FAST and On-Demand: Virgin TV customers can now enjoy unmissable FAST channel content via video-on-demand

• Virgin Media O2 is offering video-on-demand access to its most popular FAST channels for customers to enjoy anytime they like at no extra cost
• Binge-worthy and unmissable episodes from 11 FAST channels can be watched outside of the linear TV schedule for the first ever time
• All Virgin TV customers can access the content via Virgin Media’s On Demand streaming app or the Search function on their TV at home
• Customers can also enjoy an array of content on the existing 35 FAST channels already available on Virgin TV, including British Screen Classics, U&Transport, Inside Crime and Haunt TV
• Find out more about Virgin Media’s current TV offers here

Virgin Media O2 is giving Virgin TV customers round-the-clock access to linear FAST channel content via video-on-demand (VOD) meaning they can enjoy their favourite shows and missed episodes anytime they like at no extra cost.

Available to all Virgin TV customers – and for the first time– they can watch unmissable episodes from their favourite FAST channel shows whenever suits them outside of the linear TV schedule. Customers can access the catch-up content via Virgin Media’s On Demand streaming app as well as via the Search function on their home screen.

Video-on-demand will be available for the following FAST channels:

1. Next Up Live Comedy
2. Love Pets
3. Haunt TV
4. Homes Under The Hammer
5. Baywatch
6. Real Crime
7. Real Wild
8. History Hit
9. Wonder
10. The Chat Show Channel
11. TRACE Sport Stars

Customers who also wish to catch up on Pluto TV shows including Catfish, 5 Cops and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as well as Rakuten TV shows such as Rakuten TV Action and Rakuten TV Top Movies simply need to open the Pluto TV and the Rakuten App respectively to enjoy catch up content.

David Bouchier, Chief TV and Entertainment Officer at Virgin Media O2, said: “We’re making unmissable content even easier to enjoy by making linear FAST channel content available on-demand so Virgin TV customers can tune in at any time and at no extra cost. From comedy to crime and history to pets, our customers can keep up with it all, with catch-up capability now available for the first time for 11 of our most popular FAST channels.”

Virgin Media O2 will continue to evolve its FAST channel offering, generating even more video-on-demand content and adding more fantastic channels that will provide customers with even greater choice, at no extra cost.

ENDS

Notes to Editors:

• V6, Virgin TV360 and Stream customers only
• Real Crime, Real Wild, History Hit, Wonder and The Chat Show Channel are all managed by Little Dot Studios.