UKTV Documentary

Launched in 2004, UKTV Documentary is a UK digital television channel, and is part of the UKTV network, which also includes UKTV Drama and UKTV Food, amongst others. Prior to its existence the channel UK Horizons fulfilled much the same purpose. The output of this channel is solely documentaries (hence its name), and most of them are BBC programmes. Much of the programming is abridged in order to fulfil the requirements of commercial broadcasting, and sometimes the position of the adverts really distracts from my concentration when watching the programmes. The person making the decisions about where to put the commercial breaks clearly do not watch the actual ...  Read the complete review

UK Horizons is available on digital television (Sky and Ondigital). It is basically a channel that shows BBC repeats. (This of course costs less than showing new programmes.) The good thing about these repeats is that they are all documentary style broadcasts. Most of need to be watched more than once before you really absorb them anyway. Michael Palin must have the record for the most repeated documentary programmes on this channel. As soon as a series is finished we start yet another Palin adventure. I do enjoy these broadcasts but I must admit that even I am getting tired of the repeats. It seems as though the BBC, having established a very popular ...  Read the complete review

When I got onto Digital I was very impressed by the number of documentry/science channels available and had not realised that this was also that type of channel. I watch thids channel quite a bit now as it has a good mix of entertaining programs and also keeps my grey matter ticking over nicely. I prefer the evning lineup as there are only so many programs on the mating habits of the brazilian toad that you can watch before they all merge into one big orge. The mix of science and fly on the wall that appears here in the evenings is far more to my taste and so this channel gets a look in most nights. I think Discovery has a more varied line up but this ...  Read the complete review

UK Horizons is made up of entirely repeats of BBC docu-soaps and documentaries, such as Animal Hospital, Airport, The Cruise, Pleasure Beach etc. It is OK, and the programmes on it are usually of a high standard, but the problem is that you will probably have seen many of them before. Shows like Top Gear GTI and Tomorrow's World Plus are basically made up of items from the weekly BBC shows stiched together into an hour long programme which is dubbed as "specially made for UK Horizons" which is far from the truth. However, this channel does feature many good repeats of great programmes that if you missed first time around on the BBC are well ...  Read the complete review

This channel is pretty cool! It's format is based on entirely the BBC's very good list of fly on the wall documentary programmes over the last 20 years. It has started to import programmes from Australia like 'The Learners' which is an Australian version of Driving School! Yes, the scheduling is a bit pants at times and they tend to repeat the repeats but everyone has a favourite documentary or fly on the wall programme. They are found on this channel! It is not a dedicated tv channel that you would watch all night. You could catch something interesting from about 7pm to 12pm. It is a channel where you would tune in to watch something ...  Read the complete review