Here’s some great news to brighten up your day. It seems that a new streaming service has launched offering some new content. The Roku Channel has just launched and looking at it initially, it is quite impressive. The official blurb says that it offers 10,000 new television and film titles. Already a massive hit in the US, the service has started to roll out to international territories, including the UK. The Roku TV channel can be viewed on Roku TV, any NOW TV device or the delicious Sky Q box if you’re lucky enough to have that.
I’ve had a quick scour of the service, specifically at the movies on offer, and it looks impressive. Titles that immediately presented themselves on the browsing option include His Girl Friday, the 1940 movie starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, Convoy starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, and Burt Young John Wayne movie Rio Lobo, Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, Michael Caine starrer Zulu, and the recent adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus with Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler.
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On the TV front, there are episodes of Skins, daytime auction/ home improvement show Homes Under the Hammer, and also documentaries on the likes of Michael Schumacher, David Beckham, Lewis Hamilton and popular TV shows like Hells Kitchen and The F Word with Gordon Ramsay.
For kids, there is content too, including staples Bob the Builder, Teletubbies, and Fireman Sam.
The system is supported by ads that come during TV content (at the usual times that they do on terrestrial programming) and the ads attached to movies are relative to the content you’re watching.
You can check out more info on the Roku TV channel at the end of the link at the top of this page.
