Foxtel Arts was a

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arts channel available in Australia on the

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platform.

History

Foxtel Arts replaced the SBS owned arts channel

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, and became the third iteration of a dedicated arts channel on Foxtel in six years. The Foxtel owned and operated channel launched at 10am AEST on 28 March 2015. Part of the reason for launching the channel was to give Foxtel the ability to pitch programming to viewers aged over 55, a demographic the service began to pursue in 2014. In addition, the launch came at a time when Foxtel sought to bring more channels 'in-house' in order to obtain more exclusive content deals to increase their competitiveness with new streaming services such as

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and Stan. From 11 October 2017, Foxtel Arts became a part-day channel, and was only broadcast between 6pm and midnight. This was due to a move by Foxtel to enable Foxtel Arts to share the same broadcast bandwidth as

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, which was in turn only available between midnight and 6pm. It was then reverted to a 24-hour channel on 1 July 2020, following Foxtel Smooth's closure. On September 1, 2021, the channel was closed down and replaced by FOX Docos on channel 129 on both Foxtel and the streaming service

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Programming

The channel's first local commission was the film and television review program ''Screen'', hosted by

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and

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, which premiered on 2 April 2015. The series was renewed in 2018, and , the series is ongoing. Past episodes are uploaded to

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. Regular programming included programming featuring or related to

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, music, theatre, dance, classical and contemporary performance, as well as documentary specials and series from cinema, literature,

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and artists.

References

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