Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/British television task force/Shows

Welcome to the British television shows task force! This task force was formerly the WikiProject British TV shows. The project became a task force under the new WikiProject British TV on 29 December 2011. Our aim is to improve Wikipedia articles about British TV shows.

Similar WikiProjects

 * WikiProject ITC Entertainment
 * WikiProject Scottish Television

Members
Please add your name to the membership page

Structure
All non-stub articles should include the Template:Infobox television (note that all fields are optional). Current TV shows should have final air-date set to "present".

Stub articles should use the template UK-tv-prog-stub.

The first occurrence of the title of the show should be Emboldened and Italicised, and later occurrences should be Italicised. Likewise, all references to other shows should be Italicised and the first occurrence linked.

Hierarchy definition
Categories that could be used include:
 * category:BBC Television shows
 * category:British television comedy
 * category:Channel 4 original programming
 * category:Channel 5 (British TV channel) original programming
 * category:British game shows
 * category:ITV (TV network) original programming
 * category:Sky UK original programming]
 * category:United Kingdom television show stubs

If it doesn't fit in any of these categories, it should go into
 * Category:British television shows

Projects
July's Collaboration of the Month was Cold Feet.

Tasks

 * 1) Look in category:United Kingdom television show stubs, and try and improve one!
 * 2) Add infobox and categories to a page.
 * 3) Tidy up a page.
 * 4) Create pages for red links in Missing encyclopedic articles.

Infobox
See WikiProject British TV shows/infobox.

Stub templates
Any stubs should have either the UK-tv-prog-stub or the BBC-tv-prog-stub templates, not tv-stub. Other related UK TV articles that do not detail TV shows can use UK-tv-stub or BBC-tv-stub.

Template for talk pages
Talk pages for articles related to the project should be have this template added

This can be added with the text: WikiProject British TV shows

New Wikipedia articles related to British TV shows
Please feel free to list your new British TV shows-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72-hour time limit from the creation of the article.
 * The 1900 Island - created 16 January 2020
 * The Accident (miniseries) - created 14 January 2020
 * Portal:The Prisoner - created 11 March 2019
 * ''John Stroud - created 20 August 2018, need more verification
 * Nurse (BBC TV Show) - created 31 March 2015
 * Michael Cole - writer, producer children's TV 70s-90s, created 25 January 2015, need more verification
 * Crime Team - created 1 December 2013.
 * One Born Every Minute created 18 September 2011
 * PB Bear and Friends created 25 July 2010
 * The Ink Thief - created 25 February 2010
 * Close to Home (UK TV series) created 17 June 2009
 * From the Basement (major rewrite, please review)
 * Total Wipeout - created 1 January 2009
 * The Wall
 * ''Mistresses - created 11 January 2008

Votes for deletion

 * Votes for deletion (Article deletion):




 * Votes for undelete (Article undeletion):
 * Templates for deletion:
 * Categories for deletion:
 * Images for deletion:
 * Redirects for deletion:
 * Proposed deletion:

Requests

 * The Russ Abbot Show
 * Cook's Night Out - first BBC cookery programme from 1937 presented by Marcel Boulestin

Resources

 * - template used for linking to IMDb entries.
 * BFI's ScreenOnline
 * MBC
 * BBC Genome Project - all listings information printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009
 * BBC experimental database of (nearly) every programme produced by the BBC over the last 75 years
 * Umbrella Entertainment - British Television - A distributor for ITV programmes on DVD in Australia.

External watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject British TV shows