Roku has removed at least two dozen original shows from the Roku Channel, as part of its announced effort to cut costs. Those include episodes of the “Reno 911!” the revival of the Come…
!” the revival of the Comedy Central series; oddball sex-doll comedy “Dummy” starring Anna Kendrick; plane-crash drama “Survive” starring Sophie Turner and Corey Hawkins; and dystopian thriller “Most Dangerous Game,” starring Christopher Waltz; and “Singled Out,” a reboot of the ’90s MTV dating show hosted by Keke Palmer. All of these shows were originally on Quibi, the assets of which were acquired by Roku in early 2021.
Also pulled from the Roku Channel were “Dishmantled,” a cooking competition hosted by Tituss Burgess; “The Newsreader”; “Panhandle”; “Slip”; “Moving the Needle With Dr. Woo”; “Surprise We’re Pregnant”; “Eye Candy”; “Murder House Flip”; “Let’s Roll with Tony Greenhand”; “About Face”; “Barkitecture”; “Big Rad Wolf”; “The Fugitive”; “You Ain’t Got These”; “Murder Unboxed”; “Gayme Show”; “Iron Sharpens Iron”; “Squeaky Clean”; and Veena Sud’s psychological thriller “The Stranger.”.
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