UKTV Bright Ideas

UKTV Bright Ideas was a digital television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom, which was part of the UKTV family of channels. The channel broadcast a variety of programmes, often originally aired on UKTV Style, UKTV Food and UKTV Gardens, and are thus mainly cookery, DIY and gardening. However, in January 2005, it began showing programmes branded by UKTV Sport, presumably to increase potential audience figures by extending the programme to Freeview viewers.

History
The channel was launched on 15 January 2003 as UK Bright Ideas, initially for the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform, but later expanded to other platforms. Along with the rest of the UKTV network, the "UK" prefix was changed to "UKTV" on 8 March 2004 and it became UKTV Bright Ideas. It timeshared with Ftn, which has since been closed down and replaced with Virgin1 on 1 October 2007.

The channel was available on digital terrestrial television (Freeview), Sky Digital and Virgin Media.

In September 2007 UKTV announced that UKTV Bright Ideas, which only averaged 0.1% of the audience share, would be replaced on Freeview by Dave, as of 15 October.

UKTV Bright Ideas ceased broadcasting on all platforms on 14 October 2007 at 6pm.

Programming

 * Tuscany to Go - Now Shown On Good Food
 * A House in Florida - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * Antiques Roadshow - Now Shown On Yesterday (TV channel)
 * My Favourite Garden - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * Model Gardens - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * Ready Steady Cook - Now Shown On Good Food
 * The Thai Way - Now Shown On Good Food
 * Great Food Live - Now Shown On Good Food
 * Food Uncut - Now Shown On Good Food
 * Design ER - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * House Chain: Under Offer - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * Perfect Properties - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * James Martin Digs Deep - Now Shown On Good Food
 * Ching's Kitchen - Now Shown On Good Food
 * Heaven's Kitchen at Large - Now Shown On Good Food
 * Safari Chef with Mike Robinson - Now Shown On Good Food
 * House in Spain - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * Fly to Buy - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * Garden Rivals - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * Summer Live - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)
 * Worrall Thompson
 * Our House - Now Shown On Home (TV channel)