| ONLYCONNECT | Game show first shown in September 2008 on BBC Four |
| THEXFACTOR | TV talent show first shown in 2004 |
| BECK | Swedish crime series shown on BBC Four (4) |
| PENN | Magic-based TV show first shown on ITV, ---- & Teller: Fool Us (4) |
| HADRON | Large --- Collider, particle accelerator complex located beneath the Franco-Swiss border, switched on in September 2008 (6) |
| TARO | Politician elected as Japan's prime minister in September 2008, ... Aso |
| ATTIC | BBC programme first shown in 2002, Cash in the ----- (5) |
| TOTE | Carry On Teacher at first shown in the centre of Cheltenham |
| EIGHTY | Home and Away was first shown in the UK in nineteen __-nine (6) |
| ELCID | Epic luxury cinema in Dorking premieres? It was first shown in the 1960s |
| LEADBALLOON | BBC sitcom first shown in 2006, starring Jack Dee as an unsuccessful comedian |
| ALLEGORIES | Everything, for example, that is in or first shown in moral tales (10) |
| CATHEDRAL | BBC miniseries, first shown in 2005, about the construction of five famous buildings |
| SPAM | Monty Python sketch set in a greasy spoon cafe, first shown in 1970 (4) |
| WHATSMYLINE | Game show first seen on British TV sets in 1951 |
| THEFORSYTESAGA | The last major British TV drama series made in black and white, first shown in 1967 |
| ECHT | Genuine Caravaggio's first shown in the retrospective |
| DEAUVILLES | De Tomaso saloons first shown in 1970 (10) |
| ELITES | Glassfibre Lotuses first shown in 1957 (6) |
| HEARTBREAKHOUSE | G B Shaw stage play first shown in 1920 featuring the character Ellie Dunn |
