TLC (British and Irish TV channel)

TLC is a British pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is based on the American cable network of the same name. It launched on 30 April 2013 at 8:00 p.m.,^[1] replacing Discovery Real Time and DMAX +2.^[2]

TLC

Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	United Kingdom Ireland
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Timeshift service	TLC +1
Ownership
Owner	Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
Sister channels	Animal Planet Discovery Channel Discovery History Discovery Science Discovery Turbo DMAX Food Network HGTV Investigation Discovery Quest Quest Red Really Cartoon Network Boomerang Cartoonito CNN International
History
Launched	30 April 2013, 8pm
Replaced	Discovery Real Time and Discovery Travel & Living (2005–2013)
Links
Website	uk.tlc.com
Availability
Streaming media
Sky Go	Watch live (UK and Ireland only)
Virgin TV Go	Watch live (UK only) Watch live (+1) (UK only)
Virgin TV Anywhere	Watch live (Ireland only)

The original version of TLC was launched in 1994 and was subsequently renamed Discovery Home & Leisure and later Discovery Real Time as part of Discovery's catalogue of themed channels. Given that TLC was chasing a completely different demographic than the old TLC, Discovery treated it as a new channel launch rather than a return.

On 30 April 2013, TLC +1 was launched, replacing DMAX +2.

A two-hour timeshift, TLC +2, was launched on 16 September 2013. It closed down on 27 April 2018, and was rebranded as Discovery Turbo +1.^[3]