Crackanory, Suits and Storage Hunters now available on the go for Android users for the first time

Monday 9 February 2015 The UKs fastest growing commercial broadcaster, UKTV today launched its popular TV application UKTV Play on Android.

UKTVs on demand service, which is already available on iOS, PC and YouView, gives viewers easy access to watch their favourite programmes from UKTVs popular free-to-air channels, whenever and wherever they are.

The free UKTV Play app offers a catalogue of hit shows from the UKs most watched non-PSB channel, Dave, popular entertainment channel Really and the UKs number one factual history channel, Yesterday. Now Android users can enjoy instant entertainment, with some of UKTVs greatest programmes including Suits, Storage Hunters UK, Crackanory, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Forbidden History, Inquisition, The Sixties, Crime Stories, Most Haunted and Ghost Adventures, along with a selection of fantastic BBC shows, available to watch on demand.

Dan Fahy, UKTVs Director, Commercial and Business Development, said,

We created UKTV Play so that viewers can watch UKTVs great shows anytime, anywhere. When we launched UKTV Play on iOS last year, Apple chose to feature it as one of their Best New Apps, which is testament to its popularity, design and functionality. I feel confident the millions of people with Android devices are going to really love it too.

The news follows the launch of the service on PC and YouView in November, and this months launch of UKTV Play on Virgin On Demand, which offers catch up for all of UKTVs ten channels.

Download the Android app here.

Get the iOS app on iTunes or to view UKTV Play on PC or Mac, visit uktvplay.co.uk

END For more information, please contact:

Lara Feinstein, Corporate Communications Coordinator

Kerry Parker, Head of Network Communications

About UKTV Play UKTV Play is the on demand TV service that lets you watch shows from Dave, Yesterday and Really whether youre on the bus, at work (we wont tell) or on the sofa. Among the gems on offer are Storage Hunters, Crackanory, Dave Gorman Modern Life is Goodish, Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, Ghost Adventures, Most Haunted and Forbidden History, so its never been easier to fill your boots with great stuff from UKTV. You can get UKTV Play on PC and Mac, and theres an app for iPhone and iPad. Or you can put your feet up and watch on the telly, thanks to Virgin TV and YouView. If youre an M+ subscriber on Virgin Media, shows from other great UKTV channels - Gold, Watch, Alibi, Drama, Good Food, Home and Eden - are on the menu as well.

uktvplay.co.uk / Get the iOS app on iTunes / Download the Android app.

About UKTV UKTV is the multi-award winning media company that reaches over 42 million viewers every month.

UKTVs eleven imaginative brands - UKTV Play, Dave, Watch, Gold, Alibi, Yesterday, Drama, Really, Home, Eden and Good Food - include the most popular non-PSB channel in the UK and account for 9% of the British commercial TV market. The companys most recent financial results showed record-breaking year-end revenue of £278m, and EBITDA of £67.4m. It invested a record £125m in programming and related launches last year, and is becoming an increasingly significant investor in UK creativity.

UKTV has a truly innovative model, curating brand-defining commissions, high-profile acquisitions and the very best of BBC, alongside programmes originally shown on ITV and Channel 4. The network embraces technology to deliver inspired channels to audiences through Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, BT, TalkTalk, YouView and UKTV Play, and distributes its highly valued original programmes to 200 territories.

Now celebrating its 21st year at the forefront of digital television, UKTV - an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. (SNI) - is proud to be the only British television broadcaster to be recognised by Best Companies.

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