biography.com

Domain: biography.com

The Biography Channel (or bio.) is an American igital cable television channel owned by A&E and based on the television series of the same name. A version of the channel also airs on ONO and Telefónica in Spain and on Sky Digital and cable television in the United Kingdom, a version of the channel also broadcasts in Canada owned by Rogers Media. It is a digital cable, category 1 television channel in Canada. It also has a version in Australia which soon will change its name to simply Bio. In 2007 a German and a Latinamerican version of the Biography Channel were launched. Biography Channel began programming in 1999. In addition to biographical shows, the network has been airing fictional, non-biographical programming previously seen on A&E, including Murder, She Wrote and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, though midway 2007 Biography canceled Sunday Afternoon mysteries, which included Midsomer Murders, Poirot, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. This has outraged loyal fans of these mysteries. There are many requests to bring the shows back on Biography's discussion forums.