‘Westworld’ Gets New Home As Warner Bros. Discovery Strikes Roku & Tubi FAST Channel Deals - Deadline

Warner Bros. Discovery’s program to distribute Westworld and different cardinal shows via FAST channels has materialized.

Deals person been struck with Roku and Tubi to motorboat branded channels this year, bringing much than 2,000 hours of programs successful full to each service.

Deadline had reported WBD was apt to merchantability Westworld and different cardinal titles to FAST transmission providers successful December, erstwhile it was pulled from HBO Max. That came amid a fiscal reappraisal of the HBO portfolio. Other shows, including The Nevers, Raised By Wolves and F-Boy Island were pulled astatine the aforesaid time, arsenic WBD CEO David Zaslav eyed caller ways to monetize his catalog. Tubi noted The Nevers is included successful its agreement.

Following the deals, Westworld, The Bachelor, Cake Boss, Say Yes to the Dress and F-Boy Island will each articulation The Roku Channel successful the outpouring done Warner Bros-branded channels, portion Fox Corp-owned Tubi volition motorboat 14 WB-branded channels and 225 titles connected its platform. Westworld, Raised By Wolves and F-Boy Island are among them.

Sitting alongside the Roku channels volition beryllium hundreds of TV bid and movies from the likes of HBO, HBO Max, Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Bros. Television.

Tubi’s woody includes 11 FAST channels focused connected genres including lifestyle, homes, classical movies, education, mysteries and weddings and respective others. New unscripted titles linear transmission New titles and AVOD services volition Cake Boss, My Cat From Hell, Breaking Amish and Caribbean Life.

Both agreements are for the aforesaid sets of contented and are being described by sources arsenic “co-exclusive.”

WBD and Roku called their woody “groundbreaking.” However, portion Roku and Tubi are among the biggest players successful FAST, the free-streaming beingness is immense and truthful the agreements could somewhat bounds the organisation of the shows.

Roku Vice President of Programming Rob Holmes, who is leaving the institution pursuing David Eilenberg’s promotion to contented chief, said: “As FAST continues to detonate successful popularity amongst cord-cutters, we’re seeing contented players progressively displacement their absorption towards capturing this audience, by bringing immoderate of their champion worldly to FAST. The accelerated enlargement of premium contented connected FAST is simply a triumph for some the spectator and contented owner, arsenic good arsenic advertisers looking to scope these audiences done well-known programming.”

Tubi Chief Content Officer Adam Lewinson said the “WB-branded FAST channels and on-demand offering volition talk to each of Tubi’s chiseled assemblage communities.”

David Decker, President of Content Sales for Warner Bros. Discovery, said Roku and Tubi’s “innovative platforms supply america with caller ways to bring our invaluable contented to fans crossed the country.”

Roku has been gathering retired its FAST connection implicit the past year, adding shows from the likes of AMC Networks and NBCUniversal. Offering 80,000 escaped movies and programs, it has 70 cardinal planetary accounts. Tubi has a room of implicit 48,000 movies and TV shows successful total.