30-11-2023, 11:28 AM
(30-11-2023, 08:44 AM)nwtv2003 Wrote: You’re right about Drama, but Style 2 became Style Gardens before rebranding to Really. History/Yesterday initially had Bright Ideas’s DTT space after it ended and Dave began. There was a period of a year between Bright Ideas ending and Watch starting. I want to say Watch was a whole new channel, but I’m happy to be corrected.
Watch was an entirely new channel trying to squeeze in to the female demo with re-runs of The Bill and their headliner was Richard & Judy whom they poached from Channel 4. Watch took over UK Gold's channel number on Sky (109 IIRC) and bumped UK Gold up the EPG.
UK Bright Ideas and UK History both launched when Freeview launched, Bright Ideas closed to make way for UKTV G2 / Dave. UKTV History eventually morphed in to History.