What is in the lineup
61,000 live channels and 180,000 on-demand titles, counted on 1 August 2026. Below is the honest breakdown, including where coverage is thinner than we would like.
By category
Sport
Domestic leagues, continental competitions, motorsport, combat sport and pay-per-view events, including feeds from broadcasters outside your own country.
News and documentary
National and international rolling news, business channels, plus factual, history and nature programming.
Entertainment and drama
General entertainment networks, premium drama channels and the catalogues that sit behind them.
Kids and family
Animation, pre-school and family programming, with the main networks available in more than one language.
Film
Premium film channels alongside the on-demand library, which is where most recent releases actually sit.
International
Channels in over sixty languages, which is the single biggest category by count and the reason the total is as high as it is.
Where the lineup is weaker
Every provider has gaps and most pretend otherwise. Ours are worth knowing before you pay.
- Local affiliate feeds are the least reliable content in the catalogue, because they are the most tightly restricted
- Regional sports networks change hands and lineups shift with them
- Catch-up runs about four days, not an unlimited archive
- Some 4K listings are upscaled at source and we cannot tell from our side
Missing something specific?
Ask before subscribing rather than after. If a channel you need is not carried we will say so, and if it can be added we will tell you roughly how long that takes.
A channel count is the least reliable number in this industry, which is why the method behind ours deserves a paragraph. Two sellers carrying an almost identical catalogue can publish very different totals depending on three decisions: whether the HD and SD versions of one channel count once or twice, whether forty regional variants are listed separately, and whether dead entries ever get cleared out. None of that is visible in the number itself, which is why we publish the decisions alongside it.
How the same catalogue becomes ten different numbers
There is no standard for what counts as one channel, so every provider picks the definition that flatters it. Four decisions account for almost the entire spread.
| Counting decision | Effect on the total |
|---|---|
| Count HD and SD of one channel separately | Roughly doubles it |
| List every regional variant individually | Adds thousands |
| Include entries that no longer play | Adds whatever has died since the last check |
| Count on-demand titles as channels | Adds six figures |
| Count each audio or language track separately | Multiplies again |
Our count treats a stream as one entry, counted once, only if it played when we checked. Live channels and on-demand titles are reported separately rather than added together, because they are different things and combining them exists only to produce a bigger headline.
What a large catalogue is actually useful for
Not for having more to watch. Nobody watches fifty thousand channels, and beyond a few hundred the number stops describing anything you will experience. The genuine value is narrower and worth stating precisely.
- Multiple feeds of the same event. When one feed fails mid-match, another carrying the same fixture is the fix. This is the single most practical benefit of breadth.
- Coverage across time zones. An event that is behind a paywall in your country is often free-to-air somewhere else, with different commentary and the same pictures.
- Original-language viewing. Households that want news or entertainment in a language the local market does not serve well are the clearest beneficiaries.
- Competitions your own market ignores. Overseas leagues and second-tier competitions that no domestic broadcaster bothers to carry.
How to check a catalogue properly
Ten minutes during a trial, and it tells you more than any number on any sales page.
- Write down the ten channels you would actually miss. Be honest: the real list is usually shorter than expected and heavily weighted to news and sport.
- Find each one in the guide and play it. Present in the list and actually playing are different things, and only the second one counts.
- Check them again in the evening. A channel that works at eleven in the morning and stalls at nine at night is a capacity problem, not a catalogue problem.
- Look at how the categories are organised. A catalogue you cannot navigate is functionally smaller than a tidy one half its size.
- Build a favourites list as you go. This is what you will actually use day to day, and it will contain perhaps thirty entries.
If the ten channels you care about all play reliably at peak, the total is irrelevant. If they do not, the total is also irrelevant. Either way the number that sells the subscription turns out not to be the number that decides it. The provider evaluation guide covers what to weigh instead.
What we do not claim
We do not claim every channel in every country, we do not claim the catalogue is static, and we do not claim licensing we do not hold. Feeds change without notice because they change upstream of us, and a service pretending otherwise is setting you up to feel cheated by something normal. Our position on rights is set out on the legality page, and it is worth reading before the catalogue tempts you.