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What's on W Channel?

Showing a mix of BBC greats and popular programmes from abroad, W channel — formerly Watch — has a wide variety of top programming.
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Written by Nick Baker, Senior Editor
Updated on 13 February 2023
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Thanks to its dual ownership, W Channel airs a mix of BBC greats and hits from both across the pond and Down Under. Here's what's on W Channel and how you can watch it.

The W Channel — formerly Watch — features BBC shows as well as shows from a whole range of international broadcasters.

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What can I see on the W Channel?

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Part-owned by the BBC and UK TV (which owns Dave, Gold and Alibi), W has access to some of the best TV the BBC has created in recent years, which sit alongside some of the biggest hits from the US and Australia.

W also operates an HD channel for customers with HD TVs and W+1, which broadcasts the same schedule of programmes as W, albeit an hour later.

Here’s an extensive list of what you can expect to find on W:

  • 16 Kids and Counting

  • 17 Kids and Counting

  • 18 Kids and Counting

  • 19 Kids and Counting

  • 20 Kids and Counting

  • 21 Kids and Counting

  • 25 Siblings and Me

  • 999 Rescue Squad

  • Absolutely Fabulous

  • Alex Jones - Fertility and Me

  • Amazing Hotels -Life Beyond the Lobby

  • American Housewife

  • Amish - A Secret Life

  • Annie

  • Atlantis

  • Babies: Their Wonderful World

  • Bailiffs

  • Bang on Budget

  • Battlechefs

  • Beauty and the Beast

  • Being Human USA

  • Believe

  • Ben Earl: Trick Artist

  • Best in Town

  • Betty White's Off Their Rockers

  • Beverly Hills Pawn

  • Big Meets Bigger

  • Billionaire Boy

  • Bin There, Dump That

  • Black Power - America's Armed Resistance

  • Booze Patrol Australia

  • Border Patrol

  • Brainboxes

  • Brainwashing Stacey

  • Brother Vs Brother

  • Bryan Inc

  • Cars, Cops and Criminals

  • Celebrity Advice Bureau

  • Celebrity Haunted Hotel

  • Celebrity Haunted Mansion

  • Celebrity Haunted Mansion: High Spirits

  • Celebrity MasterChef

  • Charlotte's Web

  • Cherry Healey: How to Get a Life

  • Cherry Healey: Like a Virgin

  • Cherry Healey: Secrets Of The Sales

  • Chicago

  • Choccywoccydoodah

  • Choccywoccydoodah: Starstruck

  • Coastguard Florida

  • Code Black

  • Confessions from the Underground

  • Cops

  • Cops On The Rock

  • Covert Affairs

  • Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

  • Crisis

  • Dangerman: The Incredible Mr. Goodwin

  • Daredevils

  • Dark Shadows

  • Date Night

  • Dating With My Mates

  • David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

  • David Beckham: For the Love of the Game

  • David Beckham: Into The Unknown

  • Dead Calm

  • Derren Brown

  • DIY SOS

  • Doctor Foster

  • Doctor Who

  • Dr Christian Will See You Now

  • Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street

  • Dr Christian: Special Clinics

  • Dynamo Live At The O2

  • Dynamo: Magician Impossible

  • EastEnders

  • Educating Essex

  • Educating Yorkshire

  • Ella Enchanted

  • Emergency Bikers

  • Emily Atack: Adulting

  • Emma and AJ Get to Work

  • Emma Willis and AJ Odudu Get To Work

  • Emma Willis: Delivering Babies

  • Emma Willis: Delivering Babies in 2020

  • Emma Willis: Meet The Babies

  • Emma Willis: Special Births

  • Extreme Food Phobics

  • Fake Or Fortune?

  • Fantastic Mr Fox

  • Finding Joy

  • Five Star Babies: Inside the Portland Hospital

  • Flack

  • Flights & Fights - Inside the Low Cost Airlines

  • Flip or Flop

  • Gangsta Granny

  • Gavin & Stacey

  • Ghost

  • Great Ormond Street

  • Grimm

  • Groundhog Day

  • Guinness World Records Gone Wild

  • Happy Valley

  • Haunted Collector

  • Haunted Highway

  • Heston's Fantastical Food

  • Hollywood Treasure

  • Honey I Bought The House

  • Human Planet

  • Humble Pie

  • I've Got Something To Tell You

  • Iceland: Life in the Freezer Cabinet

  • In The Club

  • Inside British Vogue

  • Inside Harley Street

  • Inside The Ambulance

  • Inside the Ambulance: Wonder Women

  • Inside the Operating Theatre

  • Inside the Vets

  • Jackpots and Jinxes: Lottery Stories

  • Jamie: Drag Queen at 16

  • Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out

  • Jo Frost Nanny on Tour

  • John Bishop: In Conversation With...

  • John Bishop's Australia

  • Jonathan Creek

  • Judge Faith

  • Katherine Mills: Mind Games

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 2

  • Kingdom of Heaven

  • Kolkata With Sue Perkins

  • Leaving Amish Paradise

  • Life & Death Row

  • Life and Birth

  • Life Is Toff

  • Louis Theroux (Various)

  • Love Connection

  • Luther

  • MasterChef Australia

  • Masterchef Australia Celebrity

  • MasterChef Australia Junior

  • Masterchef Canada

  • MasterChef Junior USA

  • Masterchef Junior USA Celebrity Showdown

  • MasterChef USA

  • MasterChef USA Celebrity Showdown

  • MasterChef USA: Legends

  • Million Dollar Intern

  • Million Dollar Wedding Planner

  • Miranda

  • Motorway Cops

  • Mr Stink

  • Murdered by My Boyfriend

  • Murdered by My Father

  • My Best Friend's Wedding

  • My Breasts and Me

  • My Dream Home

  • My Family

  • My Famous Babysitter

  • My Kitchen Rules Australia

  • My Restaurant In India

  • My Restaurant Rules New Zealand

  • Myleene Klass: Miscarriage & Me

  • Nev's Indian Call Centre

  • Never Seen A Doctor

  • Nigel Marven's Cruise Ship Adventure

  • Nurses Down Under

  • Nurses on the Ward

  • Oddities

  • Olly Alexander: Growing Up Gay

  • One Born Every Minute

  • One Born Every Minute Australia

  • One Born: Twins and Triplets

  • One Born: What Happened Next?

  • Ordinary Lies

  • Outnumbered

  • Paramedics: Emergency Response

  • Parks and Recreation

  • Perception

  • Pixels

  • Planet Dinosaur

  • Planet Earth

  • Plastic Surgery Undressed

  • Plate of Origin

  • Plus Size Love

  • Pride and Prejudice

  • Primeval: New World

  • Professor Branestawm Returns

  • Property Brothers at Home

  • Property Brothers: Double Down

  • Property Brothers: Family Flashback

  • Property Brothers: Forever Homes

  • Pulp Fiction

  • Recruits: Paramedics

  • Renovate My Home: Leave it to Bryan

  • Rent A Cop

  • Rescue: Code One

  • Restoration Man

  • Resurrection

  • Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey

  • Rio and Kate: Becoming a Stepfamily

  • Rio Ferdinand - Being Mum And Dad

  • Road Patrol Australia

  • Rochelle Humes: Interior Designer in the Making

  • Rumor Has It

  • Russell Howard's Good News

  • Sara Cox ON Friendship

  • Sea City

  • Secret Life of the Ballroom

  • Secrets And Lies

  • Seven Envelopes

  • Seven Pounds

  • Sherlock

  • Should I Go Under The Knife?

  • Silk

  • Singing In The Rainforest

  • Ski A&E

  • Sky Cops

  • Sophie ON Fame

  • Spider-Man 2

  • Stacey Dooley in the USA

  • Stacey Dooley Investigates

  • Stansted: The Inside Story

  • Step Brothers

  • Stranded

  • Sun, Sea and Brides to Be

  • Supernanny U.S.

  • Supersize My Job

  • Sweet Sixteen: A Transgender Story

  • The Baby Has Landed

  • The Bill

  • The Blue Planet

  • The Boy in the Dress

  • The C Word

  • The Catherine Tate Show

  • The Da Vinci Code

  • The Davina Hour

  • The Dressing Room

  • The Exorcism of Emily Rose

  • The Girl With Seven Mums

  • The Happenings

  • The Honourable Woman

  • The Hunger Games

  • The Legend of Zorro

  • The Mask Of Zorro

  • The Mekong River With Sue Perkins

  • The Men Who Jump Off Buildings

  • The Musketeers

  • The Princess Bride

  • The Route Masters: Running London's Roads

  • The Roux Scholarship 2013

  • The Secret of Crickley Hall

  • The Secrets In My Family

  • The Strain

  • The Three Day Nanny

  • The Town That Caught Tourette's

  • The Ultimate Matchmaker

  • The Undateables

  • The Wave

  • The Wedding Fixer

  • The World According to Kids

  • Tipping Point

  • Tipping Point: Lucky Stars

  • Top Chef

  • Traffic Cops

  • Trouble in Amish Paradise

  • Undercover Boss

  • Unlocking the Truth

  • Vogue Williams: For Love of Money

  • Vogue Williams: Going It Alone

  • Vogue Williams: My Anxious Life

  • W1A

  • Wanted in Paradise

  • Wayne Rooney - The Man Behind the Goals

  • Who Do You Think You Are?

  • Who Do You Think You Are? USA

  • Wild Justice

  • Wild Wild West

  • Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonald

  • Women On The Force

  • Women on the Verge

  • World's Most Talented

  • World's Strictest Parents Australia

  • World's Strictest Parents USA

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W is available on all the major TV boxes like Sky Q, Virgin TV, and BT TV. W is included with the basic Sky Signature package, so if you're subscribed to Sky, you automatically have access to this channel.

Virgin Media offers W to customers on the Big bundle or higher. If you have BT TV, you'll need to be on the VIP package to watch W.

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