The Chat Show Channel launches with Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and Alan Carr’s Chatty Man.
Award-winning digital content agency and media network, Little Dot Studios, is growing its Digital Media Network with the launch of its eighth FAST channel, dedicated to interviewing the stars. The Chat Show Channel (The Talk Show Channel in the US), will feature more than 2,000 film, music, comedy and sport stars and will be available from today the 14th June in seven territories initially including the UK, Nordics, Netherlands, Australia and the US later this summer.
The eighth and newest channel will launch with 18 series of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in partnership with Hotsauce TV Ltd and Open Mike Productions and 16 series of Chatty Man with Alan Carr in partnership with Open Mike Productions featuring interviews from the likes of Tom Cruise, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Jay-Z. With additional talent-focused chat shows to be announced soon, this channel is Little Dot Studios’ first entertainment branded FAST channel and will also be available on YouTube AVOD.
Richard Young, Director of Syndication, Little Dot Studios Media Network said: “Expanding Little Dot Studios’ FAST offering by launching The Chat Show Channel follows our rapid growth in the FAST market. As early FAST adopters, we believe that we have a unique ability to grow viewing and monetisation across streaming and social media platforms for our content partners, which led us to identify a gap in the market for a thematic chat show channel. Our capability to manage the end-to-end delivery of the channel, from content processing, video editing, compliance, scheduling, to ad monetisation, means that we’re able to bring fantastic content from our partners direct to FAST audiences. We’ll be gradually rolling The Chat Show Channel out across additional territories and platforms and we’re already looking forward to future FAST channel developments.”
With 35 million hours of FAST channel watchtime globally already under its belt, Little Dot Studios’ latest FAST channel joins the media network’s existing portfolio of seven FAST channels, all of which each have on average 400-500 hours of content available to view. These channels consist of Real Crime, Real Stories, Wonder, History Hit, Real Wild, Real Life and single series channel Don’t Tell The Bride, all of which are currently available in 20 territories and 12 platforms including Roku, Samsung TV Plus, Vizio and Amazon (FreeVee).
In addition to leading platform partners, Little Dot Studios Media Network channels are also available via its own app, Veely, combining linear channels and AVOD in one place, to deliver to superfans globally.
Little Dot Studios is an All3Media company. This article was originally written for Little Black Book, and the original article can be seen here.