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Additional Financial Information (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2019
Additional Financial Information [Abstract] |
Schedule of Other Assets | The composition of the Company’s other assets is as follows as of March 31, 2019 and March 31, 2018:
| March 31, 2019 |  | March 31, 2018
| (Amounts in millions)
Other current assets |  |  |
Prepaid expenses and other | $ | 150.6 |  |  | $ | 34.1 |
Product inventory | 19.9 |  |  | 20.3 |
Tax credits receivable | 96.7 |  |  | 141.4 |
| $ | 267.2 |  |  | $ | 195.8 |
Other non-current assets |  |  |
Prepaid expenses and other(1) | $ | 109.2 |  |  | $ | 23.8 |
Accounts receivable(1) | 176.1 |  |  | 325.2 |
Tax credits receivable | 150.8 |  |  | 109.6 |
| $ | 436.1 |  |  | $ | 458.6 |
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(1) | Unamortized discounts on contract assets included in prepaid expenses and other were $3.9 million at March 31, 2019, and unamortized discounts on long-term, non-interest bearing receivables were $9.7 million and $18.0 million at March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Schedule of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Table Text Block] | The following table summarizes the changes in the components of accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax:
| Foreign currency translation adjustments |  | Net unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale securities |  | Net unrealized gain (loss) on cash flow hedges |  | Total
| (Amounts in millions)
March 31, 2016 | $ | (11.3 | ) |  | $ | (35.5 | ) |  | $ | 3.7 |  |  | $ | (43.1 | )
Reclassification adjustment for gain on available-for-sale securities realized in net income | — |  |  | (17.8 | ) |  | — |  |  | (17.8 | )
Other comprehensive income (loss) | (8.1 | ) |  | 56.4 |  |  | (3.4 | ) |  | 44.9 |
March 31, 2017 | (19.4 | ) |  | 3.1 |  |  | 0.3 |  |  | (16.0 | )
Other comprehensive income (loss) | 7.0 |  |  | (0.5 | ) |  | (0.2 | ) |  | 6.3 |
March 31, 2018 | (12.4 | ) |  | 2.6 |  |  | 0.1 |  |  | (9.7 | )
Cumulative effect of accounting changes | — |  |  | (2.6 | ) |  | — |  |  | (2.6 | )
Other comprehensive loss | (5.8 | ) |  | — |  |  | (62.2 | ) |  | (68.0 | )
March 31, 2019 | $ | (18.2 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (62.1 | ) |  | $ | (80.3 | )
Supplemental Schedule of Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities | The supplemental schedule of non-cash investing and financing activities is presented below:
| Year Ended March 31,
| 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
| (Amounts in millions)
Non-cash investing activities: |  |  |  |  |
Issuance of common shares related to business acquisitions | $ | 83.7 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 1,327.7 |
Accrued purchase consideration for dissenting shareholders (see Note 17) | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 797.3 |
Issuance of Starz share-based payment replacement awards | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 186.5 |
Non-cash financing activities: |  |  |  |  |
Accrued dividends (see Note 13) | $ | — |  |  | $ | 19.1 |  |  | $ | — |
Conversions of convertible senior subordinated notes | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 41.9 |

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