ITV3 is a British

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channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of

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. The channel was first launched on Monday 1 November 2004 at 9pm, replacing Plus (Granada). 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 known for repeats of ITV dramas, and including sequential reruns of '' Agatha Christie's Poirot'', '' Classic Coronation Street'', '' Classic Emmerdale'', ''

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'', '' Inspector Morse'' and '' A Touch of Frost'', amongst others.

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

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, and ceased broadcasting the

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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 breakfast, until ITV launched two channels in 2014, ITVBe and ITV Encore. The channel had been available from launch on UPC Ireland, but was withdrawn on 22 March 2006.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

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. 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

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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.

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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'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford. Origi ...

'' 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 10:00pm-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 ''

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'' which was re-transmitted after a repeat of ''

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''. On 18 April 2022 Easter Monday, at 10:25am until 2:35pm. Eight special ''Coronation Street'' episodes featuring

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, 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 Hoilday'' 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'' 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''. On 7 October 2022, the ITV3 Facebook account is due to be replaced by a new ITVX Facebook page in order to streamline the ITV channels for an upcoming rebrand.

Crime Thriller Awards

The

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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

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Daggers.

Subsidiary channels

ITV3 +1

ITV launched a one-hour timeshift channel of ITV3 on Monday 30 October 2006, it was allocated channel number 213 on Sky. This is now used by Channel W. 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

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. The channel launched on Freeview on 15 October 2013 using downtime from ITV-owned shopping channel

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. Initially on Freeview, ITV3 +1 broadcast from 01:00 till 06:00 – these hours were extended and brought forward in February 2014, now airing from 18:00 till 00:00 in the higher EPG slot of channel 34. On 25 August 2015, ITV3 +1 extended its hours on Freeview to 18:00 till 06:00 and then in March 2016 it went back to closing at midnight. Due to the launch of new channel Merit, ITV3 +1 moved to channel 58 on Freeview swapping with ITVBe +1 which moved to channel 97.

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'' and ''

Agatha Christie's Marple ''Agatha Christie's Marple'' (or simply ''Marple'') is a British ITV (TV network), ITV television programme loosely based on the books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The title character was played by Geraldine McEw ...

'' 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 11am that day and so became free to air. Later that day, Freesat 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 ITVX, ITV3 received a new look on 15 November 2022. The logo is coloured purple and uses idents that were cross-used across ITV1, ITV2, ITV4, and ITVBe with different elements added into the same scene.

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. During the

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, ITV3 broadcast some of the matches while ITV1 (now ITV) and ITV4 were showing live European football matches which were being played at the same time and in the days when

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was an evenings only service, ITV3 broadcast live weekend coverage of the

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, and more recently, the

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Current programming

* ''

'' * '' Agatha Christie's Poirot'' * '' An Audience with...'' * '' Bless This House'' * '' The Bay'' * '' Beecham House'' * '' Blue Murder'' * '' Classic Coronation Street'' * '' Classic Emmerdale'' * ''

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'' * '' The Darling Buds Of May'' * '' DCI Banks'' * ''

Doc Martin ''Doc Martin'' is a British medical comedy drama television series starring Martin Clunes as Doctor Martin Ellingham. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film '' Saving Grace''. The ...

'' * '' Downton Abbey'' * '' The Durrells'' * '' Emmerdale Omnibus'' * ''

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'' * ''

Foyle's War ''Foyle's War'' is a British detective fiction, detective drama television series set during and shortly after the Second World War, created by ''Midsomer Murders'' screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV (TV network), ...

'' * '' George and Mildred'' * ''

The Good Karma Hospital ''The Good Karma Hospital'' is a medical drama series produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for ITV about a disillusioned doctor, Ruby Walker, who travels to South India hoping to make a fresh start. It stars Amanda Redman, Amrita Acharia, Jame ...

'' * '' Grantchester'' * ''

'' * '' Inspector Morse'' * ''

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'' * '' Kate & Koji'' * ''

Ladies of Letters ''Ladies of Letters'' is a comedy series that ran for 13 years on BBC Radio 4; based on the series of books of the same name written by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield, and starring Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. Routledge stars as Vera ...

'' * '' The Larkins'' * ''

Law & Order UK ''Law & Order: UK'' is a British police procedural and legal television programme broadcast from 2009 to 2014 on ITV, adapted from the American series '' Law & Order''. Financed by the production companies Kudos Film and Television, Wolf Fi ...

'' * '' Lewis'' * ''

Little Boy Blue "Little Boy Blue" is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 11318. Lyrics A common version of the rhyme is: Little Boy Blue, Come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, The cow's in the corn. Where is ...

'' * '' The Loch'' * '' Long Lost Family'' * ''

Love Your Garden ''Love Your Garden'' is a British lifestyle gardening programme that was first broadcast on ITV on 10 June 2011. The show is hosted by Alan Titchmarsh alongside co-presenters David Domoney David Martin Domoney, C Hort. FCI Hort (born 26 Ma ...

'' * '' Man About the House'' * '' Maigret'' * '' Marcella'' * ''

Midsomer Murders ''Midsomer Murders'' is a British crime drama television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from the novels in the '' Chief Inspector Barnaby'' book series (created by Caroline Graham), and broadcast on two channels of I ...

'' * '' On the Buses'' (Series 3–7 only) * ''

Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans ''Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans'' is a British documentary series which sees presenter Paul O'Grady travel to South Africa, Zambia and Borneo, meeting some of the animals that have been orphaned in the wild. The first series aired from 14–28 ...

'' * '' Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs'' * '' Rising Damp'' * ''

Road to Avonlea ''Road to Avonlea'' is a Canadian television series first broadcast in Canada between January 7, 1990, and March 31, 1996, as part of the ''CBC Family Hour'' anthology series, and in the United States starting on March 5, 1990. It was created b ...

'' * ''

Rosemary & Thyme ''Rosemary & Thyme'' is a British television cosy mystery thriller series starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003. The third series ended in August 2007. T ...

'' * '' The Royal'' * '' The Ruth Rendell Mysteries'' * '' Scott & Bailey'' * '' That's My Boy'' * '' Sunday Night at the London Palladium'' * ''

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'' * '' A Touch of Frost'' * '' Unforgotten'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * '' Victoria'' * '' Wild at Heart'' * '' Wire in the Blood'' * ''

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Former programming

* '' Anna Lee'' * ''

The Bill ''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 August 1983 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, '' Woodentop'', broadcast in August 1983. The programme focused on ...

'' (now on

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and W) * '' Born and Bred'' (now on

) * '' Cadfael'' (now on

) * ''

Clocking Off ''Clocking Off'' is a British television drama series which was broadcast on BBC One for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott. It was effectively an ant ...

'' * '' Crossing Jordan'' * ''

Columbo ''Columbo'' () is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC f ...

'' (now on

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) * '' The Commander'' * ''

Daily Cooks Challenge ''...Cooks!'' is an ITV television cookery show, hosted by Antony Worrall Thompson, broadcast on the ITV networks between 10 June 2006 to 21 May 2010. Formats There were different names for the show, depending on which day it aired. The Satur ...

'' * ''

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 (Detective Makepeace), who later married e ...

'' (now on

) * '' Dragnet'' * ''

Dickinson's Real Deal ''Dickinson's Real Deal'' is a UK modern antiques and collectables television programme that is broadcast on ITV and presented by David Dickinson. A US version of the show, produced by Zodiak USA and titled simply '' Real Deal'', was aired f ...

'' (now on ITV1) * ''

Due South ''Due South'' is a Canadian crime comedy-drama television series created by Paul Haggis, and produced by Alliance Communications from its premiere on April 26, 1994, to its conclusion after four seasons on March 14, 1999. The series starred Pau ...

'' * ''

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'' * ''

French Fields ''French Fields'' is a British television sitcom. It is a sequel/continuation of the series ''Fresh Fields'' and ran for 19 episodes from 5 September 1989 to 8 October 1991. It was written by John T. Chapman (who created and wrote all the episo ...

'' (now on

) * '' Fresh Fields'' (now on

) * '' Goodnight Sweetheart'' (now on

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) * '' Grandma Jane's Garden Adventures'' (now on

) * ''

Home to Roost ''Home to Roost'' is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television between 19 April 1985 and 19 January 1990. Written by Eric Chappell, it stars John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his teenaged son Matthew. The premise is that ...

'' * '' Hornblower'' (shown on

) * '' The House of Eliott'' (now on

) * ''

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'' * '' Ironside'' * '' Kojak'' (now on

) * ''

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'' * '' The Lakes'' * '' Liverpool 1'' * ''

Lovejoy ''Lovejoy'' is a British television comedy-drama mystery series, based on the novels by John Grant under the pen name Jonathan Gash. The show, which ran to 71 episodes over six series, was originally broadcast on BBC1 between 10 January 19 ...

'' (now on

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

) * '' Murder in Suburbia'' * ''

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'' (now on

and

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) * ''

My Wife and Kids ''My Wife and Kids'' is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from March 28, 2001, to May 17, 2005. The series was produced by Touchstone Television. It starred Damon Wayans as Michael Kyle, the patriarch of an African-American family. Wayans and ve ...

'' * '' Never the Twain'' * '' Only When I Laugh'' (now on

) * ''

Peak Practice ''Peak Practice'' is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale—a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District—and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most ...

'' (now on

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

) * ''

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'' * '' Prime Suspect'' * '' Quantum Leap'' * ''

'' (now on

and Alibi) * ''

Robin of Sherwood ''Robin of Sherwood'' is a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 28 April 1984 to 28 June 1986 on the ITV network. In the ...

'' (now on

) * ''

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, o ...

'' (now on

) * '' Second Thoughts'' * ''

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'' (now on

) * ''

Space Precinct ''Space Precinct'' is a British television series that was first broadcast from 1994 to 1995 on Sky One and later on BBC Two from 1995 to 1996 in the UK, and in first-run syndication in the United States. Many US stations scheduled the show in ...

'' (now on ITV4) * '' Taggart'' (now on

) * '' Tales of the Unexpected'' (now on Sky Arts) * '' 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 April 1971 to December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo sections, seria ...

'' (now on

and Yesterday) * ''

Trial and Retribution ''Trial & Retribution'' is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that first aired on 19 October 1997. Written and devised by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series ''Prime Suspect'', each ep ...

'' (now on

) * ''

'' (now on ITV1) * ''

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'' * '' Where the Heart Is'' (now on

) * '' Whitechapel'' (now on

) * '' Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' (now on

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)

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 BARB.

Former on-air identity

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References

External links

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