Discovery Travel & Living Europe is a television channel broadcasting to several countries in Europe.

The channel was originally known as Discovery Travel & Adventure Channel and then featured more adventure-related programmes. On February 1, 2005, the channel changed its name to Discovery Travel & Living and changed its programming. It would now heavily feature lifestyle programming about travel, food, design, architecture and luxury.

In May 2009, the channel adopted a new logo and a new look and repositioned itself slightly.

TLC rebrand

For most of the 2000s, the channel was broadcasting one single version to all of Europe, except the United Kingdom and Italy. Discovery Travel & Living Poland

Discovery Travel & Living Poland

TLC is a television channel which broadcasts lifestyle programmes to Poland. It targets mature women and broadcasts programmes related to lifestyle, health, food, and more....

 was launched on September 15, 2009. Starting in 2010, Discovery Networks have started launching further local channels called TLC. These replace the Pan-European Discovery Travel & Living.

The following channels have replaced (or are planned to replace) the Pan-European version of Discovery Travel & Living.

• TLC Poland (launched September 2009, became TLC in October 2010)
• TLC Norway
  TLC Norway
  TLC is a Norwegian television channel. Its primary target is women between25 and 49 . The channel launched on March 4, 2010 and replaced Discovery Travel & Living Europe....
  
   (launched March 4, 2010)
• TLC Balkans (launched October 1, 2010)
• TLC Sweden
  TLC Sweden
  TLC is a Swedish television channel. Its primary target is women between 25 and 49. It will launch on December 2, 2010, replacing Discovery Travel & Living Europe in Sweden....
  
   (launched December 2, 2010)
• TLC Romania (launched January 20, 2011)
• TLC Denmark (launched October 6, 2011)

In the Netherlands on Ziggo, Investigation Discovery replaced Discovery Travel & Living on the 4th of July 2011

Programming

Programmes broadcast on the channel include:

• Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
• Cake Boss
  Cake Boss
  Cake Boss is an American reality television series, airing on the cable television network TLC. Set at Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, the show mainly follows Buddy Valastro, his mother, four sisters, and three brothers-in-law, as they operate their business, with a focus on how they make...
  
  
• Europe's Richest People
• Flip That House
• Grand Designs
  Grand Designs
  Grand Designs is a British television series produced by Talkback Thames and broadcast on Channel 4 which features unusual and often elaborate architectural home-building projects....
  
  
• Jon & Kate Plus 8
  Jon & Kate Plus 8
  Jon & Kate Plus 8, named Kate Plus 8 from the sixth season on, is an American reality television series airing on TLC. It is produced by Figure 8 Films about the Gosselin family, consisting of parents Jon and Kate and their eight children: fraternal twins and sextuplets...
  
  
• LA Ink
  LA Ink
  LA Ink is an American reality show on TLC that follows the events of the High Voltage Tattoo tattoo studios in Los Angeles, California...
  
  
• Little People, Big World
  Little People, Big World
  Little People, Big World is a reality television series produced in the United States that aired on TLC. The series follows the six-member Roloff family farm near Portland, Oregon...
  
  
• Miami Ink
  Miami Ink
  Miami Ink is an American reality show on TLC that follows the events that took place at a tattoo shop in Miami Beach, Florida. The show premiered in July 2005 and has finished broadcasting its fourth season...
  
  
• Offspring (TV series)
  Offspring (TV series)
  Offspring is an Australian television comedy-drama series which premiered on Network Ten in Australia on 15 August 2010. Offspring is centred around 30-something obstetrician Nina Proudman and her family, as they navigate the chaos of modern life...
  
  
• Say Yes to the Dress
  Say Yes to the Dress
  Say Yes to the Dress is a TLC reality series which follows events at Kleinfeld Bridal in New York City. The series shows the progress of individual sales associates, managers, and fitters at the store, along with profiling brides as they search for the perfect wedding dress...
  
  
• Superhomes
• Take Home Chef
  Take Home Chef
  Take Home Chef is a half-hour reality cooking show starring Curtis Stone. It originally aired on TLC.-Format:In each episode, Stone introduces himself to a stranger in a grocery store, typically an attractive woman in her 20s or 30s, and asks if she is cooking a meal for someone that night. When...
  
  
• The World's Richest People
• Toddlers & Tiaras
  Toddlers & Tiaras
  Toddlers & Tiaras is an American reality series that debuted on TLC in 2009. The show follows the controversial world of child beauty pageants, looking closely at the pageant contestants and their families as the children prepare for their pageant shows...
  
  
• What not to wear
  What Not to Wear
  What Not to Wear is a BAFTA Award-nominated makeover reality television show launched by the BBC in 2001. It was presented by Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine for five series, bringing the pair to national prominence...
  
  
• While You Were Out
  While You Were Out
  While You Were Out was an hour-long American television reality program that aired episodes on the cable channel TLC. The format of the show is similar to TLC's Trading Spaces...
  
  

Distribution

In the Nordic region, Canal Digital

Canal Digital

Canal Digital is a Scandinavian television distributor and internet service provider that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay-TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor...

 holds exclusive rights to broadcast the channel on satellite. It became available from Canal Digital in September 1999 with Discovery Civilisation

Discovery World (TV channel)

Discovery World is a European television network known as Discovery Civilisation from 1999 - 2008. Discovery World offers an experience of the very best factual programming from around the globe. Discovery World showcases a rich and colourful selection of high quality factual programmes from around...

 and Discovery Sci-Trek

Discovery Science Europe/ME

Discovery Science Europe/ME is a television channel targeting the European countries and the Arab World, focusing on programmes relating science and technology. It is broadcast from Discovery Networks Europe in the United Kingdom using a broadcasting license from Ofcom.It is available from numerous...

. Following a new contract signed in late 2005, Discovery Travel & Living was moved to Canal Digital's family package.

Discovery Travel & Adventure was given a license to broadcast in the terrestrial network in Sweden in early 2004. Broadcasting could commence on April 26, 2004. Following a license change in March 2008, Discovery Travel & Living would have to move to a new transmitter network that, at the time had not yet been built. Discovery Travel & Living stopped broadcasting terrestrially on April 1, 2008. Due to a dispute between the transmitter company Teracom

Teracom

Teracom is a terrestrial broadcast transmission service company owned by the Swedish Government. Teracom owns all Swedish broadcast transmission sites, and distributes all terrestrial radio and TV channels, private as well as public-service, analogue as well as digital.Teracom Components is a...

 and Post and Telecom Agency, the transmitter network was delayed, which meant the channel couldn't resume its broadcasts. Broadcasts could commence once again in December 2009.

The channel is also available terrestrially in Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

and in Denmark from November 2009.