Site News
The idea is that everytime we launch some new functionality or something cool happens we will tell you about it here. Remember we'd love to here any ideas that you have, just click here to give us feedback

1st January 2009
Happy New Year and to celebrate we have a new BBC iPlayer page under the downloads menu shows you all the shows available on iPlayer on one simple page Click to see

21st December 2008
Lots of new functionality for Christmas including: a Christmas section, shop, film trailers, cinema films, competition and games.

18th October 2008
Add to Outlook functionality now works in Firefox and Chrome. It also includes the channel name in the reminder.

15th October 2008
You can now receive a daily alert of TV Highlights and New Series today, just sign up your email address on the top of the Highlights and New TV Series pages.

14th October 2008
If you have customised TVGuide.co.uk by either adding a channel or customising the channels you see in your grid, you will see an add to favourites button on all popups that allows you to flag and see when your favourite shows are next on from the My favourites page

12th October 2008
The home page key and the watch tv online page now allow you to filter to only show certain categories of programmes like Comedy, Sport, Sci-fi etc just click the corresponding category on the key.

9th October 2008
Shows available on iTunes are now highlighted on the grid with small Apple logos.

26th September 2008
New clickable Weekend video highlights with dynamic rating overlays - these bring in live ratings and allow you to click while the video is playing to get more information on a highlighted show.

25th September 2008
New TVGuide gadget for Facebook/Google/Vista etc Click for gadget information

4th September 2008
New enhanced iPhone version of TVGuide with links to TV Shows on mobile BBC iPlayer www.tvguide.co.uk/iphone

22nd August 2008
New rollovers on show highlights with ratings and channels.

14th August 2008
Quick links to blog entries added to home page for people with 1280 pixel screen resolutions

1st August 2008
New iPhone version of TVGuide launched at www.tvguide.co.uk/iphone

17th July 2008
five on demand links added to grid

8th June 2008
The Sport and Film grid views have been enhanced to show films and sport on popular channels rather than just film and sport channels Click for Films TV grid, Click for Sports TV grid
The watch page has been enhanced to show the categorisation colour coding to help find sports quicker. It has also been expanded for ITV's 30 day catchup.

7th June 2008
Euro 2008 Poll launched with latest news feed. Click for Euro 2008

5th June 2008
Big Brother poll and latest news page launched. Click for Big Brother

21st May 2008
Highlights page now has headings for each day.

20th May 2008
Search for a an actor or actress and it will now tell you when they are on TV this week.

19th May 2008
New play links to shows that you can watch online with BBC iPlayer, ITV Catchup and Channel 4 Catchup. Plus new single watch page with an alphabetical list of all shows that you can watch online . Also, channel listings and show pages enhanced with direct watch links.

12th May 2008
Bug with times on add to outlook for BST has been fixed. New Poll added for The Apprentice.

1st May 2008
Ravi Damani co-founder of TVGuide.co.uk delivers a key note speech at Internet World on the Future of TV

18th Mar 2008
Episode and series numbers now appear in the grid so you can easily tell if you are watching an old or new series of a show. Also, we have launched new in-grid banners for popular shows.

17th Mar 2008
The TV Highlights page now shows you series and episode numbers plus new TV series page that highlights all the new series that are starting this week on your selected TV channels.

25th Feb 2008
For all you bad spellers out there text search now considers mis-spellings so if you can't spell or like Freinds or Simpons then you'll love our new text search.

23rd Jan 2008
You can now rate actors and actresses. See our Tom Hanks page

22nd Jan 2008
Our new film pages now have recommendations and clearly tell you if a film is going to be on in the following week plus recommendations and links to IMDB. Click to see page for Spirited Away

21st Jan 2008
Our search has been improved and now goes through a pre-search check to see if you are searching for a TV show, film or actor and then redirects you to our new show pages with links to related episode guides, cast lists and comments.

20th Jan 2008
You can now rate shows and films from more than just the TV show popup. New Cast list page has been added for shows.

19th Jan 2008
New Episode Guides launched for major shows like Simpsons, Friends, Smallville. We are gradually building them up with data so give it a month or so and the should be complete. You can access them from Soap Watch as well as on the comments screen for a show. We will add a proper links as soon as they are mostly completed.

18th Jan 2008
The biggest change this year - TVGuide.co.uk now display Series and Episode numbers when you click a popup and on the channel listings.

17th Jan 2008
Shows now show if they are audio described, signed, interactive on top of the standard subtitles.

16th Jan 2008
New film icon on popups, channel listings and top rated to help you differentiate films from normal tv shows.

14th Jan 2008
Submissions to the discussions should appear on the page immediately after you submit them now, so long as you don't use any rude words.

12th Jan 2008
New poll for Dancing on Ice is live.

9th Jan 2008
Are we faster? Our traffic has grown 3 fold in the last 3 months and we have added extra servers to give a great experience to our users.

7th Jan 2008
You've asked for it and now you have it. You can vote on winners of your favourite shows like Big Brother. Just click any Big Brother show popup (hint they are on E4) and you will see all the contestants, ready for you to submit your vote.

6th Jan 2008
You can now jump backwards and forwards by a day as well as change channels on the single day channel listings page, saving you having to go back to the grid view each time.

5th Jan 2008
New List view added that lets you look at your TV listings in the old style magazine layout. Not sure if this is going to be used much but we felt that it was nice to offer the listings in a traditional format especially for those that only have terrestrial channels.
A NOW button on the time navigation jumps the listings to the current time, it is the same function as clicking the logo or the home button.

3rd Jan 2008
Updated single channel listings page (you see it when you click a channel name) with new layout, we know it is a bit longer to scroll but it now displays whether a show is a repeat, has subtitles, is black and white, the rating and episode names.

2nd Jan 2008
New links to BBC iPlayer online views of shows have been added on the show popups.

1st Jan 2008
Happy New Year and what better than links to YouTube for all shows and films. This feature makes it really easy to see trailers and show previews (and sometimes the whole show).

31st Dec 2007
The show popups have a set of products recommended by Amazon at the bottom of them. OK we get 5% affiliate commission but the interesting thing is that Amazon pick the products based on the show popup and it seems to always suggest some quite interesting choices.

24th Dec 2007
TVGuide is now the biggest Interactive Programming Guide in the UK and have beat RadioTimes.com in reach over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2007 according to Alexa.

20th Dec 2007
You can now access direct links to ITV channels streams. You will need the latest version of Window Media Player and will have to accept a license. Mostly when there is a movie you cannot see the stream.

     
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