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50 States of Fright: Sam Raimi series comes to The Roku Channel in October

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Govt produced by the nice Sam Raimi (learn our interview with him HERE), the anthology collection 50 States of Fright had a intelligent idea: because the title implies, the present got down to inform “the scariest story in each state within the U.S.” Sadly, 50 States of Fright was arrange on the Quibi streaming service, which shut down after simply eight months. However the reveals that have been produced for Quibi will dwell once more, because the streamer’s library was bought by Roku, Inc. and can now be launched by means of The Roku Channel. As for 50 States of Fright particularly, will probably be reaching The Roku Channel on October 15th.

Right here’s some info on The Roku Channel:

Launched in 2017, The Roku Channel is the house of free and premium leisure on the Roku platform. Along with Roku gadgets, The Roku Channel is accessible on Net, iOS and Android gadgets, Amazon Hearth TV and choose Samsung TVs and may be accessed internationally within the U.S., Canada and the U.Ok.

The concept behind Quibi was that it might offer its subscribers “fast bites” of leisure. Episodes of Quibi reveals have been 10 minutes or much less, meant to be watched in your smartphone whilst you’re on the go. It turned out that not many individuals needed to look at fast bites of leisure whereas they have been on the go. (Plus the streaming service launched firstly of the pandemic, so most individuals weren’t on the go anyway.)

Twenty-four episodes of 50 States of Fright have been launched by means of Quibi earlier than it shut down, telling a complete of 9 tales. The states that acquired their tales informed have been Michigan (Raimi directed that one himself), Kansas, Oregon, Minnesota, Florida, Iowa, Washington, Colorado, and Missouri.

You may learn Alex Maidy’s overview of the Raimi episodes HERE, and The Iceman’s overview of them at THIS LINK.

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