Your Fire TV Stick gets a blockbuster upgrade offering more to watch for free
If you have a Fire TV Stick plugged into the back of your television you'll now find hours of extra content to watch without paying a penny for the privilege. The blockbuster upgrade comes courtesy of UKTV with this service adding four new channels to its lineup including UKTV Play Laughs, UKTV Play Full Throttle, UKTV Play Heroes and UKTV Play Uncovered.
There's comedy, documentaries, entertainment and more with shows broadcast throughout the day.
So, how do you tune into all of this extra content and how is it free?
Those with a Fire TV device will find things via the Pluto TV app which is free to download and install.
Once loaded onto Amazon's streaming dongles, the new channels will be shown in the listings and don't cost anything thanks to being Free Ad-supported Streaming TV (FAST).
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Along with being shown via Fire TV devices, UKTV also says consumers will be able to watch these channels via Samsung TV Plus as well which comes pre-installed on all new Samsung tellies. Pluto TV can also be watched via its dedicated website.
Speaking about the update, UKTV's Jonathan Newman, said: “ FAST is a fantastic opportunity to reach new audiences with our rich content catalogue and showcase a wide array of genres across the four new channels. Thanks to the hard work of a group of passionate experts from across UKTV, our new FAST channels will be a valuable complement to the existing channel network and will help supercharge the UKTV Play streaming service by further extending its reach.”
Here's what's include as part of all the new channels.
UKTV Play Heroes: A channel that offers viewers the chance to join frontline medics and police. The channel features Emma Willis: Delivering Babies, Inside the Ambulance, 999: Rescue Squad, Special Ops: Crime Squad, Cop Car Workshop, Inside the Operating Theatre, Nurses Down Under and The Shift: Women on the Force.
UKTV Play Laughs: Wall-to-wall comedy including shows such as Hypothetical, Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, Judge Romesh and Comedians Giving Lectures.
UKTV Play Full Throttle: This channel takes viewers to the skies, the tracks or the road, with shows packed with planes, trains, cars and more. The channel allows viewers to get under the bonnet, inside the cowling and off down the tracks for riveting shows led by expert hosts including Bangers & Cash, Architecture the Railways Built, Warbird Workshop, Yianni: Supercar Customiser, Secrets of the Railways, Train Truckers, Impossible Railways, Secrets of the London Underground, and Modern Wheels or Classic Steals.
UKTV Play Uncovered: Audiences are invited to explore the extraordinary, from the battlefield to the home front, ancient monoliths to modern myths, with featured titles including Abandoned Engineering, Forbidden History, World War 2 From Above, War Factories, History Hunters, Warbird Workshop, World War Weird, World War 2 Frontlines and Secret Nazi Bases.
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