Shortlived TV channels

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The Paranormal Channel, launched by Most Haunted creators Yvette Fielding and Karl Beattie on June 9th 2008.

It was filled with imported paranormal programming, including repeat runs of ITV Strange But True series and Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World.

The channel also had home produced shows from Antix Productions (Yvette and Karl's production company) with spin offs from Most Haunted.

The used to have round table discussion shows, which looked like it was filmed at a back office of Antix Productions, it made GB News looked professional.

The channel failed to gain an audience. Even though by 2008 Most Haunted and Most Haunted Live were pulling in millions of viewers on Living TV, their own channel scraped a few thousand. They needed the backing of a channel like Living TV to survive.

In August 2009 it was rebranded as The Unexplained Channel, but this was the kiss of death for it, as the channel gradually cut back its hours, from being 24 hours a day to around just 5 hours per day. 

The channel finally ended by the end of 2009, with the channel number slot on Sky handed to Information TV.

For some reason my parents watched this channel a lot while it was on air, so I was under the impression that it was decently popular and surprised when it rebranded/closed. Hearing the context that it actually didn't do well at all... honestly makes that brief period in 2008 a lot funnier in retrospect