Editing BBC One (section)

==Contemporary programming==
{{Main|List of television programmes broadcast by the BBC}}
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{{blockquote|BBC One's remit is to be the BBC's most popular mixed-genre television service across the UK, offering a wide range of high quality programmes. It should be the BBC's primary outlet for major UK and international events and it should reflect the whole of the UK in its output. A very high proportion of its programmes should be original productions.|BBC One remit<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC Our Work Service Reviews|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/service_reviews/service_licences/bbc_one.shtml|publisher=BBC|access-date=17 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229150548/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/service_reviews/service_licences/bbc_one.shtml|archive-date=29 December 2011}}</ref>}}

Excluding sporting events and news coverage, the top five most watched programmes at their peak viewing points (according to [[BARB]]) were:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barb.co.uk/|title=BARB|publisher=[[BARB]]}}</ref>

{| class="sortable wikitable"
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!Rank
!Show
!Episode
!Number of viewers<br /> (millions)
!Date
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| 1 || rowspan="2" | ''[[EastEnders]]'' || [[Den Watts|Den]] divorces [[Angie Watts|Angie]]. || 30.15<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 10 1986 – BARB Since 1981 |url= http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981?year=1986&view=top10 |publisher=[[BARB]] |access-date=13 August 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121209025404/http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981?year=1986&view=top10 |archive-date=9 December 2012 |date=February 2014}}</ref> || {{dts|format=dmy|1986|December|25}}*
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| 2 ||New Year Episode – [[Sharon Watts|Sharon]] is stalked. || 28.00<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 10 1987 |url= http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981?year=1987&view=top10 |publisher=[[BARB]] |access-date=13 August 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121209022500/http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981?year=1987&view=top10 |archive-date=9 December 2012}}</ref>|| {{dts|format=dmy|1987|January|1}}*
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| 3 || ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' || "[[Time on Our Hands]]" || 24.35<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 10 1981 |url= http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981?year=1996&view=top10 |publisher=[[BARB]] |access-date=13 August 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120421165620/http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981?year=1996&view=top10 |archive-date=21 April 2012}}</ref> || {{dts|format=dmy|1996|December|29}}
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| 4 || rowspan="2" | ''[[EastEnders]]'' ||Everyone is telling [[Mark Fowler|Mark]] to tell [[Michelle Fowler|Michelle]] about his illness.|| 24.30<ref name="bfi.org.uk">{{cite web|title=Features &#124; Britain's Most Watched TV &#124|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/mostwatched/1990s.html|access-date=4 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125073101/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/mostwatched/1990s.html|archive-date=25 January 2012|date=4 September 2006}}</ref> || {{dts|format=dmy|1992|January|2}}*
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| 5 ||Michelle tells Den that she is pregnant. || 24.15<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 10 1988|url=http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981?year=1988&view=top10|publisher=[[BARB]]|access-date=13 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121209024231/http://www.barb.co.uk/facts/since1981?year=1988&view=top10|archive-date=9 December 2012 }}</ref> || {{dts|format=dmy|1988|January|7}}*
|}

With a mission to provide programmes for all licence-fee payers, it has sport, news, current affairs, and documentaries. It has historically broadcast children's programmes (now taken from [[CBBC (TV channel)|CBBC]] and [[CBeebies]]). The channel remains one of the principal television channels in the United Kingdom and provides 2,508 annual hours of news and weather, 1,880 hours of factual and learning, 1,036 hours of drama, 672 hours of children's, 670 hours of sport, 654 hours of film, 433 hours of entertainment, 159 hours of current affairs, 92 hours of religion and 82 hours of music and arts.<ref>Selected programmes are produced in high definition and simulcast on [[BBC HD]]. {{cite web|title=BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2005/2006|work=BBC Trust|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/bbcannualreport.pdf|page=144|access-date=28 April 2007|archive-date=21 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521023502/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/bbcannualreport.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Since 1990, the BBC has had to commission output from other domestic suppliers. Although the statutory target remains 25% for independent production companies to contribute programming for BBC One, 33% of output was made by them in 2010–11.<ref name=AnnRep2010>{{cite web|url=http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/pdf/bbc_exec_sopps_2010_11.pdf|title=Performance against public commitments|publisher=BBC Trust|access-date=18 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307034055/http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/pdf/bbc_exec_sopps_2010_11.pdf|archive-date=7 March 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> The quota of original programming in peak times is set at 90%; however, 100% of peak programming was original in 2010–11.<ref name=AnnRep2010/> Over the whole day, the total for the same year was 89%, against a quota of 70%.<ref name=AnnRep2010/>

2,508 annual hours of news and weather (293 in peak, 1,049 of [[BBC News]] simulcasts) are provided by regular news programmes ''BBC News'', '''[[BBC Business Today]]'', ''[[BBC Newsday]]'', ''[[Sport Today|Sportsday]]'', ''[[BBC Breakfast]]'', the ''[[BBC News at One]]'', ''[[BBC News at Six]]'' and the ''[[BBC News at Ten]]'' each including BBC regional news programmes. All three main news bulletins have a lead over their rival programmes on ITV and other terrestrial or cable channels. During the weekend period, [[BBC Weekend News|three separate bulletins]] around these three time periods are broadcast and vary in length from 10 to 25 minutes. BBC One has broadcast overnight simulcasts from the [[BBC News (British TV channel)|BBC News Channel]] since 1997; the latter in turn simulcasts the majority of all regular BBC One bulletins. When BBC One is broadcasting a BBC News special, it hands some of its daytime programming to BBC Two.

Each year 159 hours of current affairs programmes are broadcast on BBC One, including ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'' and ''[[Watchdog (TV series)|Watchdog]]''. Politics is also covered, with programmes including ''[[Question Time (TV series)|Question Time]]'' and ''[[This Week (BBC TV series)|This Week]]'' shown. ''[[Crimewatch]]'', a programme appealing for help in unsolved crimes, is broadcast monthly.

BBC One shows 1,880 hours of factual and learning programming annually. This includes a wide range of shows such as nature documentaries such as ''[[Planet Earth (franchise)|Planet Earth]]'' as well as lifestyle-format daytime programmes and a number of ''reality television'' formats and the ''One Life'' strand.

BBC One broadcasts 1,036 hours of drama each year, more than any other BBC channel. There are four half-hour episodes of ''[[EastEnders]]'' each week (not shown on Friday), plus the hospital drama ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]''. Other popular dramas on BBC One include crime dramas such as ''[[New Tricks]]'', a programme of which even episode repeats have beaten ITV ratings on numerous occasions.<ref name=AnnRep2006>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/bbcannualreport.pdf |title=BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2005/2006 |access-date=1 February 2014 |archive-date=21 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521023502/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/bbcannualreport.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

BBC One has traditionally been the home of children's television: ''[[Blue Peter]]'' had been broadcast on the channel prior to the Children's BBC strand, and sections such as the pre-school ''[[Watch with Mother]]'' being transmitted on the channel for several decades. This became more pronounced with the launch of Children's BBC, later renamed "[[CBBC (TV channel)|CBBC]]". This new strand was broadcast primarily on BBC One in the late afternoons, as well as Saturday and Sunday mornings also such as ''[[Going Live!]]'' and ''[[Live & Kicking]]'', each lasting two to three hours. The launch in 2002 of dedicated digital channels for this content —the [[CBBC (TV channel)|CBBC]] and [[CBeebies]] channels —did not affect this provision. Combined with BBC Two, the channel broadcast 2,195 hours of children's programmes in 2010, mostly in the late afternoons on weekdays.<ref name=AnnRep2010/> Saturday morning children's programming moved to BBC Two in 2006 following a three-month trial.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4549160.stm BBC mulls Saturday morning switch] ''BBC News'', 21 December 2005</ref>

Sports coverage on BBC One includes [[Premier League]] football highlights on ''[[Match of the Day]]'', the [[Wimbledon Championships]], the [[London Marathon]], and other international [[Athletics (sport)|athletics]] and swimming events, the [[Olympic Games]], [[Rugby league]], [[Rugby Union]], [[Snooker]] tournaments, the American [[Super Bowl]], and more.

The BBC showed the [[2010 FIFA World Cup]], splitting the group stage matches with ITV. The BBC had first pick of matches from the second round. Repeats made up 8.4% of peak programming in 2010–11, up from 8.0% for 2008–09.<ref name=AnnRep2010/> Programming on this channel costs an average of £162,900 per hour.

British and international films are broadcast for 654 hours each year on BBC One. This is mainly late-night fillers with some box office hits at Christmas and holiday periods.
Sometimes on a Saturday afternoon there is a film on to fill the gap between entertainment shows but very rarely has there been one in that slot.

Entertainment programming on BBC One includes game shows such as the ''[[National Lottery (United Kingdom)|National Lottery]]'', ''[[Total Wipeout]]'', ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]'' and chat shows such as ''[[The Graham Norton Show]]''.

The annual 92 hours of religious programming comprise weekly editions of live ''[[Songs of Praise]]'', Christian services and other shows from independent production companies. Mentorn Oxford produces ''Heart and Soul'', described as "a new multi-faith programme featuring a panel and a studio audience", followed by ''Life from the Loft'' which is made by the Leeds-based company True North.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=38046 |title=New shows to replace Heaven and Earth |work=Church Times |date=27 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030756/http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=38046 |archive-date=28 September 2007 }} {{subscription required}}</ref> In 2005 BBC One was criticised for reducing the amount of religious programming, previously 101 hours per year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiantoday.com/article/channel.governors.criticise.bbc1.for.reducing.religious.programming/2818.htm|title=BBC criticised for reducing amount of religious programmes|work=Christian Today|date=9 May 2005}}</ref>

BBC One broadcasts many comedy programmes, often on Friday nights. These have included the stand-up comedy show ''[[Live at the Apollo (TV series)|Live at the Apollo]]'', sitcom ''[[Outnumbered (British TV series)|Outnumbered]]'', and satirical quiz show ''[[Have I Got News for You]]''.<ref>[https://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/tv/news/2011/03/08/have-i-got-news-for-you-to-return-to-friday-nights-115875-22975235/ Have I Got News For You to return to Friday nights] ''Daily Mirror'', 8 March 2011</ref> Saturday evening is also a popular slot for a comedy show such as ''[[Michael McIntyre's Big Show]]'' and ''[[The Armstrong and Miller Show]]''.

Since [[BBC Three]] became an [[BBC Three (online)|online-only service]] in 2016, BBC One broadcast some BBC Three programming, particularly such as ''[[People Just Do Nothing]]'', ''[[Cuckoo (TV series)|Cuckoo]]'', ''[[RuPaul's Drag Race UK]]'' and ''[[This Country]]''. In March 2019, BBC1 had a dedicated timeslot for BBC3 as a programming block. The block was dropped when BBC Three returned as a linear TV channel in early 2022, but BBC One continues to broadcast some BBC Three programmes.

As the weekly popular music chart programme ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' was dropped in 2006 (except for the Christmas Day edition), BBC One broadcast 49 hours of music and arts programming in 2010.<ref name=AnnRep2010/> The majority of this was ''[[Imagine (TV series)|Imagine]]'', presented by [[Alan Yentob]], and classical music concerts, in particular some of the ''[[BBC Proms]]''.

BBC One's daytime line-up was a major factor in it overtaking ITV as the most popular channel in 2000, a position it has retained, even though ITV achieves a higher audience share during the daytime.<ref>{{cite news|title=BBC1 daytime revamp hits BBC2 and Channel 4 ratings|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/25/bbc1-daytime-tv-revamp-ratings|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> The morning daytime line-up consists of lifestyle shows, such as ''[[Morning Live]]'', ''[[Homes Under the Hammer]]'' and ''[[Bargain Hunt]]'', the afternoons contain drama with daily soap ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'' and classic US drama, such as ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]''. Sometimes a drama such as ''[[Land Girls (TV series)|Land Girls]]'' is shown in the afternoons.

Between 15:25 and 17:35 was the CBeebies/CBBC broadcasting strand, with its own visual identity. Historically, BBC One's most popular daytime programme was ''[[Neighbours]]'', with audience figures approaching five million. On 11 February 2008, BBC One dropped ''Neighbours'' and the programme was  broadcast on [[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6669769.stm|title=Five wins Neighbours soap fight|access-date=10 February 2008|date=18 May 2007|work=BBC News}}</ref> until 2022. In its place was the quiz show ''[[The Weakest Link (British game show)|The Weakest Link]]'', which was moved from BBC Two, and later replaced in 2011 by ''[[Pointless]]''. Children's programmes were broadcast from 15:05 - 17:15 to accommodate this change and this continued until December 2012 when the afternoon CBeebies/CBBC block was axed.

On 16 May 2012, the BBC announced the children's block of shows would be moved permanently to CBBC and CBeebies upon the completion of the Digital switchover.<ref>{{cite news|title=Children's shows to leave BBC One|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18083178|work=BBC News|access-date=16 May 2012|date=16 May 2012}}</ref> In its place appear the game show ''[[Perfection (game show)|Perfection]]'', plus ''[[Escape to the Country]]'' and ''[[Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (TV series)|Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is]]''.

In February 2022, the BBC confirmed that ''[[EastEnders]]'' will get a Monday to Thursday slot at 7.30pm with the programme due to form part of a BBC soap hour which will include a repeat of daytime soap ''Doctors'' on BBC Two at 7pm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rxtvinfo.com/2022/bbc-launches-new-soap-hour|title=BBC launches new soap hour|website=RXTV info|date=22 February 2022|access-date=27 February 2022}}</ref> Due to this decision, the BBC One regional slot will be pushed back half an hour to 8pm on Wednesdays, where it will feature programmes such as documentary series ''[[BBC English Regions|We Are England]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00143kk |title=BBC One – We Are England, The Night Shift |website=BBC |date= |access-date=25 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013wc9 |title=BBC One – We Are England |website=BBC |date= |access-date=25 February 2022}}</ref>