Trouble (channel)

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Trouble
Launched	3 February 1997
Owned by	Virgin Media Television
Picture format	16:9, 576i (SDTV)
Audience share	0.1% (0.0% for +1) (April 2008, [1])
Timeshift service	Trouble +1 (formely Trouble Reload)
Website	www.trouble.co.uk
Availability
Satellite
Sky Digital	Channel 177 Channel 178 (+1)
Cable
Virgin Media	Channel 140 Channel 141 (+1)
UPC Ireland	Channel 622 (available only on ex-Chorus network)

Trouble is a television station in the UK and Republic of Ireland, owned by Virgin Media Television. It fully replaced The Children's Channel from 4 April 1998, prior to the start of Sky Digital.

Trouble has a key demographic of young adults and teenagers, aged between 15-24. The channel shows a lot of American and Australian imports, with only a small margin of programs being British. The channel has had success in recent times, with acquisitions such as My Wife and Kids, One On One, Grounded for Life, Summerland, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, That '70s Show and How I Met Your Mother to name a few. It also shows some dramas such as Life As We Know It and The Secret Life of Us.

The channel recently underwent a rebrand in mid-2006, with the number placement of the channel changing on Sky Digital from 607 in 'Kids' to 201 in 'Entertainment' as a move to make it seem more teenage orientated and it is thought it will be in the variety pack in sky soon.

[edit] History

The idea of Trouble was originally influenced by the now defunct The Children's Channel's late afternoon scheduling for teen audiences; branded TCC, the channel's 5 PM to 7 PM slot targeted teenagers. When Bravo was revamped in 1997 to become a channel targeting a male audience (marketed as "an altered species of television"), it broadcast only during the evenings and nights, with Trouble occupying its transponder space during the day. The Children's Channel folded in 1998, leaving Trouble to target teens and young adults. Its schedule consists of popular sitcoms, rather than the cartoons The Children's Channel showed.

[edit] Programming

[edit] Current Programming

• Desmond's
• Charmed
• 3 Non-Blondes
• All Of Us
• Beautiful People
• Bump n Grind
• Cuts
• Dead Last
• Diff'rent Strokes
• Eve
• Forever Eden
• Freddie
• Free Ride
• Girlfriends - New Series (Series 7) Will start September 2nd Sunday 22:00 2007 ^[1]
• Grounded for Life
• Happy Hour
• Half and Half
• Hang Time
• How I Met Your Mother- New Series "Series 2" began airing December 2007.
• In the House
• Kyle XY
• Maybe It's Me
• MyTv: Homegrown
• My Wife and Kids
• One on One
• Room Ravers
• Still Standing
• Summerland
• Teachers
• That '70s Show
• The Cosby Show
• The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
• The Hughleys
• The Loop
• The Secret Life of Us
• The Steve Harvey Show
• The Wayans Brothers
• Trigger Happy TV
• Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
• Veronica Mars

[edit] Former Programming

• Sweet Valley High 1997-2001
• All About Us
• Odd Man Out
• Hollyoaks 1999-2001
• It's All Relative
• Saved by the Bell: The College Years 1999-2002
• Saved by the Bell: The New Class 1999-2003
• TCC 1997-2001
• Ready or Not 1997-2001
• Byker Grove 1997
• Saved By The Bell 1997-2000
• SceneOne 1999-2002
• Sweat 1998-2002
• Sk8 2001-2003
• Just Deal 2001-2003
• Malibu, CA
• One World
• Out of This World
• USA High
• Swan's Crossing
• Party Of Five
• Dawson's Creek
• Echo Point
• Live Through This
• Big Wolf on Campus
• Baywatch
• Dead Last
• 2Gether
• Making The Band
• Jesse
• Young Americans
• Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane
• My So-Called Life
• Brotherly Love
• Our Hero
• The Real World
• Blossom
• StreetMate
• Room Raiders
• Cruel Summer
• Clueless
• The Smash Hits Poll Winners Party
• The Teen Choice Awards USA
• The Monkees
• Batman
• The Trap Door
• City Guys
• Moesha
• Whistler
• Weird Science
• Heartbreak High
• California Dreams
• Home and Away
• Madison
• The Parkers
• Hanging with Mr. Cooper
• Game Over
• Undergrads

[edit] Logos

The original logo from TCC.

Trouble logo

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Trouble.co.uk
• TroubleHomegrown.co.uk
• The TV Room looks at presentation/branding on Trouble