Nollywood Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in ''The New York Times''. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there ...

Movies is an online subscription movie

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channel, formerly broadcast in the

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on Sky channel 327. Each month the channel offers over 30 different new and recently released Nigerian movies, 24 hours a day. It is the first such channel in operation in the UK. Films offered are primarily in English, with some subtitled, in genres including

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

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, thriller, traditional,

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and true story films. The channel is funded through subscription and advertising. Nollywood Movies launched on

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in 2013, on channel 477. The channel was part of the African TV Boost. It moved to 557 on 2 June 2015, but was removed on 30 November 2015. Nollywood Movies was removed from the Virgin Media platform on 22 February 2018, and satellite transmissions ended on May 1, 2018. Wednesday, 5 June 2019

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What is Nollywood?

Movie channels in the United Kingdom Television channels and stations established in 2008 Nigerian entertainment websites {{UK-tv-channel-stub