Where have the sky cinema channels gone?

[K4yl2]

Where have all the sky cinema channels gone? There appear to be very few channels anymore, and where has animation channel gone.....

[xenon81]

Most of the Sky Cinema channels are now HD only, if you only have SD you will be missing most of them. For HD viewers they are all still available on channels 301-312.

Animation has temporarily changed to Sky Fairytales. 

[MightyQuinn · Accepted solution]

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@K4yl2 wrote:

and where has animation channel gone.....

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Hi @K4yl2   The Sky cinema channels do not have fixed names, they change quite frequently but normally keep to the same general genre.

Changes to the Sky TV guide - May 2023 | Sky Community

[johnke]

Many of the free film channels have disappeared?

[TimmyBGood]

@johnke 

Warner Bros Discovery chose to stop broadcasting TCM Movies in the UK on July 6th: the US version of the channel was saved after a last minute intervention by Spielberg/Scorsese/Anderson

In addition, Canal+ has chosen to close ROK ('Nollywood' movies) as of June 29th

It's worth remembering that most channels on the Sky platforms are not owned or managed by Sky Group (a division of Comcast): if an owner chooses to cease distribution there's nothing Sky can do about it.