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| Broadcast area | United Kingdom |
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| Programming | |
| Picture format | 576i16:9SDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | AMC Networks International Paramount Networks UK & Australia |
| Parent | CBS AMC Networks UK Channels Partnership |
| Sister channels | |
| History | |
| Launched | 16 November 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-16) |
| Replaced | Zone Romantica (Europe) Zone Club (Poland) |
| Former names | CBS Drama (2009–2022) RealityXtra (2022–2023) |
| Links | |
| Website | realityxtra.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview(UK) | Channel 68 |
| Streaming media | |
| Virgin TV Anywhere | Watch live (UK only) |
True Crime Xtra (Styled asTRUE CRIME XTRA, formerly known asCBS Drama andRealityXtra) is a Britishfree-to-air television channel that centres its programming on American television shows produced byCBS. It is the sister channel ofTrue Crime and is owned in partnership byAMC Networks andParamount Networks.
On 14 September 2009, it was revealed that the international arm ofCBS,CBS Studios International, struck a joint venture deal with Chellomedia to launch six CBS-branded channels in the UK during 2009. The new channels would replaceZone Romantica,Zone Thriller,Zone Horror andZone Reality, plus timeshift services Zone Horror +1 and Zone Reality +1.[1][2] On 1 October 2009, it was announced thatCBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, CBS Drama andCBS Action would launch on 16 November 2009 replacing Zone Reality, Zone Reality +1, Zone Romantica and Zone Thriller. On 5 April 2010, Zone Horror and Zone Horror +1 were rebranded byHorror Channel and Horror Channel +1, following the rebrand of the portfolio's other three channels in November 2009.[3]
On 1 August 2012 Chellomedia revealed that all European versions of the Zone Channels would be rebranded into CBS Channels.[4] CBS Drama replacedZone Romantica on 3 December 2012 (in Poland replacedZone Club).[5]
CBS Reality launched onFreeview on 1 April 2014 followed by CBS Action on 1 October 2014 and as of July 2014, CBS Reality +1, CBS Action, CBS Drama & Horror Channel are available on theYouView platform as part ofTalkTalk TV's Entertainment Boost, but were removed from the EPG on 2 June 2015.
CBS Drama closed in Poland on 31 December 2016 Due To Low Audience.[6] It had broadcast UK shows such asBad Girls,Waterloo Road andFootballers Wives, American shows such asDallas,Beverly Hills, 90210,CSI andKnots Landing, as well as Australian shows such asReturn To Eden andBondi Rescue.
On 30 June 2022, the British arm of the AMC-Paramount partnership revised its channel line-up with all CBS branding, with the exception of CBS Reality, being dropped and new channel Legend taking CBS Justice's slot and Horror's programming. In the reshuffle, CBS Drama was renamed Reality Xtra, becoming a sister channel to the current (CBS) Reality channel.[7]
With the rebrand and reshuffle of channels, RealityXtra changed frequencies on Freeview and became a limited-reach channel for viewers who could receive the range of Local channels on channel 7 or 8.[8][9]
On 22 November 2023, RealityXtra rebranded asTrue Crime Xtra to be more in-line with the True Crime brand.
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| Broadcast area | United Kingdom |
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| Programming | |
| Picture format | 576i16:9SDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | |
| History | |
| Launched | 26 October 2022; 3 years ago (2022-10-26) |
| Closed | 26 April 2023; 2 years ago (2023-04-26) |
| Replaced by | HorrorXtra |
| Links | |
| Website | realityxtra.co.uk |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview(UK) | Channel 69 |
RealityXtra2 was a short-lived sister channel to RealityXtra exclusively broadcast on Freeview, deemed[10] to be a placeholder channel so AMC Networks could utilize the space for another network.[10] Unlike the main RealityXtra channel, RealityXtra2 is not available onFreesat,Sky andVirgin Media.
The channel launched on 26 October 2022, on Freeview channel 69.[11] with the channel only broadcasting two episodes ofDonal MacIntyre's Murder Files from 12:00am until 2:00am. The channel used CBS Justice'son-screen bug from 26 October until 11 November) but with thechannel ident used on-air.[12] and eventually changed to the standard RealityXtra bug.
The channel hours were changed to 3:00am to 5:00am by 2023, with the channel showing random episodes ofThe Fugitive[13] andWritten In Blood[14]
On 24 April 2023, it was announced that RealityXtra2 would be replaced withHorrorXtra, and that the channel space would gain full daytime hours in the process. RealityXtra2 closed on 26 April, and HorrorXtra launched on the same day.[15]
