Star (Euro Republics)

Star is a Euroish television channel owned by EuroMedia which broadcasts entertainment programmes with a particular emphasis on drama series aimed at a 30-50 age demographic. The brand is used under license from The Walt Disney Company.

History
The channel was launched at 9:00pm on Monday 14th January 2008 as FX, which aired a mix of contemporary and new American drama and comedy series in primetime and reality shows and classic drama during the daytime. The main programme for the launch of the new channel was the first episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles at 9:00pm, making it's Euroish debut the night after it's first broadcast in the United States on the Fox network. The following night saw the Euroish debut of Mad Men which similarly gained high ratings for the channel.

It became the new home for all new The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad before their TV4 airings. It also became the exclusive ER broadcaster of How I Met Your Mother and King of The Hill, and other new series that made their debut on the channel aroune the time of it's launch included Chuck and Back to You. The channel's pre-launch publicity had stated that Kid Nation and Viva Laughlin had due to air on the new channel, although these series never appeared on FX, presumably with the former not fitting with the channel's mature male demographic and the latter being panned by critics and pulled by CBS after one episode. The daytime schedule of FX featured repeats of popular American police procedural, science fiction and medical drama series such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NCIS, Tour of Duty, The X Files, NYPD Blue, Babylon 5, House and ER in addition to repeats of America's Most Wanted and COPS.

The channel unveiled it's first rebrand on Monday 2nd November 2009.

During the late 2000s and early 2010s, FX continued to pick up more major American series, including the first series of Breaking Bad, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead.