2007 in television
The year 2007 in television involves some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events in 2007.
[edit] Events
[edit] January-March
[edit] April-June
[edit] July-September
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| Event
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| July 23
| Drew Carey is announced as Bob Barker's successor on The Price Is Right.
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| August 17
| The Disney Channel premiere showing of High School Musical 2 becomes the most-watched made-for-cable movie ever, receiving 17.24 million viewers.
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| August 22
| The BBC celebrates their 75-year service in television.
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| August 31
| Finland switches off its analogue television signal.
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| September 5
| The BBC scraps plans for Planet Relief, a programme similar to Comic Relief and Sport Relief for fear of bias against critics of climate change and that viewers would prefer more factual programmes on the subject.
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| September 9
| In an advertising first, eBay begin showing live auction adverts between programmes in the UK, showing an auction with picture, current bid, time auction ends, and postage and packaging charges.
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| September 16
| The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards were handed out. The Sopranos wins Oustanding Drama Series, while 30 Rock wins Outstading Comedy Series
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| September 20
| Survivor opens its 15th season in the nation of China. Survivor: China became the first major American TV program to film entirely in China.
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| September 21
| ITV postpone broadcasting the 2007 British Comedy Awards due to the phone-in scandals.
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| September 26
| ABC1, a British television channel broadcasting American sitcoms, closes.
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| September 27
| Record News, a Brazilian television channel, starts its transmissions.
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[edit] October-December
[edit] Debuts (including scheduled)
[edit] Television shows
- See also: 2006-07 United States network television schedule
- See also: 2007-08 United States network television schedule
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[edit] 1994-1996
[edit] 1997-1999
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