Carlton Select

Carlton Select was a British digital television channel, owned by Carlton Television. It was originally launched on Thursday 1 June 1995 as SelecTV, by the independent production company of the same name, before being purchased by Carlton in 1997 who relaunched it as Carlton Select.

On 14 February 1997, after SelecTV was rebranded, Carlton Select branded itself as "The UK's leading entertainment cable channel". Together with quiz shows, films, dramas, sports coverage which featured the UEFA Champions League Live and comedies, the channel brought viewers a wide-ranging choice of high quality programming.

The channel was also available via satellite in Africa, on the South African DStv service, from the start of the platform to the shutdown of the channel.

History
Carlton Select was the result of a purchase by Pearson Television of production company, SelecTV for the value of £5.2m in 1996. SelecTV had run a cable-only channel of the same name since Thursday 1 June 1995 and whose roots stretch as far back as the mid-80s. SelecTV was rebranded as Carlton Select on 14 February 1997.

The channel originally broadcast from 17:00 to 00:00 on weekdays with a 12:00 start at the weekend. In September 1996, Carlton Food Network launched and it timeshared with Carlton Select (still SelecTV at CFN's launch). Consequently, the channel's on-air time was 17:00 seven days a week. Later, broadcast hours were extended with closedown time on weekdays becoming 01:00, and 02:00 at the weekend.

The future of the channel was being considered internally as early as mid-1999 and Carlton Select was eventually closed down on 1 March 2000. Its hours on OnDigital were given over to Carlton Food Network, with Carlton Cinema replacing Carlton Select on cable.

Programmes

 * A Country Practice
 * A Kind of Living
 * Airline
 * Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
 * The Beiderbecke Trilogy
 * Birds of a Feather
 * Blockbusters
 * Blue Heelers
 * Blues and Twos
 * Boon
 * Byker Grove (Also shown on Carlton Kids)
 * The Camomile Lawn
 * Chancer
 * Desmond's
 * Duty Free
 * Get Smart!
 * The Golden Girls
 * Gone to Seed
 * Goodnight Sweetheart
 * Gridlock
 * Hey Dad..!


 * Home to Roost
 * I Spy
 * Lovejoy
 * Moonlighting
 * My Two Wives
 * Peak Practice
 * Perfect Scoundrels
 * Rising Damp
 * Robin of Sherwood
 * The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
 * Sharpe
 * Soldier Soldier
 * St. Elsewhere
 * Tales of the Unexpected
 * That's Love
 * Tracey Ullman: A Class Act
 * Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
 * UEFA Champions League
 * Unnatural Causes
 * The Upper Hand
 * What's Cooking?
 * Yesterday's Dreams