Film Cafe

Film Cafe
Country	Poland
Broadcast area	Poland
Programming
Language(s)	Polish; English
Picture format	1080i HDTV; (downgraded to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	AMC Networks International; Paramount Networks EMEAA
History
Launched	15 March 1999; 25 years ago
Former names	Wizja Le Cinema (1999–2002); Le Cinema (2002–2003); Europa Europa (2003–2006); Zone Europa (2006–2012); CBS Europa (2012–2024)
Links
Website	cbseuropa.eu

Film Cafe (formerly CBS Europa, Zone Europa, Europa Europa, Le Cinema and Wizja Le Cinema) is a Polish film channel. It broadcasts contemporary films, influential classics, acclaimed favourites and avant-garde productions.

Distributors including Universal Studios, Film4 Productions, the British Film Institute, M6 and Sogepaq contribute the independent productions to the channel.

The channel was originally available in 15 territories across Europe and the Americas to over 6.6 million subscribers. Spanish language content was also available to Comcast On Demand en Español in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

History

A Hungarian version of the channel was launched in 2004, as an expansion of the Polish channel, but it closed on 1 May 2009 because the channel was not popular amongst Hungarian advertisers.

Zone Europa's 14-hour schedule was extended to 20 hours at weekends.^[when?]

On 1 August 2012 Chellomedia revealed that all European versions of the Zone Channels would be become CBS channels.^[1] Zone Europa was renamed CBS Europa on 3 December 2012 in Poland.^[2]

On 1 October 2015 CBS Europa HD was launched, replacing the SD version on the satellite.

On 19 June 2024, it was announced that CBS Europa was to change its name to Film Cafe by 21 August 2024.^[3]