Template:DATE January 8


 * 1989 - Television broadcasts are interrupted by the news of the Kegworth Air Disaster. Michael Buerk interrupts programming with a BBC Newsflash, and later on the other side Trevor McDonald presents an ITN News Report.


 * 1989 - The first episode of the LWT adaption of Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet is broadcast on ITV. Thirteen series consisting of seventy episodes were made, covering each story written by Agatha Christie. The show even outlasted LWT itself, with the final episode airing on 13 November 2013 to 5.2 million viewers.


 * 1993 - The first episode of long-running CITV series ZZZap! is broadcast. The show would broadcast its last episode on 21 September 2001.