Dubai One is Dubai Media Incorporated

Dubai Media Incorporated

Dubai Media Incorporated is the official media organization of the government of Dubai. It was established in 2003 as a government-owned company comprising a number of print, radio and TV channels under its umbrella including: Dubai TV, Al Bayan, Sama Dubai, Dubai One, Dubai Sports, Dubai Racing,...

's 24-hour free-to-air English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 entertainment channel available in the Middle East

Middle East

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 and North Africa

North Africa

North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, linked by the Sahara to Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes eight countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, and...

. It was launched on December 24, 2004. The channel focuses on the events happening in and around the city of Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

, United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

.

History

The channel was launched as replacement for Channel 33. Dubai One launched on December 24, 2004, bearing a new name with brand new programming targeting the ex-pat community and westernized Arabs.

Fall Season 2010/2011

• Emirates News
• Studio One (TV Series)
  Studio One (TV Series)
  Studio One is a live daily lifestyle show broadcast on Dubai One in the Middle East and Africa. Created by the same team that produced Dubai One's popular weekly show Ask One, Studio One is known for its eclectic mix of lifestyle features and celebrity interviews and is primarily aimed at women and...
  
  
• World of Sports (TV Series)
  World of Sports (TV series)
  Launched in April 2010, World of Sports was a weekly sports show featuring a mixture of local and international sports highlights, studio and telephone interviews with sporting personalities and a variety of sports related features. Series One was hosted by Layne Redman with Tom Urquhart, Mark...
  
  
• Out & About This Week
• Dubai 101
• Emirates 24/7
  Emirates 24/7
  Emirates 24|7 and Emirates 24/7 are a Dubai Media Incorporated news website and television news programme, respectively. The televised news programme, Emirates 24/7, is a 30 minute segment broadcast weekly on Dubai Media Inc.'s television channel Dubai One, presenting news and business stories of...
  
  
• Emirati
• Twenty Something
• Supernatural
  Supernatural
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• Smallville
  Smallville
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• Moonlight
  Moonlight
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• King of Queens
• Hope and Faith
• The Big Bang Theory
  The Big Bang Theory
  The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers...
  
  
• The Bold and the Beautiful
  The Bold and the Beautiful
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• Gossip Girl
  Gossip Girl
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• Veronica Mars
  Veronica Mars
  Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
  
  
• The Sopranos
  The Sopranos
  The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...
  
  
• Everwood
  Everwood
  Everwood is an American drama television series that initially aired in the United States on The WB. The series is set in the fictional small town of Everwood, Colorado, and was filmed in Ogden, South Salt Lake, and Draper, Utah, except the series pilot which was filmed in Canmore, Alberta,...
  
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• And four movies everyday from 21.00 to 3.00

Programming

Generally, the channel broadcasts syndicated programming from the United States and occasionally from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. In addition, Dubai One TV currently offers three movies per night, and has screened to date more than 300 films. The channel also repeats programming it has broadcast during the week on Friday, known as "Catch Up Friday". Dubai One has a partnership with Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 and Disney

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

 which gives them a large access of movies. Recently, Dubai One has started showing Bollywood films once a month on Thursday night at 11 pm U.A.E. time. The offered programs suffer from a certain amount of censorship that tries to control scenes involving a certain level of sexuality and occasionally political, and this is done to retain the consistency of the U.A.E's moral and religious Islamic culture.

Dubai One also airs the most watched TV series in the world The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....

9 months behind the United States (CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 Network).

In-house Production

The channel broadcasts a variety of in-house productions including Studio One (TV Series)

Studio One (TV Series)

Studio One is a live daily lifestyle show broadcast on Dubai One in the Middle East and Africa. Created by the same team that produced Dubai One's popular weekly show Ask One, Studio One is known for its eclectic mix of lifestyle features and celebrity interviews and is primarily aimed at women and...

, Out & About This Week, Emirates 24/7, Dubai 101, Emirati and Twenty Something.

Previous productions include Her Say, Bonds for Life, World of Sports (TV Series)

World of Sports (TV series)

Launched in April 2010, World of Sports was a weekly sports show featuring a mixture of local and international sports highlights, studio and telephone interviews with sporting personalities and a variety of sports related features. Series One was hosted by Layne Redman with Tom Urquhart, Mark...

and City Wrap.