Nova Cinema is a

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service available in

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that broadcasts blockbuster movies and hit series. It is a 24/7 movie service and it launched in 1994, It is owned by

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, who own and operate a DTH satellite service with the same name and

Nova Sports Nova Sports is a Greek sports pay television network owned by Nova, a subsidiary of Greek telecommunications company of the same name. It was launched in 1994 as ''SuperSport'' and at the time was the first premium sports service in Greece. It i ...

—a sports channel. In 2015, Nova Cinema has an output deal with

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to broadcast the biggest hit series in Greece at the same time with the US. The fifth season of ''

Game of Thrones ''Game of Thrones'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first ...

'' premiered on 12 April 2015 on HBO and Nova Cinema at the same time.

satellite subscribers have access to all four Nova Cinema channels if they subscribe to either the ''Cinema pack'' or the ''Full pack'' offered by the company.

FilmNet

From 1994 until 1 June 2008, Nova Cinema was known as Filmnet which was one of the oldest names in European pay television history: Originally, service was launched in 1985 targeting Benelux and Scandinavia. In 1997, all Filmnet channels minus the one in Greece were sold to

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and rebranded as

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. With the arrival of the Nova Cinema brand, the name Filmnet was retired.

Channels and content

Nova Cinema operates four

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channels: *NovaCinema 1 HD: features blockbusters and premieres, Greek co-productions from Nova, as well as movie awards. *NovaCinema 2 HD: The channel showing movies. *NovaCinema 3 HD: features adventure, crime, fantasy, sci-fi, horror and western movies and as well as adult zone every night. *NovaCinema 4 HD: The series channel, features foreign series with new episodes, broadcast for the first time in Greece, shortly after America’s air time.

Temporary channels

Nova occasionally gives one of their channels a temporary rebrand to air different kinds of seasonal or promotional programming. Examples of this include: *Nova Summer HD: Broadcast from 1 June until 31 August, featuring 2 movies every night. *Nova Christmas HD: Broadcast during the Christmas holidays as a seasonal channel featuring family and kids movies every night. *Nova Stars HD: Broadcast during the whole January and the whole February, featuring 2 awarded/nominated movies every night. *Nova Star Wars: Broadcast from 4 May 2015 until 31 May 2015, featuring ''

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'' full-time. *Nova Harry Potter HD: Broadcast from 14 October 2017 until 29 October 2017, featuring ''

Harry Potter ''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy literature, fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young Magician (fantasy), wizard, Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, and his friends ...

'' full-time. *Nova X-Men HD: Broadcast from 11 May 2018 until 28 May 2018, featuring ''

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'' full-time. *Nova Thrones HD: Broadcast from 1 April 2019 until 31 May 2019, featuring ''

'' full-time. *Nova Rock HD: Broadcast from 15 June 2019 until 31 July 2019, featuring 2 rock music movies every night.

Special Events

''NovaCinema 1 HD'' features special events such as

Golden Globe Awards The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in both American and international film and television. Beginning in 2022, there are 105 members of t ...

Screen Actors Guild Awards Screen Actors Guild Awards (also known as SAG Awards) are accolades given by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). The award was founded in 1952 to recognize outstanding performances in movie an ...

and BAFTA. It used to broadcast the

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until 2016 when Nova lost the exclusive rights to the coverage of the ceremony.

Current Hit Series

*'' Absentia'' *'' Big Little Lies'' *'' Blindspot'' *''

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'' *''

Four Weddings and a Funeral ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It is the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle ...

'' *'' Gotham'' *''

His Dark Materials ''His Dark Materials'' is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of '' Northern Lights'' (1995; published as ''The Golden Compass'' in North America), ''The Subtle Knife'' (1997), and ''The Amber Spyglass'' (2000). It follows ...

'' *''

Lethal Weapon ''Lethal Weapon'' is a 1987 American buddy cop action comedy film directed and co-produced by Richard Donner, written by Shane Black, and co-produced by Joel Silver. It stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover alongside Gary Busey, Tom Atkins, Darle ...

'' *''

Mrs. Fletcher ''Mrs. Fletcher'' is an American comedy miniseries based on the 2017 novel of the same name written by Tom Perrotta. The series stars Kathryn Hahn and was given a series order by HBO. The pilot was written by Perrotta and directed by Nicole Hol ...

'' *''

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Prodigal Son The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father) is one of the parables of Jesus Christ in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32. Jesus shares the parable with ...

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'' *'' The Deuce'' *'' The Good Doctor'' *''

The Handmaid's Tale ''The Handmaid's Tale'' is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which h ...

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True Detective ''True Detective'' is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. The series, broadcast by the premium cable network HBO in the United States, premiered on January 12, 2014. Each season of the ...

'' *''

Watchmen ''Watchmen'' is an American comic book Limited series (comics), maxiseries by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins (comics), John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 a ...

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Westworld ''Westworld'' is an American science fiction- thriller media franchise that began with the 1973 film ''Westworld'', written and directed by Michael Crichton. The film depicts a technologically advanced Wild-West-themed amusement park populat ...

Former Hit Series

*'' Black Sails'' *''

Boardwalk Empire ''Boardwalk Empire'' is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter and broadcast on the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era of the 1920s and ...

'' *'' Cedar Cove'' *''

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', also referred to as ''CSI'' and ''CSI: Las Vegas'', is an American procedural forensics crime drama television series that ran on CBS from October 6, 2000, to September 27, 2015, spanning 15 seasons. This wa ...

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Deadly Class ''Deadly Class'' is an American Action fiction, action comic book series written by Rick Remender, illustrated by Wes Craig, colored by Jason Wordie, and lettered by Rus Wooton. ''Deadly Class'' is set primarily in the 1980s and follows students ...

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'' *'' Gomorrah'' *'' Gran Hotel'' *''

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'' *'' Satisfaction'' *''

Show Me a Hero ''Show Me a Hero'' is a 2015 American miniseries based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by former ''New York Times'' writer Lisa Belkin about Yonkers mayor Nick Wasicsko. Like the book, the miniseries details a white middle-class ne ...

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The Art of More ''The Art of More'' is an American series which debuted on November 19, 2015, on Crackle (streaming service), Crackle. On December 2, 2015, Crackle renewed the series for a second season which consists of 10 episodes. Filming for season two beg ...

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The Following ''The Following'' is an American crime thriller television series created by Kevin Williamson, and jointly produced by Outerbanks Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television. The first season follows former FBI agent Ryan Hardy ( Kevin Bacon) ...

'' *'' The Leftovers'' *''

The Mentalist ''The Mentalist'' is an American drama television series that ran from September 23, 2008, until February 18, 2015, broadcasting 151 episodes over seven seasons, on CBS. Created by Bruno Heller, who was also its executive producer, the show fol ...

'' *'' The Newsroom'' *'' Timeless'' *''

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Whiskey Cavalier ''Whiskey Cavalier'' is an American action comedy-drama television series, created by David Hemingson, that premiered on February 24, 2019. The full pilot episode debuted after the Oscars and was rebroadcast in the show’s regular time slot three ...

Logos

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References

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