Dungeons and Dragons TV Channel

So I read a few articles the last few weeks about a new Dungeons and Dragons TV channel created by Hasbro which was supposed to launch soon. I didn’t look too deep into it. The modern version of Dungeons and Dragons is not really my jam. And there’s the whole mess that Wizards of the Coast tried earlier this year. But I still would have liked it to take off into the mainstream, you know, to get a larger player pool, but I doubt I would have watched it myself.

It turns out I misread. The channel is supposed to be live already. It is supposed to be live and on an actual schedule for two weeks already. So how is it? I mean, I had doubts I could even watch it without VPN or anything because I’m in Europe, but it turns out it’s worse: nobody seems to be able to watch it.

See this little video from DnD Shorts:

So, yes, there is no promotion for the channel, and the links leading to it are broken. It cannot even be found via Google or Duckduckgo as I checked. It’s supposedly available via freevee (Amazon) and Plex, but neither know what I am looking for.

It seems Dungeons and Dragons TV Channel is… dead. Already. So sudden in fact that not even the creators were informed it basically died on the vine.

There might have been some shenanigans with Hasbro selling the division that created it off to Lionsgate. That would explain how loveless the whole thing seems to be treated by the company.

Maybe it’s running somewhere, maybe those shows are in a stream somewhere. It’s just, if they are, nobody is watching them. I’d have assumed they would maybe have a Youtube channel for them, but that doesn’t seem the case either. At most you get the trailers for the shows.

One of my contacts on Mastodon mentioned he actually found it. It was hidden behind a lot of other stuff on freevee, and only had the old Animated DnD show on repeat. That doesn’t seem all that enticing.

But the whole idea made me think: wouldn’t it actually be easy to make a channel like that? Get a few Actual Play shows on board, get some other content producers to make DnD or TTRPG content, in between stream old TV shows and movies the RPG crowd is likely to like.

The only problem would be: who of the people who’d be interested in roleplaying games still watches normal TV?