User blog:Telco/EuroMedia launches Metro, a new entertainment channel.

Fans of original British comedy, documentary, quizzes, sci-fi, drama, chat and music will be welcomed by a new additon to the EuroMedia family from Wednesday 15th February.

Metro - which replaces BBC UKTV, will be a channel which brings together a carefully chosen mix from a wide variety of genres that celebrate and influence a uniquely British view on the world. Quirky, intelligent, cheeky, fun and sardonic - Metro's launch highlights will include the new series of Bad Education, Everyone Else Burns, a new comedy from Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner), the official UK debuts of Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared and Plebs: Soldiers of Rome, and the ER premieres of I Hate You and Wreck.

Metro will also be the home to new episodes of The Graham Norton Show and The Emily Atack Show, as well as The Last Leg and Have I Got News for You in less than a week following their BBC transmissions in the UK. Other panel shows coming to Metro include Would I Lie to You?, QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Taskmaster and Jon & Lucy's Odd Couples, a new series with Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont, whose mockumentary series Meet the Richardsons will also screen on Metro.

Classic British comedy will include Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, The Royle Family, Rising Damp, Bottom, The Day Today, Detectorists, Friday Night Dinner, The Adam and Joe Show, Spaced, Spitting Image, Da Ali G Show, Mr. Bean, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Newswipe with Charlie Brooker, Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, The Young Ones, Red Dwarf, Watching, Coupling, Only Fools and Horses, End of Part One, Harry Hill's TV Burp, Inside No. 9, Upstart Crow, Alma's Not Normal, Toast of London, Toast of Tinseltown, Look Around You, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Moving Wallpaper, Man About the House, The Inbetweeners, Brass Eye, Hot Metal, Still Game, W1A, TV Offal, The Mighty Boosh, I'm Alan Partridge, Saturday Live, Little Britain, Drop the Dead Donkey, Nighty Night, Blackadder, Gavin & Stacey, The Office, The New Statesman, Two Pints of Lager and A Packet of Crisps, Early Doors, Not Going Out and Miranda.

Away from comedy, Metro will also play host to a range of quirky British quizzing, with one of the country's top teatime brainteasers - Pointless with Alexander Armstrong, followed each evening by Richard Osman's House of Games, presented by Alexander's right-hand man in Pointless.

Louis Theroux Interviews sees the renowned documentarian meet some of the world's most recognisable figures including Stormzy, Yungblud, Dame Judi Dench, Katherine Ryan, Bear Grylls and Rita Ora.

Metro will also debut Emily Atack: Asking for It, her powerful new documentary in which she explores online sexual harrasment, months before a FTA transmission on FOX, and other documentaries that will screen on Metro include The Elon Musk Show, Gazza and the Stacey Dooley documentary series.

Music will be delivered with classic episodes of The Chartdown and Top of The Pops, plus a selection of classic performances from TOTP with Top of The Pops 2, The Live Lounge Show and Later... with Jools Holland. Drama will include Spooks, This Life, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Jonathan Creek and Death in Paradise.

The channel is not just for UK programmes, and also show what Metro calls "Brit-ish" programmes, such as the Australian programmes Spicks & Specks, Full Frontal, Wilfred and Frontline, American sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the Euro Republics' very own comedies such as Guttered, The Blizzard of Odd and First Take.

Metro's branding will be based on the famous brand design of the London Underground, reinforcing the channel's remit to provide innovative British shows.

Metro will replace BBC UKTV on channel 108 on ET1 from Wednesday 15th February at 12pm. Some programmes such as Doctors, Casualty and Mrs. Brown's Boys will move to Spark.

There will also be a special "channel" for Metro programmes on My ET1, accessible through the homepage and the channels section