BET+ Sets Launch Date, $9.99 Price for First Wives Club, Tyler Perry Library, Martin, Basketball Wives and More
BET Networks and Tyler Perry Studios have set a Thursday, Sept. 19 launch date for BET+, its new SVOD platform that will feature more than 1,000 hours of premium content, including original programming, fan-favorite series, movies and specials from BET Networks and a host of leading African American content creators.
Priced at $9.99 per month, BET+ will at launch offer several “firsts” including the long-in-the-works First Wives Club series, based on the 1996 film; Bigger, a Will Packer-produced look at a single black woman in East Atlanta whose life is upended by the random death of a college acquaintance; the classic sitcom Martin‘s streaming debut; and the first time that Tyler Perry’s stage plays have been made be available via a streaming service.
BET+ will also house Perry’s theatrical films, including the Madea series; a premium selection of African-American TV, movie and musical content including BET documentaries and specials such as The Bobby Brown Story, Being Mary Jane, College Hill and Comic View; stand-up comedy specials from D.L. Hughley, Eddie Griffin, Nick Cannon, Sasheer Zamata, Lil Rel, Gina Yashere and Sinbad; and library series from BET sister networks, including Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, Basketball Wives, Todrick, Soul Man and Instant Mom.
Surely in a year’s time this stuff will all be on CBS All Access?
They probably need a bundle deal with All Access. it’s too high.
this will flop! and did this just come out of no where? I never heard anything about a BET screaming service lol
Why in the world would anyone pay for this?
There is definitely a market but compared to Disney+ it’s quite overpriced.
I don’t watch BET so I can’t say anything about what will be available on this service, so I may be wrong here, but $9.99 does seem a bit high to me. I would think $4.99 or so would be more reasonable. However, if someone is paying a lot more for an expensive cable package just to get BET, and they cancel the cable package and replace it with BET+, it might end up cancelling out the cost, plus they’ll have access to all those episodes and movies. So hey, maybe it’ll work out for them. I do take this as yet another sign of things to come in streaming: soon every network/studio will have their own service!
I guess these streaming platforms would rather fail at $10 then to build an audience at $5 and slowly drive them away by raising the price.
Enough already