TELLY obsessives must watch out for an upcoming TV guide shake-up due in days.
It’ll affect millions of Sky and Virgin Media TV customers across Britain.
Sky has announced several rebrands that affect Virgin Media watchers with the same channels.
Three will be affected, but it follows a heavy of April of .
The latest batch of changes are due to kick off on Friday, May 2 – that’s later this week.
It begins with Sky Horror, which is being renamed to Sky SciFi/Horror.
This is a switch back from a previous “temporary change”;, according to Sky.
That’ll affect channel 311 on Sky Satellite, Glass, and Stream.
Second is Sky Apocalyptic, which is “temporarily”; being changed to Sky Favourites HD.
You’ll find that channel on 302 for Satellite, Glass, and Stream.
And finally there’s Sky Cinema Action, which is getting a temporary rebrand to become Sky Heroes.
On Satellite, it’s on 307/851, and just on 307 for Glass and Stream.
Ultimately Sky may decide to make even more in May.
The broadcasting giant typically only announces channel swaps for for the week ahead.
So any changes expected in mid-to-late-May wouldn’t have been announced yet.
These TV guide shake-ups can take place for a number of reasons.
Sometimes Sky will be forced to close channels – either due to a lack of interest, or because the channel operator has decided to pull it.
Sky will often rebrand channels due to demand, to test a content type, or to tie in with an event or holiday ().
The TV titan made dozens of these changes in April, including the permanent closure of several channels.
Shut-down channels included POP Max, POP Max HD, POP Max+1, Sky History+1, and the satellite broadcast of Sky History 2 HD.
SKY’S APRIL CHANNEL CHANGES
Here’s the full list of changes we saw in April...
Tuesday, April 1
- U&W HD ROI closeson satellite only – the SD remains at132
- U&W HD closes on satellite only – the SD remains at132
- U&Yesterday HD closes on satellite only – the SD remains at155–161in ROI
- U&Alibi HD moves from130to120on Glass and Stream only in England, NI and Wales. They remain unchanged in Scotland and ROI
- U&Gold HD moves from131to121on Glass and Stream only in England, NI and Wales. They remain unchanged in Scotland and ROI
- U&Dave HD moves from132to130on Glass and Stream only in England, NI and Wales. They remain unchanged in Scotland and ROI
- U&W HD moves from133to131on Glass and Stream only in England, NI and Wales. They remain unchanged in Scotland and ROI
- U&Drama moves from134to132on Glass and Stream only in England, NI and Wales. They remain unchanged in Scotland and ROI
- U&Yesterday HD moves from161to133on Glass and Stream only in England, NI and Wales. They remain unchanged in Scotland and ROI
- U&Eden moves from162to134on Glass and Stream only in England, NI and Wales. They remain unchanged in Scotland and ROI
- GINX TV HD moves from419to417on Glass/Stream only in the UK
- MUTV HD moves from420to418on Glass/Stream only in the UK
- LFCTV HD moves from421to419on Glass/Stream only in the UK
- Premier Sports 1 HD moves from419to417on Glass/Stream only in ROI
- Premier Sports 2 HD moves from420to418on Glass/Stream only in ROI
- GINX TV HD moves from421to419on Glass/Stream only in ROI
- MUTV HD moves from422to420on Glass/Stream onlyin ROI
- LFCTV HD moves from423to421on Glass/Stream only in ROI
Wednesday, April 2
- TV Warehouse moves from676to673on satellite only
- Cruise1st.tv moves from681to675on satellite only
- ​Sky History 2 HD closes on satellite – the SD moves to163in the UK and168in ROI and NI – HD channel remains on Glass/Stream
Thursday, April 3
- Sky Gangsters(Satellite 309 – Glass/Stream 309)changes name to renames to Sky Thriller HD (reverting from a temporary change)
- Sky Books To Screen(Satellite 302 – Glass/Stream 302)renames to Sky Adventure/ SkyAdventureHD (temporary change)
Friday, April 4
- Sky Family(Satellite 306/850 – Glass/Stream 306)renames to SkyHarryPotter / HarryPotterHD​ (Temp)      
- ​Sky Hits(Satellite 303 – Glass/Stream 303)changes name to The Hobbit HD (Temporary change)
Monday, April 7
​Sky The Hobbit(Satellite 303 – Sky Glass/Stream 303)changes name to ​Sky Hits / Sky Hits HD (reverting from temporary change)
Thursday, April 10
- ​Sky History+1(Satellite 223 (224 Scotland))closes permanently
Monday, April 14
- MTV Hits(Satellite 351 – Glass/Stream 351)rebrands to Club MTV
Friday, April 18
- Sky Hits(Satellite 303 – Glass/Stream 303)changes name to The Hobbit HD (Temporary change)
Tuesday, April 22
- ​Sky Adventure(Satellite 302 – Sky Glass/Stream 302)renames to Apocalyptic HD (temporary change)
- Harry Potter(Satellite 306/850 – Sky Glass/Stream 306)renames to ​​Sky Family/Sky Family HD (reverting from a temporary change)
- ​Sky Sci-Fi & Horror(Satellite 311 – Sky Glass/Stream 311)renames to Sky Horror HD (temporary change)
- Sky The Hobbit(Satellite 303 – Sky Glass/Stream 303)changes name to ​Sky Hits / Sky Hits HD (reverting from temporary change)
- POP Max(Satellite 615)closes permanently
- POP Max HD(Sky Glass/Stream UK 215 (NI & ROI 216))closes permanently
- POP Max+1(Satellite 628)closes permanently
- Tiny Pop moves from618to615on satellite only
- POP+1 moves from619to618on satellite only
- Tiny Pop+1 moves from629to619on satellite only
Friday, April 25
- Sky Family(Satellite 306/850 – Sky Glass/Stream 306)changes name to The Hobbit / The Hobbit HD (temporary change)
Saturday, April 26
- ​Sky Hits(Satellite 303 – Sky Glass/Stream 303)renames to SkyIndianaJones / IndianaJonesHD (temporary change)
Monday, April 28
- ​Sky Indiana Jones(Satellite 303 – Sky Glass/Stream 303)changes name to ​Sky Hits / Sky Hits HD (reverting from temporary change)      
- Sky The Hobbit(Satellite 306/850 – Sky Glass/Stream 306)changes name to Sky Family / Sky Family HD (reverting from a temporary change)
Sky will likely release even more TV channel swaps next week.
