From BBC News....

'Reality show Big Brother has been cited as one of the 20 TV programmes that changed our world - along with the moon landing, Monty Python and Live Aid.
The fly-on-the-wall show was included in a Radio Times list of influential TV shows for starting the reality craze.

News reports on JFK's assassination in 1963 and the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 were also included.

The list was compiled by history journalist Hugo Davenport, author of Days That Shook the World.

Of Big Brother, he wrote: "This multimedia event - pointless, trivial, banal, but obsessive - stoked the appetite for talent-free celebrity."

The sole children's show on the list was Tiswas from 1974, while comedies Till Death Do Us Part and Monty Python's Flying Circus also made it.

The 1960s had the most entries of any decade, with seven shows, while the 1990s and 2000s had two entries each.'

Taken from here.

The full list of 20 programmes that changed our world:

That Was the Week That Was - 1962
JFK Assassination news reports - 1963
Till Death Us Do Part - 1965
Cathy Come Home - 1966
Monty Python's Flying Circus - 1969
Apollo Moon Landing news reports - 1969
Royal Family - 1969
The World At War - 1973
Tiswas - 1974
The Naked Civil Servant - 1975
Life On Earth - 1979
Michael Buerk's Ethiopian news reports - 1984
Live Aid - 1985
That's Life, launch of Childline - 1986
Death On The Rock - 1988
Kate Adie's Tiananmen Square report - 1989
Gulf War news reports - 1991
Panorama interview with Diana, Princess Of Wales - 1995
Big Brother - 2000
11 September news reports - 2001

Thanks eejay

I saw all those ( except Royal Family, of course )

Tiswas - 1974

Now I feel old.

Royal Family?.................what was that about?

It was a sitcom about a dysfunctional family.

did cathy get home ok?

I'd add the Beatles first major TV appearance(sunday night at the london palladium, oct 1963)). they went from just another group with a couple of number ones, to the most talked about people in the land overnight, the press just went into overdrive. I was there at the time and it really was a world changing experience.

I am a huge BB fan (obviously as I am on this forum) but I cannot see how it changed our world. Changes my world and that of my family when they cannot move me from the telly for nine weeks, but not The World - can someone explain???

scottish newsnight
the death of karen carpenter
rab c nesbitt
wife swap
crackerjack
richard branson's 'around the world in a balloon'
fatal attraction
england winning the world cup
twin peaks
the election of margaret thatcher
queer as folk
breakfast time
dallas
the release of nelson mandela
changing rooms
celtic win the european cup
radio clyde
the book group
river city
chernobyl


what?

Kate Adie's Tiananmen Square report - 1989

*shudder* one of the most chilling/disturbing news reports ever.

most news reports make me *shudder*
grimreaper.............. sorry grimfandango

come on forum members ~

where are the 20 programmes that CHANGED your world?

it should have said "News of The World" and that sales of their paper increase when they have evictee of the week in.

I can't believe that 'Grange Hill' isn't in that list.

cannot agree that BB2000 did.

now BB2002 maybe