40+ is a British television channel that shows pornographic content on a pay-per-view basis. The channel has been owned by MG Global Entertainment (Europe) Limited since 2020 when MG acquired the channel's previous owner, Portland TV. The channel began broadcasting on Sky in June 2000 as one of a group of channels called Red Hot TV. The channels were owned by Portland TV which also owned the pornographic subscription channel Television X. Portland TV was a division of Northern & Shell until it was sold in April 2016 in a management buy-out. The name of the group of channels was changed to Xrated in 2017, and now only a single channel remains, which is currently called 40+. History Red Hot TV was launched in June 2000 as a set of pornographic television channels. By 2005, 8 Channels were branded under the name including a Movie Channel. Many of these channels changed their names or closed throughout the subsequent years. In 2007 the channels were all renamed. On 28 August 2008 Red Hot Raw and Red Hot Viewers were both removed from the Sky electronic programme guide (EPG) and their EPG slots were sold off. The slots were changed into "Pulse" timeshifts and then later sold again to other broadcasters. In August 2009 Red Hot TV attempted to get into the record books by organizing Britain's biggest gang bang, which they named "The Great British Gang Bang". During this time Portland TV launched some free-to-air televised sex line services that went alongside Red Hot called Filth, Cream and Skincity. These channels launched and closed several times over the course of several years. Portland TV also launched another pay-per-view channel at this time called Viewer's Wives, which was in the same section as Red Hot TV. In September 2009 the channel Xplicit Nightly (Xplicit XXX) started to have its programming supplied by Red Hot. In October 2009 an EPG slot formally belonging to Filth was used to launch Red Hot Mums after the Red Hot channels rebranded. At the start of 2012 eight channels were broadcast by Red Hot TV, including Red Hot Fetish and Red Hot Dirty Talk. However, during that year the channels were reduced to three: Red Hot 18's, Red Hot Mums and Red Hot Amateur. In 2016 only one channel under the Red Hot name remained, as the other 2 had been renamed Xtreme Filth and Viewer's Wives.