Roku UK Adds 5 ITV Studios FAST TV Channels to Streaming Platform
Streaming platform provider Roku UK, which last year began to deploy their “first-ever” FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channels to streaming boxes at no extra cost (here), has today announced that they’ve added another five FAST TV channels to their existing total of 40. The new additions all come from ITV Studios.
Just to recap. FAST channels require a broadband connection for internet access and tend to reflect special dedicated channels that usually only offer content and schedules based on either a single TV show or theme. As usual all the channels will be available via all Roku TV models and Roku streaming players, while being fully integrated into The Roku Channel and Live TV Guide.
The latest five channels from ITV Studios should be fairly familiar to Brits as they’re almost all focused on specific TV celebrities and shows.
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New ITV Studios FAST Channels for Roku UK
· The Graham Norton Show – Much loved talk show host Graham Norton invites the biggest stars in the world onto his sofa to share their stories and have the best fun.
· Hell’s Kitchen – Gordon Ramsay’s culinary boot camp returns to Los Angeles as the terrifying world-renowned Head Chef slices and dices a group of wannabe Cordon Bleu cooks and aspiring restaurateurs, to find out who deserves the top prize of their own restaurant.
· Hotel Inspector – Alex Polizzi is on a quest to save some of Britain’s worst-run hotels and B&Bs, with dubious decor, questionable cleanliness and even family feuds to contend with along the way.
· River Monsters – Follow fishing detective Jeremy Wade as he travels around the world in search of the most fearsome underwater killers.
· British Screen Classics – Bringing you the very best of British cinema. Showing a range of genres across comedy, horror, war, drama, adventure and romance, you’ll find the films you love all in one place.
The partnership was led by Jane Dribinskaya, VP FAST & DTC Partnerships, for Zoo 55 and Albert Rabago, Content Acquisition Manager, for Roku.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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The last two maybe, but Ramsay and Norton can both do one, can’t stand either.
I really don’t see the point in fast channels, at some point they are just going to repeat, still I suppose they are free, well that depends. If they are actual channels and follow a linier path, then for me, they are not free as legally I would have to buy a TV licence. If they are on demand then I can watch them without a licence.
Not that anyone would know, but for me, linier channels are out of date, not having bothered with them for around 8 years
itv needs to add older police things; we love when people share them