- For the Asian channel previously known as Discovery Real Time, see Discovery Turbo (Asia)
Discovery Turbo is a male oriented factual television channel devoted to programming about cars, bikes, boats, and planes. The channel is owned by Discovery Networks Europe...
.
Discovery Real Time is a factual television channel owned by
Discovery Networks EuropeDiscovery Networks EMEA was established in 1989 with the launch of the Discovery Channel for Europe.Discovery Networks EMEA is based in Chiswick, London, UK. Discovery Networks EMEA also hosts regional offices throughout Europe including Amsterdam, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Madrid, Milan,...
.
It was originally launched in the
UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
in March 1992 as
TLC, a British version of
the US channel of the same nameTLC is an American cable TV network which carries a variety of informational and reality-based programming. Since 1991 TLC has been owned by Discovery Communications, the same company that operates the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and The Science Channel, as well as other learning-themed...
. It was initially broadcast as a daytime channel from Intelsat, mostly aimed at cable systems where it would broadcast on the Discovery Channel's frequency.
When the Discovery Channel launched on Astra in July 1993, it didn't initially carry TLC in the daytime.
- For the Asian channel previously known as Discovery Real Time, see Discovery Turbo (Asia)
Discovery Turbo is a male oriented factual television channel devoted to programming about cars, bikes, boats, and planes. The channel is owned by Discovery Networks Europe...
.
Discovery Real Time is a factual television channel owned by
Discovery Networks EuropeDiscovery Networks EMEA was established in 1989 with the launch of the Discovery Channel for Europe.Discovery Networks EMEA is based in Chiswick, London, UK. Discovery Networks EMEA also hosts regional offices throughout Europe including Amsterdam, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Madrid, Milan,...
.
It was originally launched in the
UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
in March 1992 as
TLC, a British version of
the US channel of the same nameTLC is an American cable TV network which carries a variety of informational and reality-based programming. Since 1991 TLC has been owned by Discovery Communications, the same company that operates the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and The Science Channel, as well as other learning-themed...
. It was initially broadcast as a daytime channel from Intelsat, mostly aimed at cable systems where it would broadcast on the Discovery Channel's frequency.
When the Discovery Channel launched on Astra in July 1993, it didn't initially carry TLC in the daytime. From 1994 it shared a transponder on the Astra 1C satellite with the Discovery Channel, which started its broadcasts at 4 p.m. (GMT).
It was later rebranded as
Discovery Home & Leisure in April 1997.
Full day broadcasting started with the launch of Sky Digital in 1998. In May 2001, a timeshift channel called
Discovery Home & Leisure +1 launched.
The channel was relaunched under its current name on May 7, 2005 in the
UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
market. The channel is now aimed as complementing the female-skewed
Discovery Home & HealthDiscovery Home & Health is a television channel based in the United Kingdom.Discovery Home & Health is available in Australia, Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong, Philippines, Brazil New Zealand, Latin America, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.-Programming :*18 Kids and Counting*A Baby...
(which itself replaced
Discovery Health).
A sister channel called
Discovery Real Time Extra was launched in August 2005. On March 20, 2009, it was replaced with
Discovery ShedDiscovery Shed is a TV channel in the United Kingdom from Discovery Networks UK which replaced Discovery Real Time Extra. The channel launched on 20 March 2009....
.
Discovery Real Time is also available in some other regions, including
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
and
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. The channel used to be available in
AsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.Asia is traditionally defined as part of the...
, but since October 2008 it has become the
AsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.Asia is traditionally defined as part of the...
n version of
Discovery TurboDiscovery Turbo is a male oriented factual television channel devoted to programming about cars, bikes, boats, and planes. The channel is owned by Discovery Networks Europe...
.
Programming
- A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney. It tells the story of a working class young man who is entangled with two women, one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory...
- Challenge Tommy Walsh
- Don't Move, Improve
Don’t Move, Improve is a daytime programme on ITV, and is about helping homeowners realise their dream property might be nearer than they think … they might actually be living in it....
- Dream Homes
- Holmes on Homes
Holmes on Homes is a Canadian television series airing on Home & Garden Television in Canada, and also on several other Alliance Atlantis networks in Canada , as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and on HGTV in the United States Holmes on Homes is a Canadian...
- Joy of Painting
- Property Ladder
The property ladder is a term widely used in the United Kingdom to describe an individual or family's lifetime progress from cheaper to more expensive housing. According to this metaphor, cheap houses for first-time buyers are at the bottom of the property ladder, and expensive houses are at the top...
- Time Team
Time Team is a British television series shown on Channel 4 since 1994. Presented by actor Tony Robinson, a team of specialists carry out an archaeological dig in three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman’s terms....
- Wheeler Dealers
Wheeler Dealers is a television show on the Discovery network, fronted by Mike Brewer and mechanic Edd China with assistance from technical advisor Paul Brackley.There have so far been 7 series of the program. Series 1 originally aired in 2003...
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