We’re delighted with the interest shown in our BPG Top 50 Landmark Programmes list, from The Guardian and Radio 4’s PM programme to Radio Times, the Daily Mail, the Independent, regional newspapers and the specialist press. Here is some of the coverage:
- BPG unveils Top 50 Landmark TV Programme list – Televisual
- Seven Up! changed British TV – and how we see ourselves – The Guardian
- Evan Davis of R4’s PM interviews Seven Up producer Claire Lewis and one of those featured in the series. 49 minutes in.
- The ground-breaking Up series tops a list of the most influential TV shows – Daily Mail
- Big Brother and The Office named among landmark shows of last 50 years – The Standard
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To mark the BPG’s 50th anniversary, we invited our members to select their Top 50 Landmark TV Programmes – series that changed the medium, or were simply the best of their type over the past 50 years. It includes many that have won BPG Awards – listed here, year by year – but also a few that we missed at the time! These are the ones we chose:
| 1 7 Up series – ITV/Granada + BBC, 1964-2019 |
| 2 Life On Earth – BBC, 1979 |
| 3 The World At War – ITV/Thames, 1973 |
| 4 The Office – BBC, 2001 |
| 5 Big Brother – Channel 4, 2000 |
| 6 Planet Earth – BBC, 2006 |
| 7 Have I Got News For You – BBC, 1990 |
| 8 I May Destroy You – BBC, 2020 |
| 9 The Singing Detective – BBC, 1986 |
| 10 The Day Today – BBC, 1994 |
| 11 The Royle Family – BBC |
| 12 Our Friends In The North – BBC |
| 13 I’m Alan Partridge – BBC |
| 14 Boys From The Blackstuff – BBC |
| 15 Blackadder – BBC |
| 16 Strictly Come Dancing – BBC |
| 17 The Thick Of It – BBC |
| 18 Fleabag – BBC/Amazon |
| 19 Only Fools And Horses – BBC |
| 20 The Naked Civil Servant – ITV/Thames |
| 21 Spitting Image – ITV/Central |
| 22 Queer As Folk –-Channel 4 |
| 23 The Family – BBC |
| 24 Monty Python’s Flying Circus – BBC |
| 25 House Of Cards – BBC |
| 26 Gogglebox – Channel 4 |
| 27 Goodness Gracious Me – BBC |
| 28 The Crown – Netflix |
| 29 Newsnight – BBC |
| 30 Derry Girls – Channel 4 |
| 31 Brideshead Revisited – ITV/Granada |
| 32 Chernobyl – HBO/Sky |
| 33 Cracker – ITV/Granada |
| 34 Blue Peter – BBC |
| 35 Inspector Morse – ITV/Central |
| 36 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – BBC |
| 37 The Beatles: Get Back – Disney+ |
| 38 I, Claudius – BBC |
| 39 Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave – BBC |
| 40 The Word – Channel 4 |
| 41 Death On The Rock – ITV/Thames |
| 42 This is England – Channel 4 |
| 43 The Great British Bake-Off – BBC + Channel 4 |
| 44 Grange Hill – BBC |
| 45 Pride and Prejudice – BBC |
| 46 Pennies From Heaven – BBC |
| 47 Desmond’s – Channel 4 |
| 48 The Big Breakfast – Channel 4 |
| 49 Parkinson – BBC + ITV |
| 50 The Traitors – BBC |
