Continuing with our series on free streaming services, let’s take a look at a ‘free’ service that you are paying for, whether you like it or not – CBC Gem. Gem is the streaming service of the venerable Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which, for all its faults, is still the only place to go for Canadian
Continuing on with my dive into the wonderful world of weirdly named free streaming services (Tubi? Pluto? Flurbo? Blurt?) let’s take a look at Plex. Plex is, in content, much like the other streamers, with a mix of old and new(ish) TV and movies. But there is one major difference. You can, if you want,
Pluto TV is one of the newest, and most heavily promoted, of the free streaming services to arrive in Canada. Part of the Paramount entertainment colossus, it boasts 100 channels and thousands of movies, all free. Canadian content, especially newscasts and “How To” shows, is boosted through an alliance with Corus Entertainment. The service is
Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Paramount+ … so much streaming, so little money. You can spend a tidy sum on streaming services, to be sure. But you can also subscribe to streaming services that won’t cost you anything other than lots and lots of your time. They are the free streaming services, and in terms
While Netflix and (thanks to The Last of Us) HBO suck up most of the media oxygen when it comes to TV drama, one streamer has produced enough top drawer entertainment to keep you watching for the rest of winter, and well into spring. It is – surprise! – AppleTV+. While Netflix goes for quantity,
The list of Netflix’s most watched shows is telling. Despite the hundreds of thousands of hours of new, cutting-edge material available on the King Kong of streamers, what shows come up as the most watched? Sitcoms. And nothing new. Old stuff, like Seinfeld and The Office. Why, with so much new available at our fingertips,