Blackpool is a British television
musical comedy drama serial, produced in-house by the
BBC. It was screened on
BBC One as six one-hour episodes on Thursday nights at 9pm from 11 November to 16 December 2004. When retransmitted by
BBC America in 2005, it was renamed
Viva Blackpool, and went on to win a
Peabody Award for
BBC Worldwide, the commercial overseas distribution subsidiary of the BBC. A sequel in the form of a TV movie was produced by the BBC, also called
Viva Blackpool in the UK (2006).