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). Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). ... The classic Thames Television logo (1969 - 1989), featuring a geographically incorrect montage of London landmarks. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... Foxtel is a cable television and satellite television company in Australia, formed through a joint venture between Telstra and News Corporation. ... BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. ... RTL Group is Europes largest TV, radio and production company. ... The classic Thames Television logo (1969 - 1989), featuring a geographically incorrect montage of London landmarks. ... Grundy is a town located in Buchanan County, Virginia. ...

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. Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... SKY Network Television Limited, often trading as SKY, is an Auckland, New Zealand-based pay television operator. ... For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Are You Being Served? was a British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. ... Dad’s Army was a British sitcom about the Home Guard in World War II, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. ... The Jewel in the Crown is a British television drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and based on the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott. ... Never the Twain was a British sitcom starring Windsor Davies as Oliver Smallbridge and Donald Sinden as Simon Peel . ... The Bill is a long-running British police drama shown on ITV1. ... Casualty is a long-running BBC television drama serial, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted on BBC One. ... Holby City is a TV series broadcast on BBC1, which began in 1999. ... The Game Show, Weakest Link The Weakest Link (now officially titled Weakest Link) is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in 2000. ... soap operas are boring Soap Opera redirects here. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera which was first broadcast on 19 February 1985. ... Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, and the UKs consistently highest-rated show. ...

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 repeat run was from 1997 until 2000 and Prisoner ran from 1997 until October 2004. Sons and Daughters was an Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. ... Reg Grundy Organisation is an Australian television production company. ...

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

The station should not be confused with Granada UKTV, an entirely separate channel operated by ITV, or the UKTV network, a collaboration between the BBC and Flextech Television that operates in the UK. Granada UKTV is a satellite television channel run by the British ITV broadcaster, Granada Television. ... One of the United Kingdoms largest TV companies, UKTV is a joint venture between the BBCs commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, and the cable television company Flextech. ...

External links

• UKTV Australia
• UKTV New Zealand