PlayboyTV - Crave - Season 7
Prior to its merger with CraveTV, The Movie Network held exclusive rights to new seasons of HBO programming, which are now included in Crave's premium tier, while CraveTV held streaming rights to past seasons of several Showtime series. First-run Showtime programming and library HBO programming (as well as past seasons of select current HBO series, such as Game of Thrones), were available on both services.
PlayboyTV - Crave - Season 7
In-spite of this, the rights certain programs commissioned from outside production companies, which have retained international distribution rights, have previously been sold to other Canadian channels. For example, the Showtime series Homeland was not initially covered under Crave's output deal; producing studio Fox 21 Television Studios (now 20th Television) had sold the Canadian first-run rights to Super Channel when the series premiered. Crave would later acquire non-exclusive rights to re-air and stream past seasons of Homeland through a separate deal with Fox/Disney and the channel ultimately acquired the premiere rights for the 8th and final season of the series airing in 2020.[26]
After rebranding as Crave in 2018, the service initially scaled back on the development of ongoing television series; apart from the reality show Canada's Drag Race and the comedy series Letterkenny and New Eden, most titles currently branded as "Crave Originals" are documentary films or stand-up comedy specials recorded at the Just for Laughs festival. The service began to shift back toward series development again in 2021, with original series announced for the 2021-22 television season including 1 Queen 5 Queers, Du Me a Favor, Little Bird, Pillow Talk, Shoresy, Thunder Bay and We're All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel).[29] 041b061a72