Internet TV differs from IPTV, in so far as IPTV shows are typically needing a special IPTV set-top-box. It also differs from the catch up tv or on demand tv that has recently sprung up. If you don’t have cable at home or if you just want to watch TV and movies while your using your PC, then you should check out the list below which lists the best free online TV services I’ve discovered.
Chooseandwatch
It’s a free TV portal where you can watch more than 250 online TV channels. Some of them have to be good.
Streamick
Neat Free TV site with links not only to streams but the originatinmg website too.
Channelking
Channel King provides the best selection of free Internet TV channels. Free broadband TV channels from around the world enable you to watch TV from anywhere with broadband.
TidalTV
The navigation is in the standard TV Guide table format. The site design is excellent and the video quality is absolutely stunning.
InnerLive
InnerLive is also one of the few TV sites that cleverly combined social networking with the TV viewing experience by integrating a chat room alongside the viewer.
PPStream
Sports, movies – all in one please. Just choose a show from the list of available channels
ABC
Watch popular shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias etc online)
PPlive
a popular service for watching many foreign channels)
TV-Video
All the latest TV shows as they aired including 24, Smallville, Prison Break, Lost etc)
IMDB -
Internet Movie Data Base has one of the webs largest selections of links to TV shows online. The IMDB is famous for it's great reviews of TV shows and movies.
The Internet Archive
Has a very large collection of public domain, classic television programs. Most of the shows listed on this site can be legally downloaded to your computer or embed on websites, facebook, etc.
History
The history channel online offers over 50 of their most popular TV shows online
Nick
Nick online has 129 episodes of their most popular shows available for your viewing pleasure online. Some of these shows include icarly, House of Anubus, Power Rangers Samurai, Sponge Bob Square Pants,
Dish-Online
Hundreds of shows are offered by Dish-Online. Some of the shows are locked and only available for dish customers (the word locked will be in the upper left corner of the show picture), but there are plenty for the general public to watch. Too many to list. Dish has made it easy to find the shows you want to watch using their alphabetical or genre menu. Probably the easiest of all the TV sites to use.
I wasn't aware of the dish online site until a reader of this blog mentioned it in the comments. Thanks for the comment and thanks to Dish Network.
TV Land
Most of the shows offered by TV Land are classics such as Leave it to Beaver, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Roseanne, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Boston Legal, The Exes, and Murder She Wrote. This is a simple easy to navigate site that you should enjoy. Most episodes are usually updated every week. An account is not necessary.
ChannelChooser
Slick site with a large selection of free TV. Visit site
Graboid Video
Graboid Video makes it easy to access to the most extensive library of full length videos with over 150000 videos online, and now you can try it free.
TV Shack
Over 2,000+ TV shows or 90,000+ episodes, including all the big shows like Lost, Prison Break, etc
Streamic
More then 300 real TV channels to choose from including NBC, ABC, ESPN, BBC1 and many more, organized in categories and ranked by the site users
Surf the Channel
Streaming TV, free movies, free TV and many other categories of streaming video through the STC video search engine and listings.
A&E tv
Yet another site I visit a lot to watch my favorite reality show, Billy The Exterminator (I worked 25 years as an exterminator). A&E has almost 50 of their best shows online, with plenty of episodes. Be sure and take a look at the all videos menu on the left of their page. Some of the shows they have are: Dog The Bounty Hunter, Storage Wars, Parking Wars, Hoarders, Intervention, Paranormal Cops, Flip This House and many more. If you like reality TV this sites for you.
The WB Online
This is another TV channel I visit quite regularly to watch two of my childhood favorites The Flintstones, and the Jetsons. The WB is a site that is very easy to navigate and doesn't require a sign in to watch their shows. Here's a few shows they offer -- Gilligans Island, Smurfs, Babylon 5, Smallville, Wonder Woman, Growing Pains and more. Episodes are updated on a regular basis. Check The WB out.
The CW
This is a site I usually visit every Friday night to watch Supernatural. Other shows you might want to check out at the CW are: 90210, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, One Tree Hill, America's Next Top Models, Hart Of Dixie, Ringer, The Secret Circle, and Remodeled. Most of the shows at the CW are updated every month.
Smithsonian Channel
This is a channel I just recently found online and on my TV. If you haven't had a chance to watch this channel I highly recommend that you visit right away. It has some excellent documentary style shows that I guarantee you'll like. Some of the show include The Real Story Of Titanic, Oasis Earth, Titanoboa Monster Snake, Running with Wolves, and many more. Take a minute to visit this site. You won't regret it
PBS Online
PBS has 13 shows you can watch online for free. Donations would be greatly appreciated since they are funded by the public.Some of the shows they have listed are: Masterpiece, This Old House, Nova, Nature, Austin City Limits, Motor Week, Antique Roadshow, Tavis Smiley, amd American Masters. Enjoy.
My Lifetime
They have a large selection of shows, games, sweepstakes, and much more on their website. Many of their best shows can be viewed online. Here is some of what they offer: America's Supernanny, America's most Wanted, Army Wives, Coming Home, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Will & Grace, Project Runway, Unsolved Mysteries, and Reba. You should also be able to find plenty of movies on their site.
National Geographic Channel
Has a large selection of full shows and episodes. You can watch episodes of Alaska State Troopers, Border Wars, End of the Earth, Explorers, Known Universe, Locked up Abroad, Monster Fish, And Taboo. The site also has plenty of activities for kids such as games, cartoons, cooking, giveaways, and contests. Take a look at this very entertaining site.
MTV
Offers hundreds of their most popular shows and music videos. Here is a small sample of the shows you can watch. Jersey Shore, Beavis and Butt-Head, Teen Mom, The real World, Punk'd, Teen Wolf, I Used To Be Fat, Caged, Awkward, True Life, 16 And Pregnant, The Alli Show, America's Best Dance Crew, Busted, Scarred, and lots more. They also have plenty of music videos and games to keep you entertained.
Crackle TV
Has over 70 different shows. If you're a fan of anime shows they have a great selection such as LaMB, The Slayers, Blade, Blood, Macross, Star Divers, and The Big Windup. Crackle also has a good selection of classic programs such as Bewitched, All in The Family, The Three Stooges, Good Times, Sanford and Son, I dream of Jeannie, Barney Miller, and their most popular Seinfeld. Check out the great movies while you're there.
It's all free, so check it out.
Comedy Central
Has 8 free shows online with plenty of episodes that are updated regularly. Some of the shows they have are Strangers With Candy, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, SouthPark, Premium Blend, and more. Mouse-over full episodes in their menu to see a list of the shows.
Msnbc
Keep up with today's news and watch some of your favorite news shows online.The Msnbc website includes: The Last Word, Morning Joe, The Daily Rundown, The Ed Show, Maddow, Hardball, Way To Early and more. Just click on the show you want using the menu on the bottom left of the page.
Spike
You will find more than 12 different shows with hundreds of episodes at the Spike TV website. Use the menu at the bottom left of their full episodes show page to pick your favorite program. Some of the shows you can watch at Spike online are: Auction Hunters, Impact Wrestling, Ink Master, Repo Games, Flip Men, 1000 Ways To Die. Deadliest Warrior and more. Pay them a visit.
Oxygen TV
Watch 4 of their best reality TV shows online. Shows included are: Jersey Couture, Love Games, Bad Girls Club, and Tori and Dean. The Oxygen website also has games, message board, and a shop. All shows start with a fairly long commercial and contain more during the show.
SouthPark Studios
If you're a fan of SouthPark, check this site out. With over 200 high quality episodes of south parks best. Rated mature. Plenty of fun games to play on the site. Logging in will allow you to participate in their forum. Check this site out.
TruTV
TruTV 2go offers more than 30 shows you can watch online. Some of the shows they include are: Most Daring, Lizard Lick Towing, Operation REPO, Hardcore Pawn, All Worked UP, Bait Car (my favorite), Cops, Conspiracy Theory, and many more great reality TV shows. Logging in with your TV provider ID is required. TruTV was formally called Court TV.
Cartoon Network
The Cartoon Network has more than 30 great shows for your online viewing pleasure. Here is a list of some the shows they offer: Pokemon, The Powderpuff Girls, Mad, Lonney Tunes, Johnny Test, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laborrtory, Cow And Chicken, Scooby-Doo, Bakugan, and much more. Visit the Cartoon Network site for tons of shows, games, and fun. You must login to watch shows. Just click on Get Started.
Hulu (US-only)
Hulu is probably the best known site when it comes to free TV streams. It offers access to many different TV shows, from shows that are currently airing to a back catalog of tv shows that were once popular.
ABC Player (U.S. only)
Here you can watch TV shows that are produced by the U.S. network ABC. At the time of writing that includes Grey’s Anatomy, Revenge, Missing, Lst Man Standing, Castle, Jimmy Kimmel Live or Scandal.
ABC Family (U.S. Only)
A family friendly TV streaming site. It currently offers access to the following shows: Jane by Design, The Lying Game, Make it or break it, Melissa & Joey, Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth, and The secret life of the American teenager
NBC Video Library (U.S. Only)
Another U.S. only network streaming its shows on the Internet. Available shows include classic television series, like Simon and Simon, Magnum P.I. or The A-Team, as well as 2012 shows like Bent, 30 Rock, The Event or The Biggest Loser.
CBS (U.S. only)
You can watch tv shows that air on CBS on this site. Popular shows include The Big Bang Theory, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, all the CSI shows, How I Met Your Mother or Two and a half men.
The WB (U.S. Only)
Here you find shows airing on the Warner Browser network. Shows available include both current season shows like Fringe or The Mentalist, but also classic shows like The Gilmore Girls, The O.C., Babylon 5 or Friends.
Fox (U.S. Only)
Here you can watch TV shows that air on the Fox network. This includes Family Guy, The Simpsons, House, American Idol, or New Girl.Only select episodes are available on the Fox.com website.
Channel 4 (U.K. Only)
If you are connecting from the United Kingdom, you can head over to the 4OD website to view tv show streams on the website. Full episodes may be limited depending on the show
BBC iPlayer (U.K. Only)
This website offers BBC TV streams. Access is limited to the UK, but it is providing users with access to hundreds of programs.
Chooseandwatch
Streamick
Neat Free TV site with links not only to streams but the originatinmg website too.
Channelking
Channel King provides the best selection of free Internet TV channels. Free broadband TV channels from around the world enable you to watch TV from anywhere with broadband.
TidalTV
The navigation is in the standard TV Guide table format. The site design is excellent and the video quality is absolutely stunning.
InnerLive
PPStream
Sports, movies – all in one please. Just choose a show from the list of available channels
ABC
Watch popular shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias etc online)
PPlive
a popular service for watching many foreign channels)
TV-Video
All the latest TV shows as they aired including 24, Smallville, Prison Break, Lost etc)
IMDB -Internet Movie Data Base has one of the webs largest selections of links to TV shows online. The IMDB is famous for it's great reviews of TV shows and movies.
The Internet Archive
Has a very large collection of public domain, classic television programs. Most of the shows listed on this site can be legally downloaded to your computer or embed on websites, facebook, etc.
History
The history channel online offers over 50 of their most popular TV shows online
Nick
Nick online has 129 episodes of their most popular shows available for your viewing pleasure online. Some of these shows include icarly, House of Anubus, Power Rangers Samurai, Sponge Bob Square Pants,
Dish-Online
Hundreds of shows are offered by Dish-Online. Some of the shows are locked and only available for dish customers (the word locked will be in the upper left corner of the show picture), but there are plenty for the general public to watch. Too many to list. Dish has made it easy to find the shows you want to watch using their alphabetical or genre menu. Probably the easiest of all the TV sites to use.
I wasn't aware of the dish online site until a reader of this blog mentioned it in the comments. Thanks for the comment and thanks to Dish Network.
TV Land
Most of the shows offered by TV Land are classics such as Leave it to Beaver, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Roseanne, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Boston Legal, The Exes, and Murder She Wrote. This is a simple easy to navigate site that you should enjoy. Most episodes are usually updated every week. An account is not necessary.
ChannelChooser
Slick site with a large selection of free TV. Visit site
Graboid Video
TV Shack
Over 2,000+ TV shows or 90,000+ episodes, including all the big shows like Lost, Prison Break, etc
Streamic
More then 300 real TV channels to choose from including NBC, ABC, ESPN, BBC1 and many more, organized in categories and ranked by the site users
Surf the Channel
A&E tv
Yet another site I visit a lot to watch my favorite reality show, Billy The Exterminator (I worked 25 years as an exterminator). A&E has almost 50 of their best shows online, with plenty of episodes. Be sure and take a look at the all videos menu on the left of their page. Some of the shows they have are: Dog The Bounty Hunter, Storage Wars, Parking Wars, Hoarders, Intervention, Paranormal Cops, Flip This House and many more. If you like reality TV this sites for you.
The WB Online
This is another TV channel I visit quite regularly to watch two of my childhood favorites The Flintstones, and the Jetsons. The WB is a site that is very easy to navigate and doesn't require a sign in to watch their shows. Here's a few shows they offer -- Gilligans Island, Smurfs, Babylon 5, Smallville, Wonder Woman, Growing Pains and more. Episodes are updated on a regular basis. Check The WB out.
The CW
This is a site I usually visit every Friday night to watch Supernatural. Other shows you might want to check out at the CW are: 90210, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, One Tree Hill, America's Next Top Models, Hart Of Dixie, Ringer, The Secret Circle, and Remodeled. Most of the shows at the CW are updated every month.
Smithsonian Channel
This is a channel I just recently found online and on my TV. If you haven't had a chance to watch this channel I highly recommend that you visit right away. It has some excellent documentary style shows that I guarantee you'll like. Some of the show include The Real Story Of Titanic, Oasis Earth, Titanoboa Monster Snake, Running with Wolves, and many more. Take a minute to visit this site. You won't regret it
PBS Online
PBS has 13 shows you can watch online for free. Donations would be greatly appreciated since they are funded by the public.Some of the shows they have listed are: Masterpiece, This Old House, Nova, Nature, Austin City Limits, Motor Week, Antique Roadshow, Tavis Smiley, amd American Masters. Enjoy.
My Lifetime
They have a large selection of shows, games, sweepstakes, and much more on their website. Many of their best shows can be viewed online. Here is some of what they offer: America's Supernanny, America's most Wanted, Army Wives, Coming Home, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Will & Grace, Project Runway, Unsolved Mysteries, and Reba. You should also be able to find plenty of movies on their site.
National Geographic Channel
Has a large selection of full shows and episodes. You can watch episodes of Alaska State Troopers, Border Wars, End of the Earth, Explorers, Known Universe, Locked up Abroad, Monster Fish, And Taboo. The site also has plenty of activities for kids such as games, cartoons, cooking, giveaways, and contests. Take a look at this very entertaining site.
MTV
Offers hundreds of their most popular shows and music videos. Here is a small sample of the shows you can watch. Jersey Shore, Beavis and Butt-Head, Teen Mom, The real World, Punk'd, Teen Wolf, I Used To Be Fat, Caged, Awkward, True Life, 16 And Pregnant, The Alli Show, America's Best Dance Crew, Busted, Scarred, and lots more. They also have plenty of music videos and games to keep you entertained.
Crackle TV
Has over 70 different shows. If you're a fan of anime shows they have a great selection such as LaMB, The Slayers, Blade, Blood, Macross, Star Divers, and The Big Windup. Crackle also has a good selection of classic programs such as Bewitched, All in The Family, The Three Stooges, Good Times, Sanford and Son, I dream of Jeannie, Barney Miller, and their most popular Seinfeld. Check out the great movies while you're there.
It's all free, so check it out.
Comedy Central
Has 8 free shows online with plenty of episodes that are updated regularly. Some of the shows they have are Strangers With Candy, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, SouthPark, Premium Blend, and more. Mouse-over full episodes in their menu to see a list of the shows.
Msnbc
Keep up with today's news and watch some of your favorite news shows online.The Msnbc website includes: The Last Word, Morning Joe, The Daily Rundown, The Ed Show, Maddow, Hardball, Way To Early and more. Just click on the show you want using the menu on the bottom left of the page.
Spike
You will find more than 12 different shows with hundreds of episodes at the Spike TV website. Use the menu at the bottom left of their full episodes show page to pick your favorite program. Some of the shows you can watch at Spike online are: Auction Hunters, Impact Wrestling, Ink Master, Repo Games, Flip Men, 1000 Ways To Die. Deadliest Warrior and more. Pay them a visit.
Oxygen TV
Watch 4 of their best reality TV shows online. Shows included are: Jersey Couture, Love Games, Bad Girls Club, and Tori and Dean. The Oxygen website also has games, message board, and a shop. All shows start with a fairly long commercial and contain more during the show.
SouthPark Studios
If you're a fan of SouthPark, check this site out. With over 200 high quality episodes of south parks best. Rated mature. Plenty of fun games to play on the site. Logging in will allow you to participate in their forum. Check this site out.
TruTV
TruTV 2go offers more than 30 shows you can watch online. Some of the shows they include are: Most Daring, Lizard Lick Towing, Operation REPO, Hardcore Pawn, All Worked UP, Bait Car (my favorite), Cops, Conspiracy Theory, and many more great reality TV shows. Logging in with your TV provider ID is required. TruTV was formally called Court TV.
Cartoon Network
The Cartoon Network has more than 30 great shows for your online viewing pleasure. Here is a list of some the shows they offer: Pokemon, The Powderpuff Girls, Mad, Lonney Tunes, Johnny Test, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laborrtory, Cow And Chicken, Scooby-Doo, Bakugan, and much more. Visit the Cartoon Network site for tons of shows, games, and fun. You must login to watch shows. Just click on Get Started.
Hulu (US-only)
ABC Player (U.S. only)
Here you can watch TV shows that are produced by the U.S. network ABC. At the time of writing that includes Grey’s Anatomy, Revenge, Missing, Lst Man Standing, Castle, Jimmy Kimmel Live or Scandal.
ABC Family (U.S. Only)
A family friendly TV streaming site. It currently offers access to the following shows: Jane by Design, The Lying Game, Make it or break it, Melissa & Joey, Pretty Little Liars, Switched at Birth, and The secret life of the American teenager
NBC Video Library (U.S. Only)
Another U.S. only network streaming its shows on the Internet. Available shows include classic television series, like Simon and Simon, Magnum P.I. or The A-Team, as well as 2012 shows like Bent, 30 Rock, The Event or The Biggest Loser.
CBS (U.S. only)
You can watch tv shows that air on CBS on this site. Popular shows include The Big Bang Theory, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, all the CSI shows, How I Met Your Mother or Two and a half men.
The WB (U.S. Only)
Here you find shows airing on the Warner Browser network. Shows available include both current season shows like Fringe or The Mentalist, but also classic shows like The Gilmore Girls, The O.C., Babylon 5 or Friends.
Fox (U.S. Only)
Here you can watch TV shows that air on the Fox network. This includes Family Guy, The Simpsons, House, American Idol, or New Girl.Only select episodes are available on the Fox.com website.
Channel 4 (U.K. Only)
If you are connecting from the United Kingdom, you can head over to the 4OD website to view tv show streams on the website. Full episodes may be limited depending on the show
BBC iPlayer (U.K. Only)
This website offers BBC TV streams. Access is limited to the UK, but it is providing users with access to hundreds of programs.
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