1979: All that colour … so TV dialled up the drab with a ground-breaking drama set behind the bars of a women’s penitentiary. Prisoner launched top-dog Bea, nasty screw Vera “Vinegar Tits ...

The first time an Australian television program was broadcast in colour was in 1975, about 10 years after it had arrived in most countries around the world. Channel Seven's preparations for the launch ...

A decade of colour, drama, and international collaboration mark the 1960s as an era of exceptional broadcasting innovation and excitement. Colour TV ended a long period of technological isolation ...

A new BBC drama about the Battle of Hastings will feature a diverse group of actors - as historians slam 'colour-blind' casting to a period 'when Britain was at its least multicultural'.