BBC Four

British television channel

Follow BBC Four on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!

April 7 2025 Broadcast of 'Reunion' miniseries
March 2 2025 First broadcast of 'Towards Zero' on One, running until 16 March 2025.
February 2 2025 First broadcast of 'Miss Austen' on One, running until 23 February 2025. A co-production with PBS.
March 31 2024 First broadcast of 'This Town' on BBC
March 26 2024 First broadcast of 'Great Expectations' on One, running until 30 April 2024. A co-production with FX on Hulu.
February 20 2024 First broadcast of 'Boarders' on BBC Three, a co-production with Tubi for series 2
February 19 2024 First broadcast of 'The Way' miniseries
August 21 2023 The Finish Line premiered on BBC One, introducing a new gameshow format.
July 27 2023 Last subsequent broadcast of 'Earth's Natural Wonders'
April 12 2023 Last subsequent broadcast of 'Earth's Great Rivers'
April 10 2023 First of subsequent broadcasts of 'Earth's Great Rivers'
March 15 2023 CBBC rebranded with the new BBC logo.
March 15 2023 CBeebies rebranded with the new BBC logo, updating its visual identity.
2022 BBC starts broadcasting UEFA Women's Championship.
2022 BBC One and CBBC started broadcasting the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
September 5 2022 Final broadcast of the television programme Ladhood on BBC Three
September 4 2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg debuts on BBC One and News Channel, replacing The Andrew Marr Show.
April 1 2022 Retirement of the Oneness ident package at 6pm, marking the end of this visual identity for BBC One.
April 1 2022 BBC One introduced the new Lens idents at 7pm during The One Show, replacing the previous Oneness idents. The new identity was developed by BBC Creative and branding agency ManvsMachine, featuring large community spaces revealed through a lens, showcasing different activities and times of day.
March 14 2022 Bridge of Lies first broadcast on BBC One, adding to the channel's gameshow repertoire.
February 1 2022 BBC Three returned to linear television after six years, with new idents featuring a green background and three hands in purple and pink colors.
2021 Life in Colour with David Attenborough documentary series broadcast on BBC Two, co-produced with Netflix.
December 26 2021 First broadcast of 'A Very British Scandal' on BBC One, running until 28 December 2021
October 20 2021 During the BBC's corporate rebrand, the Curve idents were retained with modifications: the new BBC logo was placed at the top of the screen, while 'TWO' remained at the bottom, using the BBC Reith Sans font.
October 20 2021 During the BBC's corporate rebrand, the Oneness ident package was retained with modifications: new BBC logo placed at the top of the screen and 'ONE' moved to the bottom in BBC Reith Sans font.
October 20 2021 BBC Four retained its existing ident package during the corporate BBC rebrand, updating the logo placement and font to BBC Reith Sans. The Bridge ident was the first to feature the updated branding at 7:00pm.
October 18 2021 BBC One presents the one-off drama 'The Trick'
September 3 2021 King Gary concluded its broadcast on BBC One
September 1 2021 9/11: Inside the President's War Room documentary broadcast on BBC One, co-produced with Apple TV+.
June 17 2021 BBC Two broadcasts the one-off drama 'Together'
May 13 2021 Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power documentary aired on BBC Three.
May 12 2021 BBC Two airs the one-off drama 'Danny Boy'
May 10 2021 First broadcast of 'Unbeatable' on BBC One
February 24 2021 First episode of Gordon Ramsay's Bank Balance aired on BBC One
2020 Introduction of 'lockdown'-themed Oneness idents in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring collages of activities from multiple locations across the United Kingdom.
2020 The Kemps: All True documentary broadcast on BBC Two.
October 26 2020 Morning Live begins broadcasting on BBC One, offering a morning lifestyle and news programme.
July 27 2020 BBC One presents the one-off drama 'Anthony'
July 13 2020 Once Upon a Time in Iraq documentary series aired on BBC Two from 13 July to 10 August.
June 17 2020 BBC Three broadcasts the one-off drama 'Make Me Famous'
June 15 2020 The Heights premiered on BBC One, a short-lived daytime drama that ran until 27 July 2020
June 8 2020 BBC One airs the one-off drama 'Sitting in Limbo'
June 7 2020 First of subsequent broadcasts of 'Earth's Natural Wonders'
March 8 2020 Last broadcast of 'Enterprice' on BBC Three
February 9 2020 Debut of 'The Pale Horse' miniseries on BBC One, running until 16 February 2020, co-produced with Amazon Prime Video
January 27 2020 BBC Two broadcasts 'The Windermere Children' one-off drama
January 10 2020 King Gary first aired on BBC One
January 1 2020 Premiere of 'Dracula' miniseries on BBC One, running from 1 to 3 January 2020, co-produced with Netflix
December 24 2019 BBC Four presents the one-off drama 'Martin's Close'
December 22 2019 Broadcast of 'A Christmas Carol' miniseries on BBC One, running from 22 to 24 December 2019, co-produced with FX

We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic.

This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles History of BBC television idents & List of television programmes broadcast by the BBC, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

See Also