The Encore is over.

ITV Encore is to close down as a standard TV channel. The channel that showed many ITV dramas of the past such as Brideshead Revisted, Poirot and Upstairs,Downstairs plus new productions  such as the Frankenstein Chronicles will now become an premium box set service via services like Virgin.  If this is to herald a change with ITV's other digital stations remains to be seen.