It was the Asian version of the US Turner Classic Movies and aired in the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Middle East.

[3] The channel was aired from 21:00 CET to 6:00 CET (from 20:00 UTC to 5:00 UTC) and IST respectively and Cartoon Network for the remaining day, mainly for analogue cable systems across Europe and India, although it was originally targeted at the Republic of Ireland, India and the United Kingdom.

Turner Classic Movies and Cartoon Network became two separate channels operating in Europe and the Indian subcontinent in 1999.

On 13 December 2016, Australian satellite and cable provider Foxtel removed TCM from its lineup.

[7] In December 2017, StarHub TV had announced that they were removing Turner Classic Movies from their service lineup at the end of the year.