A
high definition version launched on
Sky UK and
Sky Ireland on 5 November 2008. Crime+Investigation HD originally operated on a separate schedule to the standard definition channel and timeshared with
Bio. HD. On 3 July 2012, Bio. HD closed to allow Crime + Investigation HD to broadcast 24 hours a day,
simulcasting the standard definition channel. A one-hour timeshift channel named
CI +1 launched on Sky UK on 2 March 2009. Since the rebranding in January 2017, this has been named
Crime+Investigation +1 and is on Sky channel 256. The channel launched in the
Netherlands in July 2011. Followed by Romania through
UPC Romania on 2 September 2013 and Italy through
Sky Italia on 17 December 2013. The French channel
Planète+ Justice was rebranded as Planète+ Crime&Investigation on 13 November 2013, in a partnership between
Groupe Canal+ and A&E Networks. The co-branding was dropped on 17 February 2022 when it renamed to Planète+ Crime. The network launched on BT TV on 15 August 2013 and TalkTalk in the UK on 28 August 2014. It is on the Entertainment Extra Boost along with
History. The HD channel launched on Virgin Media channel 222 in the UK on 21 July 2018. At the same time, the timeshift channel also launched on there on channel 224. On 6 November 2018, the
European Commission ordered A&E Networks UK to divest its factual channels, as a condition of Disney's acquisition of
21st Century Fox. It was announced on 1 October 2019 that the channel, along with Sister channels,
History and
Lifetime would no longer be packaged by MultiChoice's DStv across Africa by the end of October, 2019 after its carriage contract broke down between the
A+E Networks and
MultiChoice. but since they reached carriage agreement with Multichoice and A+E Networks,
History and
Lifetime are kept, but Crime+Investigation was dropped from the platform. ==References==