UKTV Documentary

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UKTV Documentary
Launched	8 March 2004
Owned by	UKTV (BBC Worldwide/Virgin Media Television)
Picture format	16:9, 576i (SDTV)
Audience share	0.0% (0.0% for +1) (March 2008, [1])
Replaced	UK Horizons
Timeshift service	UKTV Documentary +1
Website	www.uktvdocumentary.co.uk
Availability
Satellite
Sky Digital	Channel 532 Channel 533 (+1)
Cable
Virgin Media	Channel 208 Channel 209 (+1)
IPTV over ADSL
Tiscali TV	Channel 130

UKTV Documentary is a digital television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom, as part of the UKTV network of channels.

The output of the channel is, as the name suggests, entirely documentaries, mainly taken from the BBC archives such as Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man. However, the majority of the channel's programming is abridged by the BBC for commercial timing purposes - a policy that some critics consider hypocritical.

The channel was launched on 8 March 2004. Along with UKTV People it was a replacement for the channel UK Horizons, which closed the day before.

The channel, along with a time-shifted "+1" version, is available on Sky Digital and Virgin Media. It is also available (not time-shifted) on Tiscali TV. However, it is not available on Freeview, despite the majority of the programmes being made by the BBC.

[edit] Programming

[edit] Current Programming

• SAS Jungle: Are You Tough Enough?
• Animal Hospital
• Booze
• Coast
• Dinosaurs
• Five Ways To Save The World
• Fred Dibnah’s Made In Britain
• Hawking
• Highgrove: A Prince's Legacy
• Horizon
• Inventions That Changed The World
• It's the Monty Python Story
• James May's 20th Century
• Johnny Kingdom: A Year On Exmoor
• Kalahari Bigfoot
• Life in the Freezer
• Life in the Undergrowth
• Life Story
• Living with Dinosaurs
• Local Heroes
• Natural World
• Not My Fault I'm Fat
• Planet Earth
• Pole To Pole
• Ray Mears’ Bushcraft
• Sahara with Michael Palin
• The Blue Planet
• The History of Football
• The Human Body
• The Re-Inventors
• The Trees That Made Britain
• Tribe
• Who Do You Think You Are?
• World's Best Places to See

[edit] Logos

UKTV Documentary (2004-present)

[edit] External links

• Documentary at UKTV.co.uk
• The TV Room looks at presentation/branding on the UKTV channels