Movies 24 is a Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an satellite

Satellite

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 and cable television

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 channel owned and operated by NBCUniversal. It was launched on 26 June 2006 and is available in Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. Movies 24 airs made-for-TV movies

Television movie

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 covering a range of different genres, from crime and thriller to romance and action.

From 2009, Movies 24 has rebranded as Christmas 24 between November and January.

Accomplished television and radio broadcaster Roger Tilling

Roger Tilling

- Biography :Tilling began his broadcasting career in local radio. He worked at Chiltern Radio in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire and Oasis Radio in Hertfordshire in 1995. He then moved into television working as a continuity announcer for Westcountry Television in 1996...

 has been the continuity announcer

Continuity (broadcasting)

'Continuity' or 'presentation' is a term used in broadcasting, especially in the United Kingdom , to refer to announcements, messages and graphics played by the broadcaster between specific programmes...

 of Movies 24 since the channel's launch in 2006.

Movies 24 +

On 16 October 2006, a sister channel Movies 24 + was launched. The channel was previously a 90-minute timeshift channel

Timeshift channel

A timeshift channel is a television channel carrying a time-delayed rebroadcast of its "parent" channel's output. This channel runs alongside their parent: the term "timeshift" does not refer to a network broadcasting at a later time to reflect a local timezone unless the parent is also available...

called More 24. In September 2007, Movies 24 + introduced a separate daily schedule from Movies 24, showing the same movies but at very different times throughout the day.

Programming

Examples of some of the movies shown on Movies 24.

• Balmain Boys (Comedy)
• Blonde (Drama)
• Chain Of Command (Thriller)
• Closing The Deal (Comedy)
• Countdown To Chaos (Action)
• Danny Deckchair (Comedy)
• Following Her Heart (Romance)
• Hustle and Heat (Action)
• Jericho Fever (Action)
• Murder In Paradise (Thriller)
• Picnic (Romance)
• Rules Of Obsession (Thriller)
• Sister In Law (Thriller)
• She, Me & Her (Comedy)
• The Cutting Edge (Romance)
• The Third Wish (Fantasy)
• The Sea Change (Comedy)
• The Way She Moves (Romance)
• Voices From A Locked Room (Drama)
• Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (Thriller)