The 'Late' Bravo

Bravo, much loved TV Channel in the UK for airing TNA iMPACT! and the likes of Dog The Bounty Hunter, 1000 Ways To Die, Leverage & Spartacus: Blood & Sand, was taken off the air on January 1st 2011 by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB TV company Sky, as part of a "Major Shakeup" of the LIVING TV Network. A lot of sources around this news say that Sky are mainly focusing on LIVING's main channels, those being LIVING, LIVING Loves, and the popular game show channel, Challenge. It is also believed Bravo was shut down, along with Channel One (formally Virgin1), due to similarities between Bravo/Channel One and Sky's own Sky1 channel, yet since the removal of Bravo, only 1 of the main shows, Spartacus: Blood & Sand, has been re-assigned TV slots on, funnily enough, Sky1.

The main reason UK viewers are angry with Sky is because of TNA iMPACT!, as we all know Sky have an exclusive deal with WWE which means no other Wrestling show can be aired on the Sky Sports network whilst WWE is still on air. This means that TNA will be put on the sidelines, not giving anyone in the UK a chance to view it. There are rumours of TNA being aired on Sky1 just like how WWE Superstars is aired on the channel of a weekend.

A lot of UK TNA fans have been trying to get TNA to have discussions with sports channel Xtreme, which airs on Sky and Virgin Media and has been carrying TNA's international show Xplosion now for some time, and has also been known to air Pay-Per-View's free of charge on a Friday after the PPV airs in the US. There has been rumours Xtreme has lost its rights to air TNA, but this isn't confirmed.

Personally I'd really like to see TNA being aired on a channel like Dave, which is owned by UKTV who also own Watch, G.O.L.D, Blighty & Home to name a few.