Bravo (television channel)
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For information on the unrelated American television network of the same name, see Bravo (television network).Bravo is a British television channel, owned by Flextech. Its target audience is currently men in their late twenties to late thirties and shows a variety of both archive programming (such as Knight Rider & MacGyver) and original productions.
It has undergone many transformations since it began broadcasting as a channel for mainly black & white programmes from the 1950s and 1960s such as The Avengers and many ITC Entertainment productions. A policy change to withdraw all of their black & white shows soon saw them move on to specialise in science fiction and horror before becoming known for showing crime documentaries by day and adult programming at night. Since then it has dropped the adult content and increased sports and imported shows like Alias. Bravo also aired World Championship Wrestling's flagship show Nitro during WCW's final year in business.
On August 28 2005, the channel started showing Serie A Italian football, bringing back the Channel 4 format Football Italia. The channel's other highest-profile sports coverage is its exclusive UK rights to Ultimate Fighting Championship archives as well as recent events.
The network airs an Adult Swim block nightly at around midnight.
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