Celestial Movies

Celestial Movies (天映频道) and is an Asian 24-hour movie channel. The channel also screens films from and shows interviews with movie stars and directors, entertainment news and film award ceremonies. Available in 11 territories across Asia Pacific, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and other to HD in Malaysia, Jakarta.[1]

Celestial Movies
Launched3 March 2003
Picture format576i (SDTV)
720p (HDTV)
Language
Websitecelestialmovies.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Nexmedia (Indonesia)Channel 508
Satellite
Astro
(Malaysia)		Channel 309 (HD)
Channel 349 (SD)
MNC Vision
(Indonesia)		Channel 20
Transvision
(Indonesia)		Channel 141
Skynindo
(Indonesia)		Channel 24 (HD 800/77/99)
Channel 6 (C01/C02)
Dialog TV
(Sri Lanka)		Channel 78 (SD)
NJOI
(Malaysia)		Channel 349 (SD) (via NJOI Prepaid)
CANAL+
(Myanmar)		Channel 25
Cable
First Media
(Indonesia)		Channel 204
Channel 311 (HD)
IPTV
Singtel TV
(Singapore)		Channel 585 (SD/VOD)
StarHub TV
(Singapore)		Channel 868 (HD)
Channel 870 (VOD)

Movie line-up

The channel features Chinese movies from regional film studios such as Media Asia Distribution, Emperor Motion Pictures, Filmko Pictures, Golden Harvest Entertainment, CJ Entertainment and Toho.

Scheduling

On weeknights, movies are scheduled by genres: namely Drama Monday, Action Tuesday, Comedy Wednesday, Bromance Thursday and Fantasy Friday. During Saturday and Sunday nights, Celestial Movies showcases blockbusters and first-run movies.

Other programmes include news of movie and film-festival from around the globe, documentaries and shorts. Celestial also produces a number of original behind-the-scenes programmes such as: Celestial Cameos, Director To Director, Celestial Express and Star Talk.

Sister channels

Celestial Classic Movies
Celestial Classic Movies
Launched14 April 2008
Picture format480i (SDTV)
WebsiteOfficial Site
Availability
Satellite
MNC Vision
(Indonesia)		Channel 22
Astro
(Malaysia)		Channel 321
NJOI
(Malaysia)		Channel 321
TrueVisions
(Thailand)		Channel 233
Transvision
(Indonesia)		Channel 146
Skynindo
(Indonesia)		Channel 71 (C01/C02)
CANAL+
(Myanmar)		Channel 21
Dialog TV
(Sri Lanka)		Channel 118
Cable
SkyCable
(Philippines)		Channel 97 (Digital)
Destiny Cable
(Philippines)		Channel 97 (Digital)
Cablelink
(Philippines)		Channel 201 (Digital)
IPTV
Singtel TV
(Singapore)		Channel 580 (SD/VOD)
StarHub TV
(Singapore)		Channel 869 (SD)
Channel 871 (VOD)
TOT iptv
(Thailand)		Channel 262
myTV Super
(Hong Kong)		Channel 203

Celestial Classic Movies (CCM) is a 24-hour pay-TV movie channel screening Chinese classic movies from the Shaw Brothers library and other film libraries. All Shaw Brothers movies are digitally restored to bring viewers sound and picture quality matching the original cinematic prints.

Celestial Movies Pinoy (Philippines)
Celestial Movies Pinoy
LaunchedNovember 16, 2015
(test broadcast)
January 1, 2016
(full broadcast)
Picture format480i (SDTV)
CountryPhilippines
LanguageTagalog (main)
Mandarin & Cantonese (secondary)
Broadcast areaNationwide (Pasig & Tarlac City)
ReplacedTeleAsia Filipino
Availability
Satellite
Cignal
(Philippines)		Channel 40 (SD)

Celestial Tiger Entertainment has teamed with Viva Communications to create Celestial Movies Pinoy, a localized Philippines version of CTE’s Chinese film channel Celestial Movies. The channel was launched on January 1, 2016 on the basic tier of DTH satellite provider Cignal TV. Movies and on-air presentations are dubbed in a mixture of Tagalog and English.

Their programming is a mix of Chinese-language movies and TV series, behind-the-scenes specials, interviews with Chinese talent and thematic programming centered around superstars or popular genres.

References
  1. http://www.celestialmovies.com/subscribe.php
  1. Screendaily.com (2007), "Celestial Movies launches on Indonesia's TELKOMVision", retrieved on June 30, 2009
  2. Television Asia (2008), "Celestial Movies Asia and Celestial Classic Movies channels debut on now TV", retrieved on June 30, 2009, HighBeam
  3. Television Asia (20030, "Celestial Movies launched at the most auspicious time: 3pm on the 3rd day of the 3rd month of the 3rd year of the millennium. Clearly Asia's newest channel is taking as few chances as possible", retrieved on June 30, 2009, http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22891271_ITM
  4. Television Asia Plus Website, "Channel Description", retrieved on June 30, 2009, https://web.archive.org/web/20090804224022/http://www.onscreenasia.com/annualguide/Channels/detail-10-CELESTIAL%20MOVIES
  5. Variety.com (2015), "CTE, Viva To Launch Filipino Version of Celestial Movies Channel", retrieved on November 16, 2015
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