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It's a Crime: NBC Ready to Launch New Cable Channel

  • WSJ, Thursday, November 3, 2005 11:23 AM
NBC Universal--drawing on the Universal Studios unit of the now-combined media conglom--yesterday announced that on January 1 it will launch a new channel, Sleuth, devoted to TV cops and robbers of a bygone time. Many of the programs and films set to air on Sleuth ("Miami Vice," "The A-Team," "Scarface," "Casino," for example) will be extracted from the Universal vault and dusted off for cable-TV audiences. A distribution deal with Time Warner Cable will enable Sleuth to launch in five million homes. There are no plans at this time to redistribute any of NBC's current crime shows (the popular "Law & Order" franchise dramas, for instance) on the cable outlet. Likewise, there are no current plans to produce fresh programming exclusively for Sleuth.

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