This is a list of British television-related events from 2003.
Events
January
1 January – The Studio closes after nearly two years on the air. 2 January – BBC One airs Dot's Story, an EastEnders spin-off. It tells the story of Dot Branning's experiences as a wartime evacuee. 3 January – CITV celebrates its twentieth birthday with the CITV Birthday Bash. 4 January – ITV1 airs the first live edition of Blind Date, on which presenter Cilla Black announces she is quitting the show after 18 years. She later tells ITV bosses the programme should be shelved because of falling ratings which have dropped from 17 million at its peak to 4 million. 6 January Scottish and Grampian adopt the ITV celebrity idents package, introduced on 28 October 2002, albeit with their own logos attached and with idents featuring a lot more Scottish personalities alongside those of ITV1. Thomas and Friends returns to free-for-air television with Michael Angelis resuming his role as storyteller, now airing every weekday on CITV. 11 January Girls Aloud singer and former Popstars: The Rivals contestant Cheryl Tweedy is involved in an altercation with a nightclub toilet attendant, Sophie Amogbokpa, in The Drink nightclub in Guildford. She is subsequently charged with racially aggravated assault after allegedly calling Amogbokpa a "jigaboo" and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Debut of Channel 4's The Salon, a fly-on-the-wall series documenting events in a purpose-built beauty salon in London. The series airs for three months, before returning for a second run in October. It finishes in March 2004. Steven Spielberg's science-fiction miniseries Taken debuts on BBC Two. 13 January – ITV1 soap Crossroads is relaunched under the stewardship of producer Yvon Grace and with a decidedly camp feel. However, Grace is criticised by fans for her ambivalence towards unresolved storylines from the 2001–2002 run. 15 January – Launch of Ftn and UK Bright Ideas. 28 January – Los Angeles-based police drama Boomtown debuts on Five. 31 January – The Campaign Week website reports that TBWA have used characters from the 1970s children's television show Hector's House for an ad campaign relaunching Virgin One bank account as The One account. The campaign has been created on behalf of the Royal Bank of Scotland which bought the name from Virgin and AMP in July 2001.