UKTV Documentary Reviews

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 ...  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. ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

OK, this channel is exclusively devoted to program repeats, but they are of a high enough quality prgrams to want to see them again. A large section of the scheduling on Horizons is filled with 'docusoaps', for example, The Clampers, Back To the Floor, Paddington Green, Soldiers To Be, The Builders, Holiday Reps. All good stuff. The only ...  Read the complete review

Uk should drop a hint this has no new programmes at all its a repeat channel no a repeat of repeats channel. Don`t get me wrong this channel is smart with some good programmes like the clampers, pleasure beach, michael pailin. With no new programmes they must fill the time up somehow and this shows you can often see the same programmme ...  Read the complete review

UK Horizons offers the best of BBCs documentary output re run all day long. It has no new shows, but a collection of really great old stuff. Classic TV moments like the wildlife shows from David Attenborough are intermingled with entertaining recent shows like The Cruise and Airport. When there is nothing worth watching on the ...  Read the complete review

Not so long ago, my partner and I were watching this channel quite a bit. Every night there were interesting documentaries or docusoaps. Some of the most interesting being the series about the twins and the docusoap about the womens prison. Now whenever we check whats on it is always 'Michal Palin around the world' and other ...  Read the complete review