MONTREAL — Bell Media’s Crave offering is evolving into a bilingual TV and streaming service next week, with more than 6,000 hours of exclusive new French-language content available to subscribers.
As part of the change, Bell Media’s Super Écran premium pay TV network will become available over-the-top for the first time as an add-on to Crave. The updated bilingual Crave officially debuts on Tuesday, January 28 through participating television providers and streaming platforms.
For existing subscribers, Crave will immediately offer hundreds of French titles totalling more than 5,000 additional hours at no extra cost, says the news release. The expanded offering will launch with the new Crave original series Pour toujours, plus un jour, plus an exclusive sneak peek of Canal D’s Sur les traces d’un tueur en série, and more made-in-Québec productions. French-language versions of some of the current Showtime programming and library of HBO programming on Crave will also be available.
With the new Crave + Super Écran add-on, the offering’s French-language programming grows to more than 6,000 hours with more than 20 new releases per month. Crave + Super Écran will also feature additional original Quebecois programming, as well as French-language versions of current HBO programming and hit Hollywood movies.
Bell Media also confirmed Tuesday that, as part of its previously announced exclusive long-term deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, it has secured French-language rights to select original HBO Max programming that will be featured on Crave later this year.
“We are so proud to launch a bilingual Crave, featuring not only exclusive French-language programming from Crave’s already robust line-up of hit TV and movies but, more importantly, dozens of new Crave Originals made in Québec for French-speaking audiences across the country,” said Karine Moses, president, Bell Media Québec and Bell’s vice-chair, Québec. “With the new Crave, we aim to solidify our presence in the Québec market in addition to promoting Québec’s solid production know-how in the rest of Canada.”
More information about Crave’s expanded offering of French-language programming can be found here.
