ITV will be launching a new channel, ITV Encore on the 9th June 2014.

ITV Encore will be available exclusively on Sky.

ITV Encore will be available from the 9th June 2014 on Sky channel 123.

ITV Encore will be dedicated to playing ITV’s best dramas.

The output has been described as “another chance to see, or a fresh opportunity to discover, some of the best ITV drama of recent times”.

It will show programmes such as Broadchurch, Downton Abbey, The Widower, The Ice Cream Girls, Mrs Biggs, Lucan, Vera, Whitechapel and DCI Banks.