List of Facebook Watch original programming

Facebook Watch is a service that provides streaming of videos hosted by Facebook and access to "Facebook Original" series, shows that receive funding from Facebook.

Logo for Facebook Watch.

For short-form videos, Facebook originally had a budget of roughly $10,000-$40,000 per episode,[1] though renewal contracts have placed the budget in the $50,000-$70,000-range.[2] Long-form TV-length series have budgets between $250,000 to over $1 million.[2] The Wall Street Journal reported in September 2017 that the company was willing to spend up to $1 billion on original video content through 2018.[3][4]

The service officially launched as Facebook Watch on August 10, 2017.

Original programming

Drama

Title Genre Premiere Seasons Length Status
SKAM Austin Teen drama April 27, 2018 2 seasons, 18 episodes 18–50 min. Ended
Five Points Teen drama June 4, 2018 2 season, 20 episodes 10–17 min. Ended
Sacred Lies Drama
Anthology
July 27, 2018 2 season, 20 episodes 28–34 min. Ended
Turnt Teen drama August 1, 2018 1 season, 40 episodes 7–18 min. Ended
Sorry for Your Loss Drama September 18, 2018 2 seasons, 20 episodes 26–32 min. Ended[5]
The Birch Horror/Drama October 11, 2019 1 season, 14 episodes 11–19 min. Renewed[6]
Limetown Drama October 16, 2019 1 season, 10 episodes 21–31 min. Ended[5]
Stereoscope Horror drama August 21, 2020 1 season, 10 episodes 11-19 min Ongoing

Comedy

Title Genre Premiere Seasons Length Status
Strangers Comedy-drama September 4, 2017 2 seasons, 17 episodes 12–27 min. Ended
Queen America Dark comedy November 18, 2018 1 season, 10 episodes 25–31 min. Ended

Continuations

Title Genre Prev. network(s) Premiere Seasons Length Status
I Want My Phone Back (seasons 2–3) Game show Comcast Watchable August 29, 2017 2 seasons, 20 episodes 9–12 min. Ended
Loosely Exactly Nicole (season 2) Comedy MTV December 20, 2017 1 season, 10 episodes 17–20 min. Ended
Real Bros of Simi Valley (season 2) Comedy Independent (via YouTube) November 30, 2018 1 season, 10 episodes 13–17 min. Pending
The Real World (season 33) (plus 2 international editions) Reality MTV June 13, 2019 3 versions, each with 1 season of 12 episodes 30 min. Pending

Docu-series

Title Genre Premiere Seasons Length Status
Humans of New York: The Series Human interest August 29, 2017 1 season, 13 episodes 13–24 min. Ended[7]
Bill Murray & Brian Doyle-Murray's Extra Innings Sports/Comedy November 20, 2017 1 season, 10 episodes 9–11 min. Ended
Tom vs Time Sports January 25, 2018 1 season, 6 episodes 14–21 min. Ended[8]
Fly Guys Sports February 2, 2018 1 season, 10 episodes 12–15 min. Ended
Behind the Wall: Bubba Wallace Sports February 15, 2018 1 season, 8 episodes 11–16 min. Ended
Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball Sports February 17, 2018 1 season, 10 episodes 20–29 min. Ended
I Am More: OBJ Sports September 14, 2018 1 season, 16 episodes 5–11 min. Pending
Most Incredible Homes Real estate November 4, 2018 1 season, 5 episodes 12 min. Pending
365 Days Of Love Human interest January 1, 2019 1 season, 365 episodes 1–3 min. Pending
Mormon Love Mormonism January 13, 2019 1 season, 1 episode 15 min. Pending
9 Months with Courteney Cox Pregnancy January 22, 2019 2 seasons, 40 episodes 10–20 min. Renewed[9]
Curse of Akakor Mystery August 11, 2019 1 season, 12 episodes 30 min. Pending

Animation

Title Genre Premiere Seasons Length Status
Human Kind Of Adult animation/Comedy September 16, 2018 1 season, 21 episodes 4–10 min. Ended
Liverspots and Astronots Adult animation/Comedy October 18, 2018 1 season, 21 episodes 4–10 min. Ended
Human Discoveries Adult animation/Comedy July 16, 2019 1 season, 10 episodes 30 min. Ended

Game show

Title Genre Premiere Seasons Length Status
Confetti Trivia game July 11, 2018 1 season, 132 episodes 24–33 min. Ended
Outside Your Bubble Trivia game February 20, 2019 1 season, 15 episodes 26-32 min. Ended

Live sports

Title Genre Premiere Seasons Length Status
Live: Stadium College Football College football September 2, 2017 2 seasons, 25 episodes 174–226 min. Pending
Live: Stadium College Basketball College basketball November 11, 2017 1 season, 66 episodes 91–153 min. Pending
WWE Mixed Match Challenge Professional wrestling January 16, 2018 2 seasons, 26 episodes 22–35 min. Renewed
MLB Live Baseball April 4, 2018 1 season, 25 episodes 173–297 min. Pending
JBA League Basketball June 21, 2018 1 season, 20 episodes 123–175 min. Pending
BIG3 on FOX Basketball June 22, 2018 1 season, 9 episodes 42–46 min. Pending
PGA Tour Live Golfing June 23, 2018 1 season, 8 episodes 259–279 min. Pending
Nitro World Games Action sports August 10, 2018 1 season, 28 episodes 394 min. Pending
Golden Boy Fight Night Boxing August 11, 2018 1 season, 5 episodes 154–191 min. Pending
Friday Night Poker Poker September 21, 2018 1 season, 1 episodes 272 min. Pending
Lucha Capital Professional wrestling October 31, 2018 1 season, 5 episodes 112–125 min. Pending

News programs

Title Genre Premiere Seasons Length Status
Fox News Update News program July 16, 2018 1 season, 311 episodes 3–13 min. Pending
Anderson Cooper Full Circle News program July 16, 2018 1 season, 133 episodes 7–26 min. Pending
Mic Dispatch News program July 17, 2018 1 season, 55 episodes 5–19 min. Ended
At What Cost? News program July 18, 2018 1 season, 26 episode 3–7 min. Pending
Undivided ATTN: News program July 18, 2018 1 season, 25 episodes 2–5 min. Pending
Quartz News News program July 19, 2018 1 season, 26 episodes 5–10 min. Pending
More in Common News program July 21, 2018 1 season, 21 episodes 3–7 min. Pending
On Location News program August 6, 2018 1 season, 160 episodes 5–7 min. Pending
An Imperfect Union News program August 22, 2018 1 season, 21 episodes 5–10 min. Pending
Business Insider Today News program September 4, 2018 1 season, 220 episodes 8–10 min. Pending
Real America with Jorge Ramos News program September 6, 2018 1 season, 19 episodes 5–20 min. Pending
Chasing Corruption News program September 18, 2018 1 season, 10 episodes 7–10 min. Pending
NowThis Morning News program September 24, 2018 3 season, 124 episodes 3–27 min. Pending
Consider It News program October 4, 2018 1 season, 13 episodes 12–23 min. Pending
Cut Through The Noise News program November 29, 2018 1 season, 6 episodes 6–8 min. Pending

Reality show

Title Genre Premiere Seasons Length Status
Ball in the Family Sports August 29, 2017 5 seasons, 87 episodes 14–26 min. Pending
Returning the Favor Reality August 29, 2017 3 season, 36 episodes 18–26 min. Pending
Make Up or Break Up Reality September 7, 2017 2 season, 26 episodes 18–41 min. Pending
Win This House! Reality/Realty September 29, 2017 1 season, 8 episodes 32–57 min. Pending
No Script with Marshawn Lynch Sports/Comedy October 12, 2017 1 season, 8 episodes 11–15 min. Ended
RelationShipped Reality competition November 9, 2017 2 season, 38 episodes 13–29 min. Pending
BackCourt: Wade Sports November 20, 2017 1 season, 5 episodes 6–11 min. Ended
The Tattoo Shop Reality March 15, 2018 1 season, 8 episodes 13–16 min. Ended
Bear Grylls: Face the Wild Nature March 21, 2018 1 season, 10 episode 19–27 min. Ended
Help Us Get Married Reality May 3, 2018 1 season, 12 episode 21–30 min. Ended
Huda Boss Reality June 12, 2018 2 seasons, 18 episodes 16–24 min. Pending
Sneaker Hustle Reality August 26, 2018 1 season, 4 episodes 14–18 min. Pending
Troy The Magician Reality September 5, 2018 1 season, 3 episodes 6–7 min. Pending
You Kiddin' Me Comedy September 22, 2018 1 season, 10 episodes 13–15 min. Pending
Big Chicken Shaq Reality October 6, 2018 1 season, 8 episodes 15–20 min. Pending
Double Take Comedy October 24, 2018 1 season, 6 episodes 12–15 min. Pending
Will Smith's Bucket List Reality February 27, 2019 1 season, 6 episodes 21-22 min. Pending

Talk show

Title Genre Premiere Seasons Length Status
Von Miller's Studio 58 Sports/Pop culture January 31, 2018 1 season, 8 episodes 21–23 min. Pending
Red Table Talk Talk show May 7, 2018 1 season, 23 episodes 16–27 min. Pending
Profile Talk show July 22, 2018 1 season, 62 episodes 16–40 min. Pending
Inspiring Life with Lewis Howes Talk show August 6, 2018 1 season, 16 episodes 14–19 min. Pending
After After Party Late-night talk show August 13, 2018 1 season, 30 episodes 11–15 min. Pending
Steve on Watch Talk Show January 6, 2020 1 season, TBA episodes TBA Pending

Upcoming original programming

Ordered

Title Genre Seasons Length Premiere
Uncovered[10] News program TBA TBA 2020
Untitled teen soccer drama series[11] Teen drama TBA TBA TBA

In development

Title Genre
Untitled Cristiano Ronaldo docuseries[12] Docuseries

Exclusive international television distribution

These television shows, even though Facebook lists them as Facebook Watch originals, are shows that have been aired in different countries, and Facebook has bought exclusive distribution rights to stream them in other various countries. They may be available on Facebook Watch in their home territory and other markets where Facebook Watch does not have the first run license, without the Facebook Watch Original label, some time after their first-run airing on their original broadcaster.

English localized title (Original title) Genre Original Broadcaster Original Region Facebook Watch exclusive region Seasons Run Language
Professional Fighters League (PFL)[13] Sports/Mixed martial arts NBCSN United States All other markets N/A 2018 – present English
La Liga Sports, Association football Movistar LaLiga Spain Indian subcontinent 2 2019 – present English

References

  1. Patel, Sahil (May 25, 2017). "Facebook recruits its top publishers for exclusive shows". Digiday. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
  2. Patel, Sahil (November 30, 2017). "Bigger budgets, fewer shows: Facebook's deals for Watch are changing". Digiday. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
  3. Seetharaman, Deepa (September 8, 2017). "Facebook Is Willing to Spend Big in Video Push". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
  4. Krishna, Swapna (September 8, 2017). "Facebook may spend $1 billion on original video in 2018". Engadget. Oath Inc. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
  5. "Facebook Cancels 'Sorry For Your Loss' & 'Limetown' As It Scales Back Scripted Efforts Amid Unscripted Push". Deadline Hollywood. January 16, 2020.
  6. Ramos, Dino-Ray (2020-06-23). "Crypt TV Horror Series 'The Birch' Returning To Facebook Watch For Season 2". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  7. "Final episode of Humans of New York: The Series". Facebook. November 16, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  8. Emery, Debbie (March 12, 2018). "'Tom vs Time' Director on Why the Obsession Around Brady and Gisele Is 'Out of Control'". The Wrap. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  9. "TVLine Items: Mindhunter Season 2 Teaser, Teen Choice Host and More". TVLine. July 30, 2019.
  10. White, Peter (November 12, 2018). "Facebook Watch Orders C4 News Series; 'Chicken Run' Producer Aardman Hands Ownership To Staff – UK Briefs". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  11. Petski, Denise (May 9, 2018). "Teen Soccer Drama From Cristiano Ronaldo, 'Memphis Beat' Creators & Paul Lee's Wiip Gets Facebook Series Commitment". Deadline. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  12. Spangler, Todd; Wallenstein, Andrew (July 5, 2018). "Facebook in Talks for Cristiano Ronaldo Reality Show, Which Could Be Its Biggest Original Yet (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  13. "PFL Reaches Exclusive Distribution Agreements With NBC Sports Group And Facebook". Professional Fighters League. January 29, 2018. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
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