One nation under a channel.

Blighty, which launched 17th February 2009, unashamedly celebrates all that is great, unique and inspirational about Britain today. UKTV has taken its best factual entertainment and given it the home it deserves that is both nostalgic and contemporary. Jolly good! Programming from Louis Theroux Meets… to Trawlermen and Who do You Think You Are? honour great and quirky Britons, while the likes of Coast and Britain From Above pay hommage to the country itself. It’s fresh and proud – and the strong channel identity offers unique opportunities to advertisers that are still to be fully explored.

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Seaside Rescue

Throughout July

This month we pay tribute to our brave rescue services busy patrolling the south coast by joining them as they’re called out on a wide variety of maritime missions.

We begin with a rude awakening for coastguard officer Eddie Weller, who’s called out of bed to save the day when a car goes crashing over a cliff in Torbay.

We also climb aboard the Whisky Bravo helicopter as the team rescue a boy who’s fallen 100 feet down a cliff in Dorset, comes to the aid of a 78-year-old paraglider suffering from a backbreaking accident and watch as the crew flies in to help the people of Bocastle stranded on their rooftops after flash floods submerged the town.

Meanwhile, the RNLI teams rescue a diver found feet-up, near death, look for two missing girls lost at sea and are called out for the biggest rescue mission of the summer when 35 swimmers are swept out into the waves.

Quite simply, there’s never a quiet moment for the team.

Seaside Rescue

Who Do You Think You Are?

Tuesday August 31st at 9am

Join ten celebrities as they embark on a very personal voyage of discovery into their own family history. Each celeb unearthes secrets and surprises along the way and cannot help but be affected by their emotional journey.

Who Do You Think You Are?

Jimmy Doherty And The Darwin Garden (Channel Premiere)

Weekdays, 7pm

After his theory of evolution was attacked by critics, one of the greatest ever Britons, Charles Darwin, retreated to his garden in Kent to undertake new experiments that would defend and reinforce his ideas.

After his trip to the Galapagos Islands, and the presentation of his findings to the world, he knew his ideas on human evolution were controversial. His findings polarised Victorian society, so Darwin went back to the sanctuary of his home, Down House in Kent, to get down to the serious business of saving his reputation.

Jimmy Doherty, the country’s favourite TV farmer and cheeky chappie, carries out some of the exciting experiments that Darwin conducted to show that humans were just another ape. Jimmy puts a snake into a monkey enclosure to find out whether monkeys are curious; he has his face electrically stimulated to create a smile; and musical instruments are played to an earthworm to test its hearing. All these experiments gave Darwin additional evidence that humans had evolved from animals, and Jimmy wants to bring them back to life.

Not bad work for an afternoon in the garden.