Investigation Discovery (Latin American TV channel)
Ownership | |
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Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery Americas |
History | |
Launched | October 1997 (as Travel Channel) April 12, 2010 (as Liv) July 9, 2012 (as Investigation Discovery) |
Former names | Travel Channel (1996-1997) People & Arts Network (1997-1998) People+Arts (1998-2010) Liv (2010-2012) |
Investigation Discovery (Investigação Discovery in Brazil) (stylized as ID since 2020) is a television channel in Latin America[citation needed] dedicated to crime- and investigation-themed programming, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
History
The channel was launched in October 1997 as the local version of Travel Channel. After the purchase by Discovery Inc. and the BBC, the channel was then renamed "El Nuevo / O Novo Travel Channel: People+Arts" (pronounced as "people and arts"), and again renamed as simply "People+Arts".
The station's programming consisted of a mix of
In January 2010, it was replaced in Portugal on TV Cabo's Channel 82 by Discovery Travel & Living. On April 13, 2010, People+Arts in Latin America was replaced by Liv, originally a channel dedicated to women's entertainment, but quickly evolved into a general entertainment channel, with the addition of series such as Blue Bloods and the 2010 remake of Hawaii Five-O.
On 15 November 2010, BBC Worldwide sold 50% interest in Animal Planet and Liv to Discovery Inc. for $156 million.[1]
On July 9, 2012, Liv was relaunched as the Latin American version of Investigation Discovery (and called Investigação Discovery in Brazil).
Programming
Current programming
Past programming
Second-run:
- Dexter
- Prison Break
as Liv
First-run:
- Blue Bloods
- TLC)
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (currently seen on Discovery Home & Health)
- Hair Battle Spectacular
- Happy Town
- Hawaii Five-O (currently seen on AXN)
- Hawthorne
- TLC)
- House of Glam
- How to be a Gentleman
- It Only Hurts When I Laugh
- TLC)
- Comedy Central)
- Life Unexpected
- Mad Love
- Material Girl
- Mercy
- TLC)
- Miami Social
- Parenthood (currently seen in Brazil on GNT)
- Project Runway (currently seen on E!)
- Models of the Runway
- Shear Genius
- TLC)
- The Tudors
- Whitney
Second-run:
- The 4400
- Brotherhood
- Charmed
- Coach
- Dawson's Creek
- Frasier
- Judging Amy
- Just Shoot Me!
- Once and Again
- Providence
- Rescue Me
as People+Arts
- Afterlife
- Coupling
- Doctor Who (new series)
- Hustle
- Hotel Babylon (Latin America only)
- Murder in Mind
- Spooks
- The Office
- Torchwood
- Army Wives
- Commander in Chief (Europe only)
- Dirt
- Dancing with the Stars (currently seen on BBC Entertainment)
- Less Than Perfect
- Providence (Europe only)
- Rescue Me
- The Shield
- The Starter Wife
- American Chopper (currently seen on Discovery Channel)
- The Apprentice: Donald Trump
- The Apprentice: Martha Stewart
- Changing Rooms
- The Contender
- Extreme Makeover
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Ground Force
- TLC)
- TLC)
- On the Lot
- What Not to Wear(UK)
- What Not to Wear (US, currently seen on Discovery Home & Health)
- While You Were Out
- Wife Swap (UK, US, and Latin America, currently seen on Discovery Home & Health)
- Bricomanía (Europe only)
- Deco (Europe only)