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UKTV Gold, known as UK Gold until March 8 2004, is a British television channel, originally launched on November 1, 1992 (coincidentally, the day before Channel 4's 10th birthday) as a joint venture between Thames Television and the BBC to show their 'classic' archive programming (see: rerunRerun van Pelt is the name of Linus and Lucy's younger brother in the comic strip Peanuts''. Fred "Rerun" Stubbs was a character played by Fred Berry on the 1970s television show What's Happening! . A rerun (or sometimes, repeat is a re-airing of an episo). The channel's major drawbacks in its early years were the insensitive placement of commercial breaks in BBC shows, and the heavy-handed editing of BBC programmes to fit commercial timeslots. The channel joined SkyBritish Sky Broadcasting BSkyB formerly two companies, Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting which merged) is a company that operates the most popular subscription television service in the UK and Ireland. It also produces TV content, and TV c's basic subscription package in 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic..

UKTV Gold's programming includes such viewer favourites as:

• Absolutely FabulousAbsolutely Fabulous is a British sitcom starring Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders. The show, broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom, grew from a sketch originally written and performed for the comedy show French and Saunders which co-starred Jennif
• BergeracBergerac can refer to either the British television detective show Bergerac, set in Jersey the French commune Bergerac, in the Dordogne departement the French dramatist and biographical play of the same name, Cyrano de Bergerac.
• The BillThe Bill is a long-running British police drama shown on ITV1. It also screens in Australia and New Zealand. It is set in the Sun Hill district of the fictional London borough of Canley. The Bill is somewhat unique among police shows: it takes a serial fo
• Blackadder
• Doctor Who
• EastEnders
• Fawlty Towers
• Last of the Summer Wine
• Only Fools and Horses
• The Vicar of Dibley

UK Gold's success led to the creation of UKTV, still part-owned by the BBC, which operates several channels showing different types of archive programming. These included UK Style (home and lifestyle), UK Drama, UK Horizons and UK History, as well as the time-shifted UKTV Gold +1, and UK Gold 2. UK Gold 2 originally screened morning programmes from UK Gold time-shifted to the evening of the same day, but was relaunched with a completely new programme lineup and renamed UKG² on November 12, 2003.

On March 8, 2004 all of the UKTV channels changed their prefixes from UK to UKTV, and UK Horizons was split into two channels - UKTV Documentary and UKTV People.

On November 1 2004 the time-shifted UKTVG²+1 was launched.

The BBC still cuts programmes (mainly documentaries) for commercial timing on the UKTV's factual channels, but programmes on UKTV Gold, UKTV Gold +1, UKTV G² and UKTV Drama are now shown apparently uncut, often in longer slots. Most half-hour BBC sitcoms are shown in 40-minute slots.

UKTV Gold is available on digital satellite, cable, and digital terrestrial television in the UK.