So what is changing and how does it affect you? Sky Cinema Animation, currently found on channel 312, is being turned off as a standalone channel and folded into Sky Cinema Family on channel 304 instead.<\/p>\n
Although that sounds like less value for money, it’s not all bad news. Sky insists the switch is designed to make things simpler by creating one go-to home for family-friendly films. It basically means blockbuster favourites including Shrek, The Secret Life of Pets, Smurfs, How to Train Your Dragon, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Wicked will all be available in one place rather than two competing channels.<\/p>\n
Sky says everything previously shown on Sky Cinema Animation will still be available through Sky Cinema Family, meaning fans should not miss out on their favourite films. And there is a silver lining for anyone disappointed by this news.<\/p>\n
Sky Cinema Animation will make surprise returns during school holidays to keep children entertained during times when schools are shut.<\/p>\n
HERE ARE THE DATES WHEN SKY ANIMATION WILL RETURN<\/p>\n
\u2022 July 24 to August 30<\/p>\n
\u2022 October 23 to November 1<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 1 to January 5<\/p>\n
Anyone who currently subscribes to a Sky Cinema package won’t need to do anything or retune their devices. The changes will take place automatically.<\/p>\n
Once the Sky Cinema Animation service goes back on air, the channel will also reappear on the TV guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So what is changing and how does it affect you? Sky Cinema Animation, currently found on channel 312,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,7355,1236,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-sky","tag-tech-section","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}