ITV was a broadcasting company active since the 20th century. The programs broadcast included the television series Armchair Theatre (PROSE: The Taint, The Ancestor Cell) and The Cook Report. (PROSE: The Dying Days)
During the first attempt in the 1970s by the Nestene Consciousness to invade Earth, ITV, along with BBC, issued warnings for the public to stay inside, and this saved many lives. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion)
An ITV reporter was present at the Silurian conference. (AUDIO: The Coup)
The Tenth Doctor, when addressing his human companion, told them not to use the TV remote control, which was recently disconnected from the sonic screwdriver, to switch over to ITV, lest the galaxy implode. (GAME: Attack of the Graske)
In the 2000s,[nb 1] Kathy Nightingale and Sally Sparrow discussed their own series of adventures, to be called "Sparrow and Nightingale", and suggested it air on ITV. (TV: Blink)
When the Eleventh Doctor saved Albert Hall from being blown up, one of the side effects noted was that ITV went off air. (TV: Doctor Who Scene)
In response to the BBC series Surrender, Earthlings!, ITV tried to make their own rival sci-fi series, Invasion of Earth, but this did so poorly it nearly bankrupted the network. (PROSE: Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life)
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In an alternate universe, ITV1 aired the series, Detects Factor, hosted by Sherlock Holmes. (PROSE: Just a Minute...)
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ITV airs Coronation Street, Emmerdale, and The Chase. It formerly aired Trisha Goddard.
It also aired Thunderbirds in the 1960s. Though not a Doctor Who spin-off, the series was established by the contemporary tie-in comics in TV Century 21 to take place in the same universe as The Daleks, and thus, by association, Doctor Who itself. This was directly shown in one TV episode of Thunderbirds, The Man from MI.5, where a report about the Dalek invasion of Solturis (as seen in The Penta Ray Factor) was seen among the papers of a 2060s British Secret Service member. This ironically means that the first licensed appearance of the image of a Dalek on TV outside Doctor Who occurred not on the BBC but on its rival channel ITV.
The Doctor himself has appeared in an ITV-exclusive piece of content only once, when the Seventh Doctor made an in-character appearance as the Seventh Doctor on The Disney Club on 23 January 1994. The show aired on GMTV, an ITV subsidiary.
Since 2022, the video on demand service BritBox is a part of ITVX's premium service in the United Kingdom. Thus, as of February 2023[update] the back catalogue of seasons 1 through 26 of Doctor Who, the 1996 TV movie Doctor Who, the 1981 TV special A Girl's Best Friend, the TV series The Sarah Jane Adventures, and the theatrical films Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. is carried by the BBC's rival channel at the same time BBC iPlayer is streaming The Sarah Jane Adventures' back catalogue.
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- ↑ While Blink itself uncontroversially sets its main setting in 2007 and "twenty minutes to Red Hatching" a year later in 2008—as Kathy Nightingale's letter describes taking "one breath in 2007 and the next in 1920", and the Tenth Doctor's side of his conversation with Sally Sparrow in 1969 happens 38 years before Sally says hers—these are contradicted by heavily conflicting dates in the Redacted audio series later on regarding both Kathy's disappearance and the Red Hatching. In Angels, Abby McPhail identifies 2008 as the year of Kathy's disappearance, which suggests 2009 as the year of the Red Hatching. In Salvation, the Thirteenth Doctor recognises the Red Hatching as the cause of death of Andy Proctor, who was last seen by his daughter Cleo "nearly 20 years" before 2022 according to Recruits.