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Sky Living to become Sky Witness

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MR
mromega
Sky Living is rebranding in August to Sky Witness.


VM
VMPhil
Not a bad run for the 'Living' name - it's survived 25 years in different guises (UK Living, Living TV)
NW
nwtv2003
It better reflects the content of the channel of the last few years. The female skewed version of Living slowly disappeared a few years ago.

Odd to think that out of the VMTV buyout only Challenge seems to have remained virtually unchanged.
PF
PFML84
The Sky Witness Twitter handle has already been taken but SkyWitnessHD is available if anyone wants to try taking it. Unless of course Sky is dropping the HD from their twitter handles?
TT
TellyTime
PFMC84 posted:
The Sky Witness Twitter handle has already been taken but SkyWitnessHD is available if anyone wants to try taking it. Unless of course Sky is dropping the HD from their twitter handles?


Erm...

https://twitter.com/skyone
https://twitter.com/skyatlantic
https://twitter.com/skyarts
https://twitter.com/skynews
https://twitter.com/skysports

Sky only added HD to the Living twitter handle as the other had already been taken.
LL
London Lite Founding member
The new branding puts the channel closer to UKTV's Alibi.
ToasterMan, Stuart and TellyTime gave kudos
VM
VMPhil
This may be a stupid question but I wonder if 'Sky Witness' is a play on 'eye witness'?
LL
London Lite Founding member
VMPhil posted:
This may be a stupid question but I wonder if 'Sky Witness' is a play on 'eye witness'?


Considering Sky Living also shows fly on the wall formats in addition to the crime dramas, it's a good use of the name.
MR
mr_vivian
Sky Witness is a weird name. Doesn't sound interesting.
NW
nwtv2003
Worth noting that Sky Deustschland operates a channel called Sky Krimi (and has done for years), which I believe has similar output to Sky Living/Witness. Certainly Witness sounds better than Sky Crime.
MI
Mike516
nwtv2003 posted:
Worth noting that Sky Deustschland operates a channel called Sky Krimi (and has done for years), which I believe has similar output to Sky Living/Witness. Certainly Witness sounds better than Sky Crime.

Sky Krimi shows a lot of German crime drama previously shown on other channels.
Sky Crime, of course might be confused with Sony Crime - only two letters difference!
KU
Kunst
Now, where the likes Grey's Anatomy will move?
nwtv2003 posted:
Worth noting that Sky Deustschland operates a channel called Sky Krimi (and has done for years), which I believe has similar output to Sky Living/Witness. Certainly Witness sounds better than Sky Crime.

I think they're moving it closer to the like of Fox Crime

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