- Carlton Cinema
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name = Carlton Cinema
logofile = Carltoncinema.jpg
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launch =November 15 ,1998
closed date =March 31 ,2003
owner =Carlton Television
|Carlton Cinema was a British television channel run by
Carlton Television , dedicated to showing films. It launched on15 November 1998 on the OnDigital platform, as part of a group of five Carlton owned channels (the others beingCarlton Select ,Carlton World ,Carlton Kids , andCarlton Food Network ). The first film shown was the1953 film "Genevieve". It launched on cable inMarch 2000 .Unlike other UK movie channels, sometimes
cartoon s would be shown between the films. These were mainlyBetty Boop ones, thoughFamous Studios 'Screen Songs and someMerrie Melodies /Looney Tunes would also sometimes be seen.Carlton Cinema was also the only channel on DTT that ever carried an analogue teletext stream. It carried just a single P100 for
ONrequest prompts.The channel struggled after ITV Digital (as OnDigital was now known) closed in
May 2002 . Talks to launch the channel on Sky Digital fell through, and the channel closed at 11.40pm on31 March 2003 , the last out of the five channels to do so. The final film shown was the1981 neo-film noir "Body Heat ".
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