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</style><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">DEF II</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Network</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">9 May 1988<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1988-05-09</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Closed</th><td class="infobox-data">23 May 1994<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="dtend">1994-05-23</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Key people</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Janet_Street-Porter" title="Janet Street-Porter">Janet Street-Porter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Format</th><td class="infobox-data">Programming to serve the <a href="Teenage" class="mw-redirect" title="Teenage">teenage</a> market</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original language(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>DEF II</b> was a <a href="Programming_block" class="mw-redirect" title="Programming block">programming strand</a> on <a href="BBC2" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC2">BBC2</a>, which aired at 6 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 May 1988<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to 23 May 1994,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to serve the <a href="Teenage" class="mw-redirect" title="Teenage">teenage</a> market. It was produced by <a href="Janet_Street-Porter" title="Janet Street-Porter">Janet Street-Porter</a>, and followed on from her influential youth TV show <i><a href="Network_7_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Network 7 (TV series)">Network 7</a></i> on <a href="Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-offthetelly_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-offthetelly-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Many of the presenters and staff on <i>DEF II</i> started their careers on <i>Network 7</i><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and had followed Street-Porter when she was "poached" by the BBC.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It had an <a href="Television_ident" class="mw-redirect" title="Television ident">ident</a> featuring a <a href="Barcode" title="Barcode">barcode</a> which differed from the usual idents used on BBC2.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="DEF_II_shows">DEF II shows</h2></div>
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Programmes shown as part of DEF II included both original content, such as <i>Reportage</i>, as well as those from other sources, such as American sitcoms and programmes from Europe (as seen in <i>Jovanotti's Gimme 5</i>.). These included:
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<ul><li><i>Babylon II</i></li>
<li><i>DEF II: EXTRA!</i></li>
<li><i><a href="Battlestar_Galactica_(1978_TV_series)" title="Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)">Battlestar Galactica</a></i> (Continued on BBC2 until 2001)</li>
<li><i><a href="The_Big_Trip_Travel_show" class="mw-redirect" title="The Big Trip Travel show">The Big Trip</a></i> (1994–1996)</li>
<li><i><a href="Buck_Rogers_in_the_25th_Century_(TV_series)" title="Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)">Buck Rogers in the 25th Century</a></i> (Continued on BBC2 until 1997)</li>
<li><i>Cyberzone</i><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Dance Energy</i></li>
<li><i><a href="Degrassi_Junior_High" title="Degrassi Junior High">Degrassi Junior High</a></i> (1988; Four episodes, three BBC1 refused to air previously and one repeat)</li>
<li><i><a href="The_Fresh_Prince_of_Bel-Air" title="The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air">The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Continued on BBC2 until 2004)</li>
<li><i><a href="Jovanotti" title="Jovanotti">Gimme 5</a></i> (presented by <a href="Jovanotti" title="Jovanotti">Jovanotti</a> aka Gino Latino)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Goggle-Eyes#Television_adaptation" title="Goggle-Eyes">Goggle Eyes</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="The_Invaders" title="The Invaders">The Invaders</a></i> (Continued on BBC2 until the late 1990s)</li>
<li><i>Les Lives!</i></li>
<li><i><a href="Liquid_Television" title="Liquid Television">Liquid Television</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="The_Living_Soap" title="The Living Soap">The Living Soap</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Mission%3A_Impossible_(1966_TV_series)" title="Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)">Mission: Impossible</a></i> (Continued on BBC2 until the late 1990s)</li>
<li><i><a href="Open_to_Question" title="Open to Question">Open to Question</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Rapido_(television)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rapido (television)">Rapido</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="The_Real_McCoy_(TV_series)" title="The Real McCoy (TV series)">The Real McCoy</a></i> (Continued on BBC2 until 1996)</li>
<li><i><a href="The_Ren_%26_Stimpy_Show" title="The Ren & Stimpy Show">The Ren & Stimpy Show</a></i> (Continued on BBC2 until 1999)</li>
<li><i>Reportage</i></li>
<li><i><a href="Rough_Guide" class="mw-redirect" title="Rough Guide">Rough Guides to the World</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Standing_Room_Only_(1991_TV_programme)" title="Standing Room Only (1991 TV programme)">Standing Room Only</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i><a href="Snub_TV" title="Snub TV">Snub TV</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Wayne's_World" title="Wayne's World">Wayne's World</a></i> (not the films but the <i><a href="Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i> sketches. Approx 10-minute slots)<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="BBC_Switch" title="BBC Switch">BBC Switch</a>, BBC Two's second programming block aimed at teenagers</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050904112737/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/l/leslives_1299001879.shtml"><i>Les Lives</i> </a> at <a href="BBC_Online" title="BBC Online">BBC Online</a> Comedy Guide (<a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/oldott/www.offthetelly.co.uk/indexd083.html"><i>DEF II Revisited</i></a> on Off The Telly</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="BabyTV" title="BabyTV">BabyTV</a></li>
<li><a href="Boomerang_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" title="Boomerang (British and Irish TV channel)">Boomerang</a></li>
<li><a href="Cartoon_Network_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cartoon Network (British and Irish TV channel)">Cartoon Network</a></li>
<li><a href="Cartoonito_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cartoonito (British and Irish TV channel)">Cartoonito</a></li>
<li><a href="CBBC" title="CBBC">CBBC</a></li>
<li><a href="CBeebies" title="CBeebies">CBeebies</a></li>
<li>Moochi</li>
<li><a href="Nick_Jr._(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nick Jr. (British and Irish TV channel)">Nick Jr.</a></li>
<li><a href="Nick_Jr._Too" class="mw-redirect" title="Nick Jr. Too">Nick Jr. Too</a></li>
<li><a href="Nickelodeon_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nickelodeon (British and Irish TV channel)">Nickelodeon</a></li>
<li><a href="Nicktoons_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicktoons (British and Irish TV channel)">Nicktoons</a></li>
<li><a href="Pop_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" title="Pop (British and Irish TV channel)">Pop</a></li>
<li><a href="Tiny_Pop" title="Tiny Pop">Tiny Pop</a></li>
<li><a href="Sky_Kids_(TV_channel)" title="Sky Kids (TV channel)">Sky Kids</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="C%C3%BAla4" title="Cúla4">Cúla4</a></li>
<li><a href="RT%C3%89jr" title="RTÉjr">RTÉjr</a></li></ul>
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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Blocks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="CITV" title="CITV">CITV</a> (on <a href="ITV2" title="ITV2">ITV2</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Cyw" title="Cyw">Cyw</a> (on <a href="S4C" title="S4C">S4C</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Milkshake!" title="Milkshake!">Milkshake!</a> (on <a href="5_(British_TV_channel)" title="5 (British TV channel)">5</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Stwnsh" title="Stwnsh">Stwnsh</a> (on S4C)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="C%C3%BAla4" title="Cúla4">Cúla4</a> (on <a href="TG4" title="TG4">TG4</a>)</li>
<li><a href="RT%C3%89_Kids" title="RTÉ Kids">RTÉ Kids</a> (on <a href="RT%C3%892" title="RTÉ2">RTÉ2</a>)</li></ul>
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<li><a href="Capital_Disney" title="Capital Disney">Capital Disney</a> (defunct)</li>
<li><a href="Fun_Kids" title="Fun Kids">Fun Kids</a></li>
<li><a href="Reprezent" title="Reprezent">Reprezent</a></li>
<li><a href="Takeover_Radio" title="Takeover Radio">Takeover Radio</a></li>
<li><a href="RT%C3%89_Jr_Radio" title="RTÉ Jr Radio">RTÉ Jr Radio</a> (Ireland only)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Disney%2B" title="Disney+">Disney+</a></li>
<li><a href="BBC_iPlayer" title="BBC iPlayer">BBC iPlayer</a></li>
<li><a href="5_(streaming_service)" title="5 (streaming service)">5</a></li>
<li><a href="ITVX" title="ITVX">ITVX</a></li>
<li><a href="Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a></li>
<li><a href="Paramount%2B" title="Paramount+">Paramount+</a></li>
<li><a href="Pop_Player" class="mw-redirect" title="Pop Player">Pop Player</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="AnimeCentral" title="AnimeCentral">AnimeCentral</a></li>
<li><a href="BabyFirst" title="BabyFirst">BabyFirstTV</a></li>
<li><a href="Carlton_Kids" title="Carlton Kids">Carlton Kids</a></li>
<li><a href="Cartoon_Network_Too" title="Cartoon Network Too">Cartoon Network Too</a></li>
<li><a href="The_Children's_Channel" title="The Children's Channel">The Children's Channel</a></li>
<li><a href="CNX_(TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="CNX (TV channel)">CNX</a></li>
<li><a href="Discovery_Kids_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" title="Discovery Kids (British and Irish TV channel)">Discovery Kids</a></li>
<li><a href="Disney_Channel_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney Channel (British and Irish TV channel)">Disney Channel</a></li>
<li><a href="Disney_Cinemagic" title="Disney Cinemagic">Disney Cinemagic</a></li>
<li><a href="Disney_Junior_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney Junior (British and Irish TV channel)">Disney Junior</a></li>
<li><a href="Disney_XD_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney XD (British and Irish TV channel)">Disney XD</a></li>
<li><a href="Challenge_(TV_channel)" title="Challenge (TV channel)">The Family Channel</a></li>
<li><a href="Nicktoonsters" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicktoonsters">Nicktoonsters</a></li>
<li><a href="Pop_Girl" title="Pop Girl">Pop Girl</a></li>
<li><a href="Pop_Max" title="Pop Max">Pop Max</a></li>
<li><a href="Pop_Plus" class="mw-redirect" title="Pop Plus">Pop Plus</a></li>
<li><a href="Disney_Cinemagic" title="Disney Cinemagic">Sky Cinema Disney</a></li>
<li><a href="Toon_Disney" title="Toon Disney">Toon Disney</a></li>
<li><a href="Toonami_(British_and_Irish_TV_channel)" title="Toonami (British and Irish TV channel)">Toonami</a></li>
<li><a href="Trouble_(TV_channel)" title="Trouble (TV channel)">Trouble</a></li>
<li><a href="ZooMoo" title="ZooMoo">ZooMoo</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="BBC_Switch" title="BBC Switch">BBC Switch</a></li>
<li><a href="The_Den_(TV_programme)" title="The Den (TV programme)">The Den</a> (on <a href="RT%C3%891" class="mw-redirect" title="RTÉ1">RTÉ1</a> and RTÉ2)</li>
<li><a href="LittleBe" title="LittleBe">LittleBe</a> (on <a href="ITVBe" title="ITVBe">ITVBe</a>) (UK only)</li>
<li><a href="Planed_Plant" title="Planed Plant">Planed Plant</a></li>
<li><a href="Scrambled!" title="Scrambled!">Scrambled!</a></li>
<li><a href="Shake!" title="Shake!">Shake!</a></li>
<li><a href="T4_(Channel_4)" title="T4 (Channel 4)">T4</a></li>
<li><a href="Tiny_Living" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiny Living">Tiny Living</a></li>
<li><a href="Toonattik" title="Toonattik">Toonattik</a></li>
<li><a href="Wknd%40stv" title="Wknd@stv">wknd@stv</a> (Scotland only)</li></ul>
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