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Arrow Films launches the Arrow Video Channel & Arrow TV

3 August 2019

Arrow Films has announced that the Arrow Video Channel, the Cult Film video-on-demand service, and Arrow TV, the dark and crime TV series service, are now available to UK customers as Apple TV channels in the Apple TV app on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and select Samsung smart TVs. This launch of the Arrow Video Channel on the Apple TV app coincides with its launch in the US.

Arrow Video Channel and Arrow TV logos

Subscribers to the Arrow Video Channel and Arrow TV through Apple TV channels can watch online or enjoy offline downloads of their favourite cult films in the Apple TV app. Through Family Sharing, up to six family members can share subscriptions to Apple TV channels using just their Apple ID and password.

The Arrow Video Channel service gives cult film fans the opportunity to watch a varied and curated selection of films that the Arrow Video brand has been famous for with many film fans all over the world. From horror to sci-fi, thrillers to westerns, the Arrow Video Channel will launch with classic cult films such as the Jake Gyllenhaal starring Donnie Darko, Heathers starring Winona Ryder, the horror classic Hellraiser, and the Japanese horror masterpiece Ringu. In addition to these Cult Classic films, the Arrow Video Channel will continue to premiere exclusive brand-new films on the service such as the critically acclaimed US indie-horror-comedy Harpoon in October, German horror Hagazussa in November and in December the Rory Culkin and Emory Cohen starrer Lords of Chaos.

Arrow Video Channel screenshots

The Arrow Video Channel will also host a growing collection of documentaries, interviews and never-before-seen content from the Arrow Video archives, as well as newly produced material. These documentaries will breathe new life on the Arrow Video Channel, giving film fans an immersive look into the creation of many cult film classics such as Donnie Darko and Hellraiser. The service will be updated regularly with new content, new curation focus and never-before-seen content, all hand-picked by the Arrow Video team.

Arrow TV, which launched in the UK in 2017, brings some of the best and well-loved TV series from all over the world in one place. For fans of the darker side of TV, subscribers will be able to watch such critically acclaimed series as Gomorrah, The Bridge, The Returned and The Killing. Continuing Arrow’s much-revered TV history in the UK, Arrow TV will pull together into one place, TV series from such places as the dark, mysterious chills of Nordic Noir, through to Italian hard-hitting gangster series. The perfect series to binge, discover or watch again.

The Apple TV app brings together all the ways to watch shows and films into one app and is available on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and select Samsung smart TVs, and will come to Mac this fall. The Apple TV app also features Apple TV channels such as the Arrow Video Channel and Arrow TV, personalised and curated recommendations, and iTunes films and TV shows to buy or rent.