CSMovies (TV channel and Block)

Final logo used in 2023.

#### Cinema Evolved.

**CSMovies** (stylised as *CSMOVIES*) was a programming block on the British Pirate television channel, CSN. It consisted of films in the same genres that CSN primarily focuses on being, Comedy, Drama and Action. CSMovies was a channel itself from 17th September to the 1st November 2022, airing repeats of already aired films on CSN and films the main channel wouldn't air, before being replaced by CSN2. The block ran from 7PM on weekend nights on CSN.

## History

CSMovies began on the 1st April 2022 as an unnamed movies block on CSN, airing from 9PM every Saturday, with the network premiere of 2020's Sonic the Hedgehog. On 13th August 2022, CSN introduced CSMovies, a strand of programming that it's movies would air under, with the tagline, 'Cinema Evolved,' the first film being Free Guy at 9pm on the same day. Ratings for the CSMovies block would be very high, frequenting 15-30 viewers with the premieres of Free Guy and Ted 2, following this, CSN announced that alongside the 9PM block on CSN, CSMovies would be spunoff into it's own channel on the 17th September at 9PM, with the Network Premiere of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? which was simulcasted on both CSN and the CSMovies channel. The CSMovies channel would broadcast alongside CSN every Saturday from 6PM up until 1st November 2022, when the channel would get replaced by CSN2, however the CSMovies block on CSN would continue. The last movie to air on the CSMovies channel would be the 2020 Indie Horror film, Spree, as apart of the "Spooky Sendoff" which consisted of Horror-Comedy movies such as Shaun of the Dead, Bride of Chucky and Scary Movie.

CSMovies got a makeover on the 18th March 2023 to go alongside the Blues V4 rebrand, The new branding for CSMovies would keep the film reel but would change up the gradient and introduce a brand new logo that incorporates the film reel as apart of the 'CS' which is supposed to be like the new boxed CSN logo. A new promo on CSN would feature this new branding, based on the AAA Movies promos from CNX, however CSMovies bumpers would not be refreshed until 8th July 2023. On 7th May 2023, CSN extended it's broadcast hours to also air on Sundays, doing so the CSMovies block was given another timeslot of Sundays at 9 to go alongside the already set time of Saturdays at 7. On 18th July 2023, it was announced that the Sunday block would move to 6PM starting in August 2023, but it ended up repeating Saturday's block and ran from 7PM. On 31st October 2023, CSN would repeat it's, now-annual, halloween CSMovies stream, this time on the main CSN channel, it included the CSN Network premiere of Five Nights At Freddy's and M3GAN, and included other films such as Bride of Chucky (which aired the previous Halloween on the CSMovies Channel), Seed of Chucky, Scream and Halloween. During the Halloween 2023 stream, the CSN channel got knocked off air due to being banned by Twitch during Five Nights At Freddy's, causing the channel to have to broadcast on Vaughn for the night. Following the news of the closure of CSN, CSMovies premiered it's last movie on the 5th December, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, following this CSMovies aired repeats of classic programming until the channels closure. CSMovies ended on CSN's final broadcast on 31 December 2023 with the final film being a repeat of Space Jam, as it was CSNs highest rated film at 45 viewers, which it achieved on 15 January 2023.

## Programming

CSMovies consisted of movies that fit into CSN's primary genres; Drama, Comedy, Horror and Action. Some notable films aired on the CSMovies Channel and CSN are; Sonic the Hedgehog, the first movie to air on CSN's movie block, The Bad Guys, which has been repeated the most out of CSMovies' library, Space Jam, which was the highest rated programme in all of CSN's history at 45+ Viewers, the Chucky / Child's Play Movie Series, which has aired alongside the TV series on CSN and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and Five Nights at Freddy's which premiered first on CSN, out of any Pirate or Official channel. You can see a full list of the entire CSMovies library here.

## **Logos**

Pre-Launch Logo13 August 2022 - 18 March 202318 March 2023 – 31 December 2023
## See Also

* CSN
* CSN2
* CSN Networks