The holiday season is about spending time with loved ones, and what better way to binge festive content than in the company of friends and family. Viewers in the Kingdom can get into the holiday spirit by tuning into STARZPLAY, MENA region’s fastest growing subscription video on demand service, for an array of holiday content and Rugby matches available to watch anytime, anywhere and from any device.

Here’s a full rundown of all things festive on STARZPLAY:

Ring in the holiday season with the high scoring games and catch all the action live on STARZPLAY.

Rugby:

United Rugby Championship, available to watch live on the Premier Sports add on channel on STARZPLAY

Kick-off Christmatch and watch Munster go head-to-head with Leinster at 23:45 GST on December 26th and Glasgow take on Edinburgh at 22:55 GST on December 27th live on STARZPLAY.

Premiership Rugby, available to watch live on the Premier Sports add on channel on STARZPLAY

Bristol will take on Leicester at 17:55 GST on December 26th and Harlequins and Northampton will face off at 20:55 GST on December 27th live on STARZPLAY.

Holiday Content:

Check Inn to Christmas, streaming now on STARZPLAY

When New York City lawyer Julia Crawley returns to her family’s lovely inn in her Rocky Mountain hometown for the holidays, she finds herself at the centre of a generations-old feud with the family that runs another inn. As the ongoing feud escalates, a forbidden romance buds between Julia and Ryan Mason, whose family runs the competing inn.

The Road Home for Christmas, streaming now on STARZPLAY

Lindsey and Wes, rival musicians who perform in a dueling-piano show, suddenly find themselves without a gig on Christmas Eve and decide to road-trip to their neighbouring hometowns together.

A Christmas Princess, streaming now on STARZPLAY

Jessica is a struggling chef living in a trendy New York borough. Prince Jack, who's in the city for his family's annual Christmas charity dinner, finds himself in need of a last-minute chef for a royal event when he meets Jessica.

Staging Christmas, streaming now on STARZPLAY

Lori stages homes for a living and her busiest season is Christmas. Though she normally only stages homes that are for sale, she's intrigued when a wealthy widower named Everett asks her to stage his home for the holidays to cheer up his daughter, Maddie. As Lori starts remaking Everett's home, she finds that Maddie isn't the only one in desperate need of the Christmas spirit. As Lori spends more time with Everett and Maddie, she starts to feel like part of the family. While she was initially hired to simply stage the perfect Christmas, she ends up creating it for the father and daughter in every way imaginable.

Christmas Matchmakers, streaming now on STARZPLAY

Jen and Jon are executive assistants under pressure. In order to have more free time during the holidays, they decide to build a strategy so that their respective bosses, Kate and Owen, fall madly in love with each other.

Fruitcake Fraud, streaming now on the Discovery+ add on channel on STARZPLAY

$17 million was embezzled over the course of nine years from the well-known Collin Street Bakery, the world’s most famous purveyor of Fruitcake. This documentary takes viewers to the heart of Corsicana, Texas, the small town that was rocked by the scam.

With thousands of hours of premium content including blockbuster movies,  exclusive TV shows, kids content and Arabic series, STARZPLAY is today the number one player in the MENA region. The service is available in 20 countries across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan for fans to enjoy quality content anytime, anywhere and from any device.

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About STARZPLAY:  

STARZPLAY (www.starzplay.com) is a subscription video on demand service that streams Hollywood movies, TV shows, documentaries, the same-time-as-the-US series – plus dedicated kids’ entertainment and Arabic content – to 20 countries across MENA and Pakistan. 

The service carries thousands of premium titles including exclusive STARZPLAY original content such as Baghdad Central, STARZ Original content such as Power, Outlander, Spartacus and The White Queen as well as premium content with add-ons such as discovery+, UFC Arabia, BluTV, Premier Sports, AD Sports, T20 World Cup and Majid TV.” 

STARZPLAY has secured tie ups with a host of leading, global studios including MGM, 20th Century Studios, Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, Discovery and Fox International Channels.  

STARZ (www.starz.com), a Lionsgate company (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) are the lead investors along with media and technology investment firms including SEQ Capital Partners and Delta Partners. In early 2021, STARZPLAY secured its first independent financing in the region of US$25 million (approx. AED 92 million) from Abu Dhabi based Ruya Partners. 

Reaching over 1.8 million subscribers, STARZPLAY allows subscribers to watch its full HD and 4K content via most internet-enabled devices, smart TVs and game consoles, and is widely available on regional IPTV services. Its iOS and Android apps – installed on more than three million devices – also allow downloads for offline playback.