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Sky Movies to launch dedicated James Bond channel

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(8 August 2012 3:13 pm)

MUMBAI: Sky Movies is dedicating an entire channel - Sky Movies 007 HD - to the full James Bond film catalogue from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios throughout October. The Sky Movies 007 HD channel will launch on 5 October.

UK pay TV service provider Sky said that all 22 James Bond films will be available in HD, without commercial breaks and in one place - Sky Movies HD.

And as an added bonus they will be joined by two non-Eon titles 1967 'Casino Royale' and 'Never Say Never Again'.

Bond fans will have the films at their fingertips via Sky Movies’ comprehensive TV on-demand service Sky Anytime+, with all of the films also available on demand and on the move via Sky Go, Sky’s award-winning multiplatform TV service available across PC, Mac, laptop, iPhone, iPad and Android phones.

In addition, customers who subscribe to Sky Movies via NOW TV, the brand new internet TV service from Sky, will also be able to enjoy entire the Bond catalogue.

The 23rd film in the franchise, Skyfall, will be available to rent through Sky Store and on Sky Movies next year.

The films arrive on Sky Movies to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the franchise, with the first film, Dr No, released on 5 October 1962.

Sky Movies director Ian Lewis said, “The Bond movies are a very special franchise and we want to ensure that our customers to be able to experience it in a way they’ve never been able to before, and so we’re going to create a dedicated channel Sky Movies 007 HD devoted entirely to James Bond showing the entire catalogue of films and loads of extra material.