The Comedy Channel (UK)
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| The Comedy Channel | |
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| File:The Comedy Channel ident.PNG | |
| Launched | 3 November 1991 |
| Closed | 30 September 1992 |
| Owned by | British Sky Broadcasting |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Replaced by | Sky Movies Gold |
The Comedy Channel was a short-lived United Kingdom subscription television channel during the early 1990s.
History
The channel launched in October 1991,[1] soon after the merger of Sky Television plc and British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB). The merged company, British Sky Broadcasting, brought together comedy programming from its existing libraries - Sky having an archive of US imports including Three's Company, I Love Lucy, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Seinfeld, and BSB having obtained rights to a number of BBC sitcoms such as Dad's Army and The Goodies.
The Comedy Channel existed in the days before the basic "Sky Multichannels" subscription package,[citation needed] so was made available as a premium service to subscribers of either Sky Movies or The Movie Channel.[citation needed] Listings for the channel were carried in the Radio Times[2] and other listings magazines.
The channel[when?] eventually lost the broadcast rights to the BBC shows following the expiry of the contract between the BBC and former BSB.[citation needed] Eventually the channel closed on 30 September 1992, to be replaced by a "classic movies" channel, Sky Movies Gold.[citation needed]
Programmes
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- Car 54, Where Are You?
- The Monkees
- The Addams Family
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Green Acres
- McHale's Navy
- Hogan's Heroes
- The Munsters
- Here's Lucy
- I Love Lucy
- The Lucy Show
- The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
- Barney Miller
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
- Three's Company
- The Bob Newhart Show
- The Honeymooners
- Wings
- F Troop
- Gilligan's Island
- The Love Boat
- The Abbott and Costello Show
- Laurel and Hardy
- Maniac Mansion
- Moonlighting
- Free Spirit
- In Living Color
- Laugh In
- Leave it to Beaver
- Petticoat Junction
- The Young Ones
- Dad's Army
- Porridge
- The Good Life
- The Goodies
- Till Death Us Do Part
- Oh, Brother!
- Steptoe and Son
- Are You Being Served?
- Allo Allo!
References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- ↑ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8t6CBMN-F-EC&lpg=PT243&dq=sky%20%22the%20comedy%20channel%22&pg=PT243#v=onepage&q=sky%20%22the%20comedy%20channel%22&f=false An Introductory History of British Broadcasting - Andrew Crisell
- ↑ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aZPMwwunx9EC&lpg=PA210&ots=R-3-kd2mab&dq=sky%20%22the%20comedy%20channel%22%20listings&pg=PA210#v=onepage&q=sky%20%22the%20comedy%20channel%22%20listings&f=false The Radio Times Story - Tony Currie
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