Tubi Plans To Bring 100 New Original Titles To Fox-Owned Streaming Service Over The Next Year – NewFronts
deadline.comMore than two years into its run at Fox Corp., Tubi is ramping up in original programming, planning 100 new film and TV titles over the next year as viewership continues to rise.The programming push was one of the central messages of the streaming service’s NewFronts presentation this evening in New York.Since being acquired in 2020 for $440 million, the free, ad-supported streaming service has been increasingly integrated into Fox’s operations and has more than doubled its viewership.
It offers streaming access after linear premiere for many of the top shows on the Fox broadcast network, including ratings kingpin The Masked Singer.
It also is tapping into two corporate cousins for originals: TMZ and animated specialist Bento Box Entertainment. The new originals will join a library of more than 40,000 film and TV titles, which Tubi says is No.
1 among all free AVODs.Among the new arrivals are a comedy called Classmates, directed by Danielle Fishel, who starred on Boy Meets World.
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