Bravo (UK)

Bravo is a British television channel, owned by Virgin Media Television. Its target audience is currently men in their late twenties to early forties and shows a variety of both archive programming (such as Knight Rider & MacGyver) and original productions.

It has undergone many transformations since it began broadcasting as a channel for mainly black & white programmes from the 1950s and 1960s such as The Avengers and many ITC Entertainment productions. A policy change to withdraw all of their black & white shows soon saw them move on to specialise in science fiction and horror before becoming known for showing crime documentaries by day and adult programming at night. Since then it has dropped the adult content and increased sports and imported shows like Alias. Bravo also aired World Championship Wrestling's flagship show "Nitro" during WCW's final year in business and also showed Extreme Championship Wrestling's flagship show "Hardcore TV" during ECW's final year in business. It has recently acquired exclusive rights to broadcast Total Nonstop Action wrestling on Bravo 2, with only a two day delay from the American broadcast version.^[1]

On August 28 2005, the channel started showing Serie A Italian football, bringing back the Channel 4 format Football Italia. However, poor viewing figures saw Bravo cancel first the weekly Gazetta Football Italia show, then announce it would stop showing Italian Football altogether after 23 December 2006. The channel's other highest-profile sports coverage is its exclusive UK rights to Ultimate Fighting Championship archives as well as recent events, as well as related reality TV show The Ultimate Fighter. The network airs an Adult Swim block nightly at around midnight. Recently the channel has acquired rights to show the tv spin-off, Blade: The Series.

Occasionally, mostly before Street Crime UK, the channel shows a slide with a pulsating light warning viewers that the show contains strong language. Not only does the show contain censored material, but the slide is also brought up post-watershed, in which offensive material is strictly prohibited.

Other Bravo and Bravo 2 programmes

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• Booze Britain
• Dog the Bounty Hunter
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• That 70's Show
• TNA iMPACT!

Programmes

Current

• Adult Swim
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Gamer.tv
• Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
• Moral Orel
• Spider-Man
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Street Crime UK
• Walker, Texas Ranger
• Dog the Bounty Hunter
• Cops On Camera
• World's Most Amazing Videos
• Towers Of London
• The Unit
• The PJs

Past

• Airwolf
• ALIAS
• Automan
• Battle Dome
• Beavis and Butt-head
• Cops
• Dante
• ECW on TNN
• Edgar Wallace
• Game Pad
• Hogans Heroes
• Loving You
• Saber Of London
• Real TV
• Roger Ramjet
• The Doris Day Show
• The Mod Squad
• The Persuaders!
• The Twilight Zone
• Thunderbirds (TV series)
• WCW Monday Nitro
• When Games Attack

Logos

Bravo (1990-1997)

Bravo (1997-2000)

Bravo (2000-2006)

Bravo (2006-Present)

See also

• Gamer.tv

References

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