Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a subscription digital television channel featuring classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. film libraries, which include many MGM, United Artists, RKO and Warner Bros. titles. This version of the channel is available in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Africa, Middle-East with relevant subtitles and localised advertising.

History
TCM was launched in 1999, when its predecessor, TNT, dropped its film programming to become a general entertainment channel. Its penetration increased when it took over TNT's space on various platforms on 1 July 2000. Unlike other versions of TCM and the other Turner channels in the UK, TCM UK was for a long time broadcast free-to-air. The channel became encrypted in January 2004 when it joined Sky's subscription packages. In 2009, TCM received a graphical makeover and a new logo in an attempt to attract a younger audience. With the makeover several new films were added to the channel's catalogue.

A high definition version of the channel launched on 4 September 2012, at the same time the standard definition version began broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen. A one hour timeshift, TCM +1, launched on 13 August 2013, replacing TCM 2.

Television series

 * Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)|Band of Brothers
 * Deadwood (TV series)|Deadwood
 * Gunsmoke
 * The Pillars of the Earth (TV miniseries)|The Pillars of the Earth
 * Rome (TV series)|Rome
 * The Thorn Birds (TV miniseries)|The Thorn Birds
 * Hell on Wheels (TV series)|Hell on Wheels

TNT UK
TNT UK was launched on 17 September 1993 along with Cartoon Network UK. The two channels shared the same transponder with Cartoon Network broadcasting during the day with TNT taking over for the evening and overnight period.

Initially TNT was on air from 7pm until 5am although later TNT's start time was pushed back to 9pm. In the early years TNT was primarily a movie channel although the final year saw the channel move to a general entertainment schedule until TNT (UK) was replaced by TCM on 1 July 2000. Its old slogan was "Classic Movies".

World Championship Wrestling launched on TNT (UK) in April 1996 with WCW Monday Nitro. On 9 October 1998 WCW Thunder was added. Both aired in a 9:00pm to 12:30am (variant) block starting with the debut of Thunder. When TNT (UK) was closed down, WCW programming was briefly moved over to TCM and then Bravo. Trailers aired on TCM informing viewers of the change.

WCW Nitro
 * 1996 to 1997 - Friday Nights - 9:00pm - 10:00pm
 * 1997 to 1998 - Friday Nights - 9:00pm - 11:00pm
 * 1998 to 2000 - Friday Nights - 9:00pm - 11:35pm
 * 2000 - Friday Nights - 9:00pm - 11:00pm (WCW Nitro then changed to Bravo in 2000, on Thursday Nights - 9:00pm - 11:00pm, until March 2001, when WCW was purchased by WWE. WCW Thunder
 * 9 October 1998 to 2000 - Friday Nights - 11:35pm - 1:00am

Turner Classic Movies 2 (TCM 2)
Turner Classic Movies 2 (TCM 2) was a British television channel. It was a UK-only spin-off channel from the UK version of TCM, and showed popular films from the Turner Entertainment library (which includes Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. films). Films were shown from 8:00pm to 4:00am (interspersed with various original short films about the films) from Monday-Sunday, and the following week included a new line-up. This allowed the viewer to "catch-up on the big films", thus allowing the chance to see the preferred film on any day of the week.

The channel timeshared with Cartoonito, another UK-only spin-off channel. The channel began airing Adult Swim at 10:00pm every Wednesday as of 4 January 2012.

Adult Swim
As Adult Swim shows cannot be shown late night on the UK version of Cartoon Network owing to the Ofcom broadcasting code which does not allow any kids channels to show mature content programming at anytime of the day even after the Watershed, they were shown on TCM 2 instead. They typically started at 1.15am on Saturday mornings and included shows such as:


 * Aqua Teen Hunger Force
 * Robot Chicken
 * The Venture Bros.
 * Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
 * Squidbillies