Independent television since before algorithms ran the room.
Below the surface.
Original voices. Strange ideas. Music, comedy, culture, conversation and stories that don’t need permission to exist. This is Underground Television Network.
The network
Whatever’s
worth watching.
Underground TV has never belonged in one box. The network was built for original programming, personalities and ideas that could move freely between entertainment, information and outright weirdness.
Originals
Shows, formats and experiments born inside the network. New productions meet the UTV archive.
Music
Performances, artists, videos and noise from inside the Empire and beyond.
Talk + Culture
People worth hearing. Conversations worth having. No beige conference-room energy required.
Film + Story
Shorts, comedy, documentary work, behind-the-scenes material and visual storytelling.
Recovered transmissions
Watch the
archive.
Before everybody carried a television studio in their pocket, UTV was already building shows across music, comedy, books, culture, news, spirituality and whatever else caught our attention. Some aged beautifully. Some aged weirdly. We kept the tapes.
Bedrock TV
Los Angeles new-music television focused on rock, pop, local artists and emerging independent talent.
Bookster TV
An entertainment and promotional platform dedicated to authors, books and literary conversation.
Cartunes
Independent music, interviews and live performances from a new-music showcase built around cruising Los Angeles.
Good News Central
An intentionally all-good-news program built around true positive stories, interviews and guests.
Holy TV
A conversational platform presenting religions and spiritual beliefs with the goal of broadening perspectives and reducing intolerance.
MusicWatch
Independent and unsigned music from European and U.S. markets, produced in German and English.
The X Profiles
Sexually driven topics, adult-oriented products, profiles and themes translated into a mainstream talk-TV format.
Watch on YouTube ↗Beer Babble
Entertainment, education, current events and magnificently unserious conversation over beer.
Funnybone TV
Sketches, comedy clips and assorted funny shit from another corner of the original UTV universe.
Deep cuts
The
Vault.
More surviving transmissions from the old network. No dead-end archive pages. If it made the Vault, there’s something here to actually watch.
Die Talkshow
Independent German-language entertainment and conversation from Hamburg, hosted by Kamary Phillips.
Fake News TV
Satirical newscasts built around real stories, anchored by Bob Robert Bobbins.
Washingtoon D.C.
Animated political satire from one particularly dysfunctional version of Washington.
Life Is Reality TV
Bilingual DIY reality television documenting real life between Germany and the United States.
Tele Vision Doesn’t Need Another Gate Keeper.
Underground Television Network began with a simple instinct: interesting people and useful ideas deserve somewhere to live, whether or not traditional television knows what to do with them.
Through the years UTV has moved through entertainment, interviews, comedy, social commentary, education, music, animal welfare, reality programming and whatever else caught our attention.
That range isn’t a branding problem. It’s the point.
In 2026, Underground TV is part archive, part laboratory and part active network — backed by Empire Media Company and still willing to go where the interesting shit is.
Curious.
Still underground.
Signal restored
Underground
is back.
New programming, recovered archives and fresh transmissions are moving through the network again.