Back in August rapper 50 Cent announced he was launching a Free Add Supported TV network on Ruko calls The 50 Cent Action Channel [click here if you missed that].
The launch date has been announced...
From The Wrap
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson will curate a new FAST channel in partnership with Roku and Lionsgate.
The 50 Cent Action Channel, which is slated to launch on Dec. 10, will draw from Lionsgate’s library of more than 20,000 titles to curate the media mogul’s favorite TV shows and movies, including “The Expendables,” “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” “Rambo” and the original “Power” series. The channel, which marks one of the first talent-branded FAST channels, will also feature over a dozen films featuring 50 Cent himself.
“Roku’s reach and success in the free TV space make them the perfect launch partner for 50 Cent Action,” the rapper said in a Thursday statement. “My channel created in partnership with Lionsgate will deliver exactly what my audience loves to watch all in one place. We’ll be No. 1 in no time.”Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson will curate a new FAST channel in partnership with Roku and Lionsgate.
The 50 Cent Action Channel, which is slated to launch on Dec. 10, will draw from Lionsgate’s library of more than 20,000 titles to curate the media mogul’s favorite TV shows and movies, including “The Expendables,” “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” “Rambo” and the original “Power” series. The channel, which marks one of the first talent-branded FAST channels, will also feature over a dozen films featuring 50 Cent himself.
“Roku’s reach and success in the free TV space make them the perfect launch partner for 50 Cent Action,” the rapper said in a Thursday statement. “My channel created in partnership with Lionsgate will deliver exactly what my audience loves to watch all in one place. We’ll be No. 1 in no time.”
13 comments:
24 hours of hos, drugs and gangsters. Just what we need.
Great! I’m looking forward to seeing young Ghost, Tasha, and Tommy meet up with young Kanan. Raising Kanan is better than the series with Mary and no driving, gangster Tariq!
As far as the action movies featuring the greats with Sylvester Stallone and many others, I’m here for it.
I don’t get why people complain about black people in gangster movies when Scarface, The Godfather, etc are actually black ghetto classics. Motherf’ckers act like there were no gangsters in the hood. Oh, is it that you don’t like seeing your great grandparents eras onscreen. There are plenty of positive black movies that you can see. Lifetime, Hallmark, etc features us in very positive lights but that’s something people don’t really care for.
IMMA WAIT & SEE WHAT PROGRAMMING WILL BE ENTERTAINING BEFORE I SHOW FULL SUPPORT FOR IT/HIM.
^ The reason we tired of watching those films because that's all we get.
I have never seen Roku.
4:42 PM ....That part
^^ that’s not all we get. That’s just all YOU focus on. 4:42 you must not have read the article about the content that will be shown. Black American hate is real on RWS.
5:36
Oh! So you’re poor.
5:36
Roku is a streaming app. It’s cheap. Cheaper than cable. If all you’ve seen are gangster movies you live a f’cked up life! That means you watch what everybody in the hood watches. You’re a follower. You don’t have a mind of your own nor the common sense to look up movies that aren’t violent.
This is 5:36 PM....I love the way hood burgers take a statement and run the h=ll with it in the wrong direction.
First of all, I have cable and fire stick. So no B*tch I'm nowhere near poor. Second, what I was saying Hollywood does not give Black artist enough opportunities to play more diverse human everyday characters that show us as unconditional loving ppl. Share our soulful traditions, trials and tribulations, as we try to make it in the Yt man's world and succeed without violence.
Third, that's what 4:42 PM and I are feeling about Curti's programing. We should want elevation and higher standards in our viewing. I want to see hope, love from my Black ppl. Not cops killing us, we killing one another, being pimps, slaves, prostitutes, on drugs, shucking & jiving, Bojangles, and coons. I don't watch any shows that represent us like that.
I don't know that world and don't respect that world. If you do and want to be like shot 8 to 10 times 50ty so, be it. I look for growth and wanting more out of this one life I have. I'm glad I don't know you. Enjoy his programing at your best.
A new channel is a pretty good business move. He is really expanding his reach.
LOLOL I love the Simps (not)that read into someone else's comment's and make up lying narratives that don't agree with theirs.
I don't like negative movies that show Black ppl as dishonest, lazy, unintelligent, drug involvement, pimps, coons, in prison, being a thief and Black on Black crime. Street life is a very small part of what happens in our culture. Matter a fact it happens in all cultures. They haven't been persecuted and demonized the way we have. Black ppl are so much more than the negativity these movies show. Hollywood want spend big budgets on our talented actors of color. But they will spend money on low budget movies, if we are portrayed in murders, stealing, sexual deviants, slaves and butlers.
I look forward to stories about unconditional love, struggles that are based on hard work, our beautiful Black culture, our survival and how we persevered through this Yt man's world. This world would be boring without our contribution, and we don't get the credit for it.
This cable network portrays 50tys old street mind set and he's passing the negative story's on to us, just like he sold drugs to his community.
He's rich now and don't care how he makes money off Black folks. He's using Yt Hollywood's negative movies of us to make money, for them and his self.
It's brainwashing to view a network 24/7 with lots of Black crime and ugly stereotypes of us. This narrative contributes to the "Crab in the Barrel" mentality without knowing it's happening to you.
This is not my world and never will be. I want to see movies that show us leveling-up through positive adversity and helping one another. We only have one life on this earth. I'm going to make the best of it by helping myself and others when I can. Black love is powerful. Stay woke.
8:03 PM....I have cable and fire stick. Never broke, Seed.
@4:42. Get used to it. Gangsters, Madea, Hose on Bravo. Those are the only kind of shows that will get the green light.
They don't want us watching movies by Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Dee Rees.
^ You're missing the point.
No, I don't have to get used to it. I just want watch. This is more about a Black man sending out negative networking. We already know how Yt TV thinks of us.
Anyone who tells someone to get used to bad information, poor situations and have low expectations are the reason we can't evolve as Black People.
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