In June 2024, Media Capital announced that, in September, TVI Ficção will be relaunched as an alternative to TVI and CNN Portugal.[1] Later, in July 9, the relaunch date was brought earlier to August 9.[2] In July 13, it was confirmed that the the channel will be named V+TVI.[3]
In February 2025, 6 months after being replaced by V+ as a new general cable channel, TVI Ficção returns as a TVI Player exclusive streaming channel (available in Portugal in the FAST model, and internationally with a paid subscription), reusing the same logo and exclusively broadcasting telenovelas.[4]
