NBC Universal Cable Entertainment will launch Sleuth, a 24-hour entertainment cable channel dedicated to the popular - and enduring - crime, mystery and suspense genre. The new channel will feature crime and mystery classics from NBC Universal's library of feature films, classic television shows, reality series and documentaries.

Programming will include popular and cult television series like Miami Vice, The A-Team, and Knight Rider. Crime, mystery and suspense films like Scarface, The Jackal, Casino, Sneakers and Mercury Rising will be featured in standard-definition and high-definition (HD) lineups, with at least 20 hours of content from the channels offered on demand at any given time to consumers. The channel will debut Jan. 1, 2006.