Foxtel Play Enlarges Channel Offering

SYDNEY: With the addition of services such as BBC First, Crime + Investigation (CI) and Lifestyle Home, Foxtel Play will now offer up to 50 live channels.

Four new channels have joined Foxtel's Internet-delivered subscription service. They are the newly launched BBC First drama channel, the entertainment services Lifestyle Food and Lifestyle Home and the factual net Crime + Investigation. This gives Foxtel Play customers access to up to 50 live and 53 on-demand channels.

From BBC First, customers can now watch The Musketeers, Peaky Blinders, Burton & Taylor and others. Come Dine with Me Couples is on Lifestyle Food, while Lifestyle Home delivers Selling Houses and You Live in What? Highlights of the CI service include Westbrook.

Ed Smith, Foxtel's executive director of sales and marketing, said, “Foxtel Play has experienced a great period of growth since launch and we’re thrilled to expand the channel lineup for customers hungry for great programming. BBC First has been eagerly anticipated among subscribers and is a fantastic new channel to round out our Foxtel Play offering.”