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Plus was a digital channel run by
Granada Sky Broadcasting. It was launched on 1 October 1996 under the original name of Granada Plus, and during its availability it underwent successive rebrands as G Plus, G+ and then simply Plus. However, it remained widely referred to by the public at large by its original name. On 1 November 2004, it was permanently closed down by ITV plc in an attempt to bring its replacement,
ITV3, onto Sky.
History
Granada Plus was launched on 1 October 1996 at 7pm. From launch, the channel initially showed only programmes made originally by
Granada Television and
London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television (LWT) (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm from 1968 un ...
(itself recently acquired by Granada Television), such as ''
On the Buses
''On the Buses'' is a British television sitcom that was broadcast on ITV from 1969 to 1973. It was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, who wrote most of the episodes. It spawned three spin-off feature films and a stage version. Desp ...
'', ''
Crown Court'', ''
The Comedians'' and ''
The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
''The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club'' was a British television variety show produced by Granada Television from 1974 to 1977. It was set in a fictional working men's club in the North of England and was hosted by comedian Colin Crompton ...
''. One of the channel's biggest attractions was a thrice-daily repeat of classic ''
Coronation Street'', with a five episode omnibus every weekend. The channel started showing episodes in original broadcast order from April 1976, (some cut slightly for timing reasons), until they got up to February 1994 on 1 November 2004. After Plus had secured the rights to show programmes originally made by
Yorkshire Television
ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV (TV network), ITV network. Until 19 ...
, they started showing classic episodes of
Emmerdale
''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, ...
, usually straight after Coronation Street, at 9:30 in the morning and 12:30 in the afternoon, each weekday.
Many of these programmes would have been unshown since their original transmissions, and hence were of value to those interested in classic television, but these early schedules lacked the commercial appeal of rival channel
UK Gold
Gold is a British pay television channel from the UKTV network that was launched in late 1992 as UK Gold before it was rebranded UKTV Gold in 2004. In 2008, it was split into current flagship channel Gold and miscellaneous channel, W, with clas ...
, which had long since moved from showing little-seen gems to showing television's 'greatest hits'.
Before the launch of
ITV2, the channel also occasionally broadcast live
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...
football matches involving either
Manchester United or
Newcastle United for when the national ITV network was unable to broadcast them live.
It was not long before Granada Plus revamped their on-screen identity, and in order to look more contemporary, they started showing more recent programmes made by the
ITV network (at the time, Granada were busy buying up old rivals such as
Yorkshire Television
ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV (TV network), ITV network. Until 19 ...
and
Tyne Tees Television
ITV Tyne Tees, previously known as Tyne Tees, Channel 3 North East and Tyne Tees Television, is the ITV television franchise for North East England and parts of North Yorkshire.
Tyne Tees launched on 15 January 1959 from studios at a converte ...
, in preparation for a unified
ITV plc
ITV plc is a British media company that holds 13 of the 15 regional television licences that make up the ITV network (Channel 3), the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom.
ITV plc is listed on the ...
), as well as programme stock which had been originally shown on the
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. Granada Plus also began screening many classic US shows popular with British viewers and airing promos with the stars of those shows (such as
James MacArthur
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for ''
Hawaii Five-O
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'',
Cheryl Ladd for ''
Charlie's Angels'',
Philip Michael Thomas
Philip Michael Thomas (born May 26, 1949) is an American actor and musician, best known for his role as detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series ''Miami Vice''. His first notable roles were in '' Coonskin'' (1975) and opposite Irene C ...
for ''
Miami Vice
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'' and
Ben Murphy for ''
Alias Smith and Jones
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'' - the last two had also originally aired on the BBC in Britain). The channel also aired British premieres of at least three US series: ''
10-8: Officers on Duty'', ''
Fortune Hunter
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'' and the 1988 revival of ''
Mission: Impossible''.
Many of the channel's programmes were cut by up to five minutes for
commercial
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* a dose of advertising conveyed through media (such as - for example - radio or television)
** Radio advertisement
** Television advertisement
* (adjective for:) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and s ...
timing purposes, which was not a popular choice with viewers.
Closure
The future of Plus came into doubt by late 2003, when ITV had planned for a new channel similar to Plus to be launched. Originally conceived as 'ITV Gold', it evolved in its conception to ITV3. It would have been originally launched on both Freeview, NTL and Telewest, with a later launch on Sky in March 2005, likely due to ITV rejecting a deal to encrypt ITV3, and the limitations faced by Sky boxes in exceeding the 500 channel limit. Due to the similarity in both channels' content, many believed that ITV3 would replace Plus, only for this rumour to be frequently debunked by GSB themselves. ITV also looked to either sell or close the GSB channels.
However, come 1 November 2004 — ITV3's launch date — it was looking increasingly likely that ITV plc's new channel would not be launched on
Sky Digital. However, frantic discussions were going on behind the scenes: ITV wanted the 7 million or so Sky viewers available; Sky did not want to give
Freeview any advantage; and to further complicate matters, ITV wanted the new channel to be as high up on the
EPG
Electronic programming guides (EPGs) and interactive programming guides (IPGs) are menu-based systems that provide users of television, radio and other media applications with continuously updated menus that display scheduling information for ...
as possible. ITV looked into Plus, which was in a high EPG slot, channel 118. Plus also had access to archives of programmes that were sought after by ITV for the new channel.
At 1pm on that day, just 8 hours before launch, ITV and Sky finally reached a deal: ITV would buy out
Sky's 49.5% stake in GSB for £10 million. This meant ITV plc completely took full control of the two GSB channels, Plus and
Men & Motors.
Shortly afterwards, ITV plc decided to close Plus, and moved ITV2 to channel 118 making space for ITV3.
An hour-and-a-half later that afternoon, while in the middle of a commercial break, Plus suddenly cut to a closedown slide, and, on digital cable and satellite platforms, shortly afterwards disappeared. The final programme on Plus was ''
Pie in the Sky
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Pie in the sky may refer to:
* ''Pie in the Sky'' (TV series), a UK television series about a police officer turned restaurateur
* ''Pie ...
'', but only half of it was shown before ITV ceased transmission of Plus. On Sky, Plus was immediately removed minutes after closure, with ITV2 and ITV3 appearing on channels 118 and 119 in an EPG update. On NTL and Telewest, Plus broadcast a GSB logo with looped music, before cutting into a test card asking viewers to move to ITV3.
Transmission of Plus officially ceased at 5:15pm, when it was replaced by holding slides for ITV3. The channel was replaced on digital cable and satellite, but on analogue cable, the closedown slide remained for over six years and was finally removed in April 2011 due to analogue cable becoming obsolete.
The team at Plus were caught unaware as they had sent out their regular highlights email at 3:50pm. ITV3 launched at 9pm.
Programming
*''
10-8: Officers on Duty''
*''
A Bit of a Do''
*''
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
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'' (now on
Gold
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*''
A Family at War'' (now on
Talking Pictures TV
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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'' (now on
ITV3)
*''
Agatha Christie's Poirot
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'' (now on
ITV3)
*''
Albion Market''
*''
Alfresco''
*''
Alias Smith and Jones
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''
*''
Allsorts
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*''
An Audience with...''
*''Aspel & Company''
*''
The Avengers'' (now on
ITV4
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*''
Batman''
*''
Beadle's About
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''
*''
The Benny Hill Show
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''
*''
Bewitched'' (now on
Gold
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)
*''
Bless This House'' (now on
Forces TV and
ITV3)
*''
Blind Date
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''
*''
Bonanza'' (now on
CBS Action)
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Boon
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* Boon (game), a trick-taking card game
* ''Boon'' (novel), a 1915 satirical work by H. G. Wells
* ''Boon'' (TV series), a British television series starring Michael Elphick
* The Ultimate Boo ...
''
*''
The Brian Conley Show''
*''
Brian Conley: This Way up!''
*''
The Brittas Empire'' (now on
Gold
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)
*''
Brush Strokes
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'' (now on
Drama
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Bullseye
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Symbols
* ◎ (Unicode U+25CE BULLSEYE), in the Geometric Shapes Unicode block
* (Unicode U+0298 LATIN LETTER BILABIAL CLICK), the phonetic symbol for bilabial click
Animals and plants
* Bull's Eye, '' Eury ...
'' (now on
Challenge)
*''
Cagney & Lacey
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''
*''
Canned Carrott''
*''
Carrott's Commercial Breakdown''
*''
Charlie's Angels''
*''
Classic Coronation Street'' (now on
ITV3)
*''
Classic Emmerdale'' (now on
ITV3)
*''
Cold Feet''
*''
The Comedians''
*''
Crown Court''
*''
The Dame Edna Experience''
*''
Dandelion Dead
''Dandelion Dead'' is a British TV mini-series produced by LWT for ITV that aired in two parts on 6 and 13 February 1994. It tells the true story of Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor in the provincial town of Hay-on-Wye, Wales, who was con ...
''
*''
Dempsey & Makepeace'' (now on
Forces TV and
ITV4
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*''The Dick Emery Show''
*''
The Dick Van Dyke Show
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Doctor in the House
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*''
The Dukes of Hazzard
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''
*''
Duty Free'' (now on
Forces TV)
*''The Elvis Presley Show''
*''
Ever Decreasing Circles'' (now on
Gold
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*''
The Equalizer'' (now on
Forces TV)
*''
Faith in the Future''
*''
Fame''
*''
Families
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''
*''The Flying Lady''
*''
Fortune Hunter
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General
* Fortuna or Fortune, the Roman goddess of luck
* Luck
* Wealth
* Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling
* Fortune, in a fortune cookie
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''The Fortune'' (1931 film) ...
''
*''
French Fields'' (now on
Drama
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Fresh Fields
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'' (now on
Drama
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George and Mildred
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'' (now on
ITV3)
*''
Gladiators
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The Grumbleweeds Radio Show
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''
*''The Gunners''
*''
Hadleigh''
*''
Hale and Pace
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Happy Days
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Hart to Hart
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Hawaii Five-O
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''
*''
Heartbeat'' (now on
ITV3)
*''
The High Chaparral
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Hill Street Blues
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*''
Hogan's Heroes'' (now on
ITV4
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Home to Roost
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The premise is th ...
'' (now on
Forces TV)
*''
Hornblower!'' (now on
ITV4
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*''
I Dream of Jeannie'' (now on
Forces TV)
*''
In Loving Memory'' (now on
ITV3)
*''
In Sickness and in Health
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Inspector Morse
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'' (now on
ITV3)
*''The Jack Dee Show''
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Jeeves & Wooster''
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The Kenny Everett Video Show''
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The Krypton Factor''
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The Liver Birds
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London's Burning''
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Love Thy Neighbour''
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Magnum, P.I.
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Man About the House
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'' (now on
ITV3)
*''
Marc''
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Me and my Girl''
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Miami Vice
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Minder
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Government-appointed persons to accompany foreign visitors are of ...
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ITV4
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Mind Your Language
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Mission: Impossible'' (now on
CBS Justice
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Murder, She Wrote'' (now on
5USA
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My Favorite Martian
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My Wife and Kids
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The New Statesman
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No Place Like Home''
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Not on Your Nellie!''
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Only When I Laugh''
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On the Buses
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ITV3)
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Peak Practice
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Pie in the Sky
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* ''Pie ...
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Drama
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)
*''
The Piglet Files'' (now on
Gold
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)
*''
The Professionals'' (now on
ITV4
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)
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The Rag Trade
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The scripts were wr ...
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*''Rich Tea and Sympathy''
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Rising Damp
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'' (now on
ITV3)
*''
Robin's Nest'' (now on
Talking Pictures TV
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)
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The Rockford Files
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Rory McGrath's Commercial Breakdown''
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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
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The Sweeney'' (now on
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Alibi
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Tales of the Unexpected'' (now on
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Terry and June
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Through the Keyhole
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The Upper Hand
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Up Pompeii!
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Upstairs, Downstairs'' (now on
Talking Pictures TV
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Up the Garden Path
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Van der Valk
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Talking Pictures TV
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Waiting for God'' (now on
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The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
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Wycliffe'' (now on
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You're Only Young Twice'' (now on
ITV3)
See also
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Granada Sky Broadcasting
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Granada Television
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ITV3
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Men & Motors
References
External links
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Defunct British television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2004
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