Everything about Living Channel totally explained
Living is a
British television channel owned by
Virgin Media Television. Originally launched as
UK Living in
1993, the channel changed its name to Living in
1997, to dissassociate itself from the
UKTV network that launched that year, later becoming
LivingTV and in 2004 adopted
LIVINGtv.
The channel's programming is aimed mainly at women and families but is increasing its reach in a bid to become "the 6th Channel". With new shows such as
CSI:,
Close to Home and
Boston Legal, the channel is now broadening its audience reach to other key
demographics such as men aged 18-45.
The most watched shows on Living are
Ghost Whisperer,
America's Next Top Model,
Grey's Anatomy and
Most Haunted Live.
The channel also airs
Yvette Fielding's
Most Haunted, in which Fielding and
medium David Wells investigate supposedly haunted locations in the UK. The show has brought some of the channel's biggest ratings to date.
In 2001, Living launched a whole new genre of
paranormal programming with such shows as
Crossing Over with John Edward,
6ixth Sense with Colin Fry,
Scream Team,
Jane Goldman Investigates,
Dead Famous,
I'm Famous and Frightened! and
Most Haunted, which continues to be a ratings winner.
Living has also launched a number of successful
US television shows in the UK market. Past Successes include
Charmed,
Will & Grace,
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,
Miss Match,
Joan of Arcadia,, and
Just Shoot Me! .
At present the channel currently has first run UK rights to
Boston Legal,
Criminal Minds,
Grey's Anatomy,
Ghost Whisperer,
The L Word,
Men In Trees and the
Australian comedy
Kath and Kim.
In 2008 the channel will also be debuting the first seasons of
Army Wives,
Lipstick Jungle, and
Viva Laughlin.
Brian Dowling was put forward as one of the public figures to represent Living - by presenting programming including
Celebrity Extra,
Trolley Dollies, and a
spin-off to
I'm Famous and Frightened!. However in recent years, Brian has been mostly absent from the channel apart from the occasional
Celebrity Extra presenting duties. Instead fellow
Big Brother contestant
Jade Goody became Living's newest public face, with three different shows devoted to her life,
Jades Salon,
Just Jade and
Jade's P.A but she's recently been dropped due to the
racist row on
Celebrity Big Brother in January 2007.
To continue the list of
Reality TV stars hosting programmes,
Jodie Marsh announced that she'd be presenting a new programme
Get A Life starting on 1 March 2007. However, Living have announced that the show is to be cancelled and discussions are underway whether the remaining four episodes should be aired.
Living announced in February 2007 that Abigal Clancy, the runner up
Britains Next Top Model (cycle 2) has signed a deal with the channel to make a new reality show with
Janice Dickinson as her mentor, on trying to crack America.
Living is available officially in the
Republic of Ireland via
Sky Digital,
NTL Ireland Cable
(External Link
), and NTL Digital
(External Link) but is also available in many other European countries via Satellite. Increasingly Living has been trying to appeal more to the Irish, launching a huge billboard ad campaign throughout the country.
Living is broadcast on 11.739 GHz, vertically polarised at 28.2°E. It is encrypted using
Videoguard.
(External Link)
Logos
Image:Ukliving.gif|UK Living (1993-1997)
Image:Livingtv.gif|LivingTV (2000-2004)
Image:LIVINGtv.PNG|LIVINGtv (2004-2007)
Image:Living logo.PNG|LIVING (February 2007-)
Notable Shows
reLIVINGtv
ReLivingTV was launched in 2006 on a temporary basis, and proved successful. It is an afternoon block on Sundays, where viewers are able to relive every episode of a certain show and season. It all began one Sunday in June for a morning session for viewers after the end of Charmed by repeating every episode of the eighth and final series, and since, it has had many successions with the likes of "Jade's Salon", "Just Jade", "
Grey's Anatomy", "
Boston Legal" and The WB's "
Summerland". Although for most shows it continues on for a numerous amount of weeks until they're finished broadcasting that specific show or season, they've also started broadcasting films to break their gaps.
reLIVINGtv, was on most Sundays starting at around 3.00pm, and there was no specific ending time, so it was a case of "Miss It, and Miss Out"...
Further Information
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