ABC Greatly Expands The Offerings On Its Streaming App
Looking for some easy entertainment this summer that costs you nothing (except bandwidth)? ABC has expanded the shows available on its streaming app — it now offers more than just programs from its present or recent past. You can play the ABC app on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, Roku and ABC.com. Just be prepared to wait through commercials….remember, since it’s free, “you are the product.”
There are also some new series broadcasting exclusively from the stream, but as you might expect from anything deemed not worthy to run on the network itself, they aren’t worth your time.
Due to early cancellations there are a lot of rare series here, some of which aren’t bad. The new additions are as follows:
8 Simple Rules (half John Ritter comedy, half dramedy mourning John Ritter)
Benched
Betrayal
Body of Proof
Brothers & Sisters
Commander in Chief (Geena Davis as the President; debuted to killer ratings, then plummeted)
Detroit
Dinosaurs (anyone who tells you Dinosaurs is a bad show hasn’t actually watched it since they were 5. It’s still one of my favorites)
Dirty Sexy Money
Ellen
Felicity
FlashForward
Happy Town
Hope and Faith I Survived a Japanese Game Show (these two were accidentally listed at once, but…I like it this way)
The Knights of Prosperity (very unconventional comedy about a gang of bumbling thieves; it starred Sofia Vergara right before Modern Family)
Less Than Perfect
Manhattan Love Story
Mixology
My Generation (hamfisted attempt by tone-deaf ABC execs to “get with” Millennials)
My So-Called Life
The Neighbors
October Road
Off the Map
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (this proves there is still a limit to how far you can take a fantasy story on a live-action TV series, even with CGI)
Perception
Reaper (cult favorite CW show about a dude hoodwinked by a smirking, wisecracking Devil into capturing escaped souls from Hell)
Red Band Society (I don’t know if you’ll believe me, but this was a lighthearted, happy series about a group of terminally ill teenagers)
The River
Samantha Who? (Christina Applegate loses her memories and changes from a ruthless corporate overlord into a generous perky blonde; she has the coincidental name of “Samantha Newly.” It’s not bad and it has an actual ending)
Schoolhouse Rock
Secret Millionaire
Smart Guy
Sports Night
Trophy Wife (critics begged us to watch Trophy Wife and swore the bad title had nothing to do with the show. We ignored them. Now’s your second chance to appease them)
Ugly Betty
What About Brian?