Launched 29 April 2005 | Website www.truemovies.com | |
Owned by Sony Pictures Television Audience share 0.05% (September 2015 (2015-09), BARB) Formerly called Movies 333 (until 2005)
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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).
Contents
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.
History
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.
On 6 September 2011 the channel was made available on UPC Ireland.
Since 2013 the channel has temporarily rebranded around Christmas to True Christmas, mostly weeks before Hallowe'en.
On 26 October 2015 the channel was made available on Freeview channel 82 in areas that support local TV.
Programming
An example of some of the films shown on True Movies: