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Play UK broadcasted all day on the digital platforms but on the Astra 1 (Sky Analogue) satellite system, it broadcasted between 1am and 7am when UK Horizons was not broadcasting. UK Horizons was a British television channel operated by UKTV showing mainly BBC documentaries. ...

It closed on 30 September 2002 due to low ratings because of the closure of ITV Digital in May 2002 also it could not compete with MTV. Play UK's comedy programming was then moved to UK Gold (now UKTV Gold). September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 92 days remaining. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... ITV Digital logo Initial ONdigital logo ITV Digital used to be the sole British terrestrial digital television broadcaster. ... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for May, 2002. ... UKTV Gold, known as UK Gold until March 8, 2004, is a British television channel, originally launched on November 1, 1992 (coincidentally, the day before Channel 4s 10th birthday) as a joint venture between Thames Television and the BBC to show their classic archive programming (see: rerun). ...

Music Programming

The majority of the music programmes broadcasted (quizzes, interviews and compliations) on Play UK were produced by themselves. Play UK also repeated TOTP2, which was originally broadcast on BBC Two. TOTP 2 is a British television music show broadcast on BBC 2, showing archive footage from the long-running Top of the Pops show, some dating back to the early 1960s. ... BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC and the first British television channel to broadcast regularly in colour (from 1967), envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming. ...

• The Joy of Decks
• Mental! - The Music Quiz
• The Phone Zone (music request program using The O Zone branding)
• The Sound of Play
• Too Mashed To Remember?
• Top of the Pops @ Play (succeeded The Phone Zone but using Top of the Pops branding)
• Westwood Presents

Top of the Pops is a long-running British music chart television programme shown each week on BBC Two and now licensed for local versions around the world. ...

Comedy Programming

Most of the comedy programming on Play UK had already been broadcasted on the BBC's channels. Play UK also produced original comedy programming as well as those already broacasted on the BBC's channels. Later on, Play UK also broadcasted American comedy and animation. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ...

Originally produced programming

• Either/Or
• Mark and Lard's Pop Upstairs Downstairs
• Rock Profile
• Terrorville
• The Chris Moyles Show
• The Mitchell And Webb Situation
• Vic Reeves Examines

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Repeated BBC Shows

• 'orrible
• Attention Scum!
• Bang Bang It's Reeves and Mortimer
• Big Train
• The Day Today
• Dr Terrible's House of Horrible
• The Fast Show
• Goodness Gracious Me
• Hippies
• I'm Alan Partridge
• The League of Gentlemen
• The Office
• Shooting Stars
• Stella Street

Big Train is a surreal television comedy sketch show written by the creators of the more successful Father Ted, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan. ... The Day Today was a surreal British parody of television current affairs programmes. ... The Fast Show was a BBC comedy sketch show programme which ran from 1994 to 2000. ... Goodness Gracious Me is a BBC English language sketch show originally on BBC Radio 4 and later on BBC TWO, based on four Indian-British actors: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. ... Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word cover Im Alan Partridge is a British sitcom. ... This article is about the television series The League of Gentlemen. For other uses, see The League of Gentlemen (disambiguation). ... The main cast of the American version of The Office. ... The original panel of Shooting Stars, left to right: Vic Reeves, Mark Lamarr, Bob Mortimer and Ulrika Jonsson Shooting Stars is a UK television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC TWO. Created by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it is both a parody of the game show format, and an... Stella Street was a British television comedy programme. ...

American programming

• Duckman
• The Larry Sanders Show