Sky Sci-Fi

Sky Sci-Fi, formerly the Sci Fi Channel and Syfy UK, is a British pay television channel owned and operated by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. Launched as The Sci-Fi Channel, it was rebranded as Syfy on 13 April 2010, as part of an ongoing global rebranding. The relaunch was accompanied by the premieres of V and Human Target. The channel was given a new on-air look and a tagline of "Imagine greater". Sky applied for a Sky Sci-Fi trademark on 4 May 2022. On 14 June 2022 Sky confirmed that the channel rebrand would take place at 11am on 26 July, accompanied by a refreshed schedule of new and existing content. It was launched in 1995 as a localised variant of the US channel Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy), with a similar programming line-up. It was on air each day from 8:00 am until 2:00 am, but only on cable as a lack of transponder space on satellite meant that it was only able to broadcast for few hours each day on that platform. It wasn't until the launch of Sky Digital in 1998 that the channel's full broadcast hours were available on satellite. Programming in the channel's early years followed the US channel's model, then consisting largely of archive shows such as Lost in Space, The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and films from the Paramount and MCA vaults.