[2][4] Through content sharing agreements, Movie Network Channels became available through Austar in January 1999 and Foxtel in December 2002.

[6] The channels were owned, operated and programmed by Warner Bros., Disney, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Village Roadshow.

From 2009 until 2012, Movie Extra was the naming rights sponsor for the Tropfest short film festival.

Every month Redspace allows digital viewers to play a quiz, read facts about the movie or watch video packages such as behind-the-scenes, interviews and other features.

More recently the channel had started screening American or British television series such as: Five Days, Dirt, The L Word and Mad Men.

Event Zero stars actors Zoe Carides, Valentino Del Toro, Harry Pavlidis and Steve Davis.

[15] Movie Greats showed films from the back catalogues of the studios.

Classic movies are shown on this channel, which ranges from between the 1930s up until the mid-1990s and launched 20 September 1995.

[16] Starpics was dedicated to double features of movies starring the same person.