Granada Plus (or at the time of closure, Plus) was a digital channel run by Granada Sky Broadcasting, which broadcast archive programming from ITV and BBC as-well as US drama imports.
Despite Granada Sky Broadcasting confirming numerous times that Plus would be staying on-air after the launch of ITV3, ITV and Sky reached a deal which would result in ITV buying out Sky's 49.5% stake in GSkyB. This allowed ITV full control of the remaining GSkyB channels, Plus and Men & Motors.
Meanwhile, the team at Granada Plus were completely unaware of this, having already sent their regular highlights email at 3:50pm. It was only 10 minutes before their abrupt closure that they were told of what was happening.
The last programme to be shown on Plus was the first episode of Pie in the Sky, however only half of the episode was shown as the channel suddenly cut to a GSkyB slide and looped music in the middle of their second ad break. Transmissions ceased shortly after, and the channel slots were replaced with the newly-launched ITV3. ITV2 had also been moved to a higher channel slot than prior.
This was difficult to construct due to the lack of resources in terms of Granada Plus. This video was based off descriptions of the abrupt closure from various forum threads like TV Forum and Digital Spy, and the adverts were extracted from a Five recording.
I am unsure if this is exactly how they've closed so if anybody has any recollection of their closure, please do let me know as I would like to make this mock as accurate as possible.
This was the planned schedule on the night they closed, 1st November 2004:
6:00am: I Dream of Jeannie (How Lucky Can You Get?)
6:30am: Bless This House (Father's Day)
7:00am: The Darling Buds of May (When the Greet Woods Laugh, Part 1)
8:00am: Ever Decreasing Circles (Neighbourhood Watch)
8:30am: Don't Wait Up (S06E02)
9:00am: Coronation Street (3654)
9:30am: Emmerdale (2827)
10:00am: The Darling Buds of May (When the Greet Woods Laugh, Part 1) - REPEAT
11:00am: Pie in the Sky (The Best of Both Worlds)
12:00pm: Coronation Street (3654) - REPEAT
12:30pm: Emmerdale (2827) - REPEAT
1:00pm: Ever Decreasing Circles (Neighbourhood Watch) - REPEAT
1:30pm: Don't Wait Up (S06E02) - REPEAT
2:00pm: The Saint (The Queen's Ransom)
3:00pm: Murder, She Wrote (Broadway Malady)
4:00pm: Pie in the Sky (The Best of Both Worlds) - REPEAT, TAKEN OFF HALF-WAY THROUGH
5:00pm: Wycliffe (Number of the Beast) - NOT BROADCAST
6:00pm: Columbo: Etude in Black - NOT BROADCAST
8:00pm: Wycliffe (Number of the Beast) - REPEAT, NOT BROADCAST
9:00pm: Blue Murder (Love and Marriage) - NOT BROADCAST, ITV3 would've launched around this time
10:00pm: Taggart (Gingerbread) - NOT BROADCAST
11:00pm: P D James - A Certain Justice (Part 1) - NOT BROADCAST
12:00am: Hawaii Five-O (One for the Money) - NOT BROADCAST
1:00am: Emmerdale (2827) - REPEAT, NOT BROADCAST
1:30am: Coronation Street (3654) - REPEAT, NOT BROADCAST
2:00am: The Darling Buds of May (When the Greet Woods Laugh, Part 1) - REPEAT, NOT BROADCAST
3:00am: Teleshopping - NOT BROADCAST
They have had schedules prepared for christmas 2004 and early 2005.
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