Plus - The BritSet Archive

ON THE AIR	2001 – 1st November 2004
CHANNEL NUMBER
OWNER	Granada Sky Broadcasting (BSB)
TYPE OF CHANNEL	Archive
PREVIOUS NAMES	Granada Plus
STATUS	Closed
REPLACED BY	ITV3

Welcome to our section looking at Plus. Plus was an archive channel with drama and comedy programmes

The channel was owned by Granada Sky Broadcasting, a joint venture between Granada and British Sky Broadcasting. The channel launched as Granada Plus in 1996 and featured archive programmes from various Granada owned ITV companies (Granada, LWT, Yorkshire Television mostly) along with some BBC programmes.

The channel would close abruptly with Granada acquiring Sky’s share in the venture and closing the channel abuptly in the middle of an episode of Pie in the Sky to make way for ITV3 which would launch later that day

PLUS TRAILER – AGATHA CHRISTIE’S: DEAD MAN’S FOLLY (31st DECEMBER 2001)

This trailer was for the drama Dead Man’s Folly starring Peter Ustinov as Agatha Christie detective – Poirot

PLUS TRAILER – THE BEST OF BRITISH COMEDY (31st DECEMBER 2001)

This trailer promoted a number of British comedy programmes being shown on the channel

PLUS TRAILER – THE BEST OF BRITISH DRAMA (31st DECEMBER 2001)

This trailer promoted a number of British dramas being shown on the channel

PLUS TRAILER – THE DUKES OF HAZARD (31st DECEMBER 2001)

This trailer was for the American drama – The Dukes of Hazard

PLUS TRAILER – JEEVES AND WOOSTER (31st DECEMBER 2001)

This trailer was for Jeeves and Wooster

PLUS TRAILER – LATE NIGHTS (31st DECEMBER 2001)

This trailer highlighted some of the actors in the channel’s late night content. Although the channel was now just called Plus, the old Granada Plus name appears at the start of this trailer