Freevee

According to an Adweek report, Amazon is planning to sunset Freevee, its preexisting ad-supported app, as soon as April. This revelation is an unmistakable signal that the company is standing firm with a new ad-supported tier for Prime Video and no longer needs a second similar service—despite that service having created Jury Duty, an Emmy-nominated surprise hit, last year.Freevee, as its goofy name implies, is a free, ad-supported TV offering that has lived in Prime Video but also functioned as a stand-alone app. Amazon…

Amazon's is continuing to expand its lineup of cable-style streaming channels. The platform currently has more than 280 free, ad-supported TV (FAST) channels and it's from MGM and . Twelve channels are coming to the service over the next few months, including one called MGM Presents and others dedicated to action and sci-fi shows and movies. There will be channels focused on individual shows, including The Pink Panther, Stargate, Green Acres and The Outer Limits. There are already dedicated channels for the likes of…

Amazon’s own FAST service, called Freevee is getting 23 new channels. These channels will include content from Warner Bros Discovery and MGM. Keep in mind that Amazon owns MGM, so those titles should come as no surprise. Freevee already has well over 100 Prime Video Originals, and hundreds of channels with free content available. Freevee is a FAST service, which stands for Free Ad-Supported TV. That means that it is free, and you’ll have to watch ads. But hey, you’re not paying for it. These new channels will come to…

There was a time when you could hop onto Netflix and feel like you had pretty much any movie or show at your fingertips. Those years are long gone. Now consumers have a growing number of streaming providers all clamoring for attention, splitting up the media catalog against dozens of services and making finding the best one a surprisingly difficult task.Reuniting With Tyra BanksIn the past year, numerous streaming services have raised prices on subscription tiers. There’s been rounds of layoffs at HBO, Netflix and more.…

Amazon’s Freevee is getting a bit of a boost in while promoting more Prime Video content.Photo: rafapress (Shutterstock)Folks who want more streaming content without paying through the nose have quite a few more options this spring. Amazon announced Monday that it’s planning to drop a few more crumbs of content from its mainline Prime Video streaming platform to its Freevee ad-based video service. Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'Freevee will slowly gain access to more than 100 Amazon Originals over the course of the year.…

Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who loves “My So-Called Life,” “Freaks and Geeks” and “Reservation Dogs.” Those are the three TV series about adolescence to which TV critic Robert Lloyd favorably compares Amazon Freevee’s “High School,” premiering Friday, in his recommendation this week. Plus, we look back on Angela Lansbury’s indelible performance in “The Manchurian Candidate,” advise you to catch up on “The Owl House,” gab with the cast of “Reboot” and more. And, as always, we’d love to hear what…

Amazon Freevee, the ad-supported streaming service formally known as IMDb TV, now has a dedicated Apple TV app, Amazon announced Monday. Freevee was previously available on Apple TV within the Prime Video app, but now Freevee has its own app that you can download from the App Store for the Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD. Freevee offers access to Amazon Studios shows like Bosch: Legacy and Pretty Hard Cases as well as other free movies and TV like Mad Men and Knives Out. Freevee recently signed a new deal with Disney that…