2017 in British television
Date Name Age Broadcast credibility
2 January Brian Widlake 85 Journalist and broadcaster ( The Money Programme , The World at One )
3 January Rodney Bennett 81 Television director ( Doctor Who )
17 January Philip Bond 82 Actor ( Doctor Who , The Onedin Line , The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby )
23 January Gorden Kaye 75 Actor ( 'Allo 'Allo ! , Brazil , Coronation Street )
25 January John Hurt 77 Actor ( Sodor 's Legend of the Lost Treasure , Midnight Express , Alien , The Elephant Man , The Black Cauldron , Red Fox , Thumbelina , Doctor Who )
26 January David Rose 92 Television producer ( Z-Cars , Softly , Softly ) , founder of Film4
1 February Desmond Carrington 90 Actor ( Emergency - Ward 10 ) and broadcaster
6 February Alec McCowen 91 Actor ( A Night to Remember , Henry V , Gangs of New York )
8 February Alan Simpson 87 Writer ( Hancock 's Half Hour , Comedy Playhouse , Steptoe and Son )
8 February Tara Palmer-Tomkinson 45 Socialite and television presenter ( I 'm a Celebrity : Extra Camp , Animals Do the Funniest Things )
12 February Sara Coward 69 Actress ( Inspector Morse , Hetty Wainthropp Investigates , Rumpole of the Bailey )
20 February Stephen Rhodes 66 Radio broadcaster , television presenter and voiceover ( BBC Radio Shropshire , BBC Three Counties Radio , This Morning , Family Fortunes )
25 February Neil Fingleton 36 Actor ( Game of Thrones , 47 Ronin , Doctor Who )
28 February James Walker 76 Actor ( Nineteen Eighty-Four , Empire of the Sun , Danny , Champion of the World )
9 March Ann Beach 78 Actress ( Fresh Fields , Notting Hill )
9 March Jane Freeman 81 Actress ( Last of the Summer Wine )
10 March John Forgeham 75 Actor ( Footballers ' Wives , The Italian Job , Kiss of the Dragon , Crossroads )
10 March Tony Haygarth 72 Actor ( El C.I.D . , Chicken Run , Where the Heart Is , Emmerdale , Dracula )
17 March Robert Day 94 Television and film director ( The Green Man , First Man into Space , Two-Way Stretch , The Rebel )
7 April Christopher Morahan 87 Television and stage director ( The Jewel in the Crown , Emergency Ward 10 )
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This is a list of events that took place in 2017 relating to Television in the United Kingdom.