BritishTV has been around as long as the television itself, although Britain was swiftly overtaken as the frontrunner of small-screen programming by the United States in the immediate postwar period.

The 1960s was a decade of transition for American television, bridging the black-and-white era of the 1950s with the colorful, more socially aware programming that would emerge in the 1970s. Viewers ...

LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - British actress Diana Rigg, who came to fame in the cult 1960s TV show "The Avengers" and enjoyed a distinguished and varied career on stage and screen from James Bond to ...