Carlos Antonio Bonell (born 23 July 1949) is an English classical guitarist of Spanish origin. He has been described by Classical Guitar magazine as "one of the great communicators of the guitar world".

Career
Born in London, Bonell started to play at the age of five, learning to play Spanish folk music on the guitar from his father who was a keen amateur guitarist, while also studying the violin more formally at school. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music with John Williams, where upon completing his studies in 1972, he was appointed professor.

In 1973, he won the Greater London Arts Association Young Musicians' Scheme award and as a consequence gave more than fifty concerts in the south-east of England between 1973 and 1974. His concerto debut in 1975 was with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos at the Royal Festival Hall, London in a performance of the Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo. His first solo LP recording, for the Enigma Classics label, recorded in 1975, was "Guitar Music of Spain". The following year he recorded a Grammy nominated album with John Williams and friends for CBS with the instrumentation of two guitars, marimba, xylophone and double bass. The group performed throughout the UK for several years.

His first performance in New York in 1978 was at the Mostly Mozart Festival in the Avery Fisher Hall. The New York Times wrote of his performance: "Carlos Bonell is a player of superb poetic gifts".

Concierto de Aranjuez
In 1981, Bonell made the first of three recordings of Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. Recorded in Canada with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Charles Dutoit for the Decca label, it was one of the first digital recordings of the concerto and was described as "a magnificent triumph" by Classical Music magazine. It was awarded a "Rosette" by the Penguin CD Guide and has been frequently singled out as the finest interpretations available.

During 1986, he played Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez five times in London's Royal Festival Hall, with The Royal Philharmonic, The London Symphony Orchestra, The London Philharmonic Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra.

Tours and recordings
Between 1987 and 1995, he recorded seven albums ranging from music for solo guitar to concertos with the English Chamber and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. During the 1980s, Carlos Bonell formed an ensemble of three guitars, flute and percussion. It played in more than 20 countries including Australia, Hong Kong, and much of Europe.

In 1995, he gave a benefit concert at London's Wigmore Hall with John Williams to raise awareness of the plight of children caught in acts of war around the world. All proceeds were donated to the organisation War Child. Other artists with whom Bonell has recorded and appeared in concert include guitarists Paco Peña and Martin Taylor, violinists Pinchas Zukerman and Salvatore Accardo, and singers Patricia Rozario, Teresa Berganza and the late Philip Langridge.

He has played at international festivals including The City of London, Aldeburgh, Helsinki, Israel, Tanglewood, Sydney, Istanbul, Hong Kong. In 1997, he visited Australia for the first time, returning several years later in a nationwide tour including all the major cities. After his first visit to Latin America in 2000 he returned every year until 2007 to play with Venezuelan orchestras associated with El Sistema, working closely with some of the younger players prior to performances.

In 2004, Carlos Bonell recorded his first DVD. Classical Guitar Performance includes music ranging from Bach to Albeniz. The same year saw his first book about the guitar: Guitar. An Easy Guide

In 2006, Bonell undertook a tour of the US, which included Fort Worth, Dallas, Atlanta and Las Vegas, presenting his solo programme "Millennium Guitar, the first 1000 years", which included music from Hildegard von Bingen to works by contemporary composers.

His career also includes recordings for television and film. He has recorded sound tracks for the Hollywood films City of Angels and The Honest Courtesan and for the BBC TV productions of  Inspector Morse and The Politician's Wife.

In 2010, he returned to Japan and the United States for more tours.

London International Guitar Festival
In 2004, he directed the Latin Quarter Guitar Festival in London in honour of Greg Smallman, the Australian guitar maker, who visited and lectured in England and Spain for the first time. 2005 saw the first London International Guitar Festival, of which he was founder and artistic director. The festival presented events in five major concert venues. It included an 80th birthday tribute to Venezuelan guitarist Alirio Díaz. Performing artists included Alirio Díaz, John Williams (with whom Bonell played duets), Pavel Steidl in his London debut, Elisa Perez-Saponi, Patricia Rozario and others. The festival had two further editions under Carlos Bonell's direction in 2007 and 2008.

In 2010, he devised and inaugurated the Transformations Music Series, presenting guitar-related concerts at London's Bolivar Hall.

Queen and The Beatles
In 2008, he recorded the album Queen Guitar Rhapsodies of new arrangements of music by the group Queen for solo guitar and symphony orchestra. His arrangement for solo guitar of "Love of my Life" was praised by Queen's Brian May.

From 2006, he has been helping with the recording of a concerto for classical guitar and orchestra composed by Sir Paul McCartney. The work was featured in a June 2007 cover article by The New Yorker magazine. His CD album Magical Mystery Guitar Tour, released in 2012, is dedicated to the music of the Beatles in his own arrangements for solo guitar. It went to number one on the UK iTunes Classical charts, and a track from the album reached number four in the Singles' charts.

Teaching
Carlos Bonell conducts international teaching courses in Italy, Spain, the UK and Mexico. He is Senior Professor at London's Royal College of Music, London; Professor Invitado at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico; and directs the Cátedra Internacional de Guitarra Carlos Bonell in Venezuela. His pupils include Alan Banks, Detlev Bork, Nils Klöfver, Jakob Lindberg, Nigel North, Brad Richter, and numerous others.

In 2007, he was awarded the Spanish prize "Premio Trujamán" for his work for the solo guitar.

Discography
 John Williams and Friends: CBS 73487 (LP, 1976); MK 35108 (CD, 1990)
 Guitar Music of Spain: Enigma Classics (1976)
 Guitar Music of the Baroque: Enigma Classics (1977)
 Showpieces: Decca SXL6950 (1981)
 Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez + Fantasía para un Gentilhombre, with Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit: Decca LP SXDL7525 / CD 4482432 (1981)
 Paganini Trios and Quartets, with Salvatore Accardo (violin and viola), Sylvie Gazeau (violin), Alfonso Ghedin (viola), Rocco Filippini (cello): FonitCetra ITL 70091 (1982)
 Twentieth Century Music for Guitar: EMI CDC 7495122 (1987)
 Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez + Fantasía para un Gentilhombre, with English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Steuart Bedford: Collins Classics 10322 (1989)
 Fandango: ASV Records CD QS 6038 (1990)
 Once Upon a Time in the West, with Xer-Wai (violin): Elite Music EL 5027 (1993)
 William Walton: Anon in Love: Chandos Records CHAN 9292 (1994)
 Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez + Fantasía para un Gentilhombre, with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk: Tring TRP 050 (1994)
 Benjamin Britten. The Folk Songs: Collins Classics 70392 (1995)
 The Sea in Spring, with ensemble: Upbeat Classics URCD 128 (1997)
 The Passion of Morse: Tring 003 (1997)
 The Private Collection: Upbeat Classics URCD 145 (1998)
 Kinkachoo, I love you (Millennium Guitar, the First 1000 Years): Rainbow Classics 993010 (1999)
 Song of the Sea: Spearhead Music SM 100 (2004)
 Classical Guitar Performance: Young/Bonell Production (2005)
 Queen Guitar Rhapsodies: Young/Bonell Production (2008)
 Saints and Fireworks: Spearhead Music SM 200 (2010)
 Magical Mystery Guitar Tour: Young/Bonell Production (2012)

Film and television
 City of Angels
 The Honest Courtesan (released as "Dangerous Beauty" in the US)
 Inspector Morse
 The Politician's Wife

Publications
 Spanish Folk Songs and Dances, Ariel Publications, 1975
 Gaspar Sanz: Airs and Dances, Ariel Publications, 1977
 A Tarrega Collection, Ariel Publications, 1980
 First Pieces for Solo Guitar, Ricordi, 1983
 The Romantic Collection, International Music Publishers, 1983
 The Classical Collection, International Music Publishers, 1983
 Spanish Folk Songs for 3 Guitars, Schott Music, 1984
 Purcell: 3 Pieces, Schott Music, 1984
 Tárrega: Fantasia, Schott Music, 1984
 Technique Builder, Cambridge Music Works, 1998
 Guitar. An Easy Guide, New Holland Publishers Ltd., 2005,
 Essential Classics for Guitar, Bonell/Young Publications, 2007

References

External links

New Yorker – feature on Carlos Bonell's collaboration with Sir Paul McCartney

1949 births
British people of Spanish descent
English classical guitarists
English male guitarists
Living people
Musicians from London


Pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) is a method for measuring air pressure or local oxygen concentration, usually in aerodynamic settings.  PSP is paint-like coating which fluoresces under a specific illumination wavelength in differing intensities depending on the external air pressure being applied locally to its surface.

How it works
A model surface is painted with the PSP coating with an airbrush or automotive type paint gun.  The PSP consists of an oxygen sensitive probe suspended in an oxygen permeable binder.  The model is then placed in an oven so the PSP layer can cure.  Once cured, the model is placed in a wind tunnel or appropriate test environment.  LED lamps of a specific wavelength are used to excite the pressure-sensitive probe within the paint.  Once excited, the pressure-sensitive probe is transitioned to a higher energy state where it may either emit a photon or be quenched by local oxygen present.  This competing process of emission and quenching determines the intensity response of the paint layer.  The result is a dimmer fluorescence where there is higher pressure and brighter response at lower pressures.

The intensity emitted from the surface is then recorded through a long-pass filter by a CCD or scientific grade camera and stored for conversion to pressure using a previously determined calibration.  Images of the paint layer are recorded at three conditions.  A wind-off image at a known reference condition which is typically standard atmospheric conditions with the tunnel turned off.  A wind-on image at a loaded condition where the wind tunnel is running at condition.  And lastly a background image where the ambient light present is captured without the illumination source.  The background image is then subtracted from the wind-off reference and the wind-on condition image in data processing.  Photographs of the surface can be obtained from outside the wind tunnel's test section, which means that the model need never be disturbed or touched in order to obtain the pressure distribution.  Computer-aided photography can be used to produce false-color images, where the color range corresponds to the pressure variations.

Applications
Due to the high cost of constructing airplanes, the first designs of proposed aircraft are usually subjected to aerodynamic testing in wind tunnels.  In these tunnels, models (usually subscale) are subjected to airflows to simulate an actual airplane in free flight.  The aerodynamic forces acting on the model are measured, and are used to predict the response of an airplane when subjected to equivalent airflows.

Automobiles are also subjected to aerodynamic testing in wind tunnels. Automobile companies use data collected in these tests to measure areas of high and low pressure. This data helps engineers improve designs to increase performance for the vehicles. By changing these designs, engineers can help improve gas mileage and reduce noise.

In order to measure the aerodynamic forces on the whole model, beam balances are connected to the model.  However, it is also imperative to understand how those forces are distributed across the aerodynamic surfaces of the aircraft, and this understanding is more difficult to obtain.  The classic approach has been to use an array of pressure taps to measure surface pressure distributions on a model.  Pressure taps provide limited spatial resolution and are often limited by model geometry and can be very expensive to integrate into complex geometries.

PSP provides a low-cost alternative that is less invasive than pressure tap arrays.  PSP also offers superior spatial resolution, with each pixel of the imaging camera acting as a pressure tap.  PSP can achieve accuracy within 150 Pa of pressure tap measurements with good setup and experience.

Time-resolved PSP applications involve pulsed excitation and delay and gating of the imaging devices.  One can thus determine pressure differentials as a function of time.  In this case, the imaging devices must be synchronized to the excitation.  Multi-channel digital delay/pulse generators provide that synchronization.

Binary Pressure Sensitive Paint
Another area of interest has been the measurement of surface pressure in low-speed wind tunnels.  Binary PSP systems are used in low-speed wind tunnel environments where pressure gradients are small and error sources are more significant.  Model shift between reference condition and loaded condition, variation in paint thickness, lamp instability, and temperature are significant sources of error in PSP data.  Binary PSP mitigates many of these error sources by employing a second probe into the paint layer, known as the reference probe.  This reference probe is used to ratio out the effects of these errors producing high quality PSP pressure maps at low speeds.

Advantages
The greatest advantage of the new technology is its much reduced preparation time compared to installing an array of pressure taps.
The same model can be used for other testing, such as load-bearing tests or radar-reflection tests, since the PSP will not interfere with other preparations or setups.
There are far more data points than other methods. There is essentially a "pressure tap" at every pixel instead of being limited to the actual pressure taps.

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Aircraft skin


Alwyn Jones (born 28 February 1985) is an Australian triple jumper.

Jones was born in Australia. He attended Victoria University.

He finished fifth at the 2004 World Junior Championships, won the bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and finished eighth at the 2006 World Cup. Jones is also a nine-time national champion.

His personal best is 16.83 metres, achieved when he won the 2009 Australian Championships in Brisbane.

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World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
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Place of birth missing (living people)


This is a list of number-one country albums in Canada by year from the RPM Country Albums chart.

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The Maya skate (Leucoraja caribbaea) is a species of skate in the family Rajidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Mexico at a depths near 457 metres.

References

Leucoraja
Fish described in 1977


Cala Sant Vicenç may refer to

Cala Sant Vicenç / Cala de Sant Vicent, Majorca
Cala Sant Vicenç / Cala de Sant Vicent, Ibiza


Fouzia Saeed is a Pakistani social activist, gender expert, trainer/facilitator, development manager, folk culture promoter, television commentator, and author.

Saeed is well known in the activist circles of Pakistan's social movement, having worked for decades on women's issues, especially those linked to violence against women, prostitution, women in the entertainment business, women’s mobility and sexual harassment. Her work on violence against women spans over 20 years and includes founding Bedari, the first women’s crisis center in Pakistan in 1991. For over a decade, she focused on reducing the level of sexual harassment and the impact of debt bondage on Hindu women.

On 10 March 2009, the Pakistan People's Party Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, named Saeed to a three-year term as one of the 15 members of the National Commission on the Status of Women.  Subsequently,  Prime Minister Gilani appointed Saeed as the Chair of the Sexual Harassment Legislation Implementation Watch Committee from May 2010 to May 2012.

In February 2015, the Pakistan Muslim League prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, appointed Saeed as the executive director of Lok Virsa, the National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage.  She completed her term on 9 February 2018 with exuberant accolades from the press and civil society for her stellar success in revitalizing Lok Virsa and expanding the space for performance culture in Pakistan.

In January 2020, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Prime Minister, Imran Khan, appointed Saeed as the Director General of the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA).

In February 2020, she was recognized as one of the ten most outstanding women leaders of Pakistan by HUM TV "in recognition of her exemplary services for promotion of Pakistani culture, women’s issues, courageous stand against sexual harassment and commitment to women’s advancement".

In July 2021, while on a road expedition for PNCA to central Balochistan to identify young artistic talent, Saeed suffered serious injuries in a road accident. By July 2022, she had begun to reengage in Pakistani society.  A women's group produced a short video in June 2022 enumerating her manycontributions to the advancement of Pakistani women.  As of August 2023, she lives in the USA where she continues to recover.

Saeed says of herself: "I want to be judged by my abilities, my struggles and my achievements and not labeled or stereotyped by my gender, my economic background, my nationality or my beliefs."

Personal profile
Saeed received most of her schooling and early college education in Peshawar, Pakistan, where she graduated from the University of Peshawar with a BS in Home Economics as the University Gold Medallist for Academic Excellence in 1979.   As a result of her academic achievements, she received a Quaid-e-Azam Overseas Educational Award and spent 8 years at the University of Minnesota, where she earned an MS in design and a doctorate in education.  She received additional funding from the Ethel L. Parker International Fellowship Award of the American Home Economics Association for her doctoral research.  Saeed returned to her native Pakistan immediately after completing her degrees, but has returned to Minneapolis on several occasions as a visiting lecturer and to receive a Distinguished International Alumni Award in 1998 and the International Leadership Award  in 2008, both presented by the University of Minnesota in recognition of her contributions to the field of education and the women’s movement in Pakistan.

The government of Japan named Saeed as one of seven Asian Leadership Fellows for 2010.  She attended the Fellowship program in Tokyo from September to November 2010  and gave lectures at numerous Japanese universities and wrote about her experiences on her return.

Saeed was awarded the 2012 Battle of Crete Award by the Oxi Day Foundation for 'courageous action for freedom and democracy' based on her decade-long struggle for the criminalisation of sexual harassment in Pakistan.

She served as the director of Mehergarh: A Center for Learning where she headed its programs on youth, gender and human rights from 2004 until 2012.  She remains an informal advisor.

Between September 2012 and February 2015, Saeed was a Fellow at the US National Endowment for Democracy (DC), Draper-Hills Fellow at Stanford University (California), Visiting Fellow at George Mason University (Virginia) and Pakistan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (DC) under the Smithsonian Institution.

She currently lives in Islamabad, Pakistan with her husband, whom she met in 1995 when they were both working in the United Nations in Pakistan. They have also lived together in Manila, Kabul, and Cairo. She is one of the very few Pakistani women of her generation who has learned how to SCUBA dive and has dived in Pakistan, the Bahamas, the Mergui Archipelago of Burma, Fiji, and various islands of the Philippines.

Literary Output
She is the author of several well-regarded books.  Her first book is an ethnographic look at prostitution in Pakistan, TABOO!: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light District.
Her second book, Working with Sharks: Countering Sexual Harassment in our Lives (Sanj, Pakistan, 2011 and Advances Press February 26, 2013), is an autobiographical exposé on sexual harassment in the United Nations and the revenge meted out by the UN management she and 10 other women faced for making their case. In 2012, she published Forgotten Faces: Daring Women of Pakistan’s Folk Theatre (National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage, 2011), a heavily illustrated book based on her field research on the dying art form of travelling theaters of Punjab in the late 1980s.
While the Executive Director of the Lok Virsa, she conceived and edited a substantial coffee table book with text and 500 photographs, Folk Heritage of Pakistan: Glimpses into a Cultural Diversity (Lok Virsa, 2018)
Her next book, On Their Own Terms: Early 21st Century Women's Movements in Pakistan(Oxford University Press, 2020) is based primarily on field research she did in Pakistan. The book covers four case studies of Pakistani women's efforts to regain their rights. The book also provides an introduction to the academic concept of women's individual and collective agency based on literary research conducted while she was a Fellow at the Wilson Center.
Her latest book appeared after her accident.  Tapestry: Strands of Women's Struggles in the History of Pakistan (Lightstone Publishers, Karachi, 2021).  Research for Tapestry was conducted in Pakistan and the US Library of Congress while a Fellow at the Wilson Center.  Tapestry provides a deep background to the modern cases covered in On Their Own Terms by chronicling the stages of women's political development throughout the history of Pakistan.

Areas of work

Sexual harassment
In 2000, Saeed was instrumental in forming a network called AASHA  (An Alliance Against Sexual Harassment) in Pakistan. Six organisations form the core membership of AASHA. They, along with several hundred individuals and organisations serve as partners and friends of AASHA. In 2002, AASHA, together with the Government, developed a Code of Conduct on gender relations at the workplace that was initially adopted voluntarily by over 130 companies  in Pakistan.  From 2002 onwards, AASHA continued to collaborate with the Government to press for the passage of a law requiring all public and private organisations to adopt and implement the Code. In November 2009 an amendment to the Pakistan Penal Code was passed by the Pakistan National Assembly explicitly making sexual harassment a cognisable offence anywhere in the country.  This was ratified by the Senate on 20 January 2010 and signed into law with immediate effect by President Zardari on 29 January 2010.  On 21 January 2010, the National Assembly approved a second bill requiring all organisations in Pakistan to adopt and implement the Code of Conduct.  After lengthy debate, this bill was also passed by the Senate on 25 February and signed into law by the President on 9 March 2010.  On 10 May 2010, Saeed was named by the NCSW to head the Government's Implementation Watch Committee, which will facilitate and monitor the progress of adoption of the sexual harassment legislation.

On 22 December 2010, Dr. Saeed, under the AASHA banner, organised the 10th Annual Working Women's Assembly. The Assembly was held in the Prime Minister's Auditorium and the Prime Minister, along with Fehmida Mirza, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Ferdous Awan, Minister of Women's Development and Shanaz Wazir Ali, officiated at the gathering of over 400 working women, including agricultural field workers, police officers, parliamentarians, doctors and senior government officials.  In his speech, the Prime Minister declared 22 December as National Working Women's Day  and he fulfilled a major aspect of the law by naming Ms. Musarrat Hilali as the first Ombudsperson for Women's Rights.

Although she had been working on gender issues since the late 1970s, her attention became more focused on this particular issue when she and ten other women found themselves trapped in a systematic sexual harassment scenario by several of their managers  when she was working for an agency of the UN in Pakistan. Despite being competent, well respected and committed to their careers, they each had to take the risk of jointly reporting their supervisor to the UN Headquarters in New York. The women fought the case together, despite serious attempts by the UN leadership in Islamabad to break them up and discredit their professionalism, and finally won after nearly two years of effort. After the main perpetrator was removed from the UN, the case became widely known and resulted in many policy changes in the work environment of the entire UN system.  However, as reported in May 2009, this issue remains one of the most difficult for the management of this large, international organisation to properly address. This case has been fully documented in Dr. Saeed's publication, Working with Sharks: Countering Sexual Harassment in our Lives.  The publication of book was warmly received by a cross-section of Pakistani society. and internationally  The book now has its own Facebook page. The early reviews of the book have praised her bravery while questioning how such a situation could unfold with the management of a well-known international development agency fully backing the perpetrator.

In her efforts to counter the stigma that Pakistani society attaches to the victims of sexual harassment Saeed has started to highlight the role of the harasser.  Together with her colleagues from AASHA, she created a series of characters whose behaviour constitutes sexual harassment, whether knowingly or not. She gave each character a humorous name to break the aura that prevents women from complaining. Naming also concretises an issue and makes it manageable. Sabir Nazar, a famous cartoonist in Pakistan, drew the cartoons and they were compiled in a calendar for 2008.  The response was electric with the calendar being reprinted several times. The calendar was widely discussed on television and in the press as a major breakthrough in shifting the public's perception of the root causes of harassment away from women's clothes and to on men's personal behaviour.  A second calendar, with 12 new characters, was brought out in 2009, followed by a third in 2010.  The final calendar appeared in January 2011 composed of the favourite 12 characters out of the original 36, selected by fans via internet voting. The calendars were reported on by several leading English language newspapers in Pakistan with full praise going to "the acerbic humour and intelligent wit of Dr. Fouzia Saeed of AASHA."  The entire process of the AASHA movement from conception in 2001 to exit strategy following the passage of the law and rules in 2011 is contained in the Mehergarh publication titled The AASHA Experience: A decde of struggle against sexual harassment in Pakistan 2001 to 2011.

Violence against women
Saeed has worked extensively on issues of Violence against women (VAW) and its effects on women and their children over the past 25 years.  Other than crisis counselling and sensitisation on the issues, she has given numerous talks on the subject of VAW in general, domestic violence, rape, incest, and bride burning.  While studying in the United States at the University of Minnesota, Saeed actively volunteered at crisis centres in Minnesota. She received training as an advocate and a councillor to deal with violence survivors at Chrysalis . She worked on the helpline, counselling violence survivors on the phone and provided them with references for legal help, medical and shelter facilities. She also received training from Minnesota Intervention Center for facilitating small groups of women. Later, she conducted a research study for St Paul Intervention Center  where she assessed the satisfaction level of violence survivors from the law enforcing agencies. This included police, courts, counselors and shelters. The outcomes of the report and the specific recommendations were presented to a body of senior judges and police officials. She also worked with St. Paul Intervention Center as a woman's advocate and volunteered in a program which provided violence survivors direct support after they had requested police intervention.

After returning to Pakistan in 1987, she joined Women’s Action Forum. She formed a taskforce under its Islamabad chapter called Committee for Violence Against Women. This committee analysed factors that have helped this violence persist and initiatives needed in the society to address some of these aspects. To deepen the discussion she and others on the task force organised workshops on the issue.

Bedari
Saeed was a founding member and executive director of, Bedari, a community organisation focused on women's issues, specifically related to violence.  The organisation was founded in 1992 by Saeed and Ambreen Ahmad.  At that time others among the core members who formed the first executive body included Sara Tirmazi, Shazreh Husain and Roshaneh Zafar. Bedari became the first Crisis Center in Pakistan that dealt with women experiencing violence.

Women in folk culture

Fouzia Saeed has been working throughout her career on women's issues in the field of folklore, development and social change. Her career started as a Deputy Director Research at the Pakistan National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage ( Lok Virsa Museum ) where she developed and supervised a folklore research program and contributed to improvement of the folklore archives and the library of the institute. She conducted research on various aspects of folklore, through the Institute and on her own. Her first research was on women in folk theatre in 1991. Recently, Lok Virsa requested her to update and enhance the book, which they published in 2011 as 'Forgotten Faces: Daring Women of the Pakistani Folk Theatre'. In the book, she chronicled the life of Bali Jatti, the first women to own a travelling stage theatre in Punjab, as a vehicle to capture the tradition of Punjabi folk theatre through the eyes of the female performers whose careers are spent in front of audiences of men who keep their wives hidden at home.  The first review of the book,(Documenting Arts by Sarwat Ali) appreciated her ability to present these stage stars as real women who faced more than their share of troubles in their lives. She has also done research on other entertainment forms like folk circus, folk dances and folk natak (drama), and has mostly focused on women’s experiences in each of them.

Her book, Taboo: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light District, is the first book-length ethnography that captures the fading traditional systems of prostitution in Pakistan, with their close relationships with classical music and dance, as they are steadily replaced by the more exploitative modern brothel systems. The culture of the prostitutes serves as reverse-image of mainstream Pakistani society with their female heads-of-household and male family members who serve no economic purpose. Saeed used this culture as a mirror for Pakistanis to assess their own gender relations.  For this reason, the book became a cult classic among young English-speaking Pakistanis. The book was published in English and Urdu by Oxford University Press and has been translated into Hindi and Marathi by nonprofit groups in India. A Japanese translation was published by Commons in October 2010.

She also contributed a shorter, more technical version of her book in an international collection of articles comparing legal systems for prostitution in Europe and Asia.

Saeed has been actively involved in reviving Pakistani folk performance arts through organisations she has been associated with, and is also a folk dancer herself. Together with the Folklore Society of Pakistan she helped to re-establish the Manganhar folk singing genre that had almost died out in Pakistan.

Media
Saeed has been associated with electronic media since 1977 when she was among the first female television news announcers on Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) from Peshawar. She was a college student at the time.  After completing her studies in the US, when she returned to Pakistan in 1987, she started her engagement with PTV again. This was through conducting programs for PTV and later with other television channels from time to time.

She hosted four different television series of talk shows on social and cultural issues: Hum Qadam, Bholi hui hun dastan, New Horizons and Rishtay (about 50 programs in total). In addition, she has hosted numerous live transmissions and special programs onvarious occasions.

She continues to appear on PTV and other channels as a commentator on political and social issues.

In October 2009, her last television program began on anti-Talibanization called Ye Kon Log Hen? (Who Are These People?).  The program ran for three months.  This program was a part of her larger agenda addressing the ways terrorists establish themselves in fragile communities.  She organised a large gathering of citizens at the National Library on 23 June 2009 to map out a strategy for countering talibanisation in Pakistan. In 2010, she galvanized citizen support for a constitutional amendment formalizing local government as a third tier of the state administration as a part of her counter narrative agenda. She continues to broaden her counter narrative through her work at Lok Virsa.

References

Bibliography
 Saeed, Fouzia (1987), Social Consequences of Overseas Education : Re-adjustment of Returning Pakistani scholars Dissertation: (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1987.

Saeed, Fouzia (1991), "Queen of Hearts", Newsline.

External links
 American Home Economics Association
 Mehergarh: A Center for Learning
 Bedari
 Folklore Society of Pakistan
 National Commission on the Status of Women
 Personal Portfolio

Pakistani human rights activists
Pakistani women's rights activists
Pakistani women writers
University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development alumni
Living people
University of Peshawar alumni
People from Peshawar
People from Islamabad
University of Minnesota College of Design alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)


The Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra (WCYO) is a not-for-profit organization providing young musicians in the Fairfield County and upper Westchester County areas with classical symphonic, concert band and string orchestra experience through participation in the Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and String Ensemble respectively.  The WCYO mission is to provide an opportunity for young musicians to develop their musical talents through education and performance, to foster an awareness and appreciation of standard and modern repertoire, and to provide cultural enrichment to the surrounding communities. Based in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the WCYO orchestras have toured in Sweden, Austria, and Paris, and have performed at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Auditions are required for acceptance into the ensembles.

History
The WCYO was founded in 2002 as the Ridgefield Symphony Youth Orchestra. Twenty-five young musicians were selected as members of the inaugural youth orchestra, which began weekly rehearsals in January 2003. In the fall of 2005, the program grew to include a String Ensemble which allowed the organization to reach and nurture a broader range of musical talents and abilities. As part of its goal to establish greater recognition of the organization's regional focus, in August 2008 the organization changed its name to the Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra. In 2010, the program further expanded to include the Wind Ensemble. Together the three ensembles consist of nearly 100 auditioned musicians age 8 through 18, hailing from 20 towns in CT and NY.

Orchestras
 Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra -- Eric Mahl, Music Director
 Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra, String Ensemble -- Joanna Giordano, Conductor
 Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra, Wind Ensemble -- Malin Carta, Conductor

References

External links
 Official Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra website

American youth orchestras
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Musical groups from Connecticut
2003 establishments in Connecticut
Musical groups established in 2003
Youth organizations based in Connecticut
Performing arts in Connecticut


The 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing occurred on 27 March 2009, in Jamrud in the Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas during Friday prayers. The local police immediately claimed a casualty count of 48 while adding that the death toll could reach as high as 70. A hundred wounded were also taken to hospital. It was reported that about 250 worshippers were present during prayer time.

Background
Jamrud (Urdu: جمرود) is a town located in the Khyber Agency, one of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The town is of strategic importance, as the doorway to the Khyber Pass, part of the Hindu Kush range, which leads into Afghanistan.  The Khyber Pass has been a principal route for resupplying NATO forces in the current Afghan theatre of conflict. In February 2009, a bridge 15 miles northwest of Peshawar was blown up by militants presumably sympathetic to or sponsored by the Taliban.

The bombing of the Jamrud mosque came at a time of increased uncertainty in Pakistan following a high-profile attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team as well as more tense moments as former PM Nawaz Sharif threatened to join the lawyers' Long March to Islamabad although he had been placed under 'house arrest at his family's compound Raiwind, with the stated aim of reinstating the sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar Choudhary as promised, although this calls for a new "revolution" was also a direct response to, his being barred, along with his brother, from ever running for any government office again, and the consequent dismissal of the Punjab government led by his brother.  There was also talk of an increased American drone bombing campaign into other areas of Pakistan.

Al Jazeera English reported that "rising violence in Pakistan's northwest [was] fueling doubts about the country's ability to counter Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters." Jamrud also lies in the Khyber region, where fighters have intensified attacks on lorries carrying supplies to NATO and US forces in Afghanistan.

This attack came a day after at least 11 people were killed at a restaurant in the same northwest region in the Jandola district of South Waziristan.

Follow-up
The next day a supply base for NATO troops was attacked and 12 containers were damaged.

Attack
The attack occurred just after the muezzin's call to prayer. As a result of the attack the upper floor of the mosque collapsed on the worshippers below. A photo showed that three columns supporting a beam connected to the Mosque's Minarettes at either side of the structure was all that remained of the Mosque.

Responsibility
Though there was no immediate claim of responsibility, other details have raised speculation. The mosque is near a police checkpoint where "people in that checkpoint usually pray in this mosque"; there were rumours that suggested foreign hands were responsible. A tribal policeman also made an early claim that pro-Taliban fighters were guilty of carrying out the bombing after a recent offensive aimed in part at protecting a supply route for NATO and US troops operating in Afghanistan. He said that "Residents of this area had co-operated and helped us a lot. These infidels had warned that they will take revenge. They are the enemy of Pakistan. They are the enemy of Islam."

A report said a commander of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's Khyber Agency chapter had warned through the media of attacks if the security forces did not vacate the Frontier Corps checkposts in Jamrud and Landikotal by 20 February.  Khassadars at the village of Bagyari (the site of the blast) told reporters that a Taliban commander Nazeer Afridi from the Sepah tribe in Bara had issued the warning through letters, saying they would not allow the Peshawar-Torkham route to be used by vehicles carrying supplies for Nato forces in Afghanistan.  Afghanistan-bound Nato convoys and truck terminals in Peshawar and Khyber Agency have been attacked in recent months.

Reaction
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani  "strongly condemned the suicide attack" while vowing that the perpetrators would be brought to justice. Asfandyar Wali Khan was quoted as saying 'The bomber and his operatives have once again demonstrated that this is not a war for Islam and Shariah, this is not jihad, but war against humanity.'

See also
 Violence in Pakistan 2006–09, table and map providing overview of all violence in Pakistan between 2006 and 2009.

References

2009 murders in Pakistan
21st-century mass murder in Pakistan
Mass murder in 2009
Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2009
Suicide bombings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Mosque bombings in Pakistan
Massacres in religious buildings and structures
Khyber District
Mass murder in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
March 2009 events in Pakistan
Terrorist incidents by unknown perpetrators


The All Japan High School Soccer Tournament (全国高等学校サッカー選手権大会, Zenkoku kōtō gakkō sakkā senshuken taikai, 全国高校サッカー選手権大会, Zenkoku kō kō sakkā senshuken taikai) of Japan, commonly known as "Winter Kokuritsu" (冬の国立 Fuyu no Kokuritsu), is an annual nationwide high school association football tournament. It is the oldest and largest scale amateur sporting event in Japan, widely popular throughout the nation. For third graders of the participating teams, the tournament is the last time the students can play in an official competition with their school peers, as they graduate from High School. It ends up enhancing the motivation of the players in each match of the tournament, as it can be their last wearing his High School team shirt in the competition.

Henceforth, the tournament, organized by the Japan Football Association, All Japan High School Athletic Federation and the Nippon Television, as a highly competitive tournament, it's organized in an all-knockout stage format. The prefectural preliminary rounds uses the same method, with the best-ranked teams according to the U-18 league division it plays earning byes from the early stages. The main tournament is held during the winter school vacation period, culminating in a two-week final tournament stage with 48 teams from late December to earlu January at the National Capital Region side.

Venues

Current venues
Japan National Stadium
Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium
Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka
Urawa Komaba Stadium
Saitama Stadium 2002
Kashiwanoha Stadium
ZA Oripri Stadium
NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium
Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium

Previous venues (since tournament moved to Kanto)
NACK5 Stadium Omiya
National Stadium (1958)
Oi Futo Chuo Kaihin Park Athletics Stadium
Edogawa Stadium
Kawagoe Sports Park Athletics Stadium
Chiba Sports Stadium
Frontier Soccer Field
Fukuda Denshi Arena
Yokohama Mitsuzawa Athletic Stadium
Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka
Sagamihara Gion Stadium

Finals

Results

Records and statistics

Most successful prefectures
Excluding the special tournament on 1934 and the Korean schools.

Overall top goalscorers

Single season top scorer

References

External links
 Official website – JFA (Japan Football Association)

Football competitions in Japan
Youth football competitions
Youth football in Japan
Recurring sporting events established in 1917


This is a listing of Australian rules footballers to have made their debut with a club for the Australian Football League season 2009.

List of players, sorted by club

Adelaide
Players making their AFL debuts
Myke Cook (Round 1)
Jared Petrenko (Round 1)
Taylor Walker (Round 1)
Shaun McKernan (Round 14)
Brodie Martin (Round 16)
Rory Sloane (Round 20)

Brisbane Lions
Players making their AFL debuts
Daniel Rich (Round 1)
Sam Sheldon (Round 6)
Matt Austin (Round 8)
Aaron Cornelius (Round 9)
Jack Redden (Round 15)
Tom Rockliff (Round 18)

Carlton
Players making their AFL debuts
Jeff Garlett (Round 1)
Sam Jacobs (Round 1)
Aaron Joseph (Round 1)
Mitch Robinson (Round 1)
Chris Yarran (Round 7)
Players from other clubs
Chris Johnson (Round 1) – previously played for Melbourne
Greg Bentley (Round 6) – previously played for Port Adelaide

Collingwood
Players making their AFL debuts
Dayne Beams (Round 2)
Brent Macaffer (Round 5)
Steele Sidebottom (Round 7)
Players from other clubs
Leigh Brown (Round 2) – previously played for Fremantle and North Melbourne
Anthony Corrie (Round 6) – previously played for Brisbane

Essendon
Players making their AFL debuts
Michael Hurley (Round 1)
David Zaharakis (Round 2)
Michael Quinn (Round 2)
Players from other clubs
Hayden Skipworth (Round 1) – previously played for Adelaide
Brent Prismall (Round 11) – previously played for Geelong

Fremantle
Players making their AFL debuts
Stephen Hill (Round 1)
Nick Suban (Round 1)
Greg Broughton (Round 3)
Matt de Boer (Round 6)
Luke Pratt (Round 7)
Clancee Pearce (Round 11)
Michael Walters (Round 11)
Hayden Ballantyne (Round 13)
Zac Clarke (Round 13)
Tim Ruffles (Round 14)
Jay van Berlo (Round 17)

Geelong
Players making their AFL debuts
Simon Hogan (Round 2)
Nathan Djerrkura (Round 10)
Tom Gillies (Round 15)
Jeremy Laidler (Round 15)

Hawthorn
Players making their AFL debuts
Ryan Schoenmakers (Round 1)
Brendan Whitecross (Round 1)
Matt Suckling (Round 1)
Beau Muston (Round 9)
Liam Shiels (Round 10)
Shane Savage (Round 20)
Riley Milne (Round 21)

Melbourne
Players making their AFL debuts
Kyle Cheney (Round 1)
Neville Jetta (Round 1)
Jamie Bennell (Round 1)
Jake Spencer (Round 1)
Jack Watts (Round 11)
Liam Jurrah (Round 12)
Jordie McKenzie (Round 17)
Rohan Bail (Round 19)
Tom McNamara (Round 19)
Players from other clubs
John Meesen (Round 3) – previously played for Adelaide

North Melbourne
Players making their AFL debuts
Jack Ziebell (Round 1)
Ben Warren (Round 4)
Levi Greenwood (Round 5)
Sam Wright (Round 8)
Nathan Grima (Round 8)
Cruize Garlett (Round 12)
Liam Anthony (Round 13)

Port Adelaide
Players making their AFL debuts
Wade Thompson (Round 3)
Hamish Hartlett (Round 4)
Jason Davenport (Round 7)
Matthew Broadbent (Round 16)
Players from other clubs
Danny Meyer (Round 12) – previously played for Richmond

Richmond
Players making their AFL debuts
Andrew Browne (Round 1)
Robin Nahas (Round 2)
Alex Rance (Round 2)
Andrew Collins (Round 4)
Ty Vickery (Round 12)
Jarrod Silvester (Round 13)
Jayden Post (Round 14)
Players from other clubs
Ben Cousins (Round 1) – previously played for West Coast
Tom Hislop (Round 2) – previously played for Essendon

St Kilda
Players from other clubs
Zac Dawson (Round 1) – previously played for Hawthorn
Farren Ray (Round 1) – previously played for Western Bulldogs

Sydney Swans
Players making their AFL debuts
Brett Meredith (Round 2)
Kristin Thornton (Round 4)
Mike Pyke (Round 6) – previously played for Canada national rugby union team
Dan Hannebery (Round 16)
Players from other clubs
Rhyce Shaw (Round 1) – previously played for Collingwood

West Coast Eagles
Players making their AFL debuts
Adam Cockie (Round 6)
Tom Swift (Round 10)
Nic Naitanui (Round 12)
Patrick McGinnity (Round 15)

Western Bulldogs
Players making their AFL debuts
Liam Picken (Round 2)
Jarrad Grant (Round 5)
Brennan Stack (Round 11)
Easton Wood (Round 19)

Australian rules football records and statistics
Australian rules football-related lists
2009 in Australian rules football
2009 Australian Football League season


The Bowling Green Falcons women's basketball team is the NCAA Division I women's basketball team that represents Bowling Green State University. The team plays at the 4,700-seat Stroh Center on the BGSU campus in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. The Falcons competes in the Mid-American Conference.

History
The Falcons have won the most MAC Championships, winning eleven tournament championships since its admission into the MAC in 1981. The team last played in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament in 2011.  The Falcons became the first team from the MAC to reach the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament Sweet Sixteen, after they upset the second seed Vanderbilt 59–56 at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing, Michigan in 2007.

Coaching history

-Bowling Green did not belong to a conference until the 1981–82 season.
-Records as of the end of the 2012–13 season.

Season-by-season results
''This is a partial list of the last five seasons completed by the Falcons.
Records as of July 30, 2010.

AIAW/NCAA Tournament Results

The Falcons have appeared in eleven NCAA Tournaments. Their combined record is 3–11.

AIAW

NCAA

WNIT

WBI

See also
Bowling Green Falcons
Mid-American Conference

References

External links


This is a list of British television-related events from 2003.

Events

January
1 January – The Studio closes after nearly two years on the air.
2 January – BBC One airs Dot's Story, an EastEnders spin-off. It tells the story of Dot Branning's experiences as a wartime evacuee.
3 January – CITV celebrates its twentieth birthday with the CITV Birthday Bash.
4 January – ITV1 airs the first live edition of Blind Date, on which presenter Cilla Black announces she is quitting the show after 18 years. She later tells ITV bosses the programme should be shelved because of falling ratings which have dropped from 17 million at its peak to 4 million.
6 January
Scottish and Grampian adopt the ITV celebrity idents package, introduced on 28 October 2002, albeit with their own logos attached and with idents featuring a lot more Scottish personalities alongside those of ITV1.
Thomas and Friends returns to free-for-air television with Michael Angelis resuming his role as storyteller, now airing every weekday on CITV.
11 January
Girls Aloud singer and former Popstars: The Rivals contestant Cheryl Tweedy is involved in an altercation with a nightclub toilet attendant, Sophie Amogbokpa, in The Drink nightclub in Guildford. She is subsequently charged with racially aggravated assault after allegedly calling Amogbokpa a "jigaboo" and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Debut of Channel 4's The Salon, a fly-on-the-wall series documenting events in a purpose-built beauty salon in London. The series airs for three months, before returning for a second run in October. It finishes in March 2004.
Steven Spielberg's science-fiction miniseries Taken debuts on BBC Two.
13 January – ITV1 soap Crossroads is relaunched under the stewardship of producer Yvon Grace and with a decidedly camp feel. However, Grace is criticised by fans for her ambivalence towards unresolved storylines from the 2001–2002 run.
15 January – Launch of Ftn and UK Bright Ideas.
28 January – Los Angeles-based police drama Boomtown debuts on Five.
31 January – The Campaign Week website reports that TBWA have used characters from the 1970s children's television show Hector's House for an ad campaign relaunching Virgin One bank account as The One account. The campaign has been created on behalf of the Royal Bank of Scotland which bought the name from Virgin and AMP in July 2001.

February
1 February
Postman Pat returns to CBeebies with a new series 6 years after the last series aired. The first episode is titled Postman Pat and the Greendale Rocket: in the episode, The children set off on a school outing to the old Greendale Station and are very excited when they discover Greendale's old forgotten steam train, the Greendale Rocket. Everyone volunteers to get the Greendale Rocket back into action. Pat and Ted try to get the engine working again with a new friend Ajay and his Family.
BBC News airs coverage of The Space Shuttle Columbia Explosion
3 February – The Martin Bashir documentary Living with Michael Jackson is broadcast on ITV1. The revelations of Jackson's controversial personal life in the programme is one of the many factors that leads to his trial for child molestation. Launch of Channel U.
4 February – Channel 4 News airs an interview conducted by veteran politician Tony Benn with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
6 February – Prime Minister Tony Blair appears on BBC Two's Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman and a live audience where he is questioned about the Iraq crisis. Blair is also taken aback when Paxman asks him about his Christian faith and whether he and US President George W. Bush have prayed together.
8 February – Phil Mitchell is to leave EastEnders later that year as Steve McFadden takes a break from the show.
9 February – After a long delay, BBC Choice is replaced by BBC Three. The opening night is simulcast on BBC Two.
9–10 February – ITV1 screens the controversial two-part drama The Second Coming, set around the return to Earth of Jesus Christ in modern-day Manchester.
10 February – During an interview on ITV's This Morning, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees brands Graham Norton as scum after the comedian made a joke about the singer's late brother, Maurice on his Channel 4 chat show, V Graham Norton the day after his death.
12 February – In the weeks leading up to the Iraq War, the BBC screens a series of programmes examining the case for and against war. The centrepiece of this is Iraq Day: The Case For and Against War, a 90-minute programme on BBC One on that day. Presented by Peter Snow, the programme analyses the possible implications of a war in the Middle East and attempts to gauge public opinion on the subject with a viewers poll.
20 February – The 2003 BRIT Awards are held at London's Earls Court. Two of the acts, Ms. Dynamite and Coldplay, use their awards acceptance speeches to criticise plans for US-led military action in Iraq.
22 February – After an absence of six years, After Dark returns to television.
24 February
19.4 million watch Coronation Street as Richard Hillman confesses to the murder of Maxine Peacock. the highest rated show of the year.
Mersey Television boss Phil Redmond criticises broadcasting watchdogs for forcing television to "dumb down" after the Independent Television Commission rules that episodes of Brookside that aired in November 2002 showing an armed siege had breached broadcasting regulations and were inappropriate for a pre-watershed audience.
26 February
BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 featuring live performances from US rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
ITV police drama series The Bill introduces a new theme tune and new opening titles.

March
3 March – Five airs Take Two: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See, the "rebuttal video" issued in response to the Martin Bashir documentary Living with Michael Jackson. Having previously been aired on Sky One, this airing of the programme is watched by 2.4 million viewers, enjoying a 9.8% audience share.
5 March – BBC One airs Mandela: The Living Legend, a two-part documentary series whose film crew had six months of unprecedented access to Nelson Mandela. The second part airs on 12 March.
7 March
Singer George Michael makes his first appearance on BBC One's Top of the Pops in 17 years, with a cover of Don McLean's protest song The Grave, but runs into conflict with the show's producers for an anti-war, anti-Blair T-shirt worn by some members of his band.
EastEnders announces the casting of a new family, the Ferreiras who will be the first Asian family to join the soap for a decade. They will move to Albert Square in the Summer.
8 March – Debut of ITV1's Reborn in the USA, a reality show in which ten British pop acts of the 1980s and 1990s tour the United States in the hope of reviving their careers. Those participating in the series include Sonia Evans, Leee John, Michelle Gayle and Tony Hadley. The show has already prompted controversy after Mark Shaw of Then Jericho decided to quit the series shortly before it went on air.
9 March
Teletext's often surreal and acerbic games magazine, Digitiser is published for the final time after ten years on air. The magazine is replaced the following day by GameCentral which features less of the humour favoured by its predecessor.
The 1982 American horror slasher film Friday the 13th Part III makes its UK television debut on ITV1 as part of the channel's Sunday night lineup.
10 March – Channel 4 is reprimanded by the Independent Television Commission for showing a documentary in which a Chinese artist appeared to eat a stillborn baby which the watchdog felt demonstrated a "lack of respect for human dignity". Graham Norton is also criticised for his joke about the late Maurice Gibb.
11 March – The BBC ends the deal with Sky Digital under which BBC channels are carried exclusively by Sky, meaning that satellite viewers will be able to watch BBC content without a viewing card. The changes will take effect from 30 May.
12 March – ITV announce that Cat Deeley will take over as presenter of the junior version of Stars in Their Eyes because regular host Matthew Kelly will be busy touring as part of a stage production when the series is scheduled to be recorded.
14 March – Highlights of BBC One's 2003 Comic Relief fundraiser include Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, the Red Nose Special and Rowan Atkinson and Lenny Henry in the spoof documentary Lying to Michael Jackson.
19 March
Procter & Gamble announces it is ending its Daz Doorstep Challenge advertising campaign after ten years, feeling it is "old fashioned". It will be replaced with the soap-opera style campaign Cleaner Close.
BBC Three airs American Psycho, Mary Harron's black comedy based on the novel of the same name by Brett Easton Ellis.
20 March
As the 2003 invasion of Iraq begins, many broadcasters abandon regular programming to provide up to date coverage of unfolding events.
George McGhee is appointed as Controller of BBC Programme Acquisition and will take up the position from early April.
22 March – ITN journalist Terry Lloyd is killed while covering the events of the Iraq War after he and his team of two cameramen and an interpreter are caught in a crossfire during fighting near the Shatt Al Basra Bridge in Basra. between US and Iraqi forces. His body and that of his Lebanese interpreter, Hussein Osman, are recovered and it is later discovered they were both shot by United States forces.
23 March – The Truth, the season nine finale of The X-Files and the last episode in the series original run, makes its terrestrial television debut on BBC Two.
26 March – BBC defence correspondent Paul Adams criticises BBC News coverage of the Iraq war in a memo to bosses, describing the coverage as painting an untruthful picture.
28 March – Debut of Extraordinary People on Five, each programme follows the lives of people with a rare medical condition and/or an unusual ability, many of these people do activities previously thought impossible for people in their condition.
30 March – Channel 4 News reporter Gaby Rado is found dead in Iraq, having apparently fallen from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in the northern city of Sulaymaniyah. His death is believed to be unconnected to the ongoing military campaign in that country.
31 March
Birkbeck, University of London wins the 2002–03 series of University Challenge, beating Cranfield University 180–155.
Carlton Cinema goes off the air and is the last Carlton channel to close.

April
5 April – BBC Two launches The Big Read, a nationwide search for Britain's favourite book. The project is designed to encourage the nation to read, while people will be asked to vote for their favourite novel.
7 April
Children's program Balamory returns for its second series on CBeebies, with Julie Wilson Nimmo, Buki Akib, Miles Jupp, Juliet Cadzow, Andrew Agnew, Rodd Christensen, Mary Riggans and Kim Tserkezie all reprising their roles. In the first episode called The Lost Letter, Spencer finds out Miss Hoolie didn't get the invitation to a surprise party for herself, so he asks PC Plum to look for the invitation before the party.
Following a trial at Southwark Crown Court lasting seven weeks, the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? contestant Charles Ingram, his wife Diana and Tecwen Whittock are convicted by a majority verdict of "procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception". The Ingrams are each given 18-month prison sentences suspended for two years, each are fined £15,000 and each ordered to pay £10,000 towards prosecution costs. This is later increased to a joint £65,000 fine, but following another hearing in 2004 this is reduced to £30,00 due to them having financial difficulties. Charles Ingram is declared bankrupt in December 2004. Their quiz deception later becomes the subject of Quiz, a 2017 play written by James Graham.
Granada Television announce that Jonathan Wilkes is to replace Lisa Riley as host of You've Been Framed!.
8 April – Teenage singer Charlotte Church will guest present an edition of Have I Got News for You when the programme returns for a new series, the BBC confirms. At 17, she will become the youngest person to present the show. Other guest presenters in the forthcoming series which begins on 25 April, will include Martin Clunes and William Hague.
10 April - Channel 5's Milkshake! debuts hit Australian kids series Hi-5 that proved to be a huge success. Naomi Wilkinson spoke to presenter Nathan Foley to ask the viewers questions.
14 April
The children's series Boohbah debuts on CITV.
Debut of 99 Things to do Before You Die on Five in which four people (Syirin Said, Steve Jones, Alexandra Aitken and Rob Deering) take on challenges from around the world. The series continues with a compilation of the best moments on 2 June and it was later repeated on Sky Travel until 2005.
20 April – Sky One airs the 300th episode of The Simpsons.
21 April – Channel 4 airs the 1000th episode of Hollyoaks.
26 April – Former Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley wins ITV1's Reborn in the USA.
27 April – After more than 23 years on the air, the final edition of soap opera Take the High Road is broadcast by STV.
29 April – The BBC rejects viewer complaints that its documentary, The Virgin Mary which was aired shortly before Christmas 2002 had tried to undermine religious beliefs. Complaints about a gay kiss in Casualty that aired in January are also rejected.

May
1 May – The Heroes Channel and The Games Channel both launch on VTV Cable.
2 May – The BBC announces that the character of Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) will return to EastEnders later this year, 14 years after departing in an episode where the character was believed to have died as a result of being shot.
10 May
The 2003 British Soap Awards, aired by ITV1 on 14 May, are presented in London by Des O'Connor and Melanie Sykes, during which actor Dean Sullivan is presented with a Special Achievement Award for his role as Jimmy Corkhill in Brookside. In a press interview held after the event, Sullivan urges Channel 4 not to axe Brookside, saying it "would be mad" to do so.
BBC Two airs the network television premiere of Luc Besson's 1999 French epic film version of Joan of Arc, starring Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway,  Dustin Hoffman and Tchéky Karyo.
11 May – The Observer reports that the BBC is to cut back on the number of self-promotional trailers following complaints from viewers and rival broadcasters. The newspaper also reports that the broadcasting of an ad for the BBC's digital service which featured a character from the Tweenies pulling off her face to reveal June Brown as Dot Cotton from EastEnders had to be put back to a later time slot because some viewers complained it was giving their children nightmares.
12 May – Former cricketer Phil Tufnell wins the second series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
13 May
Docudrama The Day Britain Stopped airs on BBC Two. It is based on a fictional disaster on 19 December 2003, in which a train strike is the first in a chain of events that lead to a meltdown of the country's transport system ending with a plane collision.
A teaser trailer for that year's Rugby World Cup is shown on ITV1, The tournament would start on the 10th October.
14 May
Five have acquired the UK terrestrial television rights to the American supernatural drama Angel after Channel 4 dropped the programme from its schedule. The series makes its debut on Five on 2 June.
BBC Two re airs the 2000 Olympic Games.
15 May – Kevin Kennedy is to leave Coronation Street in the Autumn after playing Curly Watts for 20 years, it is reported. The character will be involved in a dramatic storyline about police brutality and the door will be left open for him to return at a later date.
17 May – Following a public vote to find the UK's favourite book, the BBC's The Big Read reveals the top 100 in a special programme on BBC Two while BBC One airs the 2003 FA Cup Final.
18 May – Five airs the network television premiere of Brian Levant's 2000 prehistoric comedy prequel film The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, starring Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Kristen Johnston, Jane Krakowski, Thomas Gibson, Alan Cumming and Joan Collins.
19 May – Bollywood actor Dalip Tahil who will play the head of the Ferreira family in EastEnders, speaks out against criticism from British Asian actors who said the part should have gone to a UK-based actor.
20 May
Steve Anderson, ITV's controller of news, announces plans to move News at Ten because the programme is losing out on viewers in the 10pm slot where it goes head-to-head with the BBC Ten O'Clock News.
During what is meant to be a commercial break, Friendly TV accidentally broadcasts a conversation between members of its News Hound team who make allegations about aspects of Nicole Kidman's private life.
21 May – Five announce a new chat show which it hopes will rival ITV1's This Morning. The Terry and Gaby Show, presented by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin will debut on 2 June.
22 May – Prompted by their manager, four members of the pop group S Club storm out of an interview on BBC Three's Liquid News when presenter Claudia Winkleman asks them about their earnings.
23 May – ITV1, Channel 4, Five and the other channels aired an advert of Barclays with Samuel L. Jackson taking on "Money Moving Smoothly" and features a close-up shot of Rachel Stevens' legs walking on the pavement.
24 May – Jemini, the UK's entry for the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest receives Britain's worst Eurovision result after failing to attract a single point. The contest is won by Turkey's Sertab Erener with Everyway That I Can.
29 May – Toons & Tunes is rebranded as POP.
30 May – ITV1 broadcasts the final episode of Crossroads after the series was axed due to declining ratings. The finale sees hotel boss Angel Sampson, played by Jane Asher, waking up to find she is a supermarket checkout girl and that her tenure as boss of the Crossroads Hotel was all a dream.
31 May
Laura Jenkins, performing as Connie Francis wins the second junior series of Stars in Their Eyes.
Cilla Black presents the final edition of Blind Date, having announced her intention to quit the long-running game show in January. A change in the show's format was one of the factors in her decision to leave the show.

June
3 June – The Ferreiras make their EastEnders debut, becoming the first Asian family to join the soap since 1993 when Sanjay and Gita Kapoor arrived on screen.
4 June – It is reported that former Bucks Fizz singer Cheryl Baker suffered a fractured ankle in a skydiving accident the previous weekend while filming a new series, Drop the Celebrity for ITV1.
5 June – ITV1 airs the final episode of Night and Day.
9 June – The Muslim Council of Britain has complained about a recent episode of Spooks that featured a mosque at which people are taught to be suicide bombers after Birmingham's Central Mosque was defaced following the episode's transmission. The BBC says it has received no evidence that the incident is linked to the programme.
10 June – Bruce Forsyth is confirmed as the host of the final episode of the latest series of Have I Got News for You. Since adopting its guest presenter format late last year, the series has enjoyed a ratings boost, meaning the BBC has put plans to find a permanent replacement for Angus Deayton on hold. The episode presented by Forsyth famously includes him playing a game of Play Your Iraqi Cards Right, a twist on the format of the game show presented by him, but using a pack of Iraqi playing cards instead of a traditional deck.
11 June
The shopping channel Price-drop.tv is launched.
Channel 4 announces that its long-running soap Brookside will end in November.
12 June
A storyline involving the Coronation Street character Todd Grimshaw who rejected a place at Oxford University because his girlfriend said she would not follow him there, is criticised by the Sutton Trust, an organisation that encourages children from poorer backgrounds to apply to top universities. The Trust says it is disappointed as the storyline sends out the wrong message to children watching the soap. The issue also highlights the small number of soap characters who attend university.
Sky1 airs the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. BBC Two airs the episode on 18 December.
17 June – BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 dedicated to the record producer Mickie Most who died on 30 May.
19 June – Actress Laura Sadler who plays Sandy Harper in Holby City, dies in hospital after she fell from a block of flats in west London a few days earlier. She sustained extensive head injuries as a result of the fall and had not regained consciousness. A subsequent inquest held at West London Coroner's Court records a verdict of accidental death.
20 June – The final edition of Play Your Cards Right is broadcast on ITV with Bruce Forsyth as presenter which in turn also marks the end of the final series of the game show to air on ITV. It has returned for one-off specials, presented by Ant & Dec on 15 October 2005 and Vernon Kay on 26 May 2007 as part of the series  Gameshow Marathon.
22 June – ITV1 announces that it has axed the long-running Saturday night game show Blind Date.
25 June
Channel 4 Director of Television Tim Gardam announces he will step down from the job after five years, departing at the end of the year.
A viewer complaint about an edition of Channel 4's V Graham Norton in which Dustin Hoffman told a joke which included a taboo word is upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Commission. ITV's Tonight is also censured after airing an interview with a pregnant teenager which was perceived to have been of an exploitative nature because her predicament had largely come about because of a lack of knowledge.
28 June
ITV1 records one of its worst ever Saturday night audiences when coverage of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships is extended on BBC One.
The game show Judgement Day premieres on ITV1, hosted by Brian Conley. It is cancelled after two episodes due to very low ratings.
29 June – ITV1's holiday series Wish You Were Here...? airs for the last time.
June – Grampian Television's Aberdeen headquarters move to new smaller studios in the city's Tullos area.

July
2 July – Lawyers representing Michael Barrymore who was dropped by London Weekend Television in September 2002 confirm he will take legal action against the broadcaster for an unpaid salary. He has largely been absent from television since news concerning the death of a man during a party at his property broke in 2001, although a series of My Kind of Music aired in February 2002.
4 July – The mid-afternoon regional news bulletin is moved from BBC Two to BBC One.
7 July – Mastermind returns to television for its first full series since 1997 with John Humphrys taking over the role of quizmaster.
8 July – The Independent Television Commission rejects complaints from the relatives of a victim of Dr. Harold Shipman that ITV's 2002 film about the serial killer was factually inaccurate. The Commission finds that although artistic licence was taken in some scenes, these had been "sympathetically presented" and were therefore not detrimental to the victim's family.
9 July – ITV1 drops two recently launched programmes from its primetime schedule because of poor ratings. The game show Judgement Day and comedy series Fortysomething, starring Hugh Laurie will air elsewhere in the schedule.
16 July – BBC One airs the final edition of Tomorrow's World. It will be fifteen years later in 2018 before a new edition of the programme is broadcast.
17 July
The Communications Act 2003 receives Royal Assent.
In its final annual report, the Broadcasting Standards Commission reveals that an episode of the BBC spy drama Spooks in which a character's head is pushed into a vat of boiling oil was the most complained about television programme during the past year.
Trevor Hyett steps down as editor of Five's The Terry and Gaby Show to work on other projects. His post will be taken over by the show's producer, James Winter. The programme has struggled in the ratings since its launch, but Five which has commissioned 200 editions of the series, says it will not cancel the show.
18 July – Sky News reporter James Forlong resigns following allegations a story shown in March involving the Iraq conflict was faked.
20 July – The BBC confirms that Dr David Kelly, found dead from a suspected suicide two days ago, was the main source for a controversial report that sparked a deep rift with the government.
25 July
Lord Currie is named as the first chairman of Ofcom.
Cameron Stout wins the fourth series of Big Brother.
28 July – Tabloid television station L!VE TV is relaunched on Sky Digital.

August
8 August – The BBC regains the broadcasting rights to show Premier League Football highlights from ITV after signing a three-year deal with them. The deal will take effect from the start of the 2004–05 season.
10 August – Channel 4 airs the British terrestrial television premiere of Straw Dogs.
18 August – In an interview with Radio Times, presenter Noel Edmonds says that he is partly responsible for the decline in the standards of British television after his BBC One show, Noel's House Party, went downhill after budget cuts.
21 August – ITV announces that its Saturday morning children's entertainment series SMTV Live will end after five years because of falling ratings and will be replaced by a new series in early 2004.
27 August – The BBC defends its decision to spend £10 million on the broadcast rights for the first Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, saying that its rivals were unprepared to invest in family viewing at Christmas. The film is part of a ten film package agreed with Warner Bros.
28 August – ITV ceases transmission of the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street,  due to the regional afternoon slot which the show occupied becoming networked.
29 August
Research by Human Capital indicate that Saturday night television is now the least watched evening of television in the UK, with Monday nights being the most popular.
That day marked the 20th anniversary of the first episode of the long-running game show Blockbusters.

September
2 September
Laura Sadler's final scenes as Holby City nurse Sandy Harper are screened on the BBC One drama. Her character's exit from the series, devised by her mother and the show's producers, sees her secretly leaving the hospital for Australia after winning the lottery.
At Home with the Eubanks debuts on Five.
ITV1 airs the British terrestrial television premiere of Mission to Mars.
8 September
CNX is shut down and is replaced by Toonami.
13 September – As The Smash Hits Chart Show returns to television which was previously on Five, the weekly 30-minute show made its debut on Channel 4 as part of the T4 strand.
15 September
Channel 4 moves its long-running game show Countdown from 4:15pm to 3:15pm, something that leads to questions being asked in Parliament and the launch of petitions to have it rescheduled back to its old slot.
18 September – Peter Amory makes his final appearance as Chris Tate in Emmerdale after 14 years.
19 September – Channel 4 confirms that its breakfast show RI:SE will end in December, it was axed because of low ratings.
21 September – BBC One airs Perfectly Frank, an EastEnders spin-off episode featuring the character Frank Butcher establishing a nightclub in Somerset.
25 September – The Daily Telegraph newspaper is the first to announce the return of the popular sci-fi drama series Doctor Who after a 14-year break. It would return to television in March 2005.
27 September – EastEnders is aired for the last time on BBC America. The programme was axed because of poor ratings that were losing the channel most of its viewers.
29 September
Den Watts makes his return to EastEnders in an episode watched by 16 million viewers.
EastEnders also wins best soap at the Inside Soap Awards.

October
2 October – ITV is given permission by the Independent Television Commission to move its 10pm news bulletin to 10:30pm. Since returning in 2001, News at Ten has aired on at least three nights a week, but analysts have noted that not having a fixed time for a weekday news bulletin is unsettling for viewers and advertisers. The ITC feels a regular news bulletin at 10:30pm will be in viewers interests.
4 October – Alex Parks wins the second series of Fame Academy.
5 October
Coronation Street shows its first gay kiss.
Psychological illusionist Derren Brown controversially plays Russian roulette live on Channel 4, though with a slight delay allegedly in case the stunt went wrong. The stunt is later revealed to have been a hoax.
6 October – After BBC America axed EastEnders due to "abysmal ratings", almost 9,000 people have signed a petition calling on the channel to reinstate the show, BBC News reports.
8 October – Delivering the Bafta Annual Lecture, ITV's head of programming, Nigel Pickard says that he is prepared to "bite the bullet" and drop poorly performing programmes and ageing presenters from its schedule, stating that "the days when you can tuck something into a little corner of peak against Panorama and hope it grows an audience" have gone.
10 October
Just over a year after returning to EastEnders, Sid Owen who plays Ricky Butcher in the soap, is to leave again, it is announced.
ITV begins to air live coverage of the 2003 Rugby World Cup with the opening game, in which Australia played Argentina at Stadium Australia in Sydney.
15 October
BBC One airs the 2000 horror thriller Cherry Falls, starring Brittany Murphy and Michael Biehn.
BBC Two airs the documentary When Michael Portillo Became a Single Mum in which former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo assumes the mantle of Merseyside single mother Jenny Miner for a week.
Plans are announced for the DVD release of Brookside: Unfinished Business, a film that will continue storylines from Channel 4's Brookside which ends on 4 November. The DVD will be released two weeks later.
ITV1 airs the network premiere of the 2000 American romantic musical comedy-drama film Coyote Ugly.
18 October – The UK's top 21 favourite books are revealed by the BBC's The Big Read. Celebrity advocates will put their case for each of the books over the coming weeks before the winner is decided.
20 October – Cheryl Tweedy is found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm after claiming self-defence during her trial, but cleared of racially aggravated assault. She is sentenced to 120 hours of community service and ordered to pay her victim £500 in compensation, as well as £3,000 prosecution costs.
22 October
Longtime broadcaster on the BBC and ITN and latterly news anchor on Sky News, Bob Friend announces his retirement.
ITV1 airs the network television premiere of X-Men.
29 October – BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 featuring performances by Sheryl Crow which includes her new single The First Cut Is the Deepest.
30 October
ITV1 screens a special live episode of The Bill to mark the show's 20th year on the air.
The Broadcasting Standards Commission upholds 30 viewer complaints about comedian Jonathan Ross's use of the F-word during the live broadcast of Red Nose Day 2003. Although the word was used at 10:30pm, after the watershed, the Commission felt it was likely children would still be watching.

November
3 November
Andy Page wins the 2003 series of Mastermind.
The Independent Television Commission rejects 21 viewer complaints about the first gay kiss to be featured in Coronation Street.
Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks begins airing five nights a week.
4 November – Channel 4 airs the final episode of Brookside, ending a run of 21 years. The episode is watched by two million viewers.
6 November – ITV confirms GMTV's Jenni Falconer as the main presenter of its new holiday series, How to Holiday. The programme, a replacement for Wish You Were Here...? will begin in early 2004.
10 November – The short-lived quiz show 19 Keys debuts on Five.
11 November – The BBC current affairs series Panorama, launched in 1953, becomes the first UK television show to reach its 50th anniversary on the air.
12 November
The BBC issues a statement in response to a newspaper report that actor Dalip Tahil faces being axed from EastEnders due to not having the correct work permit. The report in the previous Sunday's edition of The People had suggest that after Tahil joined the show from appearing in stage musical Bombay Dreams, neither he nor the BBC obtained proper authorisation from the Home Office to make the switch of employment legal. The BBC says "We are considering any potential problems with a view to resolving them as soon as possible."
UK Gold 2 is relaunched as UKG2, a channel aimed at the 16–34 audience demographic.
13 November – The British television premiere of Paul Verhoeven's 2000 science-fiction thriller Hollow Man airs on Five, starring Kevin Bacon and Elisabeth Shue.
14 November – The Office of Fair Trading gives Carlton and Granada the go-ahead to merge after the two companies agreed to adopt a new advertising sales system for ITV and to protect the interests of the smaller companies in the network, including SMG plc and Ulster Television.
15 November – The United Kingdom enters the inaugural Junior Eurovision Song Contest with "My Song for the World" performed by 10-year-old Tom Morley.
16 November
Charles II: The Power and the Passion debuts on BBC One.
BBC Three airs the spoof documentary Sex, Lies and Michael Aspel which "unmasks" the mild mannered television presenter Michael Aspel as an international womaniser who fathered several children through a string of affairs.
20 November – UTV replaces its network-inspired idents with a series of landscape films of Northern Ireland, in the form of a panorama shot as the camera revolved around a location.
21 November – BBC Three Controller Stuart Murphy confirms that the channel's entertainment news programme Liquid News will end in April 2004.
22 November – ITV's coverage of the Final of the 2003 Rugby World Cup in which England beat Australia 20–17 and won the competition is watched by more than 10 million viewers, a record figure for Saturday morning television. End of year figures produced by BARB place it as the ninth most watched television programme of the year with 12.3 million viewers.
23 November – The 40th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who, the iconic sci-fi series would return to television in March 2005.
27 November – The BBC unveils a revamped version of its news channel in an attempt to make it appear more dynamic to viewers. Changes include a new studio set and redesigned branding and graphics.
28 November
Some of the BBC's radio and television services, including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Five Live and BBC News 24, are blacked out by a power cut and a fire alert.
Top of the Pops is relaunched in the face of declining ratings with a new set and theme tune.
29 November – Pop Idol judge Pete Waterman is deluged with unwanted phone calls after fellow judge Simon Cowell gives out his mobile phone number during an edition of ITV2's Pop Idol Extra. Cowell says he did it because Waterman revealed his home address on the previous weekend's show.

December
1 December – The BBC's commercial rivals express concerns after Coca-Cola signs a deal with The Official UK Chart Company that will allow it to be mentioned on Top of the Pops and The Radio 1 Chart Show.
5 December – The third series of US spy drama 24 will not air on BBC Two after negotiations between Fox and the BBC end without a deal being reached.
6 December
Simon Cowell makes a public apology to his fellow Pop Idol judge Pete Waterman after giving out his mobile phone number during an edition of ITV2's Pop Idol Extra the previous weekend.
Westlife's version of the Barry Manilow classic Mandy is voted the 2003 Record of the Year by ITV viewers, giving the Irish boyband their third win.
8 December – BBC News 24 is relaunched with a new set and titles, as well as a new Breaking News sting. Networked news on BBC One and Two remains with the same titles though the set was redesigned in a similar style to that of the new News 24. The relaunch had been scheduled for the previous Monday (1 December), but was delayed due to a power failure the week before which had disrupted work on the new set.
13 December – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy wins the BBC's The Big Read after receiving 23% of the vote.
14 December – Jonny Wilkinson, whose last minute drop-goal clinched the 2003 Rugby World Cup for England, is named as this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year, becoming the 50th person to be presented with the award.
15 December
Comedian Graham Norton has signed an exclusive deal with the BBC where he will help to develop ideas for Saturday night entertainment. He will join them in April 2004.
Five airs a semi-fictional drama Hear the Silence, based on the MMR vaccine controversy which started when Andrew Wakefield published a paper claiming a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
16 December
After hearing that EastEnders actor Dalip Tahil who plays Dan Ferreira in the soap, faces deportation after his appeal to work in the UK was rejected by the Home Office, MP Keith Vaz raises the matter with Home Secretary David Blunkett who says he will look into the situation. However, an attempt by Tahil to make a retrospective application for a work permit is turned down and he is forced to leave the series. He was eventually allowed to remain in the UK though.
BBC Two airs a special two-act edition of TOTP2 featuring performances from Fleetwood Mac and James Brown.
17 December
BBC Scotland will not pursue the idea of a Scottish Six news programme following a major review of output which indicates a majority of viewers are satisfied with the status quo.
Sky One signs a deal with Fox to broadcast the third series of 24.
19 December
The final edition of RI:SE is aired on Channel 4. It would be replaced by series such as Friends and The Salon in its early morning slot.
The final episode of the long-running game show Fifteen to One with William G. Stewart as host is aired on Channel 4. The programme is revived a decade later and would be presented by Sandi Toksvig.
The Day Britain Stopped is shown again on BBC Two.
20 December – Michelle McManus wins the second and final series of Pop Idol. Her debut single, All This Time reaches number one in the UK Singles Chart in January 2004.
25 December
BBC One airs the network premiere of The Tigger Movie.
Sleepless in Peckham, the final episode of Only Fools and Horses is aired on BBC One. Preliminary figures released two days later indicate it is watched by 15.5 million viewers.
26 December
Celebrity Mastermind returns for a full series on BBC Two.
Debut of That Was the Week We Watched on BBC Two, narrated by actor Simon Pegg and showing six nights a week, except on New Year's Eve about looking back to past television shows in the Radio Times and TVTimes schedules from the years 1967, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1982 and 1986. The series continues on 1 January 2004.
ITV1 airs the network premiere of The Grinch.
27 December – The final edition of SMTV Live airs on ITV1. The programme is cancelled due to a decline in the number of viewers.
29 December
Launch of the Office of Communications known as Ofcom. The watchdog which formally inherits the duties that had previously been the responsibility of five different regulators. Ofcom replaces the Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independent Television Commission, Radio Authority, Office of Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Agency.
BBC One airs the Network Premiere of the 2000 adventure film Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt.
31 December
New Year's Eve highlights on BBC One include the films Anna and the King and Air Force One.
EastEnders screens a lesbian kiss between two of its characters, Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan) and Kelly Taylor (Brooke Kinsella) who share the intimate moment after surviving a minibus crash in the Scottish Highlands.
BBC Two airs a special edition of TOTP2 celebrating the 40th anniversary of Top of the Pops and featuring performances from the show's four decade history.
On ITV1, Martin Kemp stars in The Brides in the Bath, a film about George Joseph Smith.

Debuts

BBC (One/Two/Three/Four/CBBC/CBeebies/News 24)
6 January — Kerching! (2003–2006)
7 January —
 Little Robots (2003–2005)
 Red Cap (2003–2004)
8 January —
Politics Show (2003–2011)
Daily Politics (2003–2018)
9 January — Trust (2003)
11 January — Taken (2002)
12 January — This Week (2003–2019)
19 January — The Lost Prince (2003)
4 February — Posh Nosh (2003)
9 February —
Burn It (2003)
Monkey Dust (2003–2004)
10 February — Swiss Toni (2003–2004)
17 March — My Dad's the Prime Minister (2003–2004)
26 March – Rehab (2003)
27 March — New Tricks (2003–2015)
28 March — The Other Boleyn Girl (2003)
29 March - The Murder Game (2003)
15 April — Grease Monkeys (2003–2004)
17 April — Servants (2003)
28 April — Murphy's Law (2003–2007)
9 May — Cambridge Spies (2003)
12 May — Early Doors (2003–2004)
18 May — State of Play (2003)
31 May — Strange (2003)
4 June — Boo! (2003–2006)
9 June — Comedy Connections (2003–2008)
23 June – Spine Chillers (2003)
15 August —
 Trevor's World of Sport (2003)
 Eyes Down (2003–2004)
23 August — Death in Holy Orders (2003)
1 September — Sergeant Stripes (2003–2004)
8 September — Grass (2003)
9 September — The Crouches (2003–2005)
11 September —
 Canterbury Tales (2003)
QI (2003–present)
16 September —
 Little Britain (2003–2007)
 The Key (2003)
27 September - Byron (2003)
29 September — Wide-Eye (2003–2004)
4 October - Eroica (2003)
10 November — Absolute Power (2003–2005)
11 November — Rich Hall's Fishing Show (2003)
16 November — Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003)
16 December — The Private Life of Samuel Pepys (2003)
26 December — That Was the Week We Watched (2003)

ITV (including ITV1 & ITV2)
1 January – Pollyanna (2003)
2 January – Serious & Organised (2003)
4 January – Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! (2003–2005)
11 January – Miffy and Friends (2003–2007)
12 January – Sons and Lovers (2003)
19 January –
Diggin' It (2003–2005)
The Royal (2003–2011)
26 January – State of Mind (2003)
7 February – The Last Detective (2003–2007)
9 February – The Second Coming (2003)
12 February – Without You (2003)
16 February – The Commander (2003–2008)
23 March –
 Hardware (2003–2004)
 William and Mary (2003–2005)
1 April – Girls in Love (2003–2005)
11 April – Lucky Jim (2003)
14 April – Danielle Cable: Eyewitness (2003)
16 April – Watermelon (2003)
3 May – MIT: Murder Investigation Team (2003–2005)
18 May – Blue Murder (2003–2009)
29 June – Fortysomething (2003)
26 June - PointlessBlog (2003-2007)
25 August – Alibi (2003)
31 August –
Broken Morning (2003)
Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2007)
1 September - Invader Zim (2001-2002)
4 September – Sweet Medicine (2003)
22 September – Too Good To Be True (2003)
28 September – Boudica (2003)
29 September – Family (2003)
5 October – Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
10 October – P.O.W. (2003)
11 October – Creature Comforts (2003–2006)
12 October – Henry VIII (2003)
25 October – Single (2003)
29 October — Gifted (2003)
3 November – Our New Life in Everwood (2002–2006)
15 November – Junior Eurovision Song Contest (2003–2005)
17 November – Between the Sheets (2003)
21 December – Promoted To Glory (2003)
28 December – The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
31 December - The Brides in the Bath (2003)

Channel 4
12 January — The Salon (2003–2004)
14 January — Buried (2003)
6 February — 20 Things to Do Before You're 30 (2003)
3 April — The Real Casanova (2003)
8 April — 40 (2003)
21 May — How Clean Is Your House? (2003–2009)
20 August - Coming Up (TV series) (Anthology for short films) (2003-2013)
13 September - The Smash Hits Chart Show (2003-2004)
19 September —
Peep Show (2003–2015)
Born to Be Different (2003 – present)
5 December – The Illustrated Mum (2003)

Five
28 January – Boomtown (2002–2003)
28 March – Extraordinary People (2003–2012)
10 April - Hi-5 (2003-2009, UK broadcast)
14 April – 99 Things to do Before You Die (2002–2003)
2 September – At Home with the Eubanks (2003)
27 October -
MechaNick
Softies
10 November – 19 Keys (2003)
15 December – Hear the Silence (2003)

Sky
16 February – Mile High (2003–2005)
Unknown - Life with Bonnie (2002-2004)

Cartoon Network UK
10 February – ¡Mucha Lucha! (2002–2005)
7 April – Ozzy & Drix (2002-2004)
1 September – Codename: Kids Next Door (2002–2007)
10 November – Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003–2005)

Boomerang UK
7 April –
 What's New Scooby Doo (7 April 2003 – 21 July 2006)
 Baby Looney Tunes (2003–2005)

Toonami UK
3 November - Teen Titans (TV series) (2003-2006)

Disney Channel UK
6 January – Fillmore! (2003–2004)
20 October – Lilo & Stitch: The Series (20 October 2003 – 29 July 2006)

Channels

New channels

Defunct channels

Rebranded channels

Television shows

Changes of network affiliation

Returning this year after a break of one year or longer
22 February – After Dark returns to British television on BBC Four (last on Channel 4 in 1997)
16 October – Superstars returns to BBC One (1973–1985, 2003–2005)

Continuing television shows

1920s
BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–present)

1930s
The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019)

1950s
Andy Pandy (1950–1970, 2002–2005)
Panorama (1953–present)
What the Papers Say (1956–2008)
The Sky at Night (1957–present)
Blue Peter (1958–present)
Grandstand (1958–2007)

1960s
Coronation Street (1960–present)
Songs of Praise (1961–present)
Top of the Pops (1964–2006)
Match of the Day (1964–present)
Call My Bluff (1965–2005)
The Money Programme (1966–2010)

1970s
Emmerdale (1972–present)
Newsround (1972–present)
Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010)
Arena (1975–present)
One Man and His Dog (1976–present)
Top Gear (1977–2001, 2002–present)
Grange Hill (1978–2008)
Ski Sunday (1978–present)
Antiques Roadshow (1979–present)
Question Time (1979–present)

1980s
Children in Need (1980–present)
Postman Pat (1981–present)
Timewatch (1982–present)
Countdown (1982–present)
The Bill (1984–2010)
Channel 4 Racing (1984–2016)
Thomas & Friends (1984–present)
EastEnders (1985–present)
Comic Relief (1985–present)
Casualty (1986–present)
ChuckleVision (1987–2009)
This Morning (1988–present)

1990s
Stars in Their Eyes (1990–2006, 2015)
Heartbeat (1992–2010)
Breakfast with Frost (1993–2005)
Animal Hospital (1994–2004)
Room 101 (1994–2007, 2012–2018)
Time Team (1994–2013)
The National Lottery Draws (1994–2017)
Top of the Pops 2 (1994–present)
Silent Witness (1996–present)
Y Clwb Rygbi, Wales (1997–present)
Dream Team (1997–2007)
Family Affairs (1997–2005)
Midsomer Murders (1997–present)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998–2014)
Bob the Builder (1998–present)
British Soap Awards (1999–2019, 2022–present)
Holby City (1999–2022)
My Parents Are Aliens (1999–2006)

2000s
Doctors (2000–present)
Big Brother (2000–2018)
The Weakest Link (2000–2012, 2017)
The Kumars (2001–2006, 2014)
Popworld (2001–2007)
Real Crime (2001–2011)
UK Top 40 (2002–2005)
Dick and Dom in da Bungalow (2002–2006)
Harry Hill's TV Burp (2002–2012)
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2002–present)
Spooks (2002–2011)
Angelina Ballerina (2002–2005)
Mr. Bean: the Animated Series (2002–2004)

Ending this year
Crossroads (1964–1988, 2001–2003)
Wish You Were Here...? (1974–2003, 2008)
Play Your Cards Right (1980–1987, 1994–1999, 2002–2003)
Take the High Road (1980–2003)
Only Fools and Horses (1981–1996, 2001–2003, 2014)
Brookside (1982–2003)
The Hoobs (2001–2003)
James the Cat (1984–1992, 1998–2003)
Blind Date (1985–2003, 2017–2019)
Fifteen to One (1988–2003, 2013–2019)
Get Your Own Back (1991–2003)
999 (1992–2003)
Barbara (1995–2003)
Cold Feet (1998–2003, 2016–present)
Diggit (1998–2003)
SMTV Live (1998–2003)
Smack the Pony (1999–2003)
The Tribe (1999–2003)
At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–2003)
Clocking Off (2000–2003)
Pop Idol (2001–2003)
Ky's Bommerang (2001–2003)
Night and Day (2001–2003)
The Goal Rush (2001–2003)
The Office (2001–2003)
RI:SE (2002–2003)
Captain Abercromby (2002–2003)
Fame Academy (2002–2003)
Russian Roulette (2002–2003)
Rich Hall's Fishing Show (2003)

Births
30 April – Emily Carey, actress and model
18 July – Lucy Hutchinson, actress
25 September – Alexander Aze, actor

Deaths

See also
 2003 in British music
 2003 in British radio
 2003 in the United Kingdom
 List of British films of 2003

References

External links
List of 2003 British television series at IMDb