Today, Amazon Freevee announced that it has reached a deal with MGM and Warner Bros. Discovery to add more free, ad-supported channels. These new channels will add to the growing catalog of over 280 free channels currently available on the service, spanning genres that include Originals, popular movies, food, game shows, classic TV, reality, news, and sports. All channels can be accessed through the Freevee app, as well as within Fire TV and Prime Video.
“FAST Channels offer Freevee viewers an always-on, 24/7, lean-back viewing experience that immediately connects them to a selection of TV shows, movies, and unscripted programming such as news, sports, and music,” said Ryan Pirozzi, head of Amazon Freevee. “MGM and Warner Bros. Discovery create content that appeals to a diverse fan base—action, comedy, drama, scripted, unscripted, and more. We are incredibly excited Freevee customers will have even more choice when it comes to what they can watch, whenever and however they choose.”
Here are the new channels being added to Amazon Freevee today:
MGM –MGM will launch 12 FAST Channels, adding a new lineup of single-title channels which will include “The Pink Panther,” “Stargate,” “Green Acres,” and “The Outer Limits,” alongside branded channels such as“MGM Presents,” “MGM Presents: Action,” and “MGM Presents: Sci-Fi,” which will be programmed with premium movies and series including Capote and Red Dawn. The MGM FAST Channels join “Paternity Court,”“In the Heat of the Night,”“The Addams Family,” and“Teen Wolf,” all of which are live today on Freevee.
Warner Bros. Discovery – Freevee will launch 11 FAST Channels this June that feature Discovery and WBD studio content, such as “Cake Boss,”“Extreme Couponing,” “Ghost Brothers,”“Paranormal Lockdown,”“Say Yes to the Dress,”and“Long Lost Family.”
Amazon says these channels will launch on the ad-supported streaming service over the next few months.
Freevee also recently secured 10 channels from Lionsgate for the free streaming service. Nine channels are available now including “Nashville,”“Are We There Yet?,” “Anger Management,” and“HerSphere,” with “Ghost Hunters” launching in the coming weeks. Additional free fhannels coming to the service in June include “Amazon Movies,” “Judge & Jury,” “QVC,” “HSN,” “Tastemade en Español,” “The Big Dish,” “USA Today” and “USA Today Sports”.
Amazon Freevee is available on Fire TV, Fire Tablets, and as a free Channel within Prime Video. Freevee is also available as an app on Roku, Samsung smart TVs (2017-2021 models), Comcast’s Xfinity Flex, Xfinity X1, Chromecast with Google TV, NVIDIA SHIELD and other Android TV devices, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles, as well as LG Smart TVs (2018-2021 models). The app is also available on iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices.