DATELINE 24/7

If the name suggests a news magazine, DATELINE 24/7 live is actually a channel running movies, specifically, the kind of mid-budget crime thrillers you'd find on late-night UK terrestrial TV. You get a lot of 90s and 2000s TV movies, often about serial killers or courtroom dramas, with familiar British character actors you recognize but can't name. The schedule repeats every few weeks. That's fine if you're just dropping in. Picture quality is variable, some titles look like they were transferred from tape. But for comfort viewing, it scratches an itch. The channel doesn't do original programming or deep cuts; it's curation by rights library. If you want a proper film festival, look elsewhere. But if you're ironing at 2pm and need something undemanding that still pretends to be serious, DATELINE 24/7 delivers. As a niche within the Movies tv United Kingdom landscape, it fills the true-crime-without-the-documentary gap. To watch DATELINE 24/7 online, Tvivu offers a steady feed of the UK version. It is what it is, and for some, that's enough.