Bond marathon from `Dr. No` to `The World Is Not Enough` planned for US television this summer

TNN, the cable television channel once known as country-music home The Nashville Network and later as the more mainstream The National Network, will re-christen itself "Spike TV" this summer as it shifts to programming for a younger, male audience.

Included in their new line up will be a run of all the 15 James Bond films TNN currently own the rights to, with the additional acquisition of first-run window to the most recent Bond release Die Another Day, and rights to The World is Not Enough, Licence to Kill, and A View To A Kill.

Rights to the Bond series had previously been shared between disperate TV networks in the USA.

The Bond marathon, from "Dr. No" to "The World Is Not Enough" is due this summer when TNN becomes Spike TV on June 16th 2003. The `first network for men` is available in 86 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks.

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