Pluto TV has 200+ channels, but these 10 are actually worth watching

Pluto TV is one of the best free, ad-supported streaming services on the market. Much like its competitor, Tubi, the service features a broad range of TV and movie content, all available without a subscription. What sets Pluto apart, though, is its focus on its so-called Live TV offerings, which include hundreds of live-streaming channels.

Live-streaming channels are nothing new, and even Tubi has them, but no service has as many available as Pluto TV, covering everything from news, to food, to sports, to reality TV, to soap operas, classic TV shows, documentaries, movies, and more. The amount of content on Pluto TV can sometimes feel downright overwhelming.

Channels on Pluto TV are divided into several sections: Movies, Entertainment, News and Opinion, Crime, Reality, Game Shows, Daytime TV, Comedy, Classic TV, Home, Food, Lifestyle and Culture, Sports, Gaming and Anime, Music, Kids, Local News, and En español.

Pluto TV

number of users

80 million

notable shows

The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Sanford and Son, The Twilight Zone, Charmed

notable movies

Top Gun, Trading Places, Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Premium Subscription

No

Originals

No

Live TV

250+ channels

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To help sort through it all, here’s a list of the best Pluto TV streaming channels you should check out.

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1 Flicks of Fury

The home of Kung Fu classics

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Few movie genres are as purely pleasurable as the classic Kung Fu movie, and Pluto TV amazingly has a whole channel devoted to them. Flicks of Fury brings to the screen a 24/7 stream of the best in Hong Kong action, with film series spotlighting Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, and many more stars of the genre. Fans of the Kill Bill movies can see the films that inspired director Quentin Tarantino’s martial arts epic. From the period-set classics of the ’70s, to stylish action hits like Police Story and Yes, Madam!, the Flicks of Fury channel has it all.

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2 Star Trek

The Trekker’s dream channel

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For the Star Trek fan out there, Pluto has the perfect channel. In the entertainment section, there’s a channel very simply called Star Trek, and it features exactly what the name implies: a constant stream of Star Trek TV shows and movies from across the history of the franchise.

The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager — it’s all there. In fact, there’s so much Star Trek content that Pluto actually launched a second channel called More Star Trek, just to give fans even more to watch when the mood feels right from a journey into the final frontier.

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3 Stories by AMC

The place to go for the best of cable

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AMC made a name for itself in the late 2000s and 2010s as the home of smart, entertaining cable dramas, and now they’ve found a home on Pluto TV with the Stories by AMC channel. Fans can tune into streams of shows like Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Halt and Catch Fire, Making of the Mob, Low Winter Sun, Comic Book Men, and a lot more. And for people looking for nothing but The Walking Dead, Pluto actually has a separate channel devoted entirely to the hit zombie thriller franchise.

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4 Britbox Mysteries

The best in British whodunnits

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There are few things more satisfying than curling up on the couch and putting on a good mystery, and nobody does mysteries like the British. The Britbox Mysteries channel features some of the best mystery shows of all time from the BBC and ITV, including Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Miss Marple, along with Wallander, Jonathan Creek, Silent Witness, New Tricks, and plenty more to keep viewers on the hunt for clues.

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5 Survivor

Re-live the best reality show of all time

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When Survivor premiered in May 2000, it was an instant phenomenon. While it wasn’t the first reality show on TV, it was the show that broke the genre open in a way no one had seen before. Still, though, nothing else has topped it since.

With its excellent reality drama of alliances and backstabbing, set in beautiful tropical locales, and plenty of exciting games to watch the survivors participate in, there’s no better reality show. And with 47 seasons under its belt, the Survivor channel offers fans the chance to go back and watch all the drama from across the show’s incredible run.

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6 Pluto TV Game Shows

Get in the competitive spirit

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Game shows are some of the most fun, engaging shows to watch, and on that front Pluto has viewers covered. The Pluto TV Game Shows channel is a 24/7 stream of great shows that put knowledge and skill to the test.

The channel regularly streams classics like The Price is Right; Pictionary; Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?; Hollywood Squares; and Person, Place, or Thing. No more waiting until after the local news to get your fill of game show fun.

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7 Judge Judy

The cases are real and the rulings are final

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Judge Judith Sheindlin was a TV staple for 25 years thanks to her iconic reality courtroom series Judge Judy. On the show, Sheindlin settles disputes between real people, often with bizarre grievances and even more bizarre behavior to add that extra spice of entertainment. Fans looking for a dose of Judge Judy’s no-nonsense attitude can tune into Pluto’s 24/7 stream of episodes from across the show’s historic run.

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All the best in classic TV comedy

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Everyone needs a good laugh sometimes, and that’s why Pluto TV has the Sitcom Legends channel, which is devoted to the very best in TV comedy. Fans of classic sitcoms can tune into the stream to catch episodes of beloved favorites like Frasier, Friends, Cheers, Becker, and more. To make things even better, the channel regularly does marathons of shows, so fans can even indulge in some quality comedy binge-watching.

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9 Classic TV: Families

Marsha, Marsha, Marsha, and a whole lot more

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Take a trip back in time to the golden age of family television. The Classic TV: Families channel is the best place to look for the warm, funny, wholesome entertainment that was once the staple of American television.

Fans of the classics can tune in to watch The Odd Couple, The Dick Van Dyke Show, My Three Sons, All In the Family, The Donna Reed Show, Married With Children, The Honeymooners, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. Oh — and The Brady Bunch, of course.

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10 The Bob Ross Channel

Chill out with the Joy of Painting

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The Joy of Painting, starring Bob Ross, is one of the most unexpectedly iconic shows of all time, and for good reason. It’s the perfect chill-out material. The show originally debuted in 1983, running for a decade, before Ross’s untimely death in 1995. In each episode, Ross guides audiences in the art of painting, teaching techniques to all the aspiring artists out there.

But even for people with no interest in actually putting brush to canvas, The Joy of Painting is simply a joy to sit and watch, with Ross’s soothing presence, and his warm, delightful landscape paintings proving the perfect balm.

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