Drama ( uk TV channel ) - wikipedia Drama ( uk TV channel ) This article is about the British television channel. For the channel formerly known as UKTV Drama, see Alibi ( TV channel ). For the Pan Arab channel, see Drama ( MENA TV channel ). For other uses, see Drama. Drama Launched 8 July 2013 ( 2013 - 07 - 08 ) Owned by UKTV ( BBC Studios / Discovery Networks Northern Europe ) Picture format 16 : 9, 576i ( SDTV ) Audience share 1.30 % ( April 2017 ( 2017 - 04 ), BARB ) Slogan `` There 's only one channel called Drama '' Country United Kingdom Broadcast area United Kingdom Ireland Replaced Blighty Sister channel ( s ) Alibi Dave Eden Gold Good Food Home Really Yesterday Website drama.uktv.co.uk Availability Terrestrial Freeview Channel 20 Satellite Freesat Channel 158 Sky ( UK ) Channel 143 Sky ( Ireland ) Channel 158 Astra 2F 12129 V 27500 2 / 3 Cable Virgin Media Channel 128 IPTV Eir Vision Channel 166 Streaming media TVPlayer Watch live ( UK only ) Virgin TV Go Watch live ( UK only ) Drama is a British digital television channel broadcasting drama ( and, to a lesser extent, comedy ) programming in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel launched on 8 July 2013, replacing Blighty. On Freeview, the channel was placed on channel 20, previously occupied by Gold. On Sky, the channel initially launched on channel 291, in the overspill area of the Entertainment section and moved to channel 166 on 24 July after purchasing the slot used by PBS America. The channel launched on Virgin Media on 14 August on channel 190. In September 2014, UKTV blamed the channel for their 7 % profits fall. Contents 1 Programming 1.1 Current 1.2 Previous 2 References 3 External links Programming The channel is positioned as a home for British dramas from the last 40 years. The channel features such shows as Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, The Cinder Path, Cranford, Lark Rise to Candleford, Pride & Prejudice, Sharpe and Tipping the Velvet. Current An Adventure in Space and Time The Ark Around the World in 80 Days As Time Goes By Are You Being Served ? Ashes to Ashes A Bear Named Winnie Bergerac The Bill Birds of a Feather ( the BBC series ) Bleak House Boon The Brokenwood Mysteries Cadfael Call the Midwife Campion Casualty Catherine Cookson : The Cinder Path Catherine Cookson : Colour Blind Catherine Cookson : The Dwelling Place Catherine Cookson : The Fifteen Streets Catherine Cookson : The Gambling Man Catherine Cookson : The Girl Catherine Cookson : The Glass Virgin Catherine Cookson : The Man Who Cried Catherine Cookson : The Rag Nymph Catherine Cookson : The Round Tower Catherine Cookson : The Secret Catherine Cookson : The Tide of Life Catherine Cookson 's Tilly Trotter Catherine Cookson : The Wingless Bird Crocodile Shoes Crocodile Shoes II Crusoe Dalziel and Pascoe Dangerfield Death in Paradise The Doctor Blake Mysteries Down to Earth The Duchess of Duke Street Elizabeth I Fallen Angel Father Brown A Fine Romance Fingersmith Garrow 's Law The Great Train Robbery Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Hi - De-Hi ! The Hounds of the Baskervilles The House of Eliott In Deep The Indian Doctor The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Jack the Ripper Jonathan Creek Judge John Deed Keeping Up Appearances King Solomon 's Mines The Last Detective Last of the Summer Wine Life on Mars London 's Burning Lovejoy Maisie Raine Messiah Miss Fisher 's Murder Mysteries Miss Marple Moby Dick The Mrs Bradley Mysteries Murdoch Mysteries New Tricks The Onedin Line The Paradise PD James : The Murder Room Pie in the Sky The Pinkertons Pinocchio Rebus Riders Ripper Street Rock & Chips Sharpe Shetland Silent Witness Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em Soldier Soldier Spooks Taggart To the Manor Born Touching Evil The Two Ronnies Waking the Dead Young Catherine You Rang M'Lord ? Previous 2point4 Children The 39 Steps The 60 's : The Beatles Decade Above and Beyond Act of Will Ahead of the Class Ai n't Misbehavin ' All Creatures Great and Small Archangel Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Ballykissangel Bert and Dickie The Best of Men Between the Lines A Bit of a Do Birdsong Born and Bred Bread Bring Me Morecambe & Wise Britains Best - Scotland Brush Strokes Burton & Taylor Butterflies Casanova Catherine Cookson : The Black Candle Catherine Cookson 's Colour Blind Catherine Cookson : A Dinner of Herbs Catherine Cookson : The Moth The Cazalets Cider with Rosie Citizen Smith Cold Comfort Farm The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Cranford The Crimson Petal and the White Daniel Deronda David Copperfield Deadline Gallipoli Death Comes to Pemberley EastEnders Christmas Fallouts EastEnders : Unveiled - A Wedding Special Emma Empire Eric and Ernie Escape from Sobibor Ever Decreasing Circles The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Family Tree Fanny Hill Find My Past A Fine Romance The Forsyte Saga A Garden for All Seasons The Good Life Goodnight Sweetheart Gracie ! Great British Ghosts Great Expectations The Green Green Grass Hard Times Hattie Hey Hey We 're The Monkees Hitlers Bodyguards Hold the Dream House of Cards The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries Inspector George Gently Jam & Jerusalem Just Good Friends King Solomon 's Mines Land Girls Lark Rise to Candleford Last Tango in Halifax Learners The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby The Liver Birds The Long Firm Mansfield Park The Mayor of Casteridge The Most Wonderful Time of the Year Monarch of the Glen Murder in Mind Murphy 's Law The Mystery of a Hansom Cab The Mystery of Edwin Drood No Place Like Home North & South Northanger Abbey One Foot in the Grave Oliver Twist Open All Hours Our Mutual Friend Parade 's End PD James : Death in Holy Orders Persuasion Porridge Pride and Prejudice Upstairs, Downstairs Ration Book Britain The Road to Coronation Street The Ruby in the Smoke Rumpole of the Bailey The Scarlet Pimpernel The Scold 's Bridle The Sculptress The Secret of Crickley Hall Sense and Sensibility The Shadow in the North Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon Sherlock Holmes : Terror By Night Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Silk Stocking Silk Shirley The Sinking of the Laconia Sisters of War South Riding State of Play Steptoe and Son ( only series 1 - 6 ) Tenko The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Terry and June Tess of the D'Urbervilles Three Up, Two Down Tipping the Velvet To Be the Best The Turn of the Screw United Upstairs, Downstairs Vanity Fair The Vicar of Dibley Waiting for God The Whale What Remains Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads Wish Me Luck A Woman of Substance A Year to Remember Young James Herriot References Jump up ^ `` UKTV raises the curtain on Drama '' ( Press release ). UKTV. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013. Jump up ^ `` UKTV 's Drama channel reveals line - up, Yesterday goes factual and Blighty looks set to close ''. a516digital. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2013. Jump up ^ `` Drama as new channel forces Gold to move Home on the Freeview EPG ''. a516digital. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013. Jump up ^ White, Peter ( 17 July 2013 ). `` PBS America sells Sky slot to UKTV ''. Broadcast. Retrieved 17 July 2013. Jump up ^ Munn, Patrick ( 2 May 2013 ). `` UKTV To Launch New Drama Channel on July 8th ''. TVWise. Retrieved 2 May 2013. 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Question: what number is the drama channel on sky
Answer: Channel 143