From The Metro, 3rd November 2022:
Exciting news for Monty Python fans, as the comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus is coming back to TV.
There’s sure to be innuendos galore as the episodes return to UK terrestrial television for the first time in 35 years.
That’s TV — which broadcasts on Freeview, Sky and Freesat — has acquired the exclusive network television rights to all four seasons of the famous comedy.
The episodes will air every weeknight at 9pm from March 14, and will be uncut.
The series premiered on BBC in 1969 and originally ran until 1974.
BBC last repeated the series back in 1988, so news of its return will surely be music to many people’s ears!
Burton Daily Mail (Staffordshire), Thursday 30th November 1989:
Old fans of Monty Python and new friends of Michael Palin will welcome BBC2’s repeat showing from tonight of the first series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (9pm).
[…] Now a cult programme worldwide, British fans can at last begin catching up again with early episodes tonight featuring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and, as a special treat, the funniest joke in the world.
Long Eaton Advertiser, “Weekly TV Post” section, Friday 14 July 1995:
9.00 Rab C Nesbitt
9.30 The All-New Alexei Sayle Show 2
10.00 Monty Python’s Flying Circus
10.30 Newsnight
TLDR; Python was repeated on UK terrestrial television until, at the very least, the year that the Sony Playstation was launched in the West. That’s not counting the occasional brief runs of selected episodes on BBC2, let alone the repeats on cable / satellite channels in the 2000s, such as those on the Paramount Comedy Channel (now Comedy Central UK).
It’s been said before, and I’ll say it again. If you can’t get a basic fact like that right, despite the facilities that are presumably available to you as someone working for a major newspaper, what does that say about everything else you print?