Sky Real Lives was an in-house channel from British Sky Broadcasting that showed extensive programmes about travel, adverts for travel agencies and documentaries. The channels closed on 19 August 2010.

History

Sky Real Lives first launched as Sky Travel on 3 October 1994, and became part of the Sky Multichannels package. It originally broadcast between Monday and Thursday between midday and midnight and on Friday between 12pm and 6pm The new channel focused on programmes with a human interest story and was targeted more at women in the 35–54 age range.

Sky's managing director of entertainment Sophie Turner Laing said it seems that the channel would be given a "whole new makeover" that would make it more entertainment oriented. On 7 November, the following channels were changed:

Sky Travel was renamed as Sky Real Lives, Sky Travel +1 was renamed Sky Real Lives +1, Sky Travel Extra renamed to Sky Real Lives 2, and Sky Travel Shop was also renamed to Sky Travel. Sky Real Lives, Sky Real Lives 2, Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 2 were launched on UPC Ireland, before being removed on 8 December 2008.

Closure

On 16 June 2010, it was announced that Sky Real Lives, and its portfolio of channels would close on 19 August 2010, with the channels budget shifting to Sky1 and Sky2.

Sky Real Lives closed at midnight at 00:30am on 19 August 2010.

Programming

  • 24 Hours in Soho
  • Airline
  • Air Rage
  • A Life Without Pain
  • America's Fattest City
  • A Mother Like Alex
  • Babies At Risk
  • Baby Race
  • Bad Behaviour
  • Beat the Bailiff
  • The Biggest Loser
  • Bombs, Brits and Cheerleaders
  • Brain Doctors
  • Club Reps
  • Coach Trip
  • Crime Scene
  • Crippendales
  • Customs UK
  • Dying to Be Apart
  • Extreme Lives
  • Grimebusters Series 1: 2007 6x24' Series 2: 2008 10x24'
  • HD Short Films
  • Holiday Airline
  • How Long Will You Live?
  • Ian Wright's Unfit Kids
  • Intervention
  • Jodie Kidd's Fashion Avenue
  • The Lion Man
  • London Ambulance Series 1: 2007 6x24' Series 2: 2008 6x24'
  • Love Behind Bars
  • Luton Airport
  • Masterminds
  • Petnapped
  • Phobia
  • Polygamous Wives
  • Psychic Detectives
  • Quintuplets
  • Real A&E
  • Redcoats
  • Real Life Stories
  • Risky Business
  • Searching For My Son
  • Secrets Revealed - DNA Stories
  • Sky Travel
  • Suicide In The Air
  • Swapped Children
  • Taken Away
  • Teenage Gamblers
  • Terry Gee: Living With HIV
  • The Clinic
  • The Filth Files
  • The Little Couple
  • The Man Who Faked His Life
  • The Zoo UK
  • Ultra Tall: Jabe Babe
  • Vanity Insanity
  • Vain Men
  • Wakey Wakey Campers
  • Wildlife Detectives
  • Women Behind Bars
  • X-Weighted
  • Zoo Story
  • Zoo Vets at Large

Sky Real Lives HD

A high-definition version of the channel was launched on Sky+ HD on 20 October 2008, on channel 278.

References

  • Sky Real Lives at Sky.com
  • Sky Travel at Sky.com