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What To Know About Frndly TV: Watch Hallmark Christmas Movies, More for Less

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So, you’ve cut the cord, but you’re looking for an affordable way to keep up with all of this year’s Christmas movie releases on cable, from Hallmark to Lifetime to Great American Family.

Let us introduce you to Frndly TV, a live TV streaming service that carries over 40 live family-friendly channels for just one low price — we’re talking lower than Hulu and Netflix low prices.

Interested? Keep reading for everything you need to know before subscribing to Frndly TV.

What is Frndly TV?

Frndly TV is a live TV streaming service with a focus on family-friendly, uplifting entertainment. It includes channels like Hallmark Channel, A&E, History Channel, Lifetime, Great American Family, and more.

Per the service’s about page, “Our mission is to give you feel-good, quality TV for less.”

There are three plans to choose from, but all of them include the same 40+ channels with no add-ons or additional costs, with a 72 hour lookback feature that lets you go back and view anything that aired in the last 72 hours without the use of a DVR.

Frndly TV Prices:

As we noted above, there are three Frndly TV plans to choose from billed monthly or annually (at a discount): Basic, Classic, and Premium.

Basic comes with standard definition streaming on one screen at a time and access to on-demand content. It costs $7.99/month or $83.88/year.

Classic upgrades the streaming quality to high definition on two screens at a time, plus an unlimited DVR that saves your recordings for three months. The classic plan costs $9.99/month or $95.88/year.

Premium includes everything the Classic plan has, but you’ll get four simultaneous screens and nine months of DVR storage instead of three, all for $11.99/month or $119.88/year.


Frndly TV Channels:

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Photo: Frndly TV

Above, you can see all of the channels included in all three of Frndly TV’s plans, but the holiday movie highlights include all three Hallmark networks (Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, Hallmark Drama), Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network, UPtv, and Great American Family.

Does Frndly TV Offer a Free Trial?

Yes! New subscribers will get a weeklong free trial.

Christmas Movie Schedules:

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Photo: Hallmark

Want to know when and where to check out all of this year’s Christmas movies on cable? Of course we have you covered on that, too.

Hallmark is leading the pack this season with 42 brand new movies that are airing every weekend from now through Christmas. You can check out their Countdown to Christmas schedule here, courtesy of Decider’s Brett White.

Great American Family’s Christmas programming this year includes 24/7 movies, including 20 premieres lined up through Christmas. A full schedule can be found here.

Lifetime will premiere 12 new Christmas movies beginning November 18. and UPtv has eight premieres lined up beginning this Sunday, November 5.


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