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Really is a British free-to-air
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broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Ireland, currently owned by
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. The channel launched on 19 May 2009 as
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's channel for female audiences. The channel shows a mixture of lifestyle, medical, real life, crime and paranormal programming. It is available on satellite through
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and
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, cable through
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and also on digital terrestrial provider
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.


History

The channel was launched on 19 May 2009 at 9am as part of the major rebranding and repositioning of the UKTV network. The new channel was created to provide fashion, medical, real life, and crime programming on the UKTV network, by airing programming previously aired on
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. As part of the repositioning of UKTV Style to
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, this channel would focus primarily on home and garden programming. As part of this,
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was closed, with programmes merged with Home. The new channel Really would launch from UKTV Gardens' broadcast slot and would replace the channel on that service. Responsible for launching Really would be the channel head: Clare Laycock since July 2008. The channel was originally available only on satellite and cable services, however on 14 June 2011, UKTV announced that Really would launch on
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channel 20 on 2 August 2011. The channel, along with
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, were added to Virgin Media in Ireland on September 2018. On 1 April 2019, it was announced that UKTV co-owner
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would acquire the BBC's stake in Really.


Identity

Really's identity originally centred on a pop art style cartoon of women in various situations which as the ident goes on resolves itself into an unusual outcome. At this outcome, the characters are shown with speech bubbles containing the Really logo, which then forms into the centre of the screen. Really used a generic promotion layout, consisting of the logo starting off the promotion before being located in the bottom right corner of the screen throughout before forming in the centre of the screen, alongside one of the ident characters, at the end. Really received a new look on 15 May 2013, created by
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, along with a new slogan 'Really gets you'. On 31 March 2016, Really received new idents. This time, the screen is split into two at a 45-degree angle, and that 2 objects come together to form one, these idents are similar to the launch of the UKTV network in 1997. For example, a rose and a hypodermic needle, a camera and a bank safe and X-ray and ink. On May 29, 2017, Really received another new identity. In January 2021, Really introduced a new set of idents whilst retaining the old logo.


Programming

The majority of Really's programmes came from the programme archives of the
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, through their once part ownership of UKTV. Due to a similar remit between the two channels, Really re-broadcasts many programmes previously shown on the channel
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, and a few from BBC One, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. The channel also has UK exclusive airings of the US shows ''
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'' and ''
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''. Since the channel began airing in 2009, Medicals Real Life and Crimes on 7 September 2009 Most Haunted Live! 2015 remains the most watched programme in the channel's history. The episode featured a paranormal investigation at '30 East Drive'. Really's current schedule of programmes include: *'' 10 Years Younger'' *''
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'' *'' A Place in the Sun'' *''
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'' *'' Being Human'' – (Series 1) *''
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Boston Med ''Boston Med'' is an eight-part documentary television series that premiered on ABC in the United States on June 24, 2010. It follows the stories of doctors, nurses, patients and their families at Mass General, Brigham and Women's and Children' ...
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The Clothes Show ''The Clothes Show'' is a British television show about fashion that was broadcast on BBC One from 1986 to 2000, and from 2006 on UKTV Style and Really. At its height, ''The Clothes Show'' had around 9 million viewers every Sunday night. It al ...
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'' *'' Don't Tell the Bride'' *''
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'' *'' Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'' *'' Final Witness'' *''
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'' *'' Ghost Hunters'' *'' Ghost Nation'' *''
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'' – (Series 1 and 2) *''
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'' *'' Haunting: Australia'' *''
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'' *''I Survived Evil'' *''Kill It, Cook It, Eat It'' *''
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'' *'' Missing Persons Unit'' *''
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'' *'' What Not to Wear''


Medical programming

*''City Hospital'' *''Doctors at Large'' *''Doctors to Be'' *''Medical Emergency '' *''Medics of the Glen'' *''Trauma'' *''Your Life in their Hands''


Real life programming

*''999'' *''999 Lifesavers'' *''Accident and Emergency '' *''Ambulance '' *''Lifeboat Rescue '' *''Rescue Heroes ''


Crime programming

*''Autopsy'' *''Blues and Twos'' *''Catching the Killers'' *''Chopper Coppers'' *''Cops'' *''Crimes and Firelines'' *''Crime Pursuits '' *''Crime Squad'' *''Forensic Fles'' *''Global Cops'' *''Inside the Criminal Mind'' *''Killer Cult'' *''Mind of the Murderers *''Raw Blues'' *''Scenes of Crime'' *''Serial Killers '' *''Traffic Cops''


See also

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UKTV UKTV Media Limited, simply known as UKTV, is a British multi-channel broadcaster, which, since 2019, has been wholly owned by BBC Studios (formerly BBC Worldwide), a commercial subsidiary of the BBC. It was formed on 1 November 1992 through ...
*
Television in the United Kingdom Regular television broadcasts in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the Mechanical television#Television demonstrations, first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926 ...


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