UK Horizons

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UK Horizons was a television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom, as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel ran from 1997 and 2004.

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History

Launch

UK Horizons launched on 1 November 1997 as part of the initial expansion of the UKTV network, also launching UK Arena and UK Style. The channel would focus on documentaries, primarily from the BBC, who held a 50% stake in the UKTV network through BBC Worldwide. The channel was named after the BBC programme Horizon which itself broadcast these type of reports in their programme. The use of BBC programme brands for the new channels also occurred in the case of UK Arena. The launch editor was Bryher Scudamore, the channel manager was Allison McGourty, and the deputy editor Eddie Tulasiewicz.

The channel used abridged versions of the majority of the programmes it used due to the cutting down of programmes to fit commercial timeslots as opposed to terrestrial slots. However, the channel also produced extended versions of top BBC brands such as Top Gear and Tomorrow's World. Programming included:

• 999 (Now on Really)
• Airport (Now on Dave)
• Alligator Hole (Now on Eden)
• Alligator Swamp (Now on Eden)
• Animal Hospital (Now on CBS Reality)
• Animal Park (Now on Watch)
• Back to the Floor (Now on Really)
• The Blue Planet (Now on Eden)
• Blues and Twos (From 13 December 1999-Friday 5 March 2004 on UK Horizons Now on Blighty and Really)
• Bodyhunters (Now on Yesterday)
• The Builders (Now on Blighty)
• Car Wars (Now on Dave)
• Chopper Coppers (Now on Really)
• Clarkson (Now on Dave)
• Cops (Now on CBS Reality FX and Really)
• Dangerours Driving (Now on Men on Motors)
• Doctors at Large (Now on Really)
• Doctors to Be (Now on Really
• Drive Hard (Now on Dave)
• Elite Fighting Forces (Now on Yesterday)
• Firefighters (Now on Really)
• Full Circle with Michael Palin (Now on Eden)
• Gladitors of World War II (Now on Yesterday)
• Global Cops (Now on Really)
• Holiday Reps (Now on Dave)
• The Human Body (Now on Eden)
• Human Instinct (Now on Eden
• The Jeff Corwin Experience (Now on Animal Planet)
• Life in the Freezer (Now on Eden)
• Life on Earth (Now on Eden)
• Life on Mars (Now on Eden)
• Life of Grime (Now on Blighty Really and Watch)
• The Life of Mammals (Now on Eden)
• Life on Mars (Now on Eden)
• Pole to Pole (Now on Eden)
• Radical Highs (Now on Dave)
• Raw Blues (Now on Really)
• Rescue Heroes (Now on Really)
• Robot Wars (Now on Dave)
• Robot Wars Extreme (Now on Dave)
• Rescue Heroes (Now on Really)
• Sahara with Michael Palin (Now on Eden)
• S.A.S Jungle Are You Tough Enough (Now on Blighty and Dave)
• Secrets of World War II (Now on Yesterday)
• Tale of the Peacock and the Tiger (Now on Eden)
• The Toughest Job In Britain (Now on Blighty)
• Trauma (Now on Really)
• Vets in Hong Kong (Now on CBS Reality)
• Vets in Practice (Now on CBS Reality)
• Vets to the Rescue (Now on CBS Reality)
• Weapons of Word War Two (Now on Yesterday)
• Wildlife on One (Now on Eden)
• Your Life in their Hands (Now on Really)

Closure

The channel was closed on 8 March 2004, when the channel's output was split two ways. The channel retaining the UK Horizons EPG position was renamed UKTV Documentary and would feature the best of all documentaries on the network that did not specifically fall into one of the other channels area, such as UKTV History. The other new channel launched was UKTV People, focusing on the eccentric lives of the British people and containing programmes and features looking into the way Britain works. These two channels have since rebranded as Eden and Blighty respectively as part of the 2008/9 rebranding of all UKTV channels to unique names. The latter channel has since closed down in 2013 and was replaced by Drama.

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Identity

The original UK Horizons identity featured the theme of a circle and a split screen. The screen would be split horizontally at the centre, with two separate images coming together to form one circle in the centre of the screen. Examples involved an astronaut's helmet and a compass forming a circle and a bird cage and a steering wheel. The look was accompanied by the generic logo style consisting of a box, containing the UK prefix, and the station name written over a line.

This look lasted until 2002 when it was replaced by a cylindrical robot, with a large circular eye in the centre with two jet engines above and to the left and right of the main body. The robot was seen zooming around various environments, including world destinations, a tube and a multi coloured vortex. The look was accompanied by a plain UK Horizons logo, stylised as ^UK Horizons, with a target scope like icon added to the right hand end of the logo.

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See also

• Eden
• Blighty
• UKTV
• Television in the United Kingdom

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References

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External links

• UK Horizons Website
• UK Horizons at TVARK
• UKTV at The TV Room

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