Drama | |
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Launched | 8 July 2013 |
Owned by | UKTV (BBC Worldwide/Scripps Networks Interactive) |
Picture format | 16:9, 576i (SDTV) |
Audience share | 0.97% (September 2015BARB) | ,
Slogan | "There's only one channel called Drama" |
Country | United Kingdom |
Broadcast area | United Kingdom Ireland |
Replaced | Blighty |
Sister channel(s) | Alibi Dave Eden Gold Good Food Home Really Watch Yesterday |
Website | drama.uktv.co.uk |
Availability
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Terrestrial | |
Freeview | Channel 20 |
Satellite | |
Sky | Channel 158 |
Cable | |
Virgin Media | Channel 190 |
Streaming media | |
Virgin TV Anywhere | Watch live (UK only) |
Drama is a digital television channel broadcasting drama (and, to a lesser extent, comedy) programming in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel launched on 8 July 2013,[1] replacing Blighty.[2] On Freeview, the channel was placed on channel 20, previously occupied by Gold.[3] On Sky, the channel initially launched on channel 291, in the overspill area of the Entertainment section and moved to channel 166 on 24 July after purchasing the slot used by PBS America.[4] The channel launched on Virgin Media on 14 August on channel 190. In September 2014, UKTV blamed the channel for their 7% profits fall.
Programming
The channel is positioned as a home for British dramas from the last 40 years. The channel features such shows as Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, The Cinder Path, Cranford, Lark Rise to Candleford, Pride & Prejudice, Sharpe and Tipping the Velvet.[5]
Current
- 2point4 Children
- A Fine Romance
- A Year to Remember
- A Woman of Substance
- Act of Will
- All Creatures Great and Small
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
- Archangel
- As Time Goes By
- Ballykissangel
- Bergerac
- Between the Lines
- Birds of a Feather (The BBC Series)
- Born and Bred
- Bread
- Bring Me Morecambe & Wise
- Britains Best - Scotland
- Brush Strokes
- Cadfael
- Call the Midwife
- Casanova
- Casualty
- Catherine Cookson: The Black Candle
- Catherine Cookson: A Dinner of Herbs
- Catherine Cookson: The Fifteen Streets
- Catherine Cookson: The Man Who Cried
- Citizen Smith
- Cold Comfort Farm
- Cranford
- Down to Earth
- EastEnders Christmas Fallouts
- EastEnders: Unveiled - A Wedding Special
- Empire
- Eric and Ernie
- Ever Decreasing Circles
- Fanny Hill
- Find My Past
- Fingersmith
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Great British Ghosts
- Hey Hey We're The Monkees
- Hitlers Bodyguards
- Hold the Dream
- House of Cards
- In Deep
- Inspector George Gently
- Jack the Ripper
- Jonathan Creek
- Just Good Friends
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Land Girls
- Lark Rise to Candleford
- Last of the Summer Wine
- Last Tango in Halifax
- Learners
- Lovejoy
- Miss Marple
- Monarch of the Glen
- The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
- Murphy's Law
- New Tricks
- No Place Like Home
- North & South
- One Foot in the Grave
- Pie in the Sky
- Pride and Prejudice
- PD James
- Upstairs, Downstairs
- Ration Book Britain
- Rock & Chips
- Rumpole of the Bailey
- Sharpe
- Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
- Sherlock Holmes: Terror By Night
- Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Silk Stocking
- Silk
- Sisters of War
- State of Play
- Steptoe and Son
- Taggart
- Tenko
- Terry and June
- The Bill
- The 60's: The Beatles Decade
- The Cinder Path
- The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
- The Crimson Petal and the White
- The Hounds of Baskerville
- The Indian Doctor
- The Green Green Grass
- The Liver Birds
- The Long Firm
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The Road to Coronation Street
- The Ruby in the Smoke
- The Secret of Crickley Hall
- The Shadow in the North
- The Sinking of the Laconia
- The Two Ronnies
- Three Up, Two Down
- Tipping the Velvet
- To Be the Best
- To the Manor Born
- Waiting for God
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
- Wish Me Luck
References
- ^ "UKTV raises the curtain on Drama" (Press release). UKTV. 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
- ^ "UKTV's Drama channel reveals line-up, Yesterday goes factual and Blighty looks set to close". a516digital. 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
- ^ "Drama as new channel forces Gold to move Home on the Freeview EPG". a516digital. 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
- ^ White, Peter (2013-07-17). "PBS America sells Sky slot to UKTV". Broadcast. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
- ^ Munn, Patrick (2013-05-02). "UKTV To Launch New Drama Channel On July 8th". TVWise. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
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