Steel was an Italian entertainment TV channel, owned by NBCUniversal and broadcast on Premium Gallery, a Digital terrestrial television service in Italy.
It started broadcasting on 19 January 2008 at 13:30 (CET Time).
It was aimed at a male audience and broadcast action and science fiction / fantasy TV series and movies with a branded block called Syfy (SciFi until 30 June 2011). At launch, it also carried the Italian premiere of the Warner Bros./Chuck Lorre sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Steel was not available on satellite television and was not available outside Italy.
On 1 April 2013, Steel was shut down and replaced by Premium Action, which was entirely produced by Mediaset Premium, without NBCUniversal's collaboration.