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Liquid News was BBC3 (formerly BBC Choice)'s nightly round-up of the day's music, television, film and showbiz news, which ran from 30th May 2000 to 1st April 2004. The programme is best known for its original presenter, Christopher Price (above). Christopher sadly died on 22nd April 2002, at the age of just 34. He was no ordinary television presenter - he had an irreverent, innuendo-laden style all of his own. He was witty, funny, likeable and warm-hearted. Christopher worked his way up the BBC ladder, through local radio to 5 Live, and then to BBC News 24 where he presented the entertainment news show Zero 30 (images are on the News 24 page). When Zero 30 was dropped by News 24, BBC Choice head honcho Stuart Murphy immediately picked it up and transformed it into Liquid News. It quickly became the channel's flagship show. Christopher was tipped for big things in the future, and it is all the more sad that the majority of the viewing population have never been able to enjoy his unique style of humour - and now they never will.
2000-02  
Shots from the title sequence used from Liquid News's launch, until October 2002. The theme tune was by Moby and is called 'Bedhead'. Watch the opening titles 
Watch a Liquid News trailer from 2000  
Christopher Price in the original set, housed in the strangely-named Studio TC0 (zero) at Television Centre. LN was broadcast live at 8.30 each weeknight, with a repeat at 12.30am and a highlights programme on Saturdays.  
Around a year after launch, LN received a cash injection and a showbizzier set when it moved into the larger TC11 (in the pre-digital era this studio had been known as N2 and was used for the Nine O'Clock News). Celebrity guests were a regular ingredient of the show - here Christopher meets The Bangles. The show's standing and influence was continuing to grow, even if BBC Choice audience figures weren't. Weekly round-up shows were now being produced for BBC1, BBC Prime and BBC America. The Liquid phenomenon was spreading quickly! 
In 2001 the show opened a bureau in Los Angeles. One of Christopher's last assignments was covering the Oscars live from the Liquid News pool - watch a clip.  
In the months following Christopher's death in April 2002, a variety of different presenters hosted the programme. The first guest host was Dale Winton (!) - he was quickly followed by the likes of Iain Lee, Julian Clary, Richard Bacon, Lorraine Kelly and LN's very own ace reporter, Max Flint (left). Right: the lights go down at the end of another show.
2002-04  
Liquid News took on its first (and only) new look on 6th October 2002, with a new title sequence and theme tune - still by Moby, but now it was the Tiesto mix of 'We Are All Made of Stars'. Having already moved from 8.30 to 7.00 and then to 8.00, the show now settled into a 7.00 slot, live six days a week. Watch the opening titles  
Claudia Winkleman and LN reporter Colin Paterson were installed as regular presenters, and the show went double-headed in a somewhat cosier set. Thankfully the animated spinning DOG, seen here in top right corner, disappeared within a few weeks. 
The Friday review edition had a more orangey look, with Heat magazine editor Mark Frith and comedienne Julia Morris - she was later replaced by Jo Whiley. Click onto the next page for more Page 1 Page 2 | 
