Paramount Comedy Channel

The Paramount Comedy Channel was a British pay television channel that carried comedy programming, both original and syndicated. The channel was specific to audiences within the United Kingdom and Ireland although somewhat aligned with the original US version of the channel. The channel was launched as The Paramount Channel in 1995, before rebranding as Paramount Comedy in 1997 and again as Paramount Comedy 1 in 2004 before finally becoming Comedy Central on April 6th 2009.