ITV3 is a

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channel owned by

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, a division of

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. The channel was first launched on Monday 1 November 2004 at 9 pm, replacing Plus (previously known as G+). ITV3 is the sixth-largest UK television channel by audience share and the largest after the five main terrestrial services, the position which was previously held by its sister station

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. The channel is primarily devoted to repeats of ITV dramas, and including sequential reruns of ''

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'', '' Classic Coronation Street'', '' Classic Emmerdale'', '' Heartbeat'', ''

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'' and '' A Touch of Frost'', amongst others, as well as formerly showing repeats of ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Cagney & Lacey'' and ''

The Bill ''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, "Woodentop (The Bill), Woodentop" (part of the ''Storyb ...

'', but occasionally shows popular factual programming and is also used as an overflow location for ITV's sports coverage.

History

ITV3 was launched on the terrestrial (Freeview), cable (NTL and Telewest), broadband (HomeChoice) and

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satellite (Sky) on 1 November 2004 at 9:00pm, with the UKTV premiere of Ian Rankin's

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. It is also available on TalkTalk TV

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and Freesat. ITV3 was originally conceived as 'ITV Gold', when ITV was looking to maximise their multichannel presence due to the growth of digital TV and the Freeview platform, but was faced with lack of space on the Sky platform due to technical limitations and the rights to certain ITV programmes being held by GSkyB, a joint venture run by ITV and Sky which operated a suite of pay TV channels. ITV took full control of Granada Sky Broadcasting, and ceased broadcasting the Granada Plus channel, thereby allowing ITV3 to take the channel number, bandwidth, and programme rights, meaning all platforms could receive the channel from launch. ITV3 was also the only channel in the ITV brand not to simulcast

CITV CITV is a British children's morning programming block on ITV2 and formerly a free-to-air channel owned by ITV plc. CITV, then Children's ITV, launched on 3 January 1983 as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged ...

breakfast, until ITV launched two channels in 2014,

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and ITV Encore. On 10 October 2006, ITV announced to launch a one-hour timeshift service of ITV3, titled ITV3 +1. The channel launched on 30 October 2006 along with ITV2 +1. The channel had been available from launch on UPC Ireland, but was withdrawn on 22 March 2006. This is believed to have been at the request of ITV plc, which had previously barred Irish newspapers from publishing details of ITV channels and regions other than UTV and Men & Motors. The channel had already been (and remains) available to Irish viewers on

satellite for some time, however it has not been listed in the

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electronic programme guide since its removal on 25 January 2006. ITV3 returned to UPC Ireland in the

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on 4 January 2010. As Freeview announced plans for a retune on 30 September 2009, ITV3 moved to an alternative

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. Viewers in areas that have completed switchover who receive their signal from a local

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not carrying the commercial multiplexes were no longer be able to receive ITV3. It was moved back on 28 March 2018. On 1 April 2011, ITV3 was removed from UPC Ireland along with ITV2 and ITV4 due to the expiry of a carriage agreement between UPC and ITV. UPC Ireland claim that ITV is not in a position to renegotiate the deal because ITV had struck a deal with another channel provider to provide it with exclusive rights to air certain content from the channels. Conversely, UPC Ireland also claims to have been in discussions right up to the last moment in order to continue broadcasting the channels. ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 were restored to the UPC Ireland line-up on 20 December 2011. TV3 and its sister channel 3e already hold carriage agreement to air certain ITV content within the Republic of Ireland, alternatively UTV is available within the Republic. ITV2 is available along with ITV3 and ITV4 within

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, all three channels are available on

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TV and UPC Cablecom. ITV3 is registered to broadcast within the European Union/EEA through ALIA in Luxembourg. It was announced by ITV on 20 September 2017 that reruns of classic episodes of ''

Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' (colloquially referred to as ''Corrie'') is a British television soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced ...

'' will air twice on weekdays. The repeat run began on 2 October 2017 with the episodes originally broadcast on 15 and 20 January 1986. The episodes air from 2:40 pm on weekday afternoons and are repeated at 6:00 am the following day (except Friday's episodes, which are repeated on the following Monday). To mark the 60th Anniversary of ''Coronation Street'' between 7 and 11 December 2020 at 10:00 pm – 11:05 pm ITV3 re-aired special episodes of the soap including: ''

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'', the tenth anniversary episode from December 1970, two episodes from the twentieth anniversary in December 1980, two episodes from the thirtieth anniversary in December 1990, the '' Coronation Street Live (2000 episode)'' from the fortieth anniversary in December 2000, and the fiftieth-anniversary episode '' Coronation Street Live (2010 episode)'' which was re-transmitted after a repeat of '' The Road to Coronation Street''. On 18 April 2022 Easter Monday, at 10:25 am until 2:35 pm. Eight special ''Coronation Street'' episodes featuring Ken Barlow, were shown to mark the upcoming 90th birthday of William Roache. The episodes shown were 'Episode 1'' from December 1960, ''Ken and Deirdre Tie the Knot'' from July 1981, ''Ken's Affair'' from December 1989, ''Deirdre's Fling'' from January 2003, '' Steve and Karen's Wedding Shocker'' from February 2004, ''Ken and Deirdre's Second Wedding'' from April 2005. ''Ken and Deirdre's Holiday'' from August 2014, and '' Deirdre's Death'' from July 2015. It was announced by ITV on 5 January 2019 that reruns of classic episodes of ''

Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British television soap opera that is broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a List of fictional towns and villages, fict ...

'' will air twice on weekdays. Two classic episodes were retransmitted between Mondays to Fridays at 1:45 pm until 2:40 pm from 21 January 2019. They are repeated at 7:00 am the following day (except Friday's episodes, which are repeated on the following Monday) The reruns began with episode 1403 (originally shown on 14 November 1989) which was when the title changed from ''Emmerdale Farm'' to ''Emmerdale''. To mark the 50th Anniversary of ''Emmerdale'' between 17 and 21 October 2022 at 10:00 pm – 12:05 am ITV3 re-aired special episodes of the soap including: ''Episode 1'' from October 1972, ''The Train Crash'' resulting in the deaths of the Skilbeck twins from January 1976, The two episodes of ''The Mine Explosion'' from March 1978, '' Pat Sugden is killed in a car crash'' from August 1986. ''The Crossgill Fire'' and aftermath of Annie Sugden's rescue from May 1988. '' The Plane Crash'' episodes from December 1993. '' Biff and

Linda Fowler Linda Fowler (also Glover) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Tonicha Jeronimo from 1994 to 1997. It was reported on 6 May 1997 that Jeronimo had quit the soap after three years. The character w ...

's Wedding'' and the following episode resulting in ''The Death of

Dave Glover David "Dave" Glover is a fictional character from the British television soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Ian Kelsey. He made his first appearance during the episode broadcast on 4 August 1994. The character was introduced in a bid to attra ...

'' from December 1996. ''The New Year Storm'' resulting in The Woolpack collapsing on Tricia Dingle from January 2004, Zoe Tate's exit and Home Farm is blown up from September 2005. '' The 40th Anniversary Live Episode'' from October 2012. Ending with the episodes '' Debbie and Pete Barton's Wedding'', ''The Helicopter Crash'' and ''Death of Val Pollard'' from August 2015. On 19 September 2022, ITV3 and other ITV digital channels simulcast ITV's coverage of the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British m ...

. ITV3 subsequently simulcast ITV1's airing of the King's Speech and the

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on 25 December 2022 & 6 May 2023 respectively in sign language. On 7 October 2022, the ITV3 Facebook account was replaced by a new ITVX Facebook page.

Crime Thriller Awards

The ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards were first held on 3 October 2008, and were broadcast on ITV3 three days later. ITV3 controller Emma Tennant devised the awards to "cement ITV3's reputation as the home of great storytelling and, in particular, great crime thrillers". In 2009, the awards were merged with the

Crime Writers' Association The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authors' organisation in the United Kingdom, most notable for its "Dagger" awards for the best crime writing of the year, and the Diamond Dagger awarded to an author for lifetime achievement. ...

Daggers.

Subsidiary channels

ITV3 +1

ITV launched a one-hour

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of ITV3 on Monday 30 October 2006, it was allocated channel number 213. The channel number was moved a few years later. ITV2 +1 was launched on the same day. This channel is often unable to broadcast certain programmes "for legal reasons", but the programme in question might still be listed on the EPG. The channel launched on Freeview on 15 October 2013 using downtime from ITV-owned shopping channel The Store. Initially on Freeview, ITV3 +1 broadcast from 1am till 6am – these hours were extended and brought forward in February 2014, now airing from 6pm till midnight in the higher EPG slot of channel 34. On 25 August 2015, ITV3 +1 extended its hours on Freeview to 6pm till 6am and then in March 2016 it went back to closing at midnight. On 26 September 2018. To coincide with CITV broadcasting until 9pm on Freeview. ITV3 +1 started to broadcast on Freeview from 9pm - 12am. In 2020. To coincide the launch of new channel Merit, ITV3 +1 moved to channel 58 on Freeview swapping with

+1 which moved to channel 97. Since 30 November 2023, ITV3 +1 cut broadcasting hours to 2 hours each night from 4am - 6am, after ITV cleared a Freeview slot.

ITV3 HD

A high-definition

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of ITV3, ITV3 HD, was launched on 15 November 2010 alongside the sister channel, ITV4 HD on Sky. The channel was initially available through Sky's pay subscription service in a non-exclusive deal, before being added to

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's service on 14 March 2013. ITV3 HD offers most of the ITV3 catalogue of recent drama in high definition, including '' Lewis'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' and factual series such as ''Joanna Lumley's Nile'' and ''Martin Clunes' Islands of Britain''. On 1 November 2022, in the lead up to the launch of ITVX and as part of the 18th anniversary of ITV3 and 17th anniversary of ITV4, the encryption was dropped on ITV3 HD at around 11 am that day and so became free to air. Later that day,

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data had been added to ITV3 HD, indicating that the channel will be made available on Freesat soon. On 8 November 2022 the HD version replaced the SD version on Freesat channel 115.

Branding

2013 rebranding

In line with the corporate rebranding of ITV, ITV3 received a new look on 14 January 2013. The channel was described as the "keeper of ITV's treasured and timeless drama", with a new "midnight blue" logo and idents that feature stories told in shadow-puppet style animation inside glass bell jars.

2022 rebranding

In line with the launch of the streaming service

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, ITV3 received another new look on 15 November 2022. The logo is now coloured purple and uses idents that are cross-used across ITV1, ITV2, ITV4, and ITVBe with different views which reflect the channel's image and programming output.

Viewership and programming

The channel is mainly aimed at the over-35 audience, and its output consists of reruns of older ITV drama series, soap operas and sitcoms. The channel also broadcasts documentaries including programmes from Martin Clunes, Paul O'Grady and Food Travel show, World Kitchen. Between 2008 and 2012 in the daytime. ITV3 broadcast repeats of reality programmes which were originally broadcast on

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. The channel broadcast Daily Cooks Challenge in the afternoons between 2008-2012. In 2012, ITV3 broadcast both Countrywise and Countrywise Kitchen but it was only in January and April. During the

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, ITV3 broadcast some of the matches while ITV1 and ITV4 were showing live European football matches which were being played at the same time and in the days when ITV4 was an evenings-only service, ITV3 broadcast live weekend coverage of the

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as well as the

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, and more recently, the ITV Racing. In 2021, ITV3 broadcast the French Open Tennis while ITV4 shown

and while ITV4 shows EFL Highlights. ITV3 broadcasts some of ITV’s

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and

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coverage.

Current programming

* ''

'' * ''

'' * '' An Audience with...'' * '' Bless This House'' * '' The Bay'' * '' Beecham House'' * '' Blue Murder'' * '' Classic Coronation Street'' * '' Classic Emmerdale'' * '' Cracker'' * '' The Darling Buds of May'' * '' DCI Banks'' * '' Doc Martin'' * ''

Downton Abbey ''Downton Abbey'' is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. It first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV (TV network), ITV on 26 September 2010 and in the United St ...

'' * '' The Durrells'' * '' Emmerdale Omnibus'' * '' Endeavour'' * '' Foyle's War'' * '' George and Mildred'' * '' The Good Karma Hospital'' * ''

Grantchester Grantchester () is a village and civil parish on the River Cam or Granta (river), Granta in South Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about south of Cambridge. Name The village of Grantchester is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as ''Granteset ...

'' * '' Heartbeat'' * ''

'' * '' Inspector Wexford'' * '' ITV Racing'' * '' Kate & Koji'' * '' Ladies of Letters'' * '' The Larkins'' * '' Law & Order UK'' * '' Lewis'' * '' Little Boy Blue'' * '' The Loch'' * '' Long Lost Family'' * '' Love Your Garden'' * '' Man About the House'' * '' Maigret'' * '' Marcella'' * ''

Midsomer Murders ''Midsomer Murders'' is a British Mystery fiction, mystery television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the ''Chief Inspector Barnaby'' book series created by Caroline Graham (writer), Caroline Graham. ...

'' * '' Mr. Bean:'' * '' Never the Twain'' * '' On the Buses'' (Series 3–7 only) * '' Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans'' * '' Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs'' * '' Prime Suspect'' * '' Rising Damp'' * '' Road to Avonlea'' * '' Rosemary & Thyme'' * ''

The Royal ''The Royal'' is a British period medical drama, produced by Yorkshire Television (later part of ITV Studios), and broadcast on ITV from 2003 until its cancellation in 2011. The series is set in the 1960s and focuses on the lives of the st ...

'' * '' The Ruth Rendell Mysteries'' * '' Scott & Bailey'' * '' That's My Boy'' * '' Sunday Night at the London Palladium'' * '' Tonight at the London Palladium'' * '' A Touch of Frost'' * '' Trial & Retribution'' * '' Unforgotten'' * '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' * ''

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'' * '' Victoria'' * '' Where the Heart Is'' * '' Wild at Heart'' * '' Wire in the Blood'' * '' Wycliffe''

Former programming

* ''

'' (now on

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) * '' Born and Bred'' * '' Cadfael'' (now on ITV4) * '' Case Sensitive'' * '' Clocking Off'' (now on

) * ''

'' (now on

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) * '' Countrywise'' * '' Daily Cooks Challenge'' * ''Dancing On Ice Live Tour 2012'' * ''

Dempsey and Makepeace ''Dempsey and Makepeace'' is a British television crime drama made by LWT for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. Lead roles were played by Michael Brandon (Lieutenant Dempsey) and Glynis Barber (Sergeant Makepeace), who got married ...

'' (now on ITV4) * '' Dickinson's Real Deal'' * '' Dragnet'' * ''Drama Trails'' * '' Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'' * '' Due South'' (now on Great! TV) * '' Duty Free'' * ''Film File'' * '' French Fields'' * '' Fresh Fields'' * '' Goodnight Sweetheart'' * ''Grandma Jane's Garden Adventures'' (now on ITV4) * ''

Hamish Macbeth Hamish Macbeth is the police constable of the fictional Scottish Highlands, Scottish Highland town of Lochdubh, in a series of murder mystery novels created by M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney). Considered by many to be a useless, lazy moocher, M ...

'' * '' Home to Roost'' * '' Hornblower'' (now on ITV4) * ''

The House of Eliott ''The House of Eliott'' is a British television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 31 August 1991 and 6 March 1994. The series starred Stella Gonet as Beatrice Eliott and Louise Lombard as Evangeline Eliott, two s ...

'' (now on

) * '' In Loving Memory'' * '' Ironside'' (now on ITV4) * '' Kate Garraway's Life Stories (Formerly Piers Morgan’s Life Stories)'' * ''

'' (now on ITV4) * '' The Lakes'' * '' Liverpool 1'' * ''

Lovejoy ''Lovejoy'' is a British television comedy-drama mystery fiction, mystery series, based on the Lovejoy (novel series), novels by John Grant (Lovejoy), John Grant under the pen name Jonathan Gash. The show, which ran to 71 episodes over six ser ...

'' (now on

) * '' May the Best House Win'' * '' Monarch of the Glen'' (now on

) * ''Movies Now'' * '' Murder in Suburbia'' * ''

Murder, She Wrote ''Murder, She Wrote'' is an American crime drama television series, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson and William Link, starring Angela Lansbury, and produced and distributed by Universal Television for the CBS network. The series f ...

'' (now on Great! TV) * '' Only When I Laugh'' (now on ITV4) * '' Peak Practice'' (now on

) * ''

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'' * '' Pie in the Sky'' (now on

) * ''

The Practice ''The Practice'' is an American legal drama television series created by David E. Kelley centering on partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The show ran for eight seasons on ABC, from March 4, 1997, to May 16, 2004. It won an Emmy i ...

'' * ''

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'' * '' Quincy, M.E.'' * ''

'' (now on

and

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) * '' Robin of Sherwood'' (now on ITV4) * ''

Rumpole of the Bailey ''Rumpole of the Bailey'' is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, a middle-aged London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, ...

'' (now on

) * '' Second Thoughts'' * ''

'' (now on ITV4) * ''

Taggart ''Taggart'' is a Scottish detective fiction television programme created by Glenn Chandler, who wrote many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV network. It originally ran as the miniseries ''Killer'' from 6 until 20 Septe ...

'' (now on

) * '' Tales of the Unexpected'' (now on

Sky Arts Sky Arts (originally launched as Artsworld) is a British free-to-air television channel offering 24 hours a day of programmes dedicated to highbrow arts, including theatrical performances, films, documentaries and music (such as opera perfor ...

) * '' Terry and June'' * '' The South Bank Show'' * ''

The Two Ronnies ''The Two Ronnies'' is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC1 from 10 April 1971 to 25 December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo se ...

'' * ''

Whitechapel Whitechapel () is an area in London, England, and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is in east London and part of the East End of London, East End. It is the location of Tower Hamlets Town Hall and therefore the borough tow ...

'' (now on

) * ''World Kitchen''

Most watched programmes

The following is a list of the ten most watched broadcasts on ITV3 since launch, based on Live +7 data supplied by

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Former logos

File:ITV3logo2004.svg, First logo used from 1 November 2004 to 15 January 2006 File:ITV3.svg, Second logo used from 16 January 2006 to 13 January 2013 File:ITV3 logo 2013.svg, Third logo used from 14 January 2013 to 14 November 2022

References

External links

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