Channels and Content
Depending on service provider, The Movie Network provides up to twelve multiplex channels — five 24-hour multiplex channels, one of which (HBO Canada) is also available on a two-hour delay, all simulcast in both standard-definition and high-definition — as well as a subscription video-on-demand service (The Movie Network OnDemand).
The service carries films distributed by Alliance Films, Disney, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros., among others, and has supply agreements for original programming produced and owned by the American pay networks HBO and Showtime. However, some of the original programming broadcast on the aforementioned U.S. channels is produced by other studios, and in many of these cases the Canadian broadcast rights are held by other channels. (For example, the Showtime series Homeland is not covered under TMN's output deal with Showtime; instead it is broadcast in Canada by Super Channel, which has its own output deal with the producing studio's parent company 20th Century Fox.)
The premium classic-film service The Movie Network Encore (formerly Mpix), which is also owned by Astral and shares the TMN branding, operates as a separate service under a separate licence, and subscribers to one do not necessarily have to subscribe to the other. However, TMN Encore is very frequently sold together in a package with The Movie Network.
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