Sony announces MAX changes from May

Sony Entertainment Television Asia’s movies and events channel MAX will be changing its schedule in May.

As announced on BizAsia.co.uk last month, the current 21:00 primetime slot for films will be shifted back by an hour to 20:00.

The change will also affect other screening times on the channel. From 1st May, movies and events on MAX will air 00:00, 03:00, 06:00, 08.30, 12:00, 16:00 and 20:00. On Sky Digital, non-subscribers are treated to one hour freeviews, which from May will air at the following times 12:00, 16:00 and 20:00.

The change is being applied to MAX feeds internationally including India.

MAX will also be airing a month-long movies spectacular of Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan in a festival called ‘Ab Tak Bachchan’. The ‘Big B’ movies will be broadcast every weeknight at 20:00.

There’s also the World TV Premiere of last Diwali’s box office dud ‘Jaan-E-Mann’ starring Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan and Preity Zinta. The film will be screened on Saturday 26th May at 20:00.