CBS Drama

RealityXtra (formerly CBS Drama) is a British free-to-air television channel that centres its programming on American television shows produced by CBS. It is the sister channel of CBS Reality and is owned in partnership by AMC Networks and Paramount Networks.

History

CBS Drama

On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm of CBS, CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replace Zone Romantica, Zone Thriller, Zone Horror and CBS Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1. On 1 October 2009, it was announced that CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, CBS Drama and CBS Justice (replacing CBS Action in 2018) would launch on 16 November 2009 replacing Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1, Zone Romantica and Zone Thriller. On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror and Zone Horror +1 were rebranded by Horror Channel and Horror Channel +1, following the rebrand of the portfolio's other three channels in November 2009.

On 1 August 2012 Chellomedia revealed that all European versions of the Zone Channels would be rebranded into CBS Channels. CBS Drama replaced Zone Romantica on 3 December 2012 (in Poland replaced Zone Club).

CBS Reality launched on Freeview on 1 April 2014 followed by CBS Action on 1 October 2014 and as of July 2014, CBS Reality +1, CBS Action, CBS Drama & Horror Channel are available on the YouView platform as part of TalkTalk TV's Entertainment Boost, but were removed from the EPG on 2 June 2015.

CBS Drama closed in Poland on 31 December 2016. It had broadcast UK shows such as ''Bad Girls'', ''Waterloo Road'' and ''Footballers Wives'', American shows such as ''Dallas'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', ''CSI'' and ''Knots Landing'', as well as Australian shows such as ''Return To Eden'' and ''Bondi Rescue''.

RealityXtra

On 30 June 2022, the British arm of the AMC-Paramount partnership revised their channel line-up with all CBS branding, with the exception of CBS reality, being dropped and new channel Legend taking CBS Justice's slot and Horror's programming. In the reshuffle, CBS Drama was renamed Reality Xtra, becoming a sister channel to the current (CBS) Reality channel.

With the rebrand and reshuffle of channels, RealityXtra changed frequencies on Freeview and became a limited-reach channel for viewers who could receive the range of Local channels on channel 7 or 8.

Current programming on RealityXtra

*''Bonanza'' (Also shown on Spotlight TV)
*''CSI: Miami''
*''CSI: NY''
*''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman''
*''Dynasty''
*'' ER''
*'' JAG''
*''Judge Judy''
*''The Love Boat''
*''Medium''
*''Touched by an Angel''
*'' Bad Girls''
*''Beauty and the Beast''
*''Beverly Hills, 90210''
*''Bondi Rescue''
*''Boston Legal''
*''Charmed''
*''Cheers'' (Seasons 1–4 only) (Now on Channel 4)
*''The Colbys''
*''Cutting It''
*''Dallas''
*''Days of Our Lives''
*''The Division''
*'' Diagnosis: Murder''
*'' Ed''
*''Falcon Crest''
*'' Footballer's Wives''
*''Guiding Light''
*''Hack''
*''The Jerry Springer Show''
*'' Judge Joe Brown''
*''Judging Amy''
*''Keen Eddie''
*''Knots Landing''
*'' The Last Frontier''
*'' Matlock''
*''Melrose Place''
*''Mile High''
*'' Models Inc.''
*''Moonlighting''
*''North and South''
*'' Outrageous Fortune''
*''Party of Five''
*''Playing the Field''
*''The Practice''
*''Return to Eden''
*''Sex and the City''
*''Sex, Love & Secrets''
*''Shogun''
*'' Sunset Beach'' (Seasons 1 and 2 only)
*''The Streets of San Francisco''
*''Taxi''
*'' That's Life''
*'' The Thorn Birds''
*''Twin Peaks''
*'' Waterloo Road''
*''Wheel of Fortune''
*''The Young and the Restless''

RealityXtra2

RealityXtra2 launched on 26 October 2022 on Freeview channel 69. As of 27 October 2022, RealityXtra2 only broadcasts two episodes of Donal MacIntyre's Murder Files from 3:00am until 5:00am and is deemed to be a placeholder channel. RealityXtra2 uses the on-screen bug of the RealityXtra channel (CBS Justice from 26 October until 11 November) but with the channel ident used on-air.

Current programming on RealityXtra2

*'' Donal MacIntyre's Murder Files
*''Written in Blood
*''The Real Prime Suspect

See also

*CBS Reality
*CBS Justice
*CBS Europa
*Paramount International Networks
*AMC Networks International
*Blue Ant Extreme
*Blue Ant Entertainment

References

External links

CBS Drama

{{Media in the United Kingdom, television

AMC Networks International
Paramount International Networks
Television channels and stations established in 2009
English-language television stations in the United Kingdom
2009 establishments in the United Kingdom