UK.TV

UKTV is a subscription television channel in Australia and New Zealand, screening UK entertainment programming, sourced mainly from the archives of the BBC, TALKBACKThames and ITV Plc. It is a joint venture between Foxtel, BBC Worldwide, and RTL (which owns Thames Television and Grundy).

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It was first launched in Australia in August 1996, and became available in New Zealand via SKY Television, in November 2003. It shows a mix old series like Are You Being Served?, Dad's Army, The Jewel In The Crown, Never The Twain, and The Bill that have already been seen on free-to-air television in Australia, along with current episodes of shows such as Casualty, Holby City, the UK version of The Weakest Link, and popular soap operas like the BBC's EastEnders and Granada's Coronation Street, which have not been shown on free-to-air in Australia.

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Previously it has also repeated Australian soap operas Sons and Daughters and Prisoner (known in the UK as Prisoner Cell Block H) which were both produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. In both cases the entire series was shown; the Sons and Daughters run concluded in 1997 and Prisoner finished in October 2004.

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UKTV now has separate services in Australia and New Zealand, with different schedules reflecting local tastes.

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The station should not be confused with Granada UKTV, an entirely separate channel operated by the British ITV company Granada, or the UKTV network, a collaboration between the BBC and Flextech Television that operates in the UK.

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