MGM+

MGM+ (formerly known as Epix; pronounced epics and stylized as eᴘix) is an American premium cable and satellite television network owned by the MGMPlus Entertainment subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which is itself a subsidiary of Amazon MGM Studios. The network's programming consists of recent and older theatrically released motion pictures, original television series, documentaries, and music and comedy specials. The service was originally launched as Epix in the United States on October 30, 2009, by a joint venture between MGM, Lionsgate, and Paramount. After MGM acquired the stakes of the service's co-founders in late 2017, and following the March 2022 acquisition of MGM itself by Amazon, Epix was rebranded as MGM+ on January 15, 2023. It was the culmination of a gradual transition by the network to utilize the imaging of MGM following the buyout, as well as Amazon repositioning it as a sister service to Prime Video and Freevee. MGM+ is currently led by Michael Wright. Since he joined in November 2017, the network would expand its original program offerings (including Godfather of Harlem starring Forest Whitaker, Perpetual Grace, LTD starring Ben Kingsley and Jimmi Simpson, Deep State, unscripted series Unprotected Sets executive produced by Wanda Sykes and the return of The Contender). The flagship channel and its three multiplex channels (depending on the carriage of any of the latter services) are sold by most traditional multichannel video programming distributors either as premium services or as part of a la carte digital movie tiers as well as by over-the-top MVPDs Sling TV, DirecTV Stream, Philo, FuboTV and YouTube TV. MGM+ is also sold direct-to-consumer as a proprietary subscription video on-demand streaming television service of the same name, and through a la carte subscriptions independent of a traditional pay television platform sold by Apple TV Channels, Amazon Channels and The Roku...