Fox Channel (Germany)

This article is about the German television channel. For other uses, see Fox (disambiguation).

FOX Channel
Launched	May 20, 2008
Owned by	FOX International Channels Germany
Country	Germany
Broadcast area	Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Headquarters	Unterföhring, Germany
Replaced	Premiere Serie (on Premiere)
Sister channel(s)	National Geographic Channel
Website	http://www.foxchannel.de/

Fox Channel is a German television channel dedicated to television drama series.

The channel started broadcasting on the Arena platform and the Unitymedia cable network on May 20, 2008.

On August 3, 2008, an agreement to launch the channel on Premiere was signed. On Premiere, Fox took over the channel space previously used by Premiere Serie, which closed down when Fox Channel launched on October 4, 2008. Fox Channel became a part of the movie package "Premiere Film". When Premiere became Sky Deutschland in July 2009, Fox was moved to the entertainment package "Sky Welt".

The channel heavily features American and British drama series from the major broadcast networks and premium cable networks. They are broadcast without interruptions with both German and English audio. On April 1, 2009, transmissions switched to the 16:9 format.

Programming

Series broadcast on the channel include:

• American Horror Story
• Ashes to Ashes
• Battlestar Galactica
• Carnivàle
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Dirty Sexy Money
• Doctor Who (Revived series)
• Entourage
• Greek
• Hotel Babylon
• Las Vegas
• Law & Order: UK
• Lost
• Mad Men
• Medium
• Shameless
• Skins
• Strike Back: Project Dawn
• The Big C
• The Defenders
• The Good Wife
• The Practice
• The Sopranos
• The Walking Dead
• The West Wing
• The Wire