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Dish To Carry Epix

Dish Network subscribers will get some of the latest movies from three major Hollywood studios when Epix joins the lineup. Epix, the pay TV channel owned by Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., made a deal with Dish for its 14 million customers. Dish will begin offering the channel, Epix Premium HD, this month to all subscribers who add Dish's platinum high-definition service.

Epix offerings include new movies and the catalog of 15,000 films from the studios, original programming and special comedy and concert events offered in HD and standard formats. Also to be included are music specials featuring Madonna, The Black Eyed Peas and The E.N.D., and a comedy tour featuring Lewis Black, Chris Rock and others.

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