Hayu Launch Like a Bravo+

This week’s launch of reality streaming service Hayu won’t impinge on Bravo’s programming.

Both Hayu and Bravo are NBCUniversal International platforms, with the former being an ad-free subscription model and the latter a free-to-air channel in partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery.

Although Hayu trumpets streaming content the same day as the US, Bravo will continue to be NZ’s first TV/broadcast window for the best of Bravo, Oxygen and E!.

It will operate alongside Hayu as 7Bravo does in Australia.

Moreover, Bravo ‘s schedule includes unique content, from third-party acquisitions (24 Hours In Emergency, 999 What’s Your Emergency, Emergency Call Out, Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss), to a local exclusive like Izzy and Beaver’s French Connection, to movies.

Hayu, meanwhile, boasts the full back catalogue of some of NBCUniversal’s top reality series, with every series, season and episode of world-renowned franchises and spin-offs, including Below Deck, Vanderpump Rules and the US The Real Housewives.

As well as shows only available on Hayu in New Zealand (Made In Chelsea, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen), there will be new E! content, including Nikki Bella Says I Do, House of Villains and Celebrity Game Face.

Other highlights range from retro box sets (Keeping Up With The Kardashians, The Rachel Zoe Project, Very Cavallari) to sub-genres like Home and Design, Dating, Cooking and Fashion, and True Crime (Relationship Killer with Faith Jenkins, The Real Murders of Atlanta,Homicide for the Holidays).