Fox Life is an international

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network, launched by the

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in 2004. The network has been discontinued in several markets over time, except for the Middle East, Bulgaria, Portugal, the Balkans, India and Greece. The network's scheduling has varied with each version, ranging from traditional entertainment programming, including television series, sitcoms and movies, among others, original programming in certain regions, and instructional and aspirational reality television on some other variations; in North America for instance, the network carried mainly Spanish language dubbed versions of American reality shows and instructional programming. The channel has been owned by

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division of

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since March 2019.

History

Fox Life first launched in Italy on May 13, 2004, Portugal on May 19, 2005, and in

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on September 8, 2005. For Latin America, it started in July 2006, when it was launched in Brazil. The channel also has versions in other countries around Europe. It launched in the Netherlands and

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on September 7, 2008. Fox Life launched in the United States on November 4, 2013.

Flemish version

As of 22 November 2011 Fox had to change the programming for Fox Life in Flanders due to television rights issues in Belgium. From then on a separate Flemish version was airing in Belgium. It used to air the Dutch version. The provider of

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television in the Netherlands,

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, had to replace Fox Life by the Finnish version as well because it shared the Fox Life feed with the Belgium provider of

television,

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Digitaal.

Launch in Southeast Asia

On October 1, 2017, Hong Kong and Southeast Asian version of Star World was rebranded to Fox Life.

Rebranding/closing in Europe

From 22 September 2015 Fox Life has been replaced by 24Kitchen for satellite viewers in the Netherlands. The Finnish Fox Life was rebranded as Fox. Fox Networks Group Benelux announced that Fox Life would officially close in the Netherlands on December 31, 2016.

Rebranding/closing in Latin America

On 27 November 2020 Fox announced that they would be renaming the Fox branded channels in Latin America to

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on 22 February 2021. The networks closed on 31 March 2022 along with the American version.

Closing in Southeast Asia

From 1 September 2021, FOX Life along with most of The Walt Disney Company channels (

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, FX,

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, Disney Channel,

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, Star Movies China, SCM Legend, and five of its sports channels) officially ceased broadcasting and transmission on Now TV Hong Kong. After 11 years of broadcasting, FOX Life along with most of The Walt Disney Company channels across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (

, FX,

, Disney Channel,

, Star Movies China, SCM Legend, and five of its sports channels) officially ceased all operations, transmission and broadcasting on 1 October 2021 with the very final and last two (2) programs aired is '' The Good Doctor'' (

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and

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Only) and '' The Unicorn'' (Rest of

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and

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), very final and last showing a farewell then a video montage as part of the final shutdown sequence rolled showing footage of imported content programming set to Long Piao Piao's Diu Bu Le De Qing Yi. This modulated to a farewell montage with similar clips interspersed. As the final lyric of the song ricocheted on the air, the real in accelerated format before the channel ident was played for one concluding and last time, promo of In the Dark Season 3, and ceased transmission while a final farewell on-screen message card and the words "This channel is no longer available, thank you for watching." was ceased broadcasts the end. All these channels shows officially moved to

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(in Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and Disney+ Hotstar (in Southeast Asia outside Singapore and Philippines), and the channel space initially created by the original incarnation of Star Plus in 1991 subsequently folded and ceased to exist.

Closing in the United States

Notice of the discontinuation of the American iteration of Fox Life was sent to cable providers by

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in late December 2021; the channel would be discontinued on March 31, 2022.

References

External links

Fox Life official Italian website

Fox Life official Korean website
{{Philippine cable channels Television channels and stations established in 2004 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2022 Television channels in North Macedonia Disney television networks Women's interest channels Fox Networks Group Defunct television channels in the Netherlands Defunct television channels in Belgium 2016 disestablishments in the Netherlands