History
Paramount Comedy Channel was launched as a television brand in the United Kingdom on November 1, 1995. In the Republic of Ireland a Paramount Comedy Channel targeting the Irish market was launched on May 9, 2004. The channel was launched in Spain in March, 1999. The channel also launched in Arabia in 1996, but it went defunct in 2000.
In both the United Kingdom and Spain the channel originally shared the broadcast channel with corporate sibling Nickelodeon, but later the two separated. In Arabia, the channel timeshared with TV Land but the two networks disappeared in 2000. It broadcasts a mixture of comedy series (both local and international) and original programming with local and international comedians.
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