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Sky Cinema

Sky Cinema is a British subscription film service owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). In the United Kingdom, Sky Cinema channels currently broadcast on the Sky satellite and Virgin Media cable platforms, and in addition Sky Cinema on demand content are available through these as well as via Now, EE TV and TalkTalk TV.

This article is about the film channels in the UK and Ireland. For other uses, see Sky Cinema (disambiguation).

Country

United Kingdom

United Kingdom
Ireland

London, England

2160p UHDTV
(downscaled to 1080i and 16:9 576i for their HDTV and SDTV feeds respectively)

5 February 1989 (1989-02-05)

The Power Station on the BSB service

Sky Movies (1989–1998, 2002–2016)

Watch live (UK & Ireland only)

Watch live (UK and Ireland only)

In 2016, Sky rebranded its television film channel operations under one single branding on 8 July, the channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland were rebranded from Sky Movies to Sky Cinema; on 22 September in Germany and Austria, the Sky Cinema brand (originally used for the flagship network) was extended to the German channels in the group formerly known as Sky Film; the Italian Sky Cinema channels followed suit on 5 November by adopting the brand packages introduced in the United Kingdom and Ireland earlier.

Monday Night Comedy

Tuesday Night Action

Thursday Night Horror

After Dark – used for Saturday and Wednesday nights at approximately 11.30 pm, which included with a 18 certificate that often shows sexually explicit material and various adult-oriented content

erotic films

Starview

Premiere

Home Video Channel

Turner Classic Movies

Carlton Cinema

Film4

Official website