On 2 November 1990, Sky Premier Television merged with rival British Satellite Broadcasting, acquiring The Movie Channel.
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15 Facts About Sky Premier
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Three consecutive years in the early 1990s, Sky Premier Movies carried several non-film premium content known as 'special events' including World Wrestling Federation's annual matches, various music concerts and live boxing competitions such as the first event was Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas on 11 February 1990.
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When Sky Premier Sports became a pay channel on 1 September 1992, Sky Premier Movies stopped showing non-movie related programming.
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From 1 July 2002, as the Sky Movies channels saw yet another rebranding exercise, the Sky Premier channels were renamed Sky Movies Premier, the Sky MovieMax channels became Sky Movies Max and the Sky Cinema channels became Sky Movies Cinema.
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Sky Premier Movies was overhauled in April 7,2007, when the different channels became dedicated to different genres, but three of the HD channels have launched already before the other:.
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On 20 March 2008, an additional high-definition film channel called Sky Movies Premiere HD, which is a simulcast version of the current Sky Movies Premiere channel, was added after many requests for the channel from Sky HD subscribers.
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Sky Premier Movies were rebranded as the part of the various Sky Premier channels on 1 January 2010.
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Sky Premier Movies reshuffled its bouquet of ten channels to achieve greater "clarity" for subscribers.
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Sky Premier announced plans to launch a 4K ultra-high-definition feed later in the year.
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On 22 June 2020, Sky Premier added a content warning to several older films stating that they "have outdated attitudes, language, and cultural depictions which may cause offence today".
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On 23 July 2020, Sky Cinema launched a twelfth channel, Sky Cinema Animation, replaces Sky Cinema Premiere +1 on Sky and Virgin Media UK.
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On 5 August 2021, Sky Premier agreed a deal with ViacomCBS to launch Paramount+ in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria by 22 June 2022.
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Sky Premier regularly gives one, two or three of their Sky Premier Cinema channels a temporary rebrand to air different kinds of seasonal or promotional programming.
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Sky Premier Cinema has a dedicated production team that produces over 100 hours of original film-related programming each year – including Sky Premier Cinema News and The Top Ten Show.
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However, following a lack of success and her decision to leave Sky Premier and set up her own production company called Shine, the unit was scaled back and closed in 2001.
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