Trivia / UKTV

• Adored by the Network: Practically all their channels are/were guilty of this:
  • Gold: Only Fools and Horses, Last of the Summer Wine, Are You Being Served?, Hi-de-Hi! and Dinnerladies.
  • Dave: Pretty much any BBC panel show, especially QI and Mock the Week. Also, a lot of motoring-related shows (well, mostly Top Gear), which probably explains all the motoring brands sponsoring the channel.
  • Alibi: Currently Midsomer Murders, previously Castle and Rizzoli & Isles.
  • Eden: Anything David Attenborough has made for the BBC since the 2000s.
  • Yesterday: Documentaries covering British history or ones about World War II, especially those from a British perspective.
  • Drama: As Time Goes By, Birds of a Feather, Catherine Cookson adaptations, reruns of older EastEnders episodes.
  • W: Tipping Point, Gavin & Stacey, One Born Every Minute, Louis Theroux documentaries.
  • Good Food: Showed a lot of Rick Stein, the Hairy Bikers and Jamie Oliver over the years.
  • Home: A Place in the Sun.
• The Merch: To promote the launch of UK Style Gardens in 2005, UKTV issued a collection of garden gnomes modeled after notorious political figures of the time such as Tony Blair, Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy, as well as a Scottish gnome sipping from a ginger beer. This followed a survey that one in ten British households still owned garden gnomes.
• No Export for You: UKTV Play cannot be watched from outside of the UK or Ireland.
• Screwed by the Network: For nearly three weeks in the summer of 2018, UKTV's channels were unavailable on Virgin Media due to a carriage dispute and the lack of on-demand content from the BBC. Neither party could agree terms and the channels left the platform just after midnight on 22 July 2018. However, UKTV's channels eventually returned to Virgin on 11 August 2018.
• What Could Have Been: The BBC and Flextech were proposing a TV version of BBC Radio 1 called OneTV to be part of the initial UKTV lineup but it didn't launch (presumbably due to the argument between the BBC and Flextech regarding advertising on UKTV). Play UK functioned as a Spiritual Successor to OneTV during its brief life.
  • Flextech's UK Living could've been part of UKTV at launch. However, it was felt that the female-oriented light entertainment channel would overlap in its remit with the lifestyle-themed UK Style, so UK Living was left behind at Flextech and dropped the UK from its name, becoming Living.
  • The fact that the channels could've all been BBC-branded and advert-free also counts as this trope.

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