# The quality of programming on tubi.tv seems to have gone up recently **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044 "2021-04-15T04:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/1 "2021-04-15T04:43:58Z")
I don’t know if anyone else watches this, but it seems a lot more quality shows from a few decades ago are ending up here. Fox bought them last year, but it seems like their quality of options has gone up in just the last month or two. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/2 "2021-04-15T05:32:20Z")
does disney own them or fox? i ask becuase I’m not quite sure what all Disney bought from fox … ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/3 "2021-04-15T10:35:20Z")
I was just going to start a thread complaining about that, believe it or not. For a long time I have been relying on Tubi to provide the worst of b-movies and schlocky television, but it has turned into just another source of homogenized pap. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/4 "2021-04-15T11:11:15Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I was just going to start a thread complaining about that, believe it or not. For a long time I have been relying on Tubi to provide the worst of b-movies and schlocky television, Oh, noes! The quality is too high! I demand only crap! 🤣 Isn’t it an on-demand service, with 20,000 movies and TV shows – so you’re free to watch whatever you like? I can’t believe there isn’t sufficient crap among those 20,000 shows to keep you busy watching indefinitely! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/5 "2021-04-15T11:15:18Z")
I am afraid your standards are much too high for my tastes. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/6 "2021-04-15T11:43:56Z")
Yes, I only watch arty French _film noir_ movies, when I want to watch crap. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/7 "2021-04-15T11:56:52Z")
A couple of months ago I was wondering if there was some streaming service that had the show _Cock’d Gunns_ (which I had previously enjoyed). I was surprised to learn that (in Canada) it was streaming on Tubi and that Tubi was free (with ads). When I was looking through the programs offered, I was also surprised by the relative quality of the offerings (although there was a lot of mediocre stuff too, of course). ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/8 "2021-04-15T12:34:11Z")
Coincidentally I was just watching a movie on Tubi last night. My particular watching vice is schlocky 80s horror movies. I’ve burned through a nice trove of them that are on Amazon Prime Video, and I refuse to pay another streaming fee for Shudder, so I found a promising movie I was unfamiliar with called Vamp, in which Grace Jones plays a scary-looking vampire stripper (or stripper vampire? Not sure which identity she primarily identified with). According to the brief startup process with Tubi (I just signed in as a guest) they have 3 times as many watching options as Netflix. Seemed a bit hard to believe, but ok. Couple other observations: commercials sure are hard to get used to again after being spoiled on commercial-free streaming services. But at least they give a little progress thingy in the corner so you know how much commercial time is left. The FF and reverse modes don’t show what you’re quickly moving through, which is annoying. Seems like a basic feature in a video player app. The movie itself? Very bad, even by my ironic enjoyment standards of bad 80s movies. I only got through about a third of it. The commercials may have contributed to me bailing early. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/9 "2021-04-15T14:26:04Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Couple other observations: commercials sure are hard to get used to again after being spoiled on commercial-free streaming services. But at least they give a little progress thingy in the corner so you know how much commercial time is left.- And the commercials are SHORT (a minute or less), which they used to be back in the early days of TV. It is funny how sometimes a commercial will break in in the middle of a character’s sentence. I don’t mind them-- sometimes they’re a bit of a relief. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-quality-of-programming-on-tubi-tv-seems-to-have-gone-up-recently/940044/10 "2021-04-15T16:12:33Z")
Tubi used to have a huge variety of shows from NBC/Universal. _The Rockford Files, The A-Team, The Incredible Hulk, Magnum, P. I._ Then they discontinued them and kept shows like _ALF, The Greatest American Hero, and 3rd Rock From the Sun._ Now they’re adding more variety such as _Columbo_ and _Battlestar Galactica._ (both versions)