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Chick-fil-A plans to launch a streaming video service that will provide food for your mind

You probably know Chick-fil-A because of the more than 3,000 restaurants the company owns, spread across many cities across the United States. According to Deadline, you'll soon think of Chick-fil-A as more than just a place to get a tasty chicken sandwich. That's because the company plans to launch its own streaming platform that will feature original programming. Deadline's report says Chick-fil-A is working with production companies and studios to get original, unscripted, and healthy programming. The chicken sandwich purveyor also wants to add licensed content and content it purchases.

If you know Chick-fil-A, the decision to stick with family-oriented programming is no surprise. The stores are all closed on Sundays because the company follows the religious beliefs and values ​​of Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy (1921-2014), who was a devout Southern Baptist. Because of this, the company is reportedly considering streaming a family-friendly game show from Glassman Media and Sugar 23. That show already has 10 episodes.

Chick-fil-A hopes you have an appetite for unscripted streaming content | Image Credit: Chick-fil-A – Chick-fil-A plans to launch a streaming video service that will provide food for your mind

Chick-Fil-A hopes you have an appetite for unscripted streaming content. | Image credit: Chick-Fil-A

Glassman Media is the company behind NBC's “The Wall.” Sugar23 is perhaps best known for Netflix's “13 Reasons Why.” The latter series centered on teen angst and suicide, which seems out of place on a platform run by a company with Southern Baptist values. Still, the new program created through the partnership is just a game show, meaning Chick-fil-A management shouldn't have a problem with it, unless it's Match Game '25.

Since the shows are unscripted, we can expect to see game shows, reality shows, and maybe talk shows appear on the platform. The budget for these types of shows is around $400,000 per half hour of programming. Deadline says it has learned from its sources that the service will launch later this year and there have been discussions about including animation and scripted programming. For now, a source said this news is positive for the struggling reality TV industry.

The platform's programming will be overseen by Brian Gibson, who worked on the History Channel's reboot of “Top Gear” and Fox's version of “The X Factor.” Gibson has reportedly been reaching out to producers to source content. Chick-fil-A has experience producing original programming, having created content for its site, including a series of short animated films called “Stories of Evergreen Hills.”

Chick-fil-A's streaming video platform should be available for installation on both the App Store for iOS and iPadOS and the Play Store for Android devices.

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