Beginning on 3 February 1997, the TCC block was spun-off by Flextech into its own channel - Trouble, running from 12:00pm-8:00pm, timesharing with Bravo, which had removed its daytime broadcast hours in order to focus more on an adult male audience.

On 3 April 1998, Flextech closed down The Children's Channel without prior warning, with the company citifying that they wanted to focus more on the teenage market.

With this, Trouble expanded its broadcast hours and now started at 7.00am, although it remained timesharing with Bravo[1] while TCC's former slot became home to TV Travel Shop.

On Sky Digital and NTL, Trouble was in the children's section, due to being a channel aimed at teenage year groups.

[3] Following this news, on 17 March, Virgin Media Television announced that they would close down Trouble outright and replace it with an unknown Living network, later revealed to be a two-hour timeshift of the main channel.