Great! Romance

British free-to-air TV channel

Television channel

Great! Romance
Programming

Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	United Kingdom Ireland
Timeshift service	Great! Romance +1
Ownership
Owner	Sony Pictures Television (2019–2021) Narrative Entertainment UK Limited (2021–present)
Sister channels	Pop Pop Max Great! TV Great! Movies Great! Action Great! Real
History
Launched	10 September 2019; 4 years ago (10 September 2019)
Replaced	True Movies
Former names	Sony Movies Classic (2019–2021) Great! Movies Classic (2021–2023)
Links
Website	greatnetwork.com/romance
Availability

Terrestrial
Freeview	Channel 52 Channel 63 (Mix)
Streaming media
Samsung TV Plus	4992

Great! Romance (stylized as GREAT! romance)^[1]^[2] is a British free-to-air TV channel owned by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited that launched 10 September 2019 as Sony Movies Classic, replacing True Movies. The launch began with a temporary seasonal replacement called Sony Movies Christmas, lasting from 10 September 2019 to 7 January 2020.^[3] The channel is dedicated to romance made-for-TV movies from the 2010s to today.

The brand voice of the channel is British voice over artist Ben Neidle, who voices the promos and continuity links.

History

Prior to the 10 September 2019 launch of Sony Movies Classic, the channel was known as True Movies. This channel topped all the film channels in August 2005. The first time a Christmas replacement of the channel was made was in 2013. On 24 July 2019, it was announced that True Movies, Along with Movies4Men and True Entertainment would be closed and replaced by this channel from 10 September, after the temporary Sony Movies Christmas replacement on 10 September 2019

Sony Movies Christmas returned on 24 September 2020, and ran until 4 January 2021.

Due to Narrative Capital acquiring SPT's full UK portfolio on 14 May 2021, the channel was rebranded as Great! Movies Classic on 25 May 2021.^[4]

As per its time under Sony ownership, the channel becomes a 'Christmas movie' channel over the last quarter of the broadcasting year. In 2021 it was rebranded for the first time as Great! Movies Christmas, with a seasonal film schedule running from 23 September 2021 until 4 January 2022. Great! Movies Christmas returned again for the Christmas 2022 season a few weeks earlier on 8 September 2022, 108 days before Christmas.^[5]^[6] This schedule continued until 2 January 2023, with the +1 channel in Greater Manchester also reflecting the change.

On 5 January 2023, Great! Movies Classic was rebranded as Great! Romance showing romantic films all day every day.^[7]^[8]

From 7 September 2023, it was rebranded to Great! Christmas until 3 January 2024 for the Christmas period.

On 18 October 2023, Great! Romance +1 was replaced by Great! Romance Mix on Freeview channel 63.

Logos

Sony Movies Classic (10 September 2019 until 25 May 2021)
Sony Movies Classic +1 (10 September 2019 until 25 May 2021)
Great! Movies Classic (25 May 2021 until 5 January 2023)
Great! Romance (since 5 January 2023)
Great! Romance +1 (since 5 January 2023)

Temporary Logos

Sony Movies Christmas (10 September 2019 until 5 January 2021)
Sony Movies Christmas +1 (10 September 2019 until 5 January 2021)

References

^ "New network GREAT! launches in the UK". May 17, 2021.
^ "Sony Movie Channel has been renamed Great! But how? And why?!". the Guardian. May 26, 2021.
^ Tolve, Christopher (30 July 2019). "Sony to launch UK's first free-to-air movie network, rebranding existing channels". The Drum. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
^ "Sony Pictures Television U.K. Channels Sold to U.S. Investment Firm Narrative Capital". Variety. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
^ "Xmas TV channels start earlier than ever". 16 August 2022.
^ "Freeview Updates".
^ "New year launch for GREAT! Romance channel". 29 November 2022.
^ "GREAT! to launch romance-themed movie channel". 28 November 2022.

External links

Official website

Television channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland operated by Sony Pictures Television

Currently broadcasting but sold to another company

Narrative Capital Partners LLC

Great! TV

Great! Movies

Great! Action

Great! Romance

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