Thursday 22 February 2018

Roku Blog Feed: “DAZN now available on Roku players and Roku TVs in Canada!” plus 2 more

Roku Blog Feed: “DAZN now available on Roku players and Roku TVs in Canada!” plus 2 more

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DAZN now available on Roku players and Roku TVs in Canada!

Posted: 22 Feb 2018 06:28 AM PST

Roku users across Canada will now be able to live stream and catch-up on DAZN’s extensive range of sports content such as NatWest 6 Nations Championship, top European Soccer leagues such as La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1, Champions League via its partnership with BeIN Sports, the 24/7 NFL Network, as well as Russia's Kontinental Hockey League, FIBA Basketball, WTA Tennis and MotoGP.

DAZN's offering recently was expanded with more than 30 PGA TOUR events, Tie Break Tens (the hottest new competition in Tennis), Red Bull Air Race and World Snooker. DAZN users will also have every LIVE game of the 2018-19 NFL season – including pre-season, regular season, the playoffs and next year’s Super Bowl in Atlanta.

The DAZN channel can be added from the Sports category in the Roku Channel Store, or by clicking here.

 

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UKTV Play now available on Roku streaming players!

Posted: 22 Feb 2018 12:47 AM PST

UKTV Play just launched on Roku® streaming players in the UK. The free, TV on demand service hosts shows from UKTV channels Dave, Yesterday, Really and Drama including exclusive UKTV Originals and thousands of hours from the network's extensive archive.

Roku users will now have easy access to UKTV's top boxsets, from the multi-award winning Taskmaster, to Yianni: Supercar Customiser with YouTube sensation Yianni Charalambous, and Most Haunted for all the paranormal fans out there. They can also watch exclusive previews of brand new Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit and a special Fight Night Preview show, ahead of the next Hayemaker Ringstar boxing match, featuring former Olympic silver medallist Joe Joyce and Scottish braveheart Willy Hutchinson.

UKTV Play can be added to the home screen from the Film & TV category in the Roku Channel Store, or by clicking here.

Happy Streaming!

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These are the titles leaving The Roku Channel at the end of February

Posted: 21 Feb 2018 01:26 PM PST

Every week, we put together a list of free movies to watch on The Roku Channel. This week, we’ve highlighted a number of movies that are leaving the channel at the end of the month. Your time is running out, so watch them for free while you still can!

If you don't have The Roku Channel yet, click here to add the channel and start streaming for free!

FEATURED TITLES LEAVING THE ROKU CHANNEL:

– Elizabethtown (2005): During a hometown memorial for his Kentucky-born father, a young man begins an unexpected romance with a too-good-to-be-true stewardess. Starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.

– Regarding Henry (1991): After being shot, a man loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him. Starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening.

– A Raisin in the Sun (2008): An African-American family struggles with poverty, racism, and inner conflict as they strive for a better way of life. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry. Starring Sean Combs and Sanaa Lathan.

– Hanging Up (2000): A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close. Starring Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow.

– Into the Wild (2007): After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. Starring Emile Hirsch and Vince Vaughn.

– Resident Evil: Extinction (2007):Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp. Starring Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter.

MORE TITLES LEAVING THE ROKU CHANNEL:

Cruel Intentions (1999): Two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster’s daughter before the start of term. Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Reese Witherspoon.

Finding Forrester (2000): A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author. Starring Sean Connery and Rob Brown.

First Knight (1995): Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere, who is due to be married to King Arthur. Meanwhile, a violent warlord tries to seize power from Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere.

Fools Rush In (1997): After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one’s own cultural traditions. Starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek.

Gamer (2009): In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a ‘Doom’-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won’t he? Starring Gerard Butler and Michael C. Hall.

Head In The Clouds (2004): A young Cambridge student gets involved with a budding photographer in the years before WWII. Their relationship gets severed as he heads to Spain to fight fascism. They are later reunited when she puts her life on the line to save him. Starring Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, and Penelope Cruz.

Just Add Water (2008): An offbeat romantic comedy about a decent guy with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, CA who sheds the parasites in his life, musters the nerve to pursue his childhood love, and takes back his community by toppling the local teenage Meth-baron. Starring Dylan Walsh, Jonah Hill, and Justin Long.

Léon: The Professional (1994): Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin’s trade. Starring Jean Reno and Natalie Portman.

Mo’ Money (1992): Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals… Starring Damon Wayans and Stacey Dash.

My Girl (1991): A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend. Starring Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin.

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986): Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school. Starring Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage.

Resident Evil (2002): A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. Starring Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez.

Saw (2004): Two strangers, who awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, soon discover they’re pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer. Starring Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell.

The Craft (1996): A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them. Starring Robin Tunney and Neve Campbell.

True Romance (1993): In Detroit, a lonely pop culture geek marries a call girl, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine – the Mob – track them down in an attempt to reclaim it. Starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette.

What To Expect When You’re Expecting (2012): Follows the lives of five interconnected couples as they experience the thrills and surprises of having a baby, and realize that no matter what you plan for, life does not always deliver what is expected. Starring Cameron Diaz, Matthew Morrison, and Jennifer Lopez.

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Happy Streaming!

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