Prison Break, Bones, Family Guy and new season of 24
Available at GlobalTV.com and eonline.com
Plus
Exclusive 'behind the scenes' and mobisodesTORONTO, Nov. 5 /CNW/ - Continuing to build on its leadership position as
a digital media player, Canwest announced today it has successfully secured
the online streaming rights to an extensive collection of Fox's hit shows
including Prison Break, Bones, Family Guy and 24. In addition, exclusive
behind-the-scenes footage and video extras will be available across the
Canwest digital media properties.
Streaming of full-length episodes of Prison Break (from Nov 3), Bones
(Nov 6) and Family Guy (Nov 10) will be available at GlobalTV.com. Season 7 of
24 will be available at E! Online (eonline.com) in January 2009.
On November 23, the premiere date of the highly anticipated 24:
Redemption movie airing on Global, mobile phone users will have exclusive
access to 120 new 'mobisodes' from 24 Seasons 1-5 plus 'debriefs' of exclusive
content from Season 6 at www.Watch24Now.com
"This Fox partnership rounds out our robust line up of streaming rights
for major US network hit show titles," said Barbara Williams, Executive Vice
President of Content, Canwest Broadcasting. "We are offering our viewers
unique and compelling content around their favourite shows, enhanced
entertainment on their mobile devices and all 24/7."
About Canwest Broadcasting:
Canwest Broadcasting operates two conventional television networks,
Global Television and E!, and eighteen of the country's most popular specialty
channels, including HGTV, Mystery TV, National Geographic Channel, Showcase,
Slice(TM) and TVtropolis. Canwest Broadcasting is a division of Canwest Media
Inc.
About Canwest Media Inc.
Canwest Media Inc is a subsidiary of Canwest Global Communications Corp.
(www.canwest.com; TSX: CGS and CGS.A). An international media company, Canwest
is Canada's largest publisher of paid English language daily newspapers and
owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television,
out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, web sites and radio
stations in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, and
the United States.
For further information: For media inquiries, please contact: Deborah
Lewis, Vice President Communications, Canwest Broadcasting, (416) 934-8748,
delewis@canwest.com
