UnchainedTV

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UnchainedTV is a free streaming[1] and social media news and entertainment network[2][3][4] to promote a plant-based, sustainable lifestyle for human health, climate change mitigation, and to end needless animal suffering.[5]

Overview

UnchainedTV is the signature brand of JaneUnchained News Network, a 501c3 non-profit corporation based in California. It runs a streaming television network called UnchainedTV. The network is free to download on Apple or Android phones and television via Amazon Fire Stick, Apple TV device, Roku device,[6] and all Samsung Smart TVs.[7][8] UnchainedTV is also viewable for free via its online portal and the network website.

UnchainedTV does LIVE breaking news coverage of trials centering around the issue of animal rights, and cases to counteract the national broadcast news media's apparent blackout on the animal rights and vegan movements.[2][9][10][11] It collaborates with filmmakers and non-profits focusing on climate change, ending world hunger, improving human health, and fitness, wildlife conservation, habitat preservation, and animal welfare, and promoting a healthy, plant-based, cruelty-free, low-carbon footprint lifestyle.[7]

UnchainedTV TV network streams over 1,000 documentaries, cooking shows, cooking competitions, reality TV shows, celebrity profiles, trials, LIVE events, mini-docs, talk shows, and music videos, all with the theme of compassion to all beings, human and animal.[12]

The channel also features live commentaries from prominent attorneys and journalists, including Marina Bolotnikova, who has reported on animal rights cases for the Intercept and Vox, famed TV commentator and law firm founder/owner Lisa Bloom, former Assistant District Attorney and respected litigator Nathan Semmel, Vegans for Black Lives Matter founder Gwenna Hunter, documentary filmmaker and Their Turn founder Donny Moss, Social Compassion in Legislation's Communications VP Simone Reyes, philanthropist Mick Davoudian,[9] and famed Former Assistant US Attorney and current defense attorney Bonnie S. Klapper.[13]

It features various non-profit organizations and celebrity plant-based chefs with their own channels within the streaming network, including Farm Sanctuary, Orangutan Foundation International, Care for Wild, Big Cat Rescue, Friends of Bonobos, GenV, Switch4Good, Ric O'Barry's Dolphin Project, Plant-Based Treaty, PETA, Animal Save Movement, Climate Healers, Wicked Kitchen, Chef AJ, Plant-Based in the Burbs, OMG! LA, Jamie's Corner, and The Veggie Hunter.

History

UnchainedTV was founded as Jane Unchained in November 2014 by Jane Velez-Mitchell, a veteran journalist,[1][6][9][14][15][16] New York Times bestselling author, and former CNN journalist,[2] where she hosted her show for 6 years on CNN Headline News/HLN. She previously worked as a reporter at the syndicated TV show Celebrity Justice and as an anchor/reporter at KCAL-TV in Los Angeles and WCBS-TV in New York City.

In 2022, Jane Unchained was rebranded as UnchainedTV.

Programs

New Day New Chef

It is a 20-episode Original UnchainedTV series produced in conjunction with Eamonn McCrystal of Inspired. The show has been nominated for 8 Taste Awards and won 2 Taste Awards,[17] considered the Oscars of food. Along with streaming on UnchainedTV, it also aired on local public television stations around the U.S. via NETA. It includes a cameo appearance by Billie Eilish and episodes featuring Maggie Baird, NBA legend John Salley, Olympic medalist Dotsie Bausch,[18] Vanderpump Rules star Billie Lee, 90210's Christine Elise, Annabelle Comes Home's Katie Sarife, Downton Abbey's Lesley Nicol,[19] Friday's "Bye Felicia" Angela Means-Kaaya, supermodel Joanna Krupa, Dynasty's Elaine Hendrix, CSI's Jorja Fox, Lost's Emilie de Ravin, SpongeBob SquarePants' Lori Alan, America's Next Top Model's Katie Cleary and American Idol announcer Mark Thompson and New Day New Chef host Jane Velez-Mitchell.

Pig Little Lies

UnchainedTV's reality TV show starring a family of pigs.[6][20] The first animal rights-themed reality TV show stars Los Angeles-based country singer Simone Reyes, TV journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell, wildlife rehabilitation expert Cindy Brady, and Dante and Beatrice.[21] The series conveys a serious message by exposing the myth of Teacup Pigs, which don't exist. They are baby potbellied pigs falsely sold as micro pigs, which, when they grow, are routinely dumped.[22][23]

Peeled

An all-vegan cooking competition show[1][24][25] produced by VKind,[26] where vegan chefs cook to raise money for worthy causes while competing to impress four celebrity judges. In the end, only one was named Hottest Vegan Chef and got a chance to have their winning dessert featured by the international vegan restaurant chain, The Copper Branch.[27]  

Others

UnchainedTV also did an in-depth profile of Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, famous for her study of Orangutans in the wild,[28] and an Original Series on the closing of the infamous Farmer John pig slaughterhouse near downtown Los Angeles.

Some of the more notable films and series UnchainedTV streams for free include Forks over Knives, Moby's Punk Rock Vegan Movie, The Cheese Trap, Plant-Based by Nafsika series, Earthlings, Lion Ark,[29] The Lingerie Protest,[30] A Moment in History,[31] Dominion, Countdown to Year Zero, Vegucated, The Invisible Vegan, Hero Dog, Long Gone Wild, Cost of Freedom, Cull of the Wild, The Land of Ahimsa,[32] A Prayer for Compassion, Sanctuary, The Grizzly Truth, Finding Shelter, Called to Rescue, Blinders, Plant Pure Nation, Speciesism the Movie, and Give Me Shelter.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://www.cbsnews.com/gooddaysacramento/video/peeled-new-vegan-reality-show-on-unchainedtv/
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://www.arabnews.com/node/2291206/offbeat
  3. https://www.agdaily.com/lifestyle/vegan-activists-launching-streaming-platform-unchainedtv-is-alarming/
  4. https://techofsports.blubrry.net/jane-velez-mitchell-former-cable-news-host-unchainedtv/
  5. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/encinitas/story/2022-07-27/encinitas-chef-lands-on-first-ever-vegan-cooking-competition-tv-show
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/martin-luther-king-iii-docuseries-1235291626/
  7. 7.0 7.1 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unchainedtv-the-new-streaming-tv-network-that-programs-to-save-the-planet-301461763.html
  8. https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/unchainedtv
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/UnchainedTV-Launches-LIVE-Trial-Breaking-News-Coverage-of-Underreported-Events-20221010
  10. https://www.einpresswire.com/article/595086380/unchainedtv-launches-live-trial-breaking-news-coverage-of-underreported-events
  11. https://muckrack.com/media-outlet/unchainedtv
  12. https://www.einpresswire.com/article/626411302/the-rise-of-animal-rights-trial-coverage-unchainedtv-s-new-venture
  13. https://watch.unchainedtv.com/videos/the-jury-has-a-verdict-at-the-end
  14. https://plantbasednews.org/news/economics/unchainedtv-plant-based-news-corporate-sponsor/
  15. https://unchainedtv.com/about-us/
  16. https://weekendspecial.co.za/unchainedtv-animal-rights-streaming-tv-news/
  17. https://vegworldmag.com/all-vegan-television-network-launches-with-free-streaming/
  18. https://www.einpresswire.com/article/558774534/how-an-olympic-medalist-punked-starbucks-only-on-unchainedtv
  19. https://vegoutmag.com/news/unchainedtv-the-free-vegan-streaming-service-youve-been-waiting-for/
  20. https://watch.unchainedtv.com/pig-little-lies
  21. https://theirturn.net/2022/06/18/unchainedtv-pig-little-lies/
  22. https://rebootedthepodcast.com/f/the-planet-is-hurting-and-unchainedtv-is-here-to-the-rescue
  23. https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animals/pig-little-lies-episode-2-of-unchainedtv-series-features-piggie-childbirth/
  24. https://vivaglammagazine.com/the-first-all-vegan-cooking-competition-show-is-streaming-now-on-unchainedtv/
  25. https://plantbasednews.org/culture/tv-and-radio/vegan-cooking-competition-peeled/
  26. https://www.vkind.com/peeled/
  27. https://www.einpresswire.com/article/590317296/unchainedtv-set-to-stream-peeled-as-the-trailblazing-all-vegan-cooking-competition-show-debuts-saturday-sept-24th
  28. https://watch.unchainedtv.com/videos/ofi
  29. https://www.einpresswire.com/article/612128842/lion-ark-now-streaming-on-unchainedtv
  30. https://plantbasednews.org/opinion/the-long-read/lingerie-protest-animal-rights-documentary/
  31. https://watch.unchainedtv.com/a-moment-in-history
  32. https://www.einpresswire.com/article/618341648/unchainedtv-free-streams-land-of-ahimsa-award-winning-film-about-india