True Movies 1

True Movies 1
Launched 29 April 2005
Owned by Sony Pictures Television
Audience share 0.1% (September 2014, BARB)
Formerly called Movies 333 (until 2005)
True Movies (2005–2010)
Sister channel(s) Bliss
Chart Show Dance
Chart Show TV
Flava
Scuzz
Starz TV
Kix
Pop
Pop Girl
Tiny Pop
The Vault
True Drama
True Entertainment
True Movies 2
Website www.truemovies.com
Availability
Satellite
Freesat Channel 302
Sky Channel 321
DStv Channel 138
Eutelsat 28A 11307 V 27500 2/3
Cable
Virgin Media Channel 424
UPC Ireland Channel 329
WightFibre Channel 32

True Movies 1 is a satellite and cable television film channel in the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa, it is available on Freesat, Sky, Virgin Media, as well as DStv in South Africa. It is the first channel from Moving Movies Ltd., majority owned by CSC Media Group (formerly Chart Show Channels).

The channel is dedicated to true to life drama films, which are mostly made-for-TV movies in origin. It shows movies from a range of cinematic genres including romance, crime, drama and docusoaps, all of which are based on real life events.

Prior to True Movies' launch on 29 April 2005,[1] the channel was previously an unnamed part-time service found on TWC Re:Loaded from 1 March 2005,[2] before being renamed as Movies 333 on 21 March 2005. The channel was renamed as True Movies 1 during November 2010.

Soon after its launch, True Movies topped all the movie channels in August, 2005, with a 0.5% audience viewing share, higher than the established subscription Sky Movies 1 (0.4%) and Turner Classic Movies (UK) (0.3%). With the arrival of other movie channels and services in 2006, its audience share has since settled at the lower 0.1% to 0.2% mark. True Movies 1's sister channel, True Movies 2, was launched on 20 March 2006 which shows more made-for-TV movies based on real life events.

Reception of this channel does not require any special Sky or Freesat equipment, any free-to-air satellite receiver can pick up this channel. The channel was temporarily rebranded around Christmas 2013 as True Christmas and did so again around Christmas 2014.

On 6 September 2011, the channel was made available on UPC Ireland.[3]

Programming

An example of some of the films shown on True Movies 1:

Films 1-7

References

  1. ↑ "New name for Movies 333". Digital Spy. 25 April 2005.
  2. ↑ "TWC Reloaded becomes Movies 333". Digital Spy. 21 March 2005.
  3. ↑ "99pc of UPC broadband customers to upgrade to 20Mbps". Silicon Republic. 20 July 2011.

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