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LOS ANGELES -- It's true. It's coming to cable TV. All of it.

After being off regular television for more than two years,Cat 3 movies every Star Warsmovie -- including four planned future films -- will play at some point on Turner Broadcasting's network channels, including TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies. TNT will be first up, broadcasting undisclosed Star Warsfilms as early as next week.

The reward for those rights was ... well, more wealth than you can imagine! (Something like $275 million for eight years, according to the Wall Street Journal.)

Starz currently is playing Star Wars: The Force Awakens,which first appeared on the cable channel last week as part of a one-off deal that runs through the end of 2017. And the deal with Turner (an investor in Mashable) won't affect Netflix's exclusive pact for Disney movies, which gets all Pixar, Lucasfilm and Disney flicks first during the "pay TV" window.

Once that window concludes, Turner can play Star Warsfilms past and future whenever it wants, as many times as it wants. And if you're not afraid of flipping around channels and landing on one, thereby sacrificing the next two hours ... you will be.

You will be.

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