UK Horizons
Appearance
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Owner | UKTV (BBC Worldwide/Virgin Media Television) |
UK Horizons was a television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom, as part of the UKTV network of channels, showing mainly BBC documentaries. Most programmes were abridged for commercial timing purposes. It took its name from the BBC series Horizon, which formed a staple of its output in the early years.[1] It was launched on 1 November 1997 along with UK Arena and UK Style. It also produced extended versions of top BBC brands such as Top Gear and Tomorrow's World. The launch editor was Bryher Scudamore and the deputy editor Eddie Tulasiewicz.[2] On 8 March 2004, the channel was replaced by two new channels, UKTV Documentary (now called Eden) and UKTV People (now called Blighty).[3][4]
Programming
- 999 (Now on Really)
- 999 Lifesavers (Now on Really)
- Accident and Emergency (Now on Really)
- Airport (Now on Dave)
- Animal Hospital (Now on Animal Planet)
- Animals in Uniform (Now on Really)
- Animal Park (Now on Watch)
- Are You Being Cheated (Now on Really)
- [Back to the Floor]] (Now on Really)
- Blues and Twos (Now on Bravo2 and Really)
- The Blue Planet (Now on Eden and Watch)
- The Builders (Now on Blighty)
- Car Years (Now on Dave)
- Chopper Coppers (Now on Really)
- The Cops (Now on Really)
- Crash (Now on Dave)
- Crime Squad (Now on Really)
- The Cruise (Now on Home)
- Dangerous Drving (Now on Dave)
- Drive Hard (Now on Dave)
- Disaster* (Now on Really)
- Ellite Fighting Force (Now on Yesterday)
- Firefighters (Now on Really)
- Forensic Files (Now on Really)
- Gladiators or World War Two (Now on Yesterday)
- Grime Files (Now on Really)
- Local Heroes (Now on Yesterday)
- Radical Highs (Now on Dave)
- Rescue Heroes (Now on Really)
- Robot Wars (Now on Dave)
- Robot Wars Extreme (Now on Dave)
- Top Bikes (Now on Dave)
- Top Gear (Now on Dave)
- Top Gear GTi (Now on Dave)
- Top Gear Waterworld (Now on Dave)
References
- ^ "UK Horizons 1997 - 2004". TVARK. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
- ^ "Trade Talk - Leading light". Broadcastnow. 2002-06-13.
- ^ "UK Horizons to close". Digital Spy. 2004-02-03.
- ^ "UKTV launches set to raise hackles". The Guardian. 2004-02-04.