=23 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=25 August 2024}}

28

|Channel 4 begins its coverage of the 2024 Summer Paralympics, starting with the opening ceremony.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlr0jzekx0o |title=Paralympics 2024: Rose Ayling-Ellis becomes first deaf presenter of live sport |date=20 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=20 August 2024}}

30

|Luton Borough Council asks Bedfordshire Police to stop working with the television programme 24 Hours in Police Custody because it argues the show is damaging the town's reputation.{{Cite web |first=Danny |last=Fullbrook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg58np61d46o |title=Bedfordshire Police urged to pull out of 'Luton-bashing' TV show |date=30 August 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=31 August 2024}}

=September=

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|BBC Radio 2 presenters Jo Whiley, Scott Mills, Trevor Nelson, Vernon Kay and Sara Cox take part in a CBeebies Bedtime Stories takeover.{{Cite web|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2024/08/bbc-radio-2-djs-to-take-part-in-cbeebies-bedtime-story-takeover-week/ |title=BBC Radio 2 DJs to take part in CBeebies Bedtime Story takeover week |date=27 August 2024 |accessdate=29 August 2024 |publisher=Radio Today}}

9

|Ofcom discontinues five impartiality investigations into GB News's "Don't Kill Cash" campaign as the channel had already been reprimanded over the campaign.{{Cite web |first=Max |last=Goldbart |url=https://deadline.com/2024/09/gb-news-ofcom-dont-kill-cash-discontinued-1236082222/ |title=Five GB News Investigations Into Don't Kill Cash Campaign Discontinued By Ofcom |date=9 September 2024 |access-date=15 September 2024 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

10

|An inquest into the death of Steve Dymond, who committed suicide in 2019, shortly after appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show, rules that the show was a "possible" factor in his death, but not the "probable" cause.{{Cite web |first=Marchs |last=White |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9857e92443o |title=No 'clear link' between Jeremy Kyle Show and guest death – coroner |date=10 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=10 September 2024}}

11

|The 29th National Television Awards are held in London, with the drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office picking up three awards.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c623p2835wzo |title=Post Office victim Jo Hamilton criticises government as drama wins award |date=12 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 September 2024}}

12

|The UK government confirms that a ban on junk food advertising on British television before 9.00pm is scheduled to come into force on 1 October 2025.{{Cite web |first1=Alex |last1=Boyd |first2=Zahra |last2=Fatima |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2n2g5wze4o |title=TV junk food ads to be banned before 9pm from next year |date=12 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 September 2024}}

13

|Jay Blades, presenter of BBC One's The Repair Shop, is charged with coercive behaviour towards his estranged wife.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx282wzxx0xo |title=Jay Blades: The Repair Shop host charged over coercive behaviour |date=13 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 September 2024}} The BBC pulls all episodes featuring Blades from its schedule.{{cite news|last1=Farber|first1=Alex|last2=Chappell |first2=Peter|title=BBC pulls Jay Blades shows as presenter charged with coercive behaviour|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/jay-blades-bbc-star-in-controlling-and-coercive-behaviour-charge-8pq79wvzh|work=The Times|date=13 September 2024}} {{subscription required}}

14

|Strictly Come Dancing returns for Series 22, with Amy Dowden returning to the show following her treatment for cancer.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgvw2rx84vo |title=Strictly Come Dancing returns – but no mention of recent controversies |date=14 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=14 September 2024}}

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|Huw Edwards, formerly the BBC's most senior news presenter, is given a six-month suspended jail sentence for child abuse image offences. He is placed on the sex offenders' register for seven years and is required to complete a rehabilitation programme.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgxg673y8et |title=Huw Edwards given six-month suspended jail sentence for child abuse image offences|date=16 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 September 2024}}

Having had its weekly number of episodes reduced from five to three the previous week, the plotline of Hollyoaks jumps forward a year in order to facilitate the exit of 20 characters, who have been axed due to budget cuts on the show.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33nymxg8g2o |title=Why Hollyoaks is skipping a year and cutting its episodes and cast |date=9 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=10 September 2024}}
17

|The BBC announces that the children's television series Balamory will return on CBeebies with the original cast, 20 years after it was last recorded.{{cite news |title='What's the new story in Balamory?' – kids' show gets a reboot|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly6vvdy449o|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=17 September 2024}}

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|Ofcom announces it will not investigate Ed Balls' interview with his wife, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, on Good Morning Britain on 5 August despite receiving over 16,000 viewer complaints. ITV chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall defends the interview's impartiality, but says the broadcaster would not do it again.{{Cite web |first=Yasmin |last=Rufo |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj47p4lnepo |title=ITV says Ed Balls' interview with wife Yvette Cooper was fair after complaints |date=18 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=18 September 2024}}

BBC Radio 2 presenter Scott Mills and his spouse, Sam Vaughan, win Series 2 of Celebrity Race Across the World. Overnight viewing figures indicate the series finale was watched by an average 3.7 million viewers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l4nmr8q7qo |title=Celebrity Race Across the World show 'exhausting' say winners |date=19 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 September 2024}}
19

|A number of Sky Glass customers begin reporting problems with their Sky Glass televisions, which will not turn on.{{Cite web |first=Liv |last=McMahon |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0lnxgnjkno |title=Sky Glass customers complain as TVs won't turn on |date=20 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 September 2024}}

23

|The BBC celebrates the 50th anniversary of the launch of its Ceefax teletext service.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Westbrook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/ceefax-50/ |title=It would have been better to watch it on Ceefax... |website=BBC History |publisher=BBC |accessdate=23 September 2024}}

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|ITV confirms Maya Jama is to join the celebrity panel for the upcoming sixth series of The Masked Singer, replacing Rita Ora.{{Cite web |first=Laura Jane |last=Turner |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a62364103/masked-singer-rita-ora-replaced-maya-jama/ |title=The Masked Singer confirms Rita Ora's replacement in big show shake-up |website=Digital Spy |date=25 September 2024 |accessdate=25 September 2024}}

Channel 5 announces that Phillip Schofield will take part in Cast Away, a new three-part show airing over three consecutive nights from 30 September in which he is stranded on a deserted island in Madagascar for 10 days without food, water or a filming crew. It is Schofield's first television project since resigning in disgrace from ITV in May 2023 following revelations over his personal life.{{Cite web |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a62357863/phillip-schofield-tv-return-cast-away/ |title=Phillip Schofield confirms TV return one year after This Morning exit |website=Digital Spy |date=25 September 2024 |accessdate=25 September 2024}}
30

|The BBC apologises to Amanda Abbington after upholding some of her complaints against the behaviour of her Strictly dance partner Giovanni Pernice, but the broadcaster does not uphold her allegations of physical abuse.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce81p7w6xggo |title=BBC apologises to Amanda Abbington over Strictly verbal bullying by Giovanni Pernice, but he is cleared of physical aggression |date=30 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=30 September 2024}}

=October=

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|BBC One airs the documentary The Search for Nicola Bulley about the 2023 disappearance of Nicola Bulley. The programme receives criticism from viewers for the amount of time spent discussing the involvement of social media amateur sleuths.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lancs.live/news/celebs-tv/bbc-viewers-issue-same-complaint-30067598 |title=BBC viewers slam 'heartbreaking' Nicola Bulley documentary |first=Samantha |last=King |date=3 October 2024 |website=Lancs Live |accessdate=4 October 2024}}

BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg cancels a scheduled televised interview with Boris Johnson after accidentally sending him her briefing notes.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdq2944d2no |title=Laura Kuenssberg 'embarrassed' by Boris Johnson email error |date=3 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 October 2024}}
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|ITV confirms that Freddie Flintoff will present a rebooted special edition of the quiz show Bullseye at Christmas.{{Cite web |first=Annabel |last=Rackham |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c981n1gjzylo |title=Freddie Flintoff to host ITV Bullseye reboot in Christmas special |date=4 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 October 2024}}

GB News loses a High Court challenge against Ofcom in which it hoped to temporarily block the regulator from sanctioning it over its People's Forum programme featuring Rishi Sunak in February, while Sunak was prime minister. GB News is given permission to challenge the ruling, with Ofcom agreeing to hold off publication of its findings until the case is heard.{{Cite web |first=Callum |last=Parke |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/ofcom-gb-news-chamberlain-high-court-rishi-sunak-b1185915.html |title=GB News loses High Court bid to block Ofcom sanction over alleged rules breach |date=4 October 2024 |website=Evening Standard |accessdate=4 October 2024}}
5

|For the first time in Strictly{{'}}s 20-year history, a dancing couple on the show perform to a traditional Bollywood song.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y39zy7pyyo |title=Strictly Come Dancing: Dr Punam Krishan says it's a 'huge moment' as Bollywood music comes to show |date=5 October 2024 |publisher=BBC |website=BBC News |accessdate=6 October 2024}}

8

| Channel 4 announces that it will be showing coverage of the 2024 United States presidential election on Tuesday 5 November. The coverage will be titled America Decides: The US Election results, and will be produced by ITN Productions, and will be the broadcaster's first live overnight US election coverage since 1992.

11

|The BBC launches a review into its workplace culture, focusing on "preventing abuse of power and ensuring everyone at the BBC conducts themselves in line with our values".{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c748dldq2ddo |title=BBC launches review into preventing abuses of power |date=11 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=11 October 2024}}

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|Detectives from Bedfordshire Police use the BBC's Crimewatch Live programme to appeal for information that may lead to the identity of a hitman who killed Carol Morgan on 13 August 1981 at the shop she ran with her husband, Allen Morgan, in Leighton Buzzard. Allen Morgan was convicted of hiring the hitman to kill his wife at Luton Crown Court in June 2024.{{Cite web |first=Danny |last=Fullbrook |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy9dyze4k7o |title=Bedfordshire Police makes TV appeal for Carol Morgan killer |date=14 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=14 October 2024}}

BBC One airs the first episode of EastEnders to be directed by a wheelchair user.{{Cite web |first1=Heidi |last1=Booth |first2=Andy |last2=Trigge |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vn91dxvxzo |title=Derbyshire man becomes first wheelchair user to direct EastEnders |date=26 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=26 November 2024}}
16

|Welsh-language soap opera Pobol y Cwm celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first episode being broadcast.{{cite web|url=https://www.library.wales/news/celebrating-50-years-of-pobol-y-cwm|title=Celebrating 50 years of Pobol y Cwm|date=9 October 2024|author=Emma Towner|website=National Library of Wales|access-date=15 October 2024}}

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|BBC One programme Crimewatch Live makes a fresh appeal for information leading to the discovery of the remains of Suzanne Pilley, who was murdered by her ex-partner in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl7xnkg02o |title=Fresh Crimewatch appeal in bid to find Suzanne Pilley's body |date=17 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 October 2024}}

Conservative Party leadership candidates Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch take part in a leadership debate on GB News, but Badenoch has turned down an invitation to take part in a Question Time special on BBC One, and a planned online debate organised by The Sun.{{Cite web |first=Chris |last=Mason |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevy3jd42x8o |title=Why BBC Tory leader debate is not happening, and why it matters |date=18 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=18 October 2024}}
24

|It emerges that ITV have edited out a pro-Palestine symbol from an episode of Big Brother after a contestant wore a t-shirt displaying the symbol.{{Cite web |first=Yasmin |last=Rufo |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9nd5ln2xno |title=Big Brother edits out pro-Palestine symbol on t-shirt |date=24 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=24 October 2024}}

26

|Professional dancer Amy Dowden is taken to hospital after collapsing backstage following the evening's edition of Strictly Come Dancing.{{Cite web |first=Guy |last=Lambert |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3deemjg338o |title=Strictly Come Dancing: Amy Dowden rushed to hospital during show |date=27 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 November 2024}}

28

|Professional dancer Lauren Oakley steps in to partner Strictly contestant JB Gill following Amy Dowden's backstage collapse on the previous Saturday's edition of the show.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Saunders |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20656yy96yo |title=Strictly's Lauren Oakley steps in for Amy Dowden in training |date=28 October 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 November 2024}}

29

|Former GB News presenter Mark Steyn is ordered to pay £50,000 in legal costs after losing a case against Ofcom in which he alleged the regulator had "killed" his career with two rulings about COVID-19 content in his shows during 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/29/former-gb-news-presenter-ordered-to-pay-50000-in-legal-costs |title=Former GB News presenter ordered to pay £50,000 in legal costs |first=Haroon |last=Siddique |date=29 October 2024 |accessdate=10 November 2024 |work=The Guardian}}

31

|GB News is fined £100,000 by Ofcom for breaking impartiality rules with a programme featuring the former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-31 |title=Ofcom fines GB News £100,000 over impartiality |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v3d44zj03o |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

=November=

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|A joint investigation carried out by Channel 4's Dispatches and The Sunday Times reveals the extent of rent received by the Royal Estate from schools, the National Health Service and the armed forces.{{Cite web |first=Michael Sheils |last=McNamee |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4l1lzv2nro |title=Royal estates 'receive millions from public bodies and charities' |date=2 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2 November 2024}}

On Strictly Come Dancing, JB Gill and stand-in professional dancer Lauren Oakley score the joint highest score of the series, as Amy Dowden returns to the show to watch them perform.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/amy-dowden-pete-wicks-oakley-bbc-one-motsi-mabuse-b1191679.html |title=JB Gill and Lauren Oakley score joint series highest as Amy Dowden watches |first=Casey |last=Cooper-Fiske |date=2 November 2024 |website=The Standard |accessdate=3 November 2024}}
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|Amy Dowden pulls out of the 2024 series of Strictly Come Dancing following her collapse.{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/amy-dowden-sadly-leaves-this-years-strictly-come-dancing-13248481 |title=Amy Dowden 'heartbroken' as she leaves this year's Strictly Come Dancing |website=Sky News |date=4 November 2024 |accessdate=8 November 2024}}

5

|BBC One, BBC News, ITV1 and STV, Channel 4, GB News, Sky News and Sky Showcase show coverage of the 2024 United States presidential election.

7

|UKTV completes its roll-out of the U brand when its two pay channels Gold and Alibi rebrand to U&Gold and U&Alibi.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/uktv-urebrand-rolloutcomplete|title=UKTV COMPLETES ROLLOUT OF 'U' REBRAND|website=www.tvzoneuk.com|date=7 November 2024 |accessdate=10 November 2024}}

10

|GB News goes off-air during the Remembrance Sunday two-minute silence at 11am, with viewers seeing a test card accompanied by a sustained loud bleeping.{{Cite web |first=Louis |last=Chilton |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/gb-news-minutes-silence-remembrance-day-b2644539.html |title=GB News condemned for going off air with loud beeping during two-minute silence |date=10 November 2024 |website=The Independent |accessdate=10 November 2024}}

11

|BBC News reports that Gary Lineker will step down from presenting Match of the Day at the end of the 2024–25 football season.{{Cite web |first1=Mallory |last1=Moench |first2=Katie |last2=Razzall |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd456rzg75o |title=Gary Lineker: BBC Match of the Day host to leave at end of season |date=11 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=11 November 2024}} The BBC confirms Lineker's departure from Match of the Day the following day, but says he will host BBC Sport's coverage of the 2026 World Cup.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crln27ek10no |title=Lineker to stop hosting Match of the Day, BBC confirms |date=12 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=12 November 2024}}

12

|Geraint Evans is appointed as the new chief executive of S4C.{{Cite web |first=Antonia |last=Matthews |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgdkgg5z80o |title=Welsh TV channel S4C appoints new chief executive Geraint Evans |date=12 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=12 November 2024}}

13

|The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announces a change in its rules that will strip awards from anyone convicted of a serious crime, but the rules will not be applied retrospectively, meaning for example, that Huw Edwards will keep the awards he won.{{Cite web |first=Ian |last=Youngs |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk47l2ynego |title=Huw Edwards to keep Bafta Awards despite rule change |date=13 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 November 2024}}

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|The 9th Royal Television Society Northern Ireland Awards are scheduled to take place at Titanic Belfast.{{Cite web|url=https://advanced-television.com/2024/04/22/new-tv-awards-for-northern-irelands-screen-industries/ |title=New TV awards for Northern Ireland's screen industries |date=22 April 2024 |access-date=28 April 2024 |publisher=Advanced Television}}

Medical soap Doctors broadcasts its final ever episode after 24 years on air.{{cite web|title=Doctors axed by BBC after 23 years |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/doctors/a45570567/doctors-axed-bbc-23-years/|first=Sam|last=Warner|website=Digital Spy|date=18 October 2023}}
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|BBC One airs the BBC's annual Children in Need appeal, with £39m raised for charities by the end of the show.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rl31p1vgvo |title=Children in Need: Strictly, Outnumbered and Doctor Who stars appear in annual charity show |date=15 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 November 2024}}

Television presenter Davina McCall reveals that she has been diagnosed with a benign brain tumour known as a colloid cyst, and has undergone surgery to remove the growth.{{Cite web |first1=Ian |last1=Youngs |first2=Helen |last2=Bushby |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5l997xnl4o |title=Davina McCall recovering after surgery for rare brain tumour |date=15 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 November 2024}}
Ali Bromley, a forensic psychologist from Leicester, wins the twenty-first series of ITV's Big Brother. She becomes the first lesbian to win the series as well as the oldest female winner in the show's history.{{cite web |title=Big Brother 2024 crowns winner |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a62922448/big-brother-2024-winner-ali-bromley/ |website=Digital Spy |access-date=16 November 2024 |date=15 November 2024}}
21

|Rosie Millard resigns as chair of the BBC's Children in Need charity following reports she protested about the awarding of a grant to an LGBTQ youth charity whose former chief executive had been involved in a child abuse scandal.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp35652x26yo |title=BBC Children in Need chair resigns over grants to scandal-hit charity |date=21 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 November 2024}}

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|Publication of "The Future of News", a House of Lords report which warns of the emergence of a "two-tier" news system, where large organisations and niche outlets are the only news providers that will be financially viable. The report also warns that BBC News risks losing viewers to "alternative" outlets such as GB News if it does not reform its coverage.{{Cite web |first=Albert |last=Toth |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-gb-news-lords-report-tv-media-b2653118.html |title=BBC risks losing working class viewers to GB News, Lords report finds |date=26 November 2024 |website=The Independent |accessdate=26 November 2024}}

Georgie Grasso wins Series 15 of The Great British Bake Off.{{Cite web |first=Maria |last=Cassidy |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr7d02p8m1o |title=GBBO: Winner Georgie on reaction after Bake off ADHD reveal |date=27 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=27 November 2024}}
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|Gregg Wallace temporarily steps aside from presenting MasterChef whilst claims of historical misconduct are investigated.{{cite news|last1=Nanji|first1=Noor|last2=Baker|first2=Felicity|title=Masterchef's Gregg Wallace steps aside after allegations|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7n1e8n721o |work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=28 November 2024}}

Drag queen Kyran Thrax wins Series Six of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, and is the inaugural winner of a £25,000 cash prize.{{Cite web |first1=Eleanor |last1=Doyle |first2=Riyah |last2=Collins |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62jp36r38lo |title=RuPaul's Drag Race UK crowns series six queen |date=29 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=29 November 2024}}
29

|The UK government announces that the cost of a TV licence will increase by £5 from April 2025 to £174.50.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0lez00g85o |title=TV licence fee to rise by £5 to £174.50 in 2025 |date=29 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=29 November 2024}}

=December=

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! Event

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|MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace apologises for suggesting allegations against him came from "a handful of middle-class women of a certain age".{{Cite web

|first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkxy2g7py2o |title=Gregg Wallace apologises for 'middle-class women' comment |date=2 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2 December 2024}}

Ian Smith, who plays Harold Bishop in Neighbours, tells Australia's 10 News First he is leaving the show after he was diagnosed with pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma, a rare form of lung cancer, which he has been told is terminal.{{Cite web |first=Emma |last=Saunders |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2e3182xk4o |title=Neighbours star Ian Smith reveals he has terminal cancer |date=2 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2 December 2024}}
3

|The BBC announces it has pulled the MasterChef Christmas Special following allegations made against Gregg Wallace.{{Cite web |first=Noor |last=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceqlnl95lwdo |title=Gregg Wallace: BBC to pull MasterChef Christmas special after allegations |date=3 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=3 December 2024}}

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|BBC newsreader and presenter Clive Myrie apologises for failing to declare at least £145,000 of non-BBC earnings to his employer.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4xzrjv0zno |title=Clive Myrie apologises for not declaring £145k earnings to BBC |date=4 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 December 2024}}

Research from Barb Audiences indicates viewing figures for GB News surpassed those for Sky News for the first time during November, with an average audience of 70,430 for GB News over a 20 hour period from 6am to 2am, compared to 67,670 for Sky News.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/04/gb-news-overtakes-rival-sky-in-latest-live-viewing-figures-data-shows |title=GB News overtakes rival Sky in latest live viewing figures, data shows |date=4 December 2024 |accessdate=8 December 2024 |work=The Guardian}}
6

|Dame Sarah Storey confirms she has been forced to withdraw from the upcoming series of Dancing on ice after fracturing her ankle during training.{{Cite web |first=Paul |last=Glynn |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgndvgz2p2o |title=Dame Sarah Storey 'gutted' to be out of Dancing on Ice |date=6 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=7 December 2024}}

7

|Animated characters Wallace & Gromit make a guest appearance on the evening's edition of Strictly Come Dancing.{{Cite web |first=Hafsa |last=Khalil |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgrrq71gp5o |title=Wallace and Gromit make live appearance on Strictly's semi-final |date=8 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 December 2024}}

8

|Danny Jones of McFly wins the 24th series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!.{{Cite web |first=Annabel |last=Rackham |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy09lkl8l47o |title=I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! 2024 winner revealed |date=8 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=9 December 2024}}

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|BBC Scotland announces the launch of two new news programmes in early 2025: Reporting Scotland: News at Seven, a weeknight news bulletin presented by Laura Maciver and Amy Irons on the BBC Scotland channel from 6 January, and the Scotcast podcast with Martin Geissler launching on 13 January.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75wzyr3zzko |title=BBC Scotland to launch Scotcast and News at Seven in January |date=9 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=9 December 2024}}

A report by the Centre for Media Monitoring indicates that GB News accounted for half of all news stories about Muslims over a two year period, much of them negative, something the report describes as a "excessive" focus bordering on "obsession".{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/09/gb-news-broadcasts-uk-stories-muslims |title=GB News broadcasts half of all UK stories about Muslims, analysis shows |first=Aamna |last=Mohdin |date=9 December 2024 |accessdate=16 December 2024 |work=The Guardian}}
14

|Comedian Chris McCausland and professional dance partner Dianne Buswell win Series 22 of Strictly Come Dancing. McCausland is the first blind contestant to compete in the series, and the first to win.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8g4d8yxlzo |title=Strictly Come Dancing final: Winner of glitterball trophy announced |date=14 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=14 December 2024}}

16

|Strictly Come Dancing confirms that Amy Dowden will return for the series' live tour in 2025.{{Cite web |first=Yasmin |last=Rufo |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dpg81p85jo |title=Amy Dowden to return to Strictly Come Dancing for live tour |date=16 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=16 December 2024}}

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|BBC Studios is to team up with Disney to produce a film based on the children's television series Bluey, due for release in 2027.{{Cite web |first=Helen |last=Bushby |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg60qy01eyo |title=Bluey animated film announced by Disney+ and BBC |date=17 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 December 2024}}

Ofcom apologises after campaigners criticised the watchdog for "trivialising" violence against women and girls over a LinkedIn post in which a senior member of staff jokingly promote a job supervising the porn industry, describing the joke as "ill-judged".{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygj1l4yweo |title=Ofcom apologises for 'ill-judged' porn joke job ad |date=17 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=17 December 2024}}
Channel 4 and Disney Entertainment sign a new contract to air The Simpsons that will see new seasons of the series premiere on Disney+ before showing on E4 and becoming available through Channel 4's streaming service. The programme will also move from its weeknight slot on Channel 4 to E4 from January 2025, with Season 32 airing on E4 from January, and Season 36 airing on Disney+ from Spring 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-renews-deal-disney-entertainment-bring-simpsons-uk-audiences |title=Channel 4 renews deal with Disney Entertainment to bring "The Simpsons" to UK audiences |publisher=Channel 4|date=17 December 2024 |accessdate=17 December 2024}}
Olympic 800m gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson is voted the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.{{Cite web |first=Harry |last=Poole |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c4gldyp77e0o |title=Keely Hodgkinson wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 |date=17 December 2024 |website=BBC Sport |publisher=BBC |accessdate=18 December 2024}}
18

|The BBC announces that Grace Dent will replace Gregg Wallace as host of Celebrity MasterChef.{{cite news |last1=Nanji |first1=Noor |last2=McIntosh |first2=Steven |title=Dent to replace Wallace on Celebrity MasterChef |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr56v10v6yro |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=18 December 2024 |accessdate=19 December 2024}}

19

|GB News unveils a new schedule for 2025. Highlights include the departures of Mark Dolan, Isabel Webster and Andrew Doyle, while Ben Leo will present Ben Leo Tonight on Saturdays and Sundays, and Miriam Cates will present Dewbs & Co every other Friday. Ellie Costello will co-present breakfast alongside Eamonn Holmes on Mondays to Wednesdays and Stephen Dixon on Thursdays and Fridays.{{Cite web |first=Roy |last=Martin |url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2024/12/two-presenters-depart-gb-news-radio-to-make-way-for-new-schedule-in-2025/ |title=Two presenters depart GB News Radio to make way for new schedule in 2025 |date=18 December 2024 |publisher=Radio Today |accessdate=19 December 2024}}

20

|Fiona Wood becomes the first woman to win a series of Countdown since 1998.{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dp6lv1008o |title=Countdown: Channel 4 show crowns Fiona Wood first female winner in 26 years |date=20 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=20 December 2024}}

21

|US President-elect Donald Trump appoints British TV executive Mark Burnett as the inaugural United States Special Envoy to the United Kingdom.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rqj5z1e5vo |title=Mark Burnett: Trump picks Apprentice producer as UK envoy |date=21 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=22 December 2024}}

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|It is announced that King Charles III will deliver his Christmas message from Fitzrovia Chapel, the first time in over a decade that it hasn't been recorded in a royal residence.{{cite news|last1=Coughlan|first1=Sean|title=King's Christmas message to come from former hospital chapel |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd60xej41wjo|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=23 December 2024}}

A 90-minute colourisation of the 1969 Doctor Who serial "The War Games" airs on BBC Four.{{cite news|last1=Jeffery|first1=Morgan|title=New Doctor Who colourisation of classic story to reveal 'lost' regeneration|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-war-games-colourisation-newsupdate/|work=Radio Times|date=23 November 2024}}
24

|Paul Bradley reprises his role as EastEnders character Nigel Bates 26 years after last appearing in the series.{{Cite web |first=Jake |last=Lapham |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7x447jewo |title=Eastenders: Nigel Bates makes Christmas return to Albert Square |date=24 December 2024 |website=BBC News |accessdate=28 December 2024}}

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|King Charles III presents the Royal Christmas Message from the Fitzrovia Chapel, a former hospital chapel in central London.

Comedian Chris McCausland presents Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message.{{Cite web |first=Hannah |last=Roberts |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/chris-mccausland-channel-4-christmas-speech-strictly-b2668891.html |title=Chris McCausland lands major Channel 4 role after winning Strictly |date=23 December 2024 |website=The Independent |accessdate=23 December 2024}}
Stop-motion animation Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl has its UK premiere on BBC One.{{Cite web |title=BBC announces Christmas Day air date and releases trailer for the return of Wallace and Gromit |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2024/wallace-and-gromit-trailer-christmas-release-date |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}
The final ever episode of Gavin & Stacey airs as part of BBC One's Christmas Day schedule.{{Cite web |first1=Catherine |last1=Evans |first2=Elinor |last2=Rice |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq3znxe2xqo |title=Gavin and Stacey finale: What can we expect from Christmas special? |date=3 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 May 2024}} It attracts 12.3 million viewers (on overnight figures) – the largest Christmas Day audience in more than a decade, and the year's highest non-sport overnight figure.{{cite web|first1=Lizo|last1=Mzimba|first2=Sofia|last2=Ferreira Santos|title=Gavin and Stacey tops Christmas Day TV ratings|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86wy4ev7g3o|work=BBC News|date=2024-12-26|accessdate=2024-12-26|publisher=BBC}} By early 2025, viewing figures reach 19.3 million, the UK’s most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since comparable records began in 2002.{{cite web|title=Gavin & Stacey: The Finale becomes the UK’s highest rating scripted show with 19.3 million viewers and counting|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/gavin-and-stacey-the-finale-becomes-UKs-highest-rating-scripted-show|publisher=BBC Media Centre|date=2025-01-03|accessdate=2025-01-04}} Barb-produced figures give the programme an audience of 19.11 million in the first week following its transmission.{{Cite web |first=Lizo |last=Mzimba |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkxl15vr7jo |title=Gavin & Stacey: 19.1 million viewers watched finale in first week |date=6 January 2025 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=6 January 2025}}
The Christmas Day edition of Strictly Come Dancing becomes the first to feature a dance competition involving drag queens.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxj1dder3o|title=Strictly Come Dancing: First drag queen competitor to be featured|date=24 December 2024|website=BBC News}} The contest is won by Welsh drag queen Tayce.{{Cite web |first=Matt |last=Spivey |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lgjp3zjdro |title=Tayce wins Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special |date=25 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=28 December 2024}}
Helen Worth makes her final onscreen appearance as Coronation Street{{'}}s Gail Platt after 50 years with the series.{{Cite web |first=Paul |last=Glynn |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg52gz82ydqo |title=Coronation Street's Gail bids farewell: 7 of her best bits |date=25 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=28 December 2024}}
29

|Conservative Party allies of Kemi Badenoch reject claims she asked GB News to reduce Nigel Farage's airtime on the channel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/29/kemi-badenoch-allies-dismiss-nonsense-claims-she-asked-gb-news-to-cut-nigel-farage-airtime |title=Badenoch allies dismiss ‘nonsense’ claims she asked GB News to cut Farage’s airtime |first1=Rowena |last1=Mason |date=29 December 2024 |accessdate=1 January 2025 |publisher=The Guardian}}

30

|2025 New Year Honours: Those from the world of television recognised in the New Year Honours include Stephen Fry who receives a knighthood, and Sarah Lancashire who becomes a CBE.{{Cite web |first=Grace |last=Dean |first2=George |last2=Sandeman |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ln96d4yyeo |title=New Year Honours: Gareth Southgate, Stephen Fry and Olympians on list |date=30 December 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=30 December 2024}}

31

|BBC One sees in the New Year with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who performs and hosts a "New Year Disco".{{Cite web |first=Mark |last=Savage |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v3yz665y2o |title=Sophie Ellis-Bextor to play the BBC's New Year Eve concert |date=21 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=21 November 2024}}

Debuts

=BBC=

class="wikitable"
width=90|Date || width=250|Debut || width=100|Channel
10 January

| Style It Out

| CBBC

17 January

| Liar: The Fake Grooming Scandal{{Cite web |first=Sarah |last=McCann |url=https://www.nationalworld.com/culture/television/liar-the-fake-grooming-scandal-release-date-on-bbc-three-who-is-ellie-williams-what-did-her-facebook-post-say-4478881 |title=Ellie Williams: 'BBC Three documentary examines fake grooming scandal |date=15 January 2024 |access-date=31 January 2024 |publisher=National World}}

| BBC Three

21 January

| Wilderness with Simon Reeve

| rowspan=2 | BBC Two

22 January

| David & Jay's Touring Toolshed

31 January

| Domino Day

| BBC Three

2 February

| Amityville: An Origin Story

| rowspan="2" | BBC Two

14 February

| Bring the Drama

19 February

| The Way

| BBC One

20 February

| Boarders

| BBC Three

22 February

| Martin Compston's Norwegian Fling

| BBC Scotland

29 February

| Things You Should Have Done

| BBC Three

5 March

| Sarah Everard: The Search for Justice{{Cite web |first=Andre |last=Rhoden-Paul |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68466660 |title=Sarah Everard: BBC documentary recalls police learning killer was Met officer |date=4 March 2024 |access-date=5 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

| rowspan="2" | BBC One

18 March

| Anton & Giovanni's Adventures in Spain

26 March

| Quiet Life

| BBC Three

27 March

| Andi Oliver's Fabulous Feasts

| BBC Two

rowspan="2" | 31 March

| Mammals

| rowspan="2" | BBC One

This Town
9 April

| Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo

| BBC Four

14 April

| Dinosaur

| BBC Three

7 May

| Business Today{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z3z4/episodes/guide|title=BBC News – Business Today – Episode guide|website=BBC|access-date=1 May 2024}}

| BBC One / BBC Two / BBC News

17 May

| Rebus

| BBC One / BBC Scotland

3 June

| Lost Boys and Fairies

| BBC One

1 July

| A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

| BBC Three

8 July

| Spent

| BBC Two

10 July

| Cooking Buddies

| CBBC

15 July

| The Jetty

| BBC One

25 July

| Sneakerhead

| BBC Three

2 August

| Miriam Margoyles: A New Australian Adventure

| BBC Two

14 August

| Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story

| rowspan="2" | BBC Three

15 August

| Daddy Issues

17 August

| Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience

| rowspan=2 | BBC One

rowspan="2" | 19 August

| The Answer Run

We Might Regret This

| rowspan="3" | BBC Two

25 August

| Big Cats 24/7

4 September

| The Zelensky Story

9 September

| SAS: Catching the Criminals

| BBC One

10 September

| Salmond and Sturgeon: A Troubled Union{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cql3xwy0d9do |title=Swinney raised concerns over Sturgeon's indyref2 strategy |date=8 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=8 September 2024}}

| BBC Scotland

15 September

| Nightsleeper

| BBC One

17 September

| Nadiya's Cook Once Eat Twice

| BBC Two

25 September

| Ludwig

| BBC One

26 September

| Rick Stein's Food Stories

| BBC Two

29 September

| Paddy and Chris: Road Tripping

| BBC One

4 October

| Myth Country

| BBC Three

7 October

| Solar System

| BBC Two

rowspan="2"| 14 October

| Michael Mosley – Just One Thing

| rowspan="2"| BBC One

Mr Loverman
29 October

| Mary's Foolproof Dinners

| BBC Two

3 November

| Asia

| rowspan="4" | BBC One

10 November

| Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

16 November

| Moonflower Murders

19 November

| The Listeners

21 November

| Only Child

| BBC Scotland

22 November

| Return to Paradise

| rowspan="3" | BBC One

rowspan="2" | 25 December

| Tiddler

Vengeance Most Fowl

=ITV=

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width=90|Date || width=250|Debut || width=100|Channel
1 January

| Mr Bates vs The Post Office{{Cite web |first1=Esyllt |last1=Carr |first2=Emma |last2=Simpson |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67806869 |title=Post Office scandal TV drama 'like a dream' say victims |date=1 January 2024 |access-date=1 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

| rowspan="3" | ITV1

6 January

| Big Zuu's 12 Dishes in 12 Hours

10 January

| After the Flood

15 January

| Love Island: All Stars

| ITV2

22 January

| Born from the Same Stranger

| ITV1

28 January

| TikTok: Murder Gone Viral

| rowspan="2" | ITVX

8 February

| G'wed

19 February

| Breathtaking

| rowspan="4" | ITV1

24 February

| Prue Leith's Cotswold Kitchen

24 March

| Passenger

28 March

| The Twelve

10 April

| Drama Queens

| ITVBe

21 April

| Red Eye

| rowspan="7" | ITV1

13 May

| The Fortune Hotel

27 June

| Douglas is Cancelled

29 June

| The Chris McCausland Show

30 June

| Jimmy and Shivi's Farmhouse Breakfast

19 July

| Champions: Full Gallop

20 July

| Piglets

1 September

| Olivia Attwood’s Bad Boyfriends

| ITV2

17 September

| Dress the Nation

| rowspan="6"| ITV1

29 September

| Joan

10 October

| Ash Holme: What Not to Do with Dad

2 November

| Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening

3 November

| Until I Kill You

23 December

| Pictionary

=Channel 4=

class="wikitable"
width=90|Date || width=250|Debut || width=100|Channel
3 January

| Truelove

| rowspan="5" | Channel 4

4 January

| Secret Life of the Safari Park

29 January

| To Catch a Copper

14 February

| Alice & Jack

26 February

| The Jury: Murder Trial

25 March

| The Underdog: Josh Must Win

| E4

28 March

| Big Mood

| rowspan="6" | Channel 4

26 April

| Double the Money

14 May

| The Gathering

24 May

| The Nevermets

4 June

| Queenie

6 August

| Yorkshire by the Sea

12 August

| Second-Hand Showdown

| E4

21 September

| Abandoned Railways from Above

| rowspan="5" | Channel 4

24 September

| Into the Jungle with Ed Stafford

rowspan="2"| 7 October

| Jamie: Fast and Simple

Secret Amazon: Into the Wild
13 October

| Generation Z

14 October

| Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids

| More4

29 October

| Beyond Chelsea

| E4

2 December

| Person of Interest

| Channel 4

=Channel 5=

class="wikitable"
width=90|Date || width=250|Debut || width=100|Channel
17 January

| Finders Keepers

| rowspan="11" | Channel 5

14 February

| Too Good to Be True

11 March

| Love Rat

18 March

| Coma

8 April

| The Cuckoo

7 July

| The Night Caller

16 September

| The Wives

30 September

| Phillip Schofield: Cast Away

7 October

| The Hardacres

31 October

| Ellis

12 November

| Killed By Our Daughter: The Virginia McCullough Murders{{Cite web|url=https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/daughters-brutal-murder-parents-chelmsford-9720620 |title=Daughter's brutal murder of parents in Chelmsford to be told in new documentary |first=Matt |last=Lee |date=16 November 2024 |website=Essex Live |accessdate=29 December 2024}}

=Sky=

class="wikitable"
width=90|Date || width=250|Debut || width=100|Channel
29 February

| Rob Beckett's Smart TV

| Sky Max

5 March

| Mary & George

| rowspan="2" | Sky Atlantic

2 May

| The Tattooist of Auschwitz

17 July

| Mr Bigstuff

| Sky Comedy

10 October

| Sweetpea

| Sky Atlantic

7 November

| The Day of the Jackal

| Sky Atlantic

22 December

| Bad Tidings

| Sky Max

=Other channels=

class="wikitable"
width=90|Date || width=250|Debut || width=100|Channel
1 January

| Fool Me Once

| Netflix

10 January

| Criminal Record

| Apple TV+

14 January

| Belgravia: The Next Chapter

| MGM+

25 January

| Sexy Beast

| Paramount+

7 February

| Hot Mess Summer{{cite web|title=Hot Mess Summer destined for Prime Video|url=https://fremantle.com/news/hot-mess-summer-destined-for-prime-video|website=Fremantle|access-date=22 January 2024}}

| Amazon Prime Video

8 February

| One Day

| Netflix

21 February

| Constellation

| Apple TV+

26 February

| Out of Order

| Comedy Central

28 February

| Iwájú

| Disney+ / Star

rowspan="2" | 1 March

| The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin{{cite web|title=Noel Fielding transforms in new look at Dick Turpin drama as release date confirmed|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a46423410/noel-fielding-new-look-dick-turpin-release-date/|first=Stefania|last=Sarrubba|website=Digital Spy|date=17 January 2024|access-date=18 January 2024}}

| Apple TV+

Dead Hot

| Amazon Prime Video

6 March

| The Marlow Murder Club

| U

7 March

| The Gentlemen

| Netflix

rowspan="2" | 29 March

| A Gentleman in Moscow

| Paramount+

Renegade Nell

| Disney+

11 April

| Baby Reindeer

| Netflix

24 April

| The Red King

| Alibi

29 April

| The Vanishing Triangle

| Acorn TV

1 May

| Shardlake

| Disney+ / Star

22 May

| Buying London{{cite web|title=Netflix's London-based Selling Sunset-style show confirms release window|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a60219050/netflix-buying-london/|website=Digital Spy|first1=Charlie|last1=Duncan|first2=Emily|last2=Stedman|date=21 March 2024|access-date=16 April 2024}}{{cite web|title=Made in Chelsea star's new Netflix show confirms release date and cast|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a60658188/netflix-buying-london-cast/|first=Erin|last=Zammitt|website=Digital Spy|date=1 May 2024}}

| Netflix

23 May

| Insomnia

| Paramount+

rowspan="2" | 30 May

| Eric

| rowspan="2" | Netflix

Geek Girl
rowspan="2" | 27 June

| My Lady Jane

| Amazon Prime Video

Supacell

| Netflix

16 July

| Battle in the Box

| U&Dave

7 August

| Love Is Blind: UK{{cite web|title=Love Is Blind getting UK spinoff on Netflix|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a42801505/love-is-blind-uk-netflix/|website=Digital Spy|date=8 February 2023}}

| Netflix

15 August

| Stags

| Paramount+

29 August

| Kaos

| Netflix

19 September

| A Very Royal Scandal

| Amazon Prime Video

18 October

| Rivals

| Disney+ / Star

25 October

| Nautilus

| Amazon Prime Video

5 December

| Black Doves

| Netflix

26 December

| The Road Trip

| Paramount+

Channels and streaming services

=New channels=

class="wikitable"
width=90|Date

! width=250|Channel

2 January

| That's TV 2

11 February

| Sky Sports Tennis

4 March

| Chart Show Retro

20 March

| GREAT! Real

23 May

| Rewind TV

12 June

| Seen on TV

24 June

| That's Dance

1 July

| That's TV 3

3 July

| Now 90s & 00s

=New streaming services=

class="wikitable"
width=90|Date

! width=250|Channel

30 April

|Freely

2 July

|Tubi

8 August

| Sky Sports+

TBC

| Hayu Select

=Defunct channels/streaming services=

class="wikitable"
width=90|Date

! width=250|Channel

9 January

|Peacock

25 January

|Viaplay Xtra

29 February

|Lionsgate+

20 March

|Tiny Pop

31 March

|SportyStuff TV

rowspan="2"| 30 April

|BritBox

Talk
25 June

|Seen on TV

rowspan="5"| 30 June

|The Box

Magic
Kiss TV
4Music
Kerrang! TV
20 August

| GREAT! Real

=Rebranding channels/streaming services=

class="wikitable"
width=100|Date

! width=170|Old name

! width=170|New name

rowspan=6|16 July
UKTV Play

| U

Dave

| U&Dave

Drama

| U&Drama

W

| U&W

Yesterday

| U&Yesterday

16 October

| Eden

| U&Eden

rowspan=2|7 November

| Alibi

| U&Alibi

Gold

| U&Gold

Television programmes

=Changes of network affiliation=

class="wikitable"
width=240|Programme

! width=135|Moved from

! width=135|Moved to

American Rust

|Sky Atlantic

|Amazon Prime Video

All BritBox Programmes to Be Revealed

|BritBox

|ITVX

The Walking Dead{{Cite web|url=https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/the-walking-dead-universe-finds-new-uk-home-on-sky|title=The Walking Dead Universe* finds new UK home on Sky – with The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live coming exclusively from this month|website=www.skygroup.sky|access-date=17 May 2024}}

|Disney+

|Sky Max

Gladiators

|Sky1

|BBC One

=Returning this year after a break of one year or longer=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=125|Date(s) of original removal

! width=125|Original channel(s)

! width=125|Date of return

! width=125|New channel(s)

Jeopardy!

| 2 July 1984
9 April 1993
7 June 1996

| Channel 4
ITV1
Sky1

| 1 January 2024

| ITV1

Wheel of Fortune

| 21 December 2001

| ITV1

| 6 January 2024

| N/A (same channel as original)

Gladiators

| 1 January 2000
25 October 2009

| ITV1
Sky1

| 13 January 2024

| BBC One

The World Today

| 6 May 2011

| BBC One
BBC News
BBC World News

| 21 February 2024

| BBC News

Celebrity Big Brother

| 25 January 2010
10 September 2018

| Channel 4
Channel 5

| 4 March 2024

| ITV1

Password

| 10 September 1963
3 January 1976
14 May 1983
29 July 1988

| ITV
BBC1/2
Channel 4
ITV

| 31 August 2024

| rowspan="6"|N/A (same channel as original)

Lingo

| 14 July 1988
3 January 2023

| ITV1

| 2 September 2024

I'm a Celebrity: Unpacked

| 8 December 2020

| ITV2

| 17 November 2024

You Bet!

| 12 April 1997

| ITV

| 7 December 2024

Bullseye

| 8 July 1995
22 September 2006

| ITV
Challenge

| 22 December 2024

Continuing television programmes

=1920s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

BBC Wimbledon

|1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present

=1930s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

Trooping the Colour

|1937–1939, 1946–2019, 2023–present

The Boat Race

|1938–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present

BBC Cricket

|1939, 1946–1999, 2020–present

=1950s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

Eurovision Song Contest

|1956–2019, 2021–present

The Sky at Night

|1957–present

Final Score

| rowspan="2" |1958–present

Blue Peter

=1960s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

Coronation Street

|1960–present

Points of View

| rowspan="2" |1961–present

Songs of Praise
University Challenge

|1962–1987, 1994–present

Doctor Who

|1963–1989, 1996, 2005–present

Horizon

| rowspan="2" |1964–present

Match of the Day
Top of the Pops

|1964–2006, 2006–present

Gardeners' World

|1968–present

=1970s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

Emmerdale

|1972–present

Mastermind (including Celebrity Mastermind)

|1972–1997, 2003–present

Football Focus

|1974–1988, 1992–present

Ski Sunday

|1978–present

Blankety Blank

|1979–1990, 1997–2002, 2016, 2020–present

Antiques Roadshow

| rowspan="2" |1979–present

Question Time

=1980s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

Children in Need

|1980–present

Countdown

|1982–present

EastEnders

|1985–present

Comic Relief

|1988–present

Catchphrase

|1986–2002, 2013–present

Casualty

|1986–present

This Morning

| rowspan="2" |1988–present

Countryfile

=1990s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

Have I Got News for You

|1990–present

MasterChef

|1990–2001, 2005–2025

ITV News Meridian

|1993–present

National Television Awards

|1995–2008, 2010–present

Silent Witness

|1996–present

Midsomer Murders

|1997–present

Classic Emmerdale

|1998–2004, 2019–present

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

|1998–2014, 2018–present

Loose Women

| 1999–present

=2000s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

Bargain Hunt

| rowspan="2" |2000–present

BBC Breakfast
Big Brother

| 2000–2018, 2023–present

Click

| rowspan="2" | 2000–present

Unreported World
BBC South East Today

|2001–present

Survivor

|2001–2002, 2023–present

Escape to the Country

| rowspan="2" |2002–present

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

|2002–2009, 2013–2018, 2020–2024

River City

|rowspan="2" | 2002–present

Saturday Kitchen
QI

| rowspan="3" |2003–present

Eggheads
Homes Under the Hammer
Match of the Day 2

| rowspan="6" |2004–present

Strictly Come Dancing
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
Newswatch
Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Apprentice

|2005–present

Classic Doctors

| 2005, 2023–present

Deal or No Deal

| 2005–2016, 2023–present

Dragons' Den

| rowspan="3" |2005–present

The Hotel Inspector
Springwatch
The Apprentice: You're Fired!

| rowspan="2" |2006–present

Banged Up Abroad
Dancing on Ice

|2006–2014, 2018–present

Not Going Out

|rowspan="2" | 2006–present

The One Show
Waterloo Road

|2006–2015, 2023–present

Britain's Got Talent

|2007–2020, 2022–present

The Adventure Show

| rowspan="3" |2007–present

Would I Lie to You?
The Graham Norton Show
Police Interceptors

| 2008–present

Soccer Aid

|2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018–present

Pointless

| rowspan="3" |2009–present

The Chase
Kate Garraway's Life Stories

=2010s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

The Great British Bake Off

| rowspan="5" | 2010–present

|Great British Railway Journeys

Lorraine
The Only Way Is Essex
Sunday Morning Live
Junior Bake Off

|2011, 2013, 2015–2016, 2019, 2021–present

Made in Chelsea

| rowspan="4" |2011–present

Death in Paradise
24 Hours in A&E
The Jonathan Ross Show
Vera

|2011–2025

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

| rowspan="5" |2012–present

Call the Midwife
Stand Up To Cancer
The Voice UK
Tipping Point
The Dumping Ground

| rowspan="2" |2013–present

Father Brown
Agatha Raisin

| rowspan="3" |2014–present

GPs: Behind Closed Doors
Good Morning Britain
Grantchester

| 2014, 2016–2017, 2019–present

STV News at Six

| rowspan="2" |2014–present

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
Hunted

| rowspan="5" | 2015–present

Love Island
SAS: Who Dares Wins
Taskmaster
Travel Man
Bake Off: The Professionals

| rowspan="2" |2016–present

Naked Attraction
Sorry, I Didn't Know

|2016, 2020–present

The Repair Shop

| rowspan="3" | 2017–present

Richard Osman's House of Games
Strike
Peston

| 2018–present

Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star

| rowspan="4" |2019–present

The Hit List
Mandy
RuPaul's Drag Race UK

=2020s=

class="wikitable"
width=250|Programme

! width=250|Date

colspan=2|2020
Beat the Chasers

| rowspan="4" |2020–present

Malory Towers
The Masked Singer
The Wheel
colspan=2|2021
Cooking with the Stars

| rowspan="2" | 2021–present

Hope Street
colspan=2|2022
The 1% Club

| rowspan="4" | 2022–present

Limitless Win
Celeb Cooking School
Heartstopper
SAS: Rogue Heroes

| 2022, 2025

The Traitors

| rowspan="2" | 2022–present

Trigger Point
colspan=2|2023
BBC News Now

| rowspan="13" | 2023–present

Black Ops
Blue Lights
Beyond Paradise
Break Point
Changing Ends
Doctor Who: Unleashed
PopMaster TV
The Couple Next Door
The Famous Five
The Finish Line
The Piano
The Toy Hospital
colspan=2|2024
After the Flood

| rowspan="7"| 2024–present

Boarders
Love Island: All Stars
Ludwig
Return to Paradise
Sweetpea
The Answer Run

Ending this year

class="wikitable"
width=90|Date

! width=250|Programme

! width=125|Channel(s)

! width=125|Debut(s)

2 January

|Wild Scandinavia

|BBC Two

|2023

4 January

|Mr Bates vs The Post Office

|ITV1

|2024

12 January

|The Early Rundown

|Sky News

|2019

18 January

|Truelove

|Channel 4

|2024

2 February

|Dickinson's Real Deal

|ITV1

|2006

7 February

|Finders Keepers

|Channel 5

|rowspan="2"|2024

11 February

|Wilderness with Simon Reeve

|BBC Two

rowspan="2"|21 February

|The Daily Global

|BBC News

|2023

Breathtaking

|ITV1

|rowspan="6"|2024

22 February

|Too Good to Be True

|Channel 5

29 February

|Alice & Jack

|Channel 4

4 March

|The Way

|BBC One

14 March

|Love Rat

|rowspan="2"|Channel 5

21 March

|Coma

22 March

|Fantasy Football League

|BBC Two / ITV1 / Sky Max

|1994 & 2022

27 March

|Naked Attraction

|Channel 4

|2016

5 April

|Alex Rider

|Amazon Freevee

|2020

13 April

|Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

|ITV1

|2002, 2013 & 2020

28 April

|This Town

|BBC One

|2024

rowspan="2"|6 May

|World Business Report

|rowspan="2"|BBC One / BBC Two / BBC News

|1995

Asia Business Report

|2003

17 May

|A Gentleman in Moscow

|Paramount+

|2024

31 May

|littleBe

|ITVBe

|2018

8 June

|In for a Penny

|ITV1

|2019

rowspan="2"|12 June

|The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

|rowspan="2"|BBC Two

|2018

Inside No. 9

|2014

17 June

|Lost Boys and Fairies

|BBC One

|rowspan="2"|2024

10 July

|The Night Caller

|Channel 5

11 July

|Tell Me Everything

|ITVX / ITV2

|2022

18 July

|Douglas Is Cancelled

|ITV1

|rowspan="2"|2024

22 July

|The Jetty

|BBC One

4 August

|McDonald & Dodds

|ITV1

|2020

16 August

|Miriam Margoyles: A New Australian Adventure

|BBC Two

|rowspan="2"|2024

28 August

|Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story

|BBC Three

30 August

|Tenable

|ITV1

|2016

12 September

|The Rubbish World of Dave Spud

|CITV / ITVX

|2019

14 November

|Doctors

|BBC One

|2000

25 December

|Gavin & Stacey

|BBC Three / BBC One

|rowspan="2"|2007

26 December

|Outnumbered

|rowspan="2"|BBC One

30 December

|The Split

|2018

Deaths

class="wikitable sortable"
Date

!Name

!Age

!Broadcast credibility

rowspan=3|4 January

|Georgina Hale{{cite news|last1=Hayward |first1=Anthony|author1-link=Anthony Hayward|title=Georgina Hale obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/10/georgina-hale-obituary|work=The Guardian|date=10 January 2024}}

|align=center|80

|Actress (After the Dance, T-Bag)

Glynis Johns{{cite web|title=Mary Poppins actress Glynis Johns dies aged 100|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67888244|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=4 January 2024|access-date=5 January 2024}}

|align=center|100

|Actress (Batman, Playhouse, Mary Poppins)

David Soul{{cite news|last1=Gallagher|first1=Charlotte|last2=Savage|first2=Mark|title=David Soul: Starsky & Hutch actor dies aged 80 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67895679|work=BBC News|agency=BBC|date=5 January 2024}}

|align=center|80

|Actor (Starsky & Hutch, Here Come the Brides) and singer

11 January

|Annie Nightingale{{Cite web |first1=Ian |last1=Youngs |first2=Noor |last2=Nanji |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67955757 |title=Annie Nightingale: Trailblazing BBC Radio 1 DJ dies at 83 |date=12 January 2024 |access-date=12 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

|align=center|83

|British DJ and television broadcaster (The Old Grey Whistle Test)

15 January

|Charmian Abrahams{{Cite web |first=Eleanor |last=Lawson |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-68037151 |title=Charmian Abrahams: Crossroads actress, 96, killed by delivery van |date=19 January 2024 |access-date=19 January 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

|align=center|96

|Actress (Crossroads)

16 January

|Laurie Johnson{{cite web|title=Laurie Johnson: The Avengers theme composer dies|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68054498|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=22 January 2024|access-date=22 January 2024}}

|align=center|96

|Theme tune composer (The Avengers, The Professionals, Animal Magic, This Is Your Life)

26 January

|Richard Howard{{Cite web|url=https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/national/24082914.theatre-actor-richard-howard-dies-aged-79/ |title=Theatre actor Richard Howard dies aged 79 |date=29 January 2024 |website=Bracknell News |access-date=30 January 2024}}

|align=center|79

|Actor (Emmerdale Farm)

29 JanuaryDeath announced on this date.

|Pat Webb{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/gogglebox-star-pat-webb-dies-aged-75-after-long-illness-13059541 |title=Gogglebox star Pat Webb dies aged 75 after long illness |website=Sky News |date=29 January 2024 |access-date=30 January 2024}}

|align=center|75

|Reality show participant (Gogglebox)

2 February

|Jonnie Irwin{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/place-suns-jonnie-irwin-dies-28562819 |title=Jonnie Irwin dies aged 50 as statement issued |first1=Kate |last1=Lally |first2=Ryan |last2=Paton |date=2 February 2024 |website=Liverpool Echo |access-date=2 February 2024}}

|align=center|50

|English television presenter (A Place in the Sun, Escape to the Country, To Buy or Not to Buy)

2 February

|Ian Lavender{{cite news|last1=Nanji|first1=Noor|title=Ian Lavender: Dad's Army star dies aged 77|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68204488|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=5 February 2024}}

|align=center|77

|English actor (Dad's Army, EastEnders)

5 February

|Michael Jayston{{cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/2024-02-05/only-fools-and-horses-actor-michael-jayston-dies-aged-88|title=Only Fools And Horses actor Michael Jayston dies aged 88|website=ITV News|date=5 February 2024|access-date=5 February 2024}}

|align=center|88

|Actor (Doctor Who, Emmerdale, Jane Eyre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Only Fools and Horses, Midsomer Murders)

12 February

|Steve Wright{{Cite web |first=Steven |last=McIntosh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68287707 |title=Steve Wright: BBC Radio 2 presenter dies aged 69 |date=13 February 2024 |access-date=13 February 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

|align=center|69

|Presenter (Top of the Pops, Top of the Pops 2, The Steve Wright People Show)

15 February

|Stuart Organ{{cite web|title=Doctor Who and Grange Hill star Stuart Organ dies, age 72|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/stuart-organ-grange-hill-dead-newsupdate/|last=Moss|first=Molly|website=Radio Times|date=23 February 2024|access-date=23 February 2024}}

|align=center|72

|Actor (Grange Hill, Doctor Who, Brookside, Holby City, Casualty)

rowspan="2"| 19 February

|Ewen MacIntosh{{cite web|title=The Office actor Ewen MacIntosh dies aged 50|url=https://www.itv.com/news/2024-02-21/the-office-actor-ewen-macintosh-dies-aged-50 |website=ITV News |publisher=ITV |date=21 February 2024 |access-date=21 February 2024}}

|align=center|50

|Actor and comedian (The Office, Little Britain, Miranda)

Robin Windsor{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/former-strictly-come-dancing-star-robin-bobby-windsor-dies-aged-44-13076005 |title=Former Strictly Come Dancing star Robin 'Bobby' Windsor dies aged 44 |website=Sky News |date=20 February 2024 |access-date=20 February 2024}}

|align=center|44

|British dancer (Strictly Come Dancing)

rowspan="2"|21 February

|Pamela Salem{{cite web|title=EastEnders, Doctor Who and Bond actress Pamela Salem dies, aged 80|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/pamela-salem-eastenders-doctor-who-dead-newsupdate/|first=Morgan|last=Cormack|website=Radio Times|date=23 February 2024|access-date=23 February 2024}}

|align=center|80

|Actress (Buccaneer, Into the Labyrinth, EastEnders, Doctor Who)

John Savident{{cite web|title=Coronation Street legend John Savident, who played Fred Elliott, dies aged 86|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/soaps/coronation-street/john-savident-coronation-street-dead-newsupdate/|last=Cormack|first=Morgan|website=Radio Times|date=23 February 2024|access-date=23 February 2024}}

|align=center|86

|Actor (Danger Man, The Saint, Callan, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Yes Minister, Coronation Street)

23 February

|Chris Gauthier{{cite web|title=Chris Gauthier Dies: Actor In Once Upon A Time And Eureka Was 48|url=https://deadline.com/2024/02/chris-gauthier-dead-once-upon-a-time-eureka-was-48-obituary-1235837633/|last=Haring|first=Bruce|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=February 25, 2024|access-date=February 25, 2024}}

|align=center|48

| English-born Canadian actor (Earthsea, School of Life, Eureka, Harper's Island, Iron Invader, Once Upon a Time, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Christmas House, Joe Pickett). He made guest appearances in Smallville, Level Up and Signed, Sealed, Delivered.

27 February

|Michael Culver{{cite news|last1=Coveney|first1=Michael|author1-link=Michael Coveney|title=Michael Culver obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/12/michael-culver-obituary|work=The Guardian|date=12 March 2024}}

|align=center|85

|English actor (The Empire Strikes Back, A Passage to India, The Adventures of Black Beauty, Cadfael)

28 February

|Dave Myers{{cite web|title=Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers dies aged 66|url=https://news.sky.com/story/hairy-bikers-star-dave-myers-dies-aged-66-13083563|website=Sky News|date=29 February 2024|access-date=29 February 2024}}

|align=center|66

|Presenter and (one half of The Hairy Bikers) (The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook, The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain, The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure)

3 March

|Edward Bond{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/mar/05/edward-bond-playwright-dies |title=Edward Bond, blazingly original British playwright, dies aged 89 |first=Claire |last=Armitstead |date=5 March 2024 |access-date=5 March 2024 |work=The Guardian}}

|align=center|89

|British dramatist and theatre director (Saved, Narrow Road to the Deep North, The Sea)

4 March

|Tony Green{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/tony-green-dead-bullseye-b2506810.html |title=Bullseye star Tony Green dies aged 85 |website=The Independent |date=4 March 2024 |access-date=5 March 2024}}

|align=center|85

|British sports commentator and television announcer (Bullseye)

6 March

|Vikki Richards{{Cite web|url=https://newsday.co.tt/2024/03/07/retired-british-actress-79-found-dead-in-valsayn-home/,%20https://newsday.co.tt/2024/03/07/retired-british-actress-79-found-dead-in-valsayn-home/ |title=Retired British actress, 79, found dead in Valsayn home |publisher=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |first=Gregory |last=Mc Burnie |date=7 March 2024 |access-date=8 March 2024}}

|align=center|79

|British actress (Curse of the Crimson Altar, Zeta One, Black Snake)

15 March

|Peter Kelly{{Cite web|url=https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/24189258.theatre-legend-starred-glasgow-panto-died/ |title=Theatre 'legend' who starred in Glasgow panto has died |date=15 March 2024 |website=Glasgow Times |access-date=17 March 2024}}

|align=center|82

|Scottish actor (The Tall Guy, Welcome to Sarajevo).

23 March

|David Capper{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68649593 |title=David Capper: Former BBC journalist dies aged 91 |date=24 March 2024 |access-date=24 March 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

|align=center|91

|Northern Irish journalist and television reporter (BBC Ireland correspondent)

24 March

|Kay Benbow{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/03/kay-benbow-dead-cbeebies-controller-kids-tv-1235868398/| title=Kay Benbow Dies: "Legendary" Leader Of BBC Preschool Channel CBeebies Was Champion Of Kids TV |first=Jesse |last=Whittock |date=26 March 2024 |access-date=26 March 2024}}

|align=center|62

|British television executive (CBeebies)

27 March

|George Gilbey{{Cite web |first=Danny |last=Fullbrook |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd18ld5233wo |title=Gogglebox's George Gilbey, 40, dies after fall from height |date=27 March 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 March 2024}}

|align=center|40

|English television personality (Gogglebox) and reality show contestant (Celebrity Big Brother)

30 March

|Chance Perdomo{{cite web|title=Gen V star Chance Perdomo dies, aged 27|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a60349714/chance-perdomo-dies-obituary-tributes/|last=Danquah|first=Glen|website=Digital Spy|date=30 March 2024|access-date=31 March 2024}}

|align=center|27

|British actor (Midsomer Murders, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Gen V)

3 April

|Adrian Schiller{{cite web |title=Adrian Schiller: Victoria actor dies 'suddenly' aged 60 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68731534 |website=BBC News |date=4 April 2024 |access-date=6 April 2024}}

|align=center|60

|English actor (Victoria, The Last Kingdom, Death in Paradise)

8 April

|Sir Paul Fox{{Cite web|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sir-paul-fox-former-bbc-100929700.html |title=Sir Paul Fox, former BBC executive who launched Dad's Army, dies aged 98 |date=9 April 2024 |website=Yahoo News |access-date=9 April 2024}}

|align=center|98

|Television producer (BBC Television)

14 April

|Vincent Friell{{cite web |title=Restless Natives actor Vincent Friell dies aged 64 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2re7kvedko |website=BBC News |date=16 April 2024}}

|align=center|64

|Scottish actor (Taggart, Rab C. Nesbitt, Still Game)

18 April

|James Laurenson{{cite web|last=Evans|first=Greg|title=James Laurenson Dies: 'The Crown' And 'Coronation Street' Actor Was 84|url=https://deadline.com/2024/05/james-laurenson-dead-1235911691/|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=10 May 2024}}

|align=center|84

|New Zealand-born actor (Coronation Street, The Crown)

rowspan="2"|28 April

|Stephen Grimason{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66923440 |title=Stephen Grimason: Ex-BBC political editor who broke Good Friday deal dies |date=28 April 2024 |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}

|align=center|67

|Northern Irish journalist and editor of BBC News NI

Brian McCardie{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24288526.time-line-duty-actor-brian-mccardie-dies-aged-59/ |title=Glasgow Line of Duty and Time actor Brian McCardie dies aged 59 |date=30 April 2024 |website=The Herald |access-date=30 April 2024}}

|align=center|59

|Scottish actor (Rob Roy, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Ellie Parker, Line of Duty) and writer

2 May

|Peter Oosterhuis{{cite web |title=Peter Oosterhuis: Former Ryder Cup player & Open runner-up dies aged 75 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/articles/crgynvde7vlo |website=BBC Sport |date=2 May 2024}}

|align=center|75

|English golfer and broadcaster (Sky Sports, CBS Sports)

3 May

|Dorothy Bromiley{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/30/brian-phelan-obituary |title=Brian Phelan obituary |first=Graham |last=Benson |date=30 May 2024 |accessdate=1 June 2024 |work=The Guardian}}

|align=center|93

|British actress (The Girls of Pleasure Island, It's Great to Be Young, A Touch of the Sun)

5 May

|Bernard Hill{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68962192 |title=Lord of the Rings actor Bernard Hill dies aged 79 |date=5 May 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 May 2024}}

|align=center|79

|English actor (The Lord of the Rings, Titanic, Boys from the Blackstuff)

6 May

|Ian Gelder{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvinsider.com/1134888/ian-gelder-dead-ben-daniels-husband-game-of-thrones-iwtv/ |title=Ian Gelder Dies: 'Game of Thrones' Actor & Husband of 'IWTV' Star Ben Daniels Was 74 |first=Kelli |last=Boyle |date=7 May 2024 |website=TV Insider |access-date=7 May 2024}}

|align=center|74

|British actor (Game of Thrones, Torchwood, Little Dorrit)

14 May

|Gudrun Ure{{cite web |title=Super Gran star Gudrun Ure dies aged 98 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5nnn53wldo |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |first=Jonathan |last=Geddes |date=15 May 2024 |access-date=15 May 2024}}

|align=center|98

|Scottish actress (Super Gran)

rowspan=2|2 June

|Jeannette Charles{{cite web |last1=Pankhurst |first1=Isobel |last2=Delaney |first2=Zoe |title=Queen Elizabeth's legendary lookalike Jeannette Charles dead after global fame |url=https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/queen-elizabeths-most-legendary-lookalike-32962336 |website=OK! Magazine |language=en |date=5 June 2024}}

| align="center" |96

|British actress (Saturday Night Live, Q..., Big Brother)

Harold Snoad{{Cite web|title=TV comedy powerhouse Harold Snoad dies |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/7926/harold-snoad-rip/ |website=British Comedy Guide|date=5 June 2024 |accessdate=23 June 2024}}

| align="center" |88

| British television producer, writer and director (Keeping Up Appearances, Ever Decreasing Circles, Don't Wait Up, The Dick Emery Show)

3 June

|William Russell{{cite news|last1=Coveney|first1=Michael|author1-link=Michael Coveney|title=William Russell obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jun/04/william-russell-obituary|work=The Guardian|date=4 June 2024}}

| align="center" |99

|English actor (Doctor Who, Coronation Street, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot)

4 June

|Nicholas Ball{{cite web|title=Nicholas Ball, EastEnders actor who played gangster Terry, dies aged 78|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/soaps/eastenders/nicholas-ball-dead-eastenders-terry-newsupdate/|first=James|last=Hibbs|website=Radio Times|date=7 June 2024|access-date=7 June 2024}}

|align=center|78

|English actor (Hazell, EastEnders, Footballers' Wives)

rowspan="2"|5 June

|Rose-Marie{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c999v05zp54o |title=Rose-Marie: Tributes as singer and entertainer dies at 68 |date=7 June 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=7 June 2024}}

|align=center|68

|Northern Irish singer and television personality

Michael Mosley{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/09/body-of-man-believed-to-be-tv-doctor-michael-mosley-found-on-greek-island-authorities-say |title=Michael Mosley: TV presenter found dead on Greek island, wife confirms |first1=Helena |last1=Smith |first2=Alexandra |last2=Topping |date=9 June 2024 |accessdate=9 June 2024 |work=The Guardian}}

|align=center|67Body found on this date.

|British television journalist and presenter (The One Show, The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion, The Genius of Invention)

9 June

|Simon Cowell{{Cite web|url=https://www.wildlifeaid.org.uk/simon-cowell-tribute |title=Simon Cowell |website=Wildlife Aid Foundation |accessdate=10 June 2024}}

|align=center|72

|British television presenter (Wildlife SOS) and conservationist, founder of Wildlife Aid Foundation

26 June

|Pat Heywood{{cite web|last=Barnes|first=Mike|title=Pat Heywood, the Nurse in Franco Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet,' Dies at 92|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pat-heywood-dead-franco-zeffirelli-romeo-juliet-1235959069/|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=26 July 2024|access-date=27 July 2024}}

|align=center|92

|Scottish actress (Lucky Feller, Wuthering Heights, Inspector Morse, Root Into Europe)

4 July

|Ysanne Churchman{{cite news|title=Ysanne Churchman, actress who played Grace Archer, killed off in a stable fire in The Archers – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/07/26/ysanne-churchman-grace-archer-killed-fire-archers-obituary/|work=The Telegraph|date=26 July 2024}} {{subscription required}}

|align=center|99

|English actress (Crossroads, Doctor Who, Softly, Softly)

5 July

|Yvonne Furneaux{{cite web|last=Barnes|first=Mike|title=Yvonne Furneaux, Actress in Fellini's 'La Dolce Vita' and Polanski's 'Repulsion,' Dies at 98|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/yvonne-furneaux-dead-la-dolce-vita-repulsion-1235952312/|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=18 July 2024}}

|align=center|98

|French-British actress (Danger Man, Hereward the Wake, The Baron)

6 July

|Roberta Taylor{{cite news|last1=Coveney|first1=Michael|author1-link=Michael Coveney|title=Roberta Taylor obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/jul/23/roberta-taylor-obituary|work=The Guardian|date=23 July 2024}}

|align=center|76

|English actress (EastEnders, The Bill, Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators) and author

22 July

|Beccy Barr{{Cite web |first=Lynette |last=Horsburgh |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c729jw3zl2qo|title=Beccy Barr: Former BBC TV presenter and firefighter dies |date=22 July 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=22 July 2024}}

|align=center|46

|British journalist, TV presenter and firefighter

28 July

|John Anderson{{cite web|title='Gladiators ready! Contenders ready!': Iconic Gladiators referee John Anderson dies|url=https://news.sky.com/story/gladiators-ready-contenders-ready-iconic-gladiators-referee-john-anderson-dies-13186548|website=Sky News|date=28 July 2024|access-date=29 July 2024}}

|align=center|92

|Scottish television referee (Gladiators)

2 August

|John Clegg{{Cite web|url=https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/clegg-notices_58462 |title=CLEGG The Telegraph Announcements|website=The Telegraph |accessdate=20 August 2024}}

|align=center|90

|British actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Tom & Viv, Shooting Fish)

5 August

|Ron Bain{{cite web |title='Naked Video' actor and director Ron Bain dies aged 79 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy766zxpv0go |website=BBC News |date=6 August 2024}}

|align=center|79

|Scottish actor (Naked Video)

9 August

|Brian Marjoribanks{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/tributes-to-scottish-football-star-who-became-successful-actor-and-broadcaster-4738391 |title=Tributes to Scottish football star who became successful actor and broadcaster |date=12 August 2024 |publisher=The Scotsman |accessdate=13 August 2024}}

|align=center|82

|Scottish footballer (Hibernian), actor and broadcaster (BBC Scotland)

16 August

|Robert Sidaway{{cite web|last=Lambert|first=Doug|title=Doctor Who and Crossroads actor Robert Sidaway dies|url=https://www.atvtoday.co.uk/242537-rip/|website=ATV Today|date=20 August 2024|access-date=23 August 2024}}

|align=center|82

|English actor (Doctor Who, Crossroads)

1 September

|Brian Trueman{{cite web|title=Brian Trueman: Danger Mouse writer dies aged 92|url=https://news.sky.com/story/brian-trueman-danger-mouse-writer-dies-aged-92-13208791|website=Sky News|date=3 September 2024}}

|align=center|92

|English television presenter (ITV Granada) and writer (Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, Alias the Jester, Jamie and the Magic Torch)

10 September

|Umar Mahmood{{Cite web |first1=Angela |last1=Ferguson |first2=Anna |last2=Lindsay |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyly8y5xlxo |title=Umar Mahmood from Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams show dies |date=13 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 September 2024}}

|align=center|18

|Reality show participant (Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams)

11 September

|Kenneth Cope{{cite web |title=Kenneth Cope: Randall and Hopkirk and Coronation Street star dies |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d7drw4yw2o |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=12 September 2024}}

|align=center|93

|English actor (Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Coronation Street)

15 September

|Geoffrey Hinsliff{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyvg1yyg7ko |title=Coronation Street star Geoffrey Hinsliff dies aged 86 |date=19 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=19 September 2024}}

|align=center|86

|English actor (Coronation Street, Brass, Doctor Who)

16 September

|Chris Serle{{cite web|title=Former BBC TV and radio presenter Chris Serle dies|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y32z6wyg3o|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=23 September 2024}}

|align=center|81

|British television presenter (That's Life!, The Big Time, Windmill), reporter and actor

rowspan="2"|20 September

|David Graham{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj463gx8gyo |title=Peppa Pig and Thunderbirds actor David Graham dies |date=20 September 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=20 September 2024}}

|align=center|99

|English actor (Doctor Who, Thunderbirds, Peppa Pig, Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom)

Cleo Sylvestre{{cite web|title=Cleo Sylvestre: Trailblazing actress dies aged 79|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8jg8dgy12o|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=20 September 2024}}

|align=center|79

|English actress (Till Death Us Do Part, Crossroads, The Bill)

27 September

|Dame Maggie Smith{{cite news|title=Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk7375ngkxo|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=27 September 2024}}

|align=center|89

|English actress (David Copperfield, Downton Abbey, My House in Umbria)

16 October

|Liam Payne{{Cite web |last=Wright |first=Tracy |date=2024-10-16 |title=Liam Payne, One Direction singer, dead at 31 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/liam-payne-dead-31 |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}

|align=center|31

|English singer (One Direction) and contestant on The X Factor

26 October

|Stephanie Collie{{cite web|title=Peaky Blinders stars lead tributes to costume designer Stephanie Collie after death aged 60|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/stephanie-collie-dead-peaky-blinders-tributes-newsupdate/|website=Radio Times|date=1 November 2024}}

|align=center|60

|English costume designer (Peaky Blinders, My Lady Jane)

1 November

|Alastair Down{{cite web|title=Alastair Down: Racing writer and broadcaster dies aged 68|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/articles/cvg7pvpyk9ro|website=BBC Sport|publisher=BBC|date=1 November 2024}}

|align=center|68

|English sports journalist (Channel 4 Racing)

2 November

|Janey Godley{{cite web|title=Scottish comedian Janey Godley dies aged 63|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgxp3x1zx3o|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=2 November 2024}}

|align=center|63

|Scottish comedian (Have I Got News for You) and actress (River City)

3 November

|Paul Engelen{{Cite web|last=Barnes|first=Mike|title=Paul Engelen, 'Phantom Menace,' 'Gladiator' and 'Game of Thrones' Makeup Designer, Dies at 75|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paul-engelen-dead-game-of-thrones-phantom-menace-gladiator-1236059088/|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=12 November 2024|access-date=17 November 2024}}

|align=center|75

|British make-up artist (Game of Thrones)

8 November

|June Spencer{{cite web |title=June Spencer, long-time star of The Archers, dies aged 105 |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/audio/radio/june-spencer-the-archers-dead-newsupdate/ |website=Radio Times |date=8 November 2024}}

|align=center|105

|Radio actress (The Archers)

12 November

|Timothy West{{cite web |title=Timothy West, actor and husband of Fawlty Towers' Prunella Scales, dies |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/soaps/timothy-west-actor-dead-eastenders-newsupdate/ |website=Radio Times |date=13 November 2024}}

|align=center|90

|English actor (EastEnders, Coronation Street) and presenter (Great Canal Journeys)

19 November

|Ken Reid{{Cite web |first=Mark |last=Simpson |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05z2vzqrrmo |title=Ken Reid: Former UTV political editor dies |date=20 November 2024 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |accessdate=20 November 2024}}

|align=center|69

|Northern Irish journalist and political editor (UTV)

9 December

|Arnold Yarrow{{cite news|last1=Craig|first1=David|title=Arnold Yarrow, Doctor Who's oldest surviving cast member, dies aged 104|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/arnold-yarrow-dead-doctor-who-oldest-newsupdate/|work=Radio Times|date=10 December 2024}}

|align=center|104

|Actor (Doctor Who, EastEnders), screenwriter and novelist

12 December

|Duncan Norvelle{{Cite web|url=https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2024/12/12/57173/duncan_norvelle_dies_at_66 |title=Duncan Norvelle dies at 66 |first=Steve |last=Bennett |website=Chortle |accessdate=13 December 2024}}

|align=center|66

|Comedian (Through the Keyhole, Wogan, Surprise Surprise, The Bob Monkhouse Show, Bullseye, Blankety Blank and The Keith Harris Show)

25 December

|Britt Allcroft

|align=center|81

|Writer and creator of (Thomas & Friends, Magic Adventures of Mumfie)

27 December

|Olivia Hussey{{cite news|last1=O'Connor|first1=Roisin|title=Olivia Hussey, captivating star of Romeo and Juliet, dies aged 73|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/olivia-hussey-death-romeo-and-juliet-film-b2670870.html|work=The Independent|date=28 December 2024}}

|align=center|73

|Actress (Jesus of Nazareth)

See also

Notes

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