DEF II

DEF II logo, as seen on early transmissions.

DEF II was a programming strand on BBC2, which aired at 6pm on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 May 1988 to 23 May 1994, to serve the teenage market. It was produced by Janet Street-Porter, and followed on from her influential youth TV show Network 7, on Channel 4. In fact, many of the presenters and staff on DEF II started their careers on Network 7^[1] and had followed Street-Porter when she was "poached" by the BBC.^[2] It had an ident featuring a barcode which differed from the usual idents used on BBC2.

DEF II shows

Programmes included:

Babylon II
DEF II: EXTRA!
Battlestar Galactica (Continued on BBC2 til 2001)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Continued on BBC2 til 1997)
Cyberzone ^[3]
Dance Energy
The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air (Continued on BBC2 til 2004)
Goggle Eyes
The Invaders (Continued on BBC2 til the late 1990s)
Les Lives!
Liquid Television

Mission: Impossible (Continued on BBC2 til the late 1990s)
Rapido
The Real McCoy (Continued on BBC2 til 1996)
The Ren and Stimpy Show (Continued on BBC2 til 1999, now on 4music)
Reportage
Rough Guides To The World
Standing Room Only
Snub TV
Frontiers of Style
Wayne's World

References

↑ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1052094/
↑ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1331427/
↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | CYBERZONE". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2014-03-23.

External links

Les Lives at BBC Online Comedy Guide (Internet Archive)
DEF II Revisited on Off The Telly