Broaden Your Streaming Horizons this Spring

(Family Features) For many entertainment seekers, using streaming media to conveniently binge favorite shows and movies at home is already a part of their viewing experience. However, exploring additional on-demand video providers can open viewersโ€™ eyes to unique original content.

For example, Crackle, a Chicken Soup for The Soul Entertainment streaming service, has debuted all six episodes of comedy series โ€œFairwoodโ€ exclusively on the platform in the United States. The free-to-use video entertainment network is available through more than 60 touch points, including smart TVs, gaming consoles and iOS and Android mobile devices, and features full-length movies, TV shows and original programming.

Created by award-winning recording artists Steve Richard and Tim Mauldin, plus Bud Schaetzle โ€“ the creative mind behind televised events starring Celine Dion, Wyclef Jean, Wynonna Judd, Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks โ€“ the quirky, single-camera series follows the exploits of colorful small-town entertainers Rusty and Clark Fairwood, who are thrust unexpectedly into the limelight as hosts of a talk show on Channel 29 in their rustic hometown of East Plains. The Brothers unite their relatives, friends and neighbors against the Pentalode Corporation, whose carpetbagging executives work to overrun the town and take control of its unexploited natural resources.

Richard and Mauldin introduced the happy-go-lucky characters in 2012 on their faith-based rock album, โ€œContrary to Popular Belief.โ€ With a funny, charming and moral worldview, the Fairwood brothers were created to represent the power of the underdog and to highlight through music and storytelling the value of community, family and the Golden Rule.

โ€œWeโ€™re thrilled to finally bring the world of โ€˜Fairwoodโ€™ to Crackle viewers,โ€ Schaetzle said. โ€œRusty and Clarkโ€™s comedic sensibility, coupled with their long-standing musical collaboration that led here, deliver an authentic and uplifting story of an underdog community going head-to-head with big business.โ€

The series also stars Grammy winner and Grand Ole Opry member Pam Tillis (โ€œNashville,โ€ โ€œPromised Landโ€), Broadway and primetime vet Robert Stoeckle (โ€œThe Americans,โ€ โ€œLaw and Orderโ€), Karen Sternberg (โ€œI Only Miss You When Iโ€™m Breathingโ€), Jonothon Mitchell (โ€œHillbilly Elegyโ€), Tamiko Robinson Steele (โ€œSmoketownโ€), William McKinney (โ€œJourney to Royalโ€), Tatiana Zappardino (โ€œNCIS: New Orleansโ€), Dean Shortland (โ€œDolly Partonโ€™s Heartstringsโ€), Cali Elizabeth Moore (โ€œ30 Rockโ€), Rolando Madrigal (โ€œYour Worst Nightmareโ€) and Becky Fly (โ€œThe Helpโ€).

Learn more and start streaming today at Crackle.com.


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Crackle TV

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