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Disney is turning back time with another reboot of a classic Disney Channel show in the works. Wizards of Waverly Place is the latest series confirmed to be revived, joining Raven’s Home and The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.

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Selena Gomez and David Henrie are confirmed to appear and produce the revival together with the main cast already announced.

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A premiere date for the reboot of Wizards of Waverly Place has yet to be announced, but before it airs, you can catch up on the original series to catch any hidden easter eggs and callouts the revival may include.

Keep reading to learn the streaming options available to watch the original Wizards of Waverly Place online.

How to Watch Wizards of Waverly Place Online

Wizards of Waverly Place was a Disney Channel original series with four seasons that are now available to stream online on Disney+. If you already have a Disney+ subscription, you can watch Wizards of Waverly Place for free when you log into your account.

Don’t have a Disney+ subscription? The streaming platform offers streaming plans starting at just $7.99/month.

You can currently pick between two plans: Disney+ Basic and Disney+ Premium. The Basic plan is ad-supported at $7.99/month and includes thousands of movies and TV shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic as well as the ability to watch content on multiple screens at once, up to seven profiles and personalized recommendations.

The Premium plan gives you an ad-free experience for $13.99/month and includes everything in the Basic plan as well as the ability to download content to watch offline.

In addition to watching Wizards of Waverly Place online, you can stream shows like Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Bluey, Echo, Loki, Good Luck Charlie, Ms. Marvel, Hannah Montana, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Descendants, What If…? and more.

The streamer doesn’t offer a free trial, but you may be able to find one through Verizon.

If you want to expand your content offerings, you can also bundle Disney+ with Hulu and ESPN+ for just $14.99/month. For live TV offerings you can bundle the streamer with Hulu + Live TV.

Wizards of Waverly Place: Streaming, Download, Rental Options

Prime Video has all episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place available for purchase if you’d prefer to own the series digitally. Episodes start at $1.99 per episode or you can buy an entire season starting at $14.69.

You don’t need to be a Prime member in order to buy the episodes — after purchasing, the episodes or full seasons will be automatically downloaded to your library to watch whenever your want.

Collectors can also stock up on the DVDs through Amazon including Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie for $10. And for the ultimate nostalgic trip you can buy Wizards On Deck With Hannah Montana on DVD for $7 on Amazon.

What Is Wizards of Waverly Place About?

In case you need a refresher on what Wizards of Waverly Place is about, it follows three teenagers: Alex, Justin and Max Russo (Jake T. Austin) who come from a long line of wizards. The teens are trained to control their powers by their dad Jerry Russo (David DeLuise) who gave up his magic in order to be with his human wife. As the teens help run their family’s sandwich shop in Manhattan, they also run into all sorts of problems both normal and magical.

Other cast members include Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals-Barrera, Dan Benson, Gregg Sulkin, Bridgit Mendler and Jeff Garlin.

Wizards of Waverly Place Reboot Cast, Spoilers

As mentioned above Selena Gomez and David Henrie will reprise their roles in the Wizards of Waverly Place reboot. The “Single Soon” singer so far will only be seen in the series premiere — reprising her role as Alex Russo — while Henrie will return as a series regular, playing Justin Russo. According to Deadline, the revival will take place after mysterious events at WizTech lead Justin to trade his powers for a normal life with his wife and two sons. That is, until a young and powerful wizard shows up at his door in need of training.

TIDAL will combine its HiFi Plus and HiFi tiers as of April 10. The benefits of the pricer HiFi Plus plan will now be available to those on the more affordable HiFi plans; the single tier will be simply dubbed TIDAL. An individual TIDAL plan will cost $10.99 a month. HiFi Plus used to cost […]

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Ariana Grande is blessing Arianators with a seventh studio album titled Eternal Sunshine, which from the teasers the “Yes, And?” singer has been posting on Instagram, takes inspiration from the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This isn’t the first time that Grande has used her favorite movies as themes for albums of course — she famously paid homage to Mean Girls in the video to 2019’s Thank U, Next.

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As for Eternal Sunshine (the film) and Grande, the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper recently posted photos of herself dressed exactly like the film’s character Clementine, played by Kate Winslet, while holding up vinyls of Eternal Sunshine (the album). The most obvious callout to the film is in her teaser video announcement for the single “We Can’t Be Friends,” which shows Grande in a waiting room while going over a consent form that is just like the one from the movie.

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If you’re new to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or want to rewatch the movie before the “NASA” singer’s new album drops on Friday (March 8), you have some streaming options.

How to Stream Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Online

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is available to stream online on Peacock. If you’re already a Peacock subscriber, you can watch the movie for free when you log into your account.

Don’t have a Peacock subscription? The streaming platform doesn’t offer a free trial, but it does provide a few affordable plan options, with pricing as low as $6/month. Your subscription includes access to the entire Peacock library — including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

You have two different plans to choose from: Peacock Premium or Peacock Premium Plus. The cheapest plan is Peacock Premium, which is $5.99/month (or you can save 17% off with an annual plan for $59.99/year). You’ll gain access to more than 80,000 hours of new and hit TV shows, movies and originals as well as live sports and events, current NBC and Bravo content, and more than 50 live channels.

Peacock Premium Plus is $11.99/month (or $119.99/year), and comes with everything in the Premium plan with no ads, your local live NBC channel and the ability to download and watch most content offline.

Along with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you can stream Peacock originals and exclusives as well as programming from NBC and Bravo like Yellowstone, Willie Nelson & Family, America’s Got Talent, Based on a True Story, Bel-Air, Love Island Games, Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Real Housewives of Potomac, The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, Vanderpump Rules, Below Deck and more.

Other Ways to Watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Online

If you’d rather rent Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind online, Prime Video is offering rentals for $4 or you can purchase the movie to own in your digital library for only $8.

You don’t need a Prime membership to buy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind either — just choose how you want to watch the film, then after you purchase the movie, it’ll automatically download and be available to watch in your video library. Rentals are available for 30 days after purchase and will disappear 48 hours after starting the movie.

If you’re a collector, you can take advantage of 40% off the 4K DVD edition on Amazon for a limited-time. Normally, the movie is priced at $40, but with the deal you can take Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind home for just $24.

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The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind DVD includes a 4K disc as well as a Blu-ray edition. Each disc also contains special features to learn more about the making of the movie as well as audio commentary by director Michel Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.

What Is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind About?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind asks the question: if you had the option to erase all of the painful memories from a breakup, would you? Winslet’s character Clementine decides she’s going to erase her ex-boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) by undergoing a non-invasive procedure that can detect and delete painful memories — ultimately causing her to forget someone completely. When Joel finds out that she’s done this, he decides to go through the procedure as well, but as the painful memories begin to disappear and he can only remember the happy ones, he starts to fall back in love with Clementine all over again.

Other cast members include Kristen Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo and Tom Wilkinson.

Check below for a trailer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Tuesday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for breaking the bloc’s competition laws by unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals.
Apple banned app developers from “fully informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services outside of the app,” said the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm and top antitrust enforcer.

That is illegal under EU antitrust rules. Apple behaved this way for almost a decade, which meant many users paid “significantly higher prices for music streaming subscriptions,” the commission said.

The 1.8 billion-euro fine follows a long-running investigation triggered by a complaint from Swedish streaming service Spotify five years ago.

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The EU has led global efforts to crack down on Big Tech companies, including a series of multbillion-dollar fines for Google and charging Meta with distorting the online classified ad market. The commission also has opened a separate antitrust investigation into Apple’s mobile payments service.

The commission’s investigation initially centered on two concerns. One was the iPhone maker’s practice of forcing app developers that are selling digital content to use its in-house payment system, which charges a 30% commission on all subscriptions.

But the EU later dropped that to focus on how Apple prevents app makers from telling their users about cheaper ways to pay for subscriptions that don’t involve going through an app.

The investigation found that Apple banned streaming services from telling users about how much subscription offers cost outside of their apps, including links in their apps to pay for alternative subscriptions or even emailing users to tell them about different pricing options.

The fine comes the same week that new EU rules are set to kick in that are aimed at preventing tech companies from dominating digital markets.

The Digital Markets Act, due to take effect Thursday, imposes a set of do’s and don’ts on “gatekeeper” companies including Apple, Meta, Google parent Alphabet, and TikTok parent ByteDance — under threat of hefty fines.

The DMA’s provisions are designed to prevent tech giants from the sort of behavior that’s at the heart of the Apple investigation. Apple has already revealed how it will comply, including allowing iPhone users in Europe to use app stores other than its own and enabling developers to offer alternative payment systems.

The commission also has opened a separate antitrust investigation into Apple’s mobile payments service, and the company has promised to open up its tap-and-go mobile payment system to rivals in order to resolve it.

French streaming company Deezer‘s revenue grew 12.1% to 130.7 million euros ($141 million) in the fourth quarter, bringing its full-year revenue to 484.7 million euros ($524 million), up 7.4% year over year, the company announced Wednesday (Feb. 28).

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Full-year adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (ABITDA) was roughly halved to -28.8 million euros (-$31 million) and net loss was cut by almost two-thirds to 59.6 million euros ($64 million).

This year, Deezer expects to achieve a 10% growth in revenue — to roughly 533 million euros ($575 million) — and again halve adjusted ABITDA to -15 million euros (-$16.2 million) behind improved gross margins and cost controls.

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Deezer’s subscriber count grew 11.5% to 10.5 million from 9.4 million at the end of 2022. The entire gain in subscriptions came from business-to-business partnerships, which grew by 1 million to 4.8 million. Last year, Deezer launched new partnerships with home audio company Sonos, media company RTL in Germany and e-commerce company Mercado Libre in Brazil and Mexico to power those companies’ branded music streaming services. It also renewed partnerships with mobile carrier TIM in Brazil, retailer Fnac Darty in France and mobile carrier Orange in France.

Average revenue per user (ARPU) from B2B subscribers rose from 2.6 euros ($2.81) to 2.8 euros ($3.03) per month. “Our partnership strategy is bearing fruit, driving our overall growth and helping us win market share outside France,” CEO Jeronimo Folgueira said in a statement.

Deezer’s direct subscribers remained flat at 5.6 million but those user’s ARPU increased from 4.7 euros ($5.09) to 4.9 ($5.31) euros per month. Last year, the company raised monthly subscription fees in France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands from 10.99 euros to 11.99 euros with “minimal churn” on its subscriber case, according to the earnings release.

The company also announced Wednesday that Folgueira is stepping down “to pursue personal projects.” Folgueira joined Deezer as CEO in 2021. During his tenure, Deezer went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, I2PO, in 2022, and forged a partnership with Universal Music Group in 2023 to introduce an artist-centric model for royalty calculations.

Shares of Deezer rose 0.5% to 2.18 euros ($2.36) Wednesday before the company released earnings results. The stock has almost doubled its 52-week low of 1.19 euros ($1.29) on April, 2023, 13 but is well below its 52-week high of 3.19 euros ($3.46) set on Nov. 2, 2023.

Jeronimo Folgueira is resigning from his position as CEO of the streaming service Deezer, the company announced Wednesday (Feb. 28). Folgueira previously held the role of CEO and director of the board at Spark Networks — an online dating company — before he joined Deezer in 2021. ”I am extremely proud of what we have […]

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It’s not every year you can experience an extra day in February, and to help you celebrate the special occasion, Amazon Prime Video is discounting the hit 2010 film Leap Year for 67% off.

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If you’re new to Leap Year, it stars Amy Adams as Anna who decides to take matters into her own hands after another anniversary with her boyfriend ends without a proposal. She decides to embrace the Celtic tradition where women are allowed to propose to their significant others on Feb. 29 (a.k.a. Leap Day), leading her to fly to Dublin to execute the perfect proposal. What she doesn’t expect is to end up on Emerald Isle with the handsome Declan (Matthew Goode), who may just teach her what true love really looks like.

Aside from Adams and Goode, other cast members in the hit romantic comedy include Adam Scott, John Lithgow and Kaitlin Olson.

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Keep reading to learn the streaming options available to watch Leap Year online.

How to Watch Leap Year Online

You can watch Leap Year (2010) online right now through Prime Video, which has the option to rent or buy the movie. Right now, you can get a digital download of the movie for 67% off, dropping the price from $14.99 to just $4.99 (which means it’s only $1 less to rent the movie).

The download is yours to keep so you can watch Leap Year on-demand in HD whenever you want. Click here or use the button below to score the deal.

You don’t need a Prime membership in order to stream Leap Year at home — just make your purchase and the movie will automatically download into your video library. If you decide to rent Leap Year, you’ll have the film for 30 days and for 48 hours once you start watching it. Rent Leap Year on Amazon here.

Is the Movie Leap Year Streaming Anywhere?

Leap Year currently isn’t streaming on any platforms for free, but in addition to Prime Video, you can also purchase the movie on Apple TV for $5 or rent it for $4. An Apple TV+ subscription isn’t required to purchase or rent Leap Year online, you just need the Apple TV app or an Apple TV streaming device. The app is free to download and from there, you’ll be able to buy or rent the movie.

After you’ve made your purchase, the movie will automatically be downloaded and added to your video library. You’ll have 48 hours after starting the movie to finish it.

If you’d prefer to own Leap Year on DVD, it’s available to buy on Blu-ray through Amazon and Walmart and for as low as $9 for a limited time.

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How Does Leap Year Work?

One year usually equates to 365 days, but according to NASA, it actually takes 365.25 days for the earth to complete its orbit around the sun. To help make up the difference, about every four years, a leap year occurs, giving us one extra day. This tends to happen in February, giving us 29 days instead of the usual 28 days.

To help you take advantage of the extra day in the year, author Gay Hendricks has just released a new book titled Your Big Leap Year. Hendricks, who has grown popular for publishing books that offer tips and tools to living your best life writes about how taking a little “leap” can help improve your love life, wealth and creativity. The Leap Year-inspired book was released on Feb. 13 and is available to buy on Amazon now.

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Hendricks is back with another exploratory book that aims to inspire and help you achieve your goals in life. Your Big Leap Year came out on Feb. 13 and presents techniques to expand you happiness ceiling. The hope is that by utilizing the techniques presented in the book alongside the extra day due to Leap Year, you may be able to find yourself living your best, happiest life.

As for the movie, watch the trailer for Leap Year below and stream Leap Year online on Amazon.

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On Feb. 15, a snippet of Post Malone singing along to a forthcoming collaboration with Luke Combs surfaced on TikTok. Post Malone is signed to Mercury/Republic Records, Universal Music Group labels, and UMG’s catalog has been unavailable on TikTok since the start of February. This means that preexisting videos made with his hits now play without sound, and users can’t make new clips with his recordings. The video of Post Malone lip-syncing to the track was originally posted on Instagram Reels, but it migrated to TikTok anyway — most clips do — and the audio remained unmuted, skirting the UMG ban because the song has not been officially released.
“We can still use the platform to tease new music because until the master hits TikTok, nothing will happen” to it, says Tim Gerst, CEO of Nashville-based digital marketing agency Thinkswell. “We’re not really going to change our strategy much.”

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Artists silenced by the UMG-TikTok impasse have used this and other workarounds during the first month that they’ve been walled off from what is arguably their most effective marketing tool. Indeed, digital marketers say they haven’t noticed an exodus from the platform after the negotiations between the two companies fell apart.

“Artists impacted by this are just being more creative on TikTok about how they’re getting music out,” Shopkeeper Management digital marketing manager Laura Spinelli says. “People are doing acoustic versions of songs; they’re changing up the tempo [so that songs don’t trigger TikTok’s sonic fingerprinting system]; they’re talking around it.

“It’s not, ‘TikTok’s gone, so I’m going to go on [YouTube] Shorts,’ ” Spinelli continues. “It’s, ‘The masters are gone from TikTok; how can I still get my music out?’ ”

While there are plenty of digital platforms that artists can use to market their music, the reality is none have been able to consistently replicate TikTok’s impact over the past four years. “There’s really no other comparable digital marketing strategy or platform for exposure of new music,” says Tyler Blatchley, co-founder of Black 17, The Orchard’s top label on TikTok. “Trends are tied to songs on TikTok in a unique way. On Reels and Shorts, the audience cares less about the song, more about the video content.”

“TikTok is No. 1 for music discovery,” adds Johnny Cloherty, co-founder of digital marketing company Songfluencer. “These other platforms don’t lead to consumption the same way TikTok does.”

It’s also not clear that Reels and Shorts are even trying to challenge TikTok in the way they once did. When the two platforms were launched in 2020, they both seemed positioned to compete for TikTok’s market share — the app had recently been banned in India, and President Donald Trump was threatening to do the same in the United States.

In the years since, however, “both of these products, which came out as TikTok competitors, have evolved,” says another digital marketer who has worked with artists and brands. “They’re different from what they were, and the focus of the companies behind them have shifted.”

The digital marketer points to a recent blog post in which YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced that “YouTube’s next frontier is the living room,” suggesting the platform was increasingly interested in competing with a company like Netflix rather than other purveyors of short-form video. “It might not be what you’d expect,” Mohan wrote, “but people like watching Shorts on their TVs.”

Reels and its parent company, Meta, have also made significant changes over the last 12 months. In 2023, the company shut down the bonus system it had put in place to financially incentivize creator activity. (That program seemed like another attempt to compete with TikTok, which had announced its own $200 million creator fund in 2020.) A couple of months later, Meta launched another platform, Threads. Just as Reels once seemed aimed at capitalizing on the misfortunes of TikTok, the timing of Threads’ arrival seemed an attempt to capitalize on the troubles of Elon Musk’s X; Meta’s new platform also appeared to signal a shift in company priorities.

Even so, most artists have been, at a minimum, cross-posting TikTok clips to Shorts and Reels for several years, eager to find exposure wherever they can get it.

Shorts has helped artists grow their subscriber numbers on YouTube, and subscribers can be monetized in other ways. Harrison Golding, who oversees digital marketing for EMPIRE, has seen it function as “a discovery tool in countries where YouTube is their primary streaming platform,” like India.

Reels is still an engine for increasing followers as well. “If you want to grow on Instagram right now, Reels is the way to do that,” Spinelli says. In addition, manager Tommy Kiljoy says Reels helped drive listeners to his client ThxSoMch’s latest release, “Hide Your Kids,” as well as Sawyer Hill’s “Look at the Time,” which recently topped Spotify’s Viral 50 chart in the United States.

But “we see more trends on TikTok,” says Hemish Gholkar, a digital marketer who works with all of the major labels. “We hardly see trends to a record on Reels or Shorts.”

While UMG’s catalog remains officially unavailable on TikTok, it has always been the case that any user can upload audio to the platform. Many viral trends start thanks to unofficial bootlegs, and “some artists are just putting up songs as original sounds,” according to Nima Nasseri, a former vp of A&R strategy for Universal Music Group.

Artists “are speeding up their songs a little bit, doing different edits,” and posting them on TikTok, Kiljoy notes. “I’ve seen people lean into [the absence of the music] more than anything and get a rise out of it.” (UMG artists’ music may also be still available if they collaborated with an act on another label: TikTokers can find Drake rapping on Travis Scott’s “Meltdown,” for example.)

In addition, artists have devised ways to keep seeding their music without the official recording. Singer d4vd, whose breakout hits got traction on TikTok and led to a record deal with UMG’s Darkroom/Interscope Records, recently posted a video labeled “d4vd songs that sound better live,” which shows him performing “Leave Her,” his latest release.

Gerst has had success promoting his clients’ older music in cases when it was recorded outside of the UMG system. “We’re going back and pushing a bunch of the back-catalog content,” Gerst says. A video his team posted soundtracked by “I’m Gonna Miss Her,” Brad Paisley’s goofy tribute to fishing, amassed over 30 million views across TikTok and Reels. The song was originally released through Sony in 2001, but a throwback that’s earning millions of views still keeps Paisley top of mind for fans as he moves towards a new album.

Even UMG artists who have expressed disappointment that their music isn’t available on TikTok keep posting anyway. “Two massive companies deciding what goes on with people’s art; it’s a bit f—ing daft,” artist Yungblud said in a TikTok video after the negotiations crumbled. “Everything can be taken away at the touch of a button.”

Still, he continues to post every few days, uploading a mix of onstage and backstage videos, an acoustic performance of “When We Die (Can We Still Get High?)” and interview footage. The same goes for Muni Long, who posted an interview to TikTok in which she called her music’s absence from the platform “a bummer,” and another clip of a group of fans screaming along to her single “Made For Me” at a basketball game.

The stand-off between UMG and TikTok is about to enter a new phase where any songs that have contributions from Universal Music Publishing Group songwriters disappear from the platform, meaning artists and marketers will have to adjust once again. “We’re not going to abandon TikTok,” Gerst says. “We’re just going to find new ways to do it.”

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Shōgun is a new 10-episode limited series based on the bestselling novel of the same name from author James Clavell. The first two episodes are available to stream on Hulu, while they’re also airing on FX starting on Tuesday, Feb. 27.

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Ahead, you can read on for ways to watch and stream Shōgun.

What Time Does Shōgun Premiere?

The first two episodes of Shōgun are available to stream on Hulu. However, the miniseries premieres on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX. The remaining seven episodes drop every Tuesday morning at 12:01 a.m. ET/PT on Hulu, while it broadcasts later on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX.

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Where to Watch Shōgun for Free

If you’re a cord-cutter, then there are a number of ways to watch some of your favorite TV shows without cable — especially if you want to watch for free. Many streaming services, like DirecTV Stream and Fubo, offer free trials, so you can watch the season premiere of Shōgun on FX without spending money up front.

Keep reading for more details on how to watch Shōgun on Hulu, Disney+ (as part of the Disney Duo), DirecTV Stream and Fubo.

How to Watch Shōgun on Hulu

The best way to watch Shōgun is with a subscription to Hulu. New episodes of the limited series drop on the streaming service before it airs on FX, while you get access to other fantastic originals, including The Bear, Only Murders in the Building, The Handmaid’s Tale, American Horror Stories and more. You also get access to FX originals, like Fargo, Reservation Dogs, What We Do in the Shadows, Under the Banner of Heaven and others.

Hulu starts at $7.99 per month, or $79.99 per year for the ad-supported plan, while you can go without ads for $17.99 per month.

How to Watch Shōgun on Disney+

Looking to add Disney+ with your Hulu subscription? You can get Disney+ and Hulu in one streaming service with the Disney Duo. With sign up, you get a new hub called “Hulu” at the top of the Disney+ homepage, along with Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic.

The first two episodes are available to stream with the Disney Duo too. Not a subscribers? You can sign up for the ad-supported plan for $9.99 per month, or you can go ad-free for $19.99 per month (or $139.99 per year).

How to Watch Shōgun on DirecTV Stream

A subscription to DirecTV Stream gets you access to live TV, local and cable channels, starting at $79.99 per month. The service even offers a 5-day free trial to watch Shōgun for free, if you sign up now.

You can watch local networks, like NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and PBS, while you can also watch many cable networks, including FX, AMC, A&E, Bravo, Cartoon Network, ESPN, FS1, VH1, Fuse, CNN, Food Network, Lifetime, CNBS, BET, MTV, Paramount Network and many others.

How to Watch Shōgun on Fubo

Fubo starts at $59.99 per month for the first month ($79.99 per month afterwards) with nearly 200 channels, including local and cable, that are streamable on smart TVs, smartphones, tablets and on web browsers. And with a 7-day free trial, you can watch Shōgun for free, if you act fast and sign up now.

The services gets you live access to local broadcast networks, like NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox, while it also has dozens of cable networks, such as FX, Bravo, TLC, ESPN, E!, FS1, MTV, CMT, ID, Ion, OWN, Paramount Network, TV Land, VH1 and much more.

More Ways to Watch

If you’re overseas and you’d like to stream Shōgun internationally, you can sign up for a VPN, such as ExpressVPN, NordVPN and PureVPN, which lets you access a number of streaming platforms, like the ones mentioned above, legally.

The samurai miniseries follows Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), a feudal Japanese lord, who comes across a shipwrecked John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), an English sailor who clashes with Japanese culture in the 16th century.

It also stars Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Takehiro Hira, Tommy Bastow, Fumi Nikaido and others.

Shōgun is available to stream on Hulu and broadcasts on FX starting on Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

In the meantime, watch a trailer for Shōgun below.

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BLKFAM, another streaming service, is entering the chat, and this one is all Black, has a Black owner, strictly for Black folks, and boasts Whoopi Goldberg as an investor.

The movie and television streaming space got a bit more crowded with the launch of BLKFAM, a new free, ad-supported streaming service created by digital marketer Larry Adams.

The View host and legendary comedian/actress is on board as an equity partner in the streamer, boasting that it is “the first and only Black-owned, Black-focused family streaming platform.”
Coming out of the gate, BLKFAM is offering potential customers access to its content library containing 20+ syndicated series, 1,000+ hours of new animation titles, and introducing new animated characters of color plus diverse gender experiences.
For those into music, don’t worry. BLKFAM has got you with hundreds of hours of original music-driven content.
As for the content, Deadline reports ten new original live-action and animated series are currently in development that premiere on the streamer during its first year. There will also be investigative journalism and news shows, fitness and wellness series, reality shows, and a Black History program for customers to enjoy.
Per Deadline:
Black culture and content is so often stereotyped, siloed or written off – so I wanted to create a platform where my kids and I can be entertained without having to face those same daily biases,” said Adams.
Goldberg has signed on as equity partner alongside Tom Leonardis, president of her entertainment venture Whoop, Inc., and will be steering the creative development of various programming exclusive to the platform.
“I am honored to partner with BLKFAM to assist in the creative direction of curated diverse content – for Black culture to be brought to broader audiences,” the EGOT winner said.
 Add BLKFAM to the list of entertainment hubs for Black television viewers, including names like BET+, Tubi, ALLBLK, and a particular one that will remain nameless.
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