UKTV

  • YouView adds catch-up services for UKTV’s Yesterday and Really

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    Broadcaster UKTV has added seven day catch up services for its popular free-to-air Yesterday and Really channels to internet connected TV platform YouView. Viewers can now access content they’ve missed via both branded on demand portals and through YouView’s seven-day scroll back EPG.

  • UKTV’s Dave to premiere Suits online and via YouView

    UKTV’s Dave to premiere Suits online and via YouView

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    Fans of US legal comedy drama Suits will be able to see the first episode of the third series a week before the show starts on popular entertainment channel Dave. Channel owner UKTV is making the series available through Dave on Demand, the channel’s iOS app and through its video on demand player on YouView.…

  • BT adds Sony Entertainment Television to TV line-up

    BT adds Sony Entertainment Television to TV line-up

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    BT has struck a deal to offer Sony’s UK TV channel to BT Vision and YouView from TV customers. Both TV platforms offer free aerial delivered digital terrestrial channels alongside optional subscription channels delivered via broadband. BT’s £7 per month channel pack offers SD versions of some of the UK’s most popular channels including UKTV’s…

  • Virgin Media releases Android mobile TV app

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    Virgin Media has finally launched an Android version of its mobile TV service, Virgin TV Anywhere. The PC and app-based service is available to subscribers who rent one of the cable company’s TiVo set top boxes and first launched for Apple’s iPad and iPhone in September 2012. The company has also announced the addition of…

  • UKTV signs Dave merchandising deal

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    Fans of UKTV’s Dave channel will soon to be able to buy tie-in merchandise after the broadcaster signed a licensing deal with Evolution Europe & Rizon Studios Creative. The free to air channel, available on Freeview, YouView, Sky and Virgin Media, has seen audiences grow by 22% in the past year. UKTV hopes to cash-in…

  • Watch to repeat entire Babylon 5 from November

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    Early 90’s Sci-Fi series Babylon 5 is returning to British TV screens after broadcaster UKTV snapped up the rights to the show’s 110 episodes and six feature length telefilms. The show will air from 4th November on UKTV’s Watch channel which also airs Doctor Who and Torchwood. The series, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary next…