BREAKING. True Movies 1 channel added to DStv from 19 June to the DStv Premium bouquet as a standard definition channel.

True Movies 1, a movie channel which has been available on MultiChoice's DStv platform and other platforms elsewhere in Africa is now being added to DStv in South Africa from Wednesday 19 June on channel 138 for DStv Premium subscribers as a standard definition (SD) channel.

The film channel from Moving Movies Ltd. which was launched in April 2005 in the United Kingdom will show "moving and emotional true movies" with Hollywood names such as Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie and Helena Bonham Carter in lead roles.

True Movies 1 is a freely available TV channel in the United Kingdom and shows dramatic films, a lot of which are made-for-TV movies. A sister channel, True Movies 2 was launched in 2006 which focuses on movies based on real-life dramas.

"We wanted to give our DStv Premium customers a movie channel like no other - True Movies 1 is a perfect compliment to the almost 15 movie channels available to our DStv Premium customers on DStv," says Collins Khumalo, CEO of MultiChoice South Africa in a statement announcing the channel addition.

MultiChoice says True Movies 1 will show weekly movie premieres, revealing royal documentaries, Hollywood films and author-based dramas.