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Sky will precede its premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens with a pop-up marathon of the first six movies in the franchise. The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi will screen back-to-back on Channel 035 from October 18-24. […]

Sky at last is upgrading its Action and Classics movie channels to HD. The services will switch to HD from September 1 for subscribers with MySky (HDi, +) and an HD ticket. The move is long overdue and comes as a surprise given Sky’s been downplaying rolling out new HD channels because of  impediments such […]

Sky Movies Extra essentially will be a cinematic version of female-skewing entertainment channel Vibe when it launches in November with the HD premiere of Les Miserables. Sky is revamping its movie service by adding two more channels and dumping Sky Movies 2 from November 1. The latter won’t be a loss – it merely repeated […]

As foreshadowed by ScreenScribe.tv, Sky TV has confirmed HBO’s successor to The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, will screen here in HD. The 12-part Prohibition drama, set in 1920s Atlantic City, is from Sopranos scribe Terence Winter, stars Steve Buscemi and includes among its directors Martin Scorsese (who’s also the executive producer). It will air in double-episodes […]

The Anne Hathaway comedy, Rachel Getting Married, the Frankenstein ‘toon spoof, Igor, and the obscure thriller, Obsessed, starring Heroes’ Ali Larter and Beyonce Knowles, can be seen here in HD next month for the first time. All three had DVD releases last year but didn’t make the Blu-ray cut. Sky Movies will remedy this with the […]