FX Life (Greek TV channel)

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FX Life
Country Greece and Cyprus
Headquarters Athens
Programming
Language(s) English (with Greek subtitles)
Picture format 16:9, 1080p (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner The Walt Disney Company Greece
(Disney Entertainment)
Sister channels FX
National Geographic
History
Launched1 December 2008 (2008-12-01)
Former namesFox Life (2008-2023)
Links
Website www.fxchannel.gr

FX Life (formerly known as Fox Life) is a Greek pay-television channel owned by the Fox Networks Group, which launched on 1 December 2008. [1] The network also broadcasts to Cyprus, doing so since 15 October 2012.

Contents

The program includes foreign series such as Grey's Anatomy , This Is Us , and How to Get Away with Murder , with new episodes for the first time in Greece and some reality shows such as MasterChef and Project Runway .

On 15 March 2023, The Walt Disney Company had dropped the word Fox from the name of the channel and due to this, both Fox and Fox Life became FX and FX Life respectively in order to avoid confusion with Fox Corporation and to avoid having the Star trademark in Greece as another unaffiliated channel, Star Channel has owned the trademark. [2]

Programmes

Current

Source: [3]

Former

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