MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting is launching its Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel in HD for the UK market on 4 September.

TCM will be launched on Sky‘s EPG at Channel 317.

The channel is kicking off ‘HD Classic Week‘ in order to mark the launch of TCM HD. It will air some "remarkable" movies for three weeks starting with telecast of movies like Ben Hur, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Casablanca and The Philadelphia Story in the first week.

The channel will then launch ‘HD Western Week‘, in which it will air movies such as Rio Bravo The Searchers and How the West Was Won. It will be followed by ‘HD Musicals Week‘ from 17 September in which movies like The Wizard of Oz, The King and I and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory will air.

Turner Broadcasting director of general entertainment for the U.K. and Ireland Jemma Yates said, "It‘s fantastic news that viewers now have the opportunity to watch TCM‘s vast library of great classic and contemporary films in HD-quality format. This is another exciting step in the channel‘s continuing evolution, giving TCM‘s loyal and growing audience access to an outstanding viewing experience."