Drama (British TV channel)
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Country | United Kingdom and Ireland |
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Broadcast area | United Kingdom and Ireland |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 16:9 576i SDTV |
Timeshift service | Drama +1 |
Ownership | |
Owner | BBC Studios |
Parent | UKTV |
Sister channels | Alibi Dave Eden Gold W Yesterday |
History | |
Launched | 8 July 2013 |
Replaced | Blighty CCXTV (Drama+1, Freeview Only) |
Links | |
Website | drama |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Freeview | Channel
20 Channel 74 (+1) |
Drama is a British free-to-air 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. In September 2018, Drama and Really were added to Virgin Media Ireland.
A timeshift channel, Drama +1 was launched on Sky and Virgin Media on 16 September 2019 replacing Travel Channel +1. On 25 January 2021, it was announced that the timeshift channel would be taking over CCXTV's Freeview slot (channel 73) on 1 February 2021, with CCXTV ending transmission.[5]
Programming[edit]
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.[6]
Current programming[edit]
- 2point4 Children
- An Adventure in Space and Time
- All Creatures Great and Small
- 'Allo 'Allo!
- The Ark
- Around the World in 80 Days
- As Time Goes By
- Are You Being Served?
- Ashes to Ashes
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
- Bad Girls
- A Bear Named Winnie
- Bergerac
- The Bill
- Birds of a Feather (the BBC series)
- Bleak House
- Boon
- Bottom
- Bramwell
- The Brokenwood Mysteries
- Call the Midwife
- Campion
- Catherine Cookson: The Cinder Path
- Catherine Cookson: Colour Blind
- Catherine Cookson: The Dwelling Place
- Catherine Cookson: The Fifteen Streets
- Catherine Cookson: The Gambling Man
- Catherine Cookson: The Girl
- Catherine Cookson: The Glass Virgin
- Catherine Cookson: The Man Who Cried
- Catherine Cookson: The Rag Nymph
- Catherine Cookson: The Round Tower
- Catherine Cookson: The Secret
- Catherine Cookson: The Tide of Life
- Catherine Cookson’s Tilly Trotter
- Catherine Cookson: The Wingless Bird
- Classic Casualty
- Crocodile Shoes
- Classic EastEnders[7]
- Crocodile Shoes II
- Crusoe
- Dalziel and Pascoe
- Dangerfield
- Death in Paradise
- The Doctor Blake Mysteries
- dinnerladies
- Doctor Finlay
- Doctor Who
- Down to Earth
- The Duchess of Duke Street
- Elizabeth I
- Fallen Angel
- Father Brown
- Filthy Rich & Catflap
- A Fine Romance
- Fingersmith
- Fresh Fields
- French Fields
- Garrow's Law
- Hamish Macbeth
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
- Hi-De-Hi!
- Holby City
- Hope and Glory
- The Hounds of the Baskervilles
- The House of Eliott
- Howards' Way
- In Deep
- The Indian Doctor
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
- Jack the Ripper
- Jonathan Creek
- Judge John Deed
- Kavanagh QC
- Keeping Up Appearances
- King Solomon's Mines
- Lady Chatterley
- The Last Detective
- Last of The Summer Wine
- Life on Mars
- London's Burning
- Lovejoy
- Maisie Raine
- Messiah
- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
- Miss Marple
- Moby Dick
- The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
- Murdoch Mysteries
- New Tricks
- My Hero
- My Family
- The Onedin Line
- Outnumbered
- The Paradise
- PD James: The Murder Room
- Peak Practice
- Pie in the Sky
- The Pinkertons
- Pinocchio
- Rebus
- Riders
- Ripper Street
- Rock & Chips
- Rosemary & Thyme
- Sharpe
- Shetland
- Silent Witness
- Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
- Soldier Soldier
- Spooks
- Taggart
- To The Manor Born
- Touching Evil
- Trial & Retribution
- The Two Ronnies
- Waking the Dead
- Where the Heart Is
- The Young Ones
- Young Catherine
- You Rang M'Lord?
Previous[edit]
- The 39 Steps
- The 60's: The Beatles Decade
- Above and Beyond
- Act of Will
- Ahead of the Class
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Archangel
- Ballykissangel
- Bert and Dickie
- The Best of Men
- Between the Lines
- A Bit of a Do
- A Bit of Fry and Laurie
- Birdsong
- Born and Bred
- Bread
- Bring Me Morecambe & Wise
- Britains Best - Scotland
- Brush Strokes
- Burton & Taylor
- Butterflies
- Cadfael
- Casanova
- Catherine Cookson: The Black Candle
- Catherine Cookson's Colour Blind
- Catherine Cookson: A Dinner of Herbs
- Catherine Cookson: The Moth
- The Cazalets
- Cider with Rosie
- Citizen Smith
- Cold Comfort Farm
- The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
- Cranford
- The Crimson Petal and the White
- Daniel Deronda
- David Copperfield
- Deadline Gallipoli
- Death Comes to Pemberley
- Doctor Doctor
- EastEnders' Christmas Fallouts
- EastEnders: Unveiled - A Wedding Special
- Emma
- Empire
- Eric and Ernie
- Escape from Sobibor
- Ever Decreasing Circles
- The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
- Family Tree
- Fanny Hill
- Find My Past
- A Fine Romance
- The Forsyte Saga
- A Garden for All Seasons
- The Good Life
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Gracie!
- Great British Ghosts
- Great Expectations
- The Great Train Robbery
- The Green Green Grass
- Hard Times
- Hattie
- Hitlers Bodyguards
- Hold the Dream
- House of Cards
- The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
- Inspector George Gently
- Jam & Jerusalem
- Jane Eyre
- Just Good Friends
- King Solomon's Mines
- Land Girls
- Lark Rise to Candleford
- Last Tango in Halifax
- Learners
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- The Liver Birds
- The Long Firm
- Mansfield Park
- The Mayor of Casteridge
- Men Behaving Badly
- The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
- Monarch of the Glen
- Murder in Mind
- Murphy's Law
- The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- No Place Like Home
- North & South
- Northanger Abbey
- One Foot in the Grave
- Oliver Twist
- Open All Hours
- Our Mutual Friend
- Parade's End
- PD James: Death in Holy Orders
- Persuasion
- Porridge
- Pride and Prejudice
- Ration Book Britain
- The Road to Coronation Street
- The Ruby in the Smoke
- Rumpole of the Bailey
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- The Scold's Bridle
- The Sculptress
- The Secret of Crickley Hall
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Shadow in the North
- Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
- Sherlock Holmes: Terror By Night
- Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Silk Stocking
- Silk
- Shirley
- Sherlock
- The Sinking of the Laconia
- Sisters of War
- South Riding
- State of Play
- Steptoe and Son (only series 1-6)
- Tenko
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Terry and June
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Three Up, Two Down
- Tipping the Velvet
- To Be the Best
- The Turn of the Screw
- United
- Upstairs, Downstairs
- Vanity Fair
- The Vicar of Dibley
- Waiting for God
- The Whale
- What Remains
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
- Wish Me Luck
- A Woman of Substance
- A Year to Remember
- Young James Herriot
References[edit]
- ^ "UKTV raises the curtain on Drama" (Press release). UKTV. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
- ^ "UKTV's Drama channel reveals line-up, Yesterday goes factual and Blighty looks set to close". a516digital. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ^ "Drama as new channel forces Gold to move Home on the Freeview EPG". a516digital. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
- ^ White, Peter (17 July 2013). "PBS America sells Sky slot to UKTV". Broadcast. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
- ^ "Plug pulled on CCXTV Freeview channel". rxtvinfo. 25 January 2021.
- ^ Munn, Patrick (2 May 2013). "UKTV To Launch New Drama Channel on July 8th". TVWise. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
- ^ "Classic EastEnders". drama.uktv.co.uk. 16 June 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2018.