Bell extends Crave's free trial period from 7 days to 30 days

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Bell Media's Crave streaming service is offering an extended trial period for new subscribers. The free trial period is up to 30 days instead of Crave's usual seven-day trial. The offer will be available until April 30. While Bell didn't mention COVID-19 specifically, the move seems to target the many potential subscribers who are currently at home because of the pandemic. The offer extends to the standard Crave subscription but also available for those who want to try packages that include Movies + HBO, Starz, and Super Écran, which is the new French-language option. It can be claimed through the Crave mobile app on Android and iOS or Crave.ca.

Standard subscription offers viewers access to Crave Originals like New Eden as well as other content like Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale and CBS' Star Trek: Picard. The Movies + HBO add-on offers popular HBO series' like Game of Thrones, Succession, and Westworld as well as recent films like Hobbs & Shaw and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is arriving on the platform on March 27. Starz will give you access to shows like Spartacus.

Crave to stream Oscar-winning film 'Parasite' in May

If you haven't gotten a chance to catch the buzz-worthy, Oscar-winning film Parasite, Bell's Crave streaming service will be showing the film in May. We don't have a specific date yet, but we should hear more in the coming months. Acclaimed director Bong Joon Ho wrote and directed Parasite. The South Korean film follows the tale of a low-income family that conned their way to work for a wealthy family.

'Star Trek: Picard' becomes Crave's most streamed series debut in history

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Bell Media announced that the recently released Star Trek: Picard is the most-streamed debut on its Crave streaming service. The company counted total streams of the pilot episode in the week following its premiere on January 23. Crave gets a new episode of the show every Thursday night. Picard also airs on Thursday's on Bell's CTV Sci-Fi channel. 

Star Trek: Picard marks the return of Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard. It explores the fallout following the death of Data in Star Trek: Nemesis— which is also the last time Stewart appeared on a Star Trek project—as well as the destruction of Romulus in J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek movie. The show has already been renewed for a second season, giving fans more episodes to look forward to.

Bell's Crave to offer French-language content

Bell's streaming service, Crave, will be going bilingual starting January 28. The platform will be supporting French-language content, adding 5,000 hours of content to its library. HBO shows like The Outsider, The New Pope, and Madame Lebrun, as well as some Showtime shows, will come with French-language versions. Crave will launch its new French-language original series Pour Toujours Plus Un Jour.

Subscribers who avail of Crave plus the new Super Ecran add-on gain 1,000 more hours of programming, which adds an extra $9.99 on top of the $9.99 Crave subscription.