Just days after Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson met with Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav to, essentially, make sure he wasn’t planning to kill off Turner Classic Movies (TCM), WBD has decided to shut down the cable channel’s British version.
TCM Movies UK will cease to exist on July 6, 2023, TheWrap has confirmed. An individual with knowledge of the matter told TheWrap the closure is unrelated to the events concerning the U.S. version of TCM and stems instead from a review of UK market-related linear strategy initiated after the merger that created Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022.