MONTREAL – Groupe V Média’s Max will soon be the exclusive Canadian home to FX network's internationally renowned premium content, in French.
A new multi-year agreement between the broadcasters will allow Max to screen series such as Snowfall, Atlanta, Legion, Trust, American Crime Story (pictured), Feud, and You're The Worst starting this fall. FX Networks received 55 Emmy Award nominations in 2017, the most of any basic cable network in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive year, after winning a basic cable record 18 Emmy Awards in 2016.
"We want to offer our viewers the best television series on the market and in that respect, we are extremely pleased to formalize this agreement”, said Groupe V Média’s content VP Brigitte Vincent, in the news release. “An entire programming block on the Max prime time schedule will be devoted to the FX network’s portfolio of premium series on Monday nights, a key position in the channel’s program lineup. More popular than ever, Max has tripled its market share since it was repositioned almost two years ago.”
Groupe V Média owns conventional television network V, specialty channels MusiquePlus and Max, plus the video on demand and content platform Noovo.ca, online boutique BoutiqueNoovo.ca as well as the 25Stanley sports news site.
