Sky Crime
British pay television channel
Sky Crime is a British pay television channel owned and operated by Sky, a division of Comcast. The channel launched on 1 October 2019, replacing Real Lives. Sky Crime broadcasts crime dramas from Oxygen, HBO, Jupiter Entertainment and Woodcut Media.
Broadcasting
Satellite
Sky UK:
Channel 122 (HD)
Channel 222 (+1)
Channel 820 (SD)
Cable
Virgin Media:
Channel 121 (HD)
Channel 321 (+1)
Programming
Sky Crime broadcasts:
Atlanta's Missing & Murdered: The Lost Children
Border Security: Canada's Front Line
Brit Cops
Caught on Dashcam
The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell
Highway Patrol
How I Caught The Killer
I Love You, Now Die
In Defense Of
Kemper on Kemper
The Killer in My Family
Most Evil Killers
Motorway Patrol
Murder in the Valleys
Murders That Shocked the Nation
Nothing to Declare
The Real Manhunter
Road Wars
Snapped
Stop, Search, Seize
A Wedding and a Murder
See also
Sky Krimi, a long-running crime-themed German television channel also operated by Sky plc as a part of its Germany and Austria portfolio. Sky Deutschland also broadcasts a channel of its own called Sky Crime.
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