Sci Fi channel (United Kingdom)

Sci-fi is the name of a United Kingdom satellite television channel specialising in science fiction, fantasy, and horror shows and movies. It was originally called The Sci-Fi Channel and was set up by the owners of the original American Sci Fi Channel , but is now independent.

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United Kingdom - Satellite television - Science fiction - Fantasy - Horror - American - Sci Fi Channel

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Its programming for the first few years (both before and after independence) consisted of a mixture of both archive shows such as Lost in Space, The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and more recent shows. The channel was also notable for being one of the first UK television channels to show anime movies and television series on a regular basis. These programming choices were supplemented by a few 1980s animated series shown in the mornings such as Robotech, Bionic Six and G-Force, although they were dropped when the channel became independent of the original US version. Currently, most archive and anime programming have been phased out of the channel, which now concentrates on contemporary shows and movies.

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Lost in Space - The Incredible Hulk - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Anime - Robotech - Bionic Six - G-Force

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Programmes on the channel throughout more recent times have included UK premieres of series 3 and 4 of Lexx, the Dune miniseries, Farscape, the TV series of Stephen King's The Dead Zone and Firefly. One Sci-fi original production is the late-night show Headf**k (asterisks theirs), which features excerpts from weird and wonderful TV shows, short films and music videos from around the world. Later episodes were presented by David Icke. Increasingly in the last few years, some movies shown on the channel have had what have been remarked by some as 'dubious' science-fiction connections, regardless of their overall quality, like Fight Club.

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Lexx - Dune - Farscape - The Dead Zone - Firefly - David Icke - Fight Club

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Initially, the UK Sci-Fi Channel on satellite television shared its transponder with no less than five other channels at one point, limiting its output to early evenings and late nights, with the rest of its continuous daytime programming (including cartoons) restricted to cable.

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See also: List of science fiction television programs

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