True Movies | |
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Launched | 29 April 2005 |
Owned by | Sony Pictures Television |
Audience share | 0.05% (September 2015BARB) | ,
Formerly called | Movies 333 (until 2005) True Movies (2005–2010, 2016–) True Movies 1 (2010–2016) |
Sister channel(s) |
Game Show Network GetTV Chart Show Hits Chart Show TV Flava Kix Movies4Men Pop Scuzz Sony Channel Sony Movie Channel Starz TV Tiny Pop True Crime True Entertainment The Vault |
Website | www.truemovies.com |
Availability
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Terrestrial | |
Freeview UK | Channel 74 (Local TV areas only) |
Satellite | |
Freesat | Channel 302 |
Sky | Channel 321 |
DStv | Channel 138 |
Eutelsat 28A | 11307 V 27500 2/3 |
Cable | |
Virgin Media | Channel 424 |
Virgin Media Ireland | Channel 329 |
WightFibre | Channel 32 |
True Movies is a satellite and cable television film channel in the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa, it is available on Freesat, Sky, Virgin Media, Freeview 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, mostly made for TV. It shows movies from a range of cinematic genres including romance, crime, drama and docusoaps, mostly based on real-life events.
Prior to True Movies' launch on 29 April 2005, the channel was previously an unnamed part-time service found on TWC Re:Loaded from 1 March 2005, before being renamed as Movies 333 on 21 March 2005.
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 (0.3%). With the arrival of other movie channels and services in 2006, its audience share dropped to between 0.1% to 0.2%.
True Movies' sister channel, True Movies 2, was launched on 20 March 2006, with similar programming. The channel was renamed True Movies 1 from November 2010, but after the closure of True Movies 2 in 2016 was renamed back to True Movies.