There are hundreds of websites where you can watch movies and TV shows online legally by paying some sort of money. But, most people don’t actually want to pay. They’re either students or anybody with a tight pocket. So, for those, I’m here with some of the top websites to watch TV shows online for absolutely free, and that is also 100% legal.
Some of the websites mentioned below allow you to watch TV shows online in India, some outside India and some of them allow you to watch TV shows globally.
The Top 10 Websites To Watch TV Shows Online For Free
There’re hundreds of websites available on the web for watching online TV shows and movies but not all of them are free and legal. So, to save you time and money, I’ve compiled a list of the 10 best websites to watch TV shows online for absolutely free of cost.
1. Hotstar
Hotstar is an Indian entertainment platform launched by Star India. It’s absolutely free to watch TV shows and movies on Hotstar easily.
All you need to just visit the Hotstar website and choose your favorite TV show to start streaming. It’s that easy! Apart from this, you can also install its mobile app to watch TV shows and movies on your smartphone.
2. Global TV
The Global Television Network (Global TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network which at its official website allows you to watch regional TV shows online.
All you need to visit the Global TV website and click on any of your favorite TV shows to start watching. If you’re visiting Global TV website from outside Canada, the video playbacks might be blocked/restricted for you.
3. Hulu
Hulu is a most popular American online TV streaming platform. It lets you watch TV shows and movies online at your favorite devices.
It comes with different pricing and packages. But, in this post I promised to list only free options to watch TV shows online so let me tell you that Hulu offers a free trail for its new users. So, with this free trial, you can watch TV shows online on Hulu for absolutely free of cost for limited period of time. After free trial, it’s as low as $5.99/month. Isn’t it great?
4. YuppTV
YuppTV is one of the best online TV channel providers in mostly South Asian region. Most of its TV shows and channels are in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam languages.
All you need to visit the website and look for TV Shows category or you can directly go to Yuppflix.com, where you can watch all the TV shows featured on its web portal.
5. Voot
Voot is an Indian entertainment platform for watching TV shows and movies online for absolutely free of cost. Voot streams only Indian TV shows in different regional languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil etc.
Some of the main TV channels hosted by Voot are Colors TV, MTV India, Nickelodeon India and other Viacom 18 owned television channels.
6. Popcornflix
Headquartered in New York, Popcornflix is an absolutely free online TV shows streaming website that generates revenue through ads.
Here, you can watch movies and webisodes. The service is currently available in the United States and Canada, with plans to launch in more places soon.
7. Zee5
ZEE5 (previously OZEE) is an official online video streaming website of Zee Entertainment Limited. Here, you can watch all the popular TV shows and serials from Zee network.
It also hosts its own original shows or web series as Zee5 Originals. However, you can watch all the TV shows and movies directly on Zee5 website, but it also has Android and iOS apps for mobile users.
8. YouTube
Almost everyone uses YouTube for watching and sharing videos across the world. In addition to different kind of entertaining videos, you can watch latest movies and TV shows on YouTube for absolutely free of cost.
All you need to search for your favorite TV show or channel and choose from the provided search results. You can also subscribe for the official channels of your favorite TV broadcasters available on YouTube for upcoming episodes and notifications.
9. SonyLIV
SonyLIV is an Indian entertainment portal for watching your favorite Hindi TV shows from all the TV channels of Sony Pictures Networks such as SET, SAB, MAX, etc.
Apart from TV shows, SonyLIV’s Web Originals are also available on the website. And, you can enjoy watching movies, news, kids TV shows etc. at SonyLIV.
10. Viu
Viu is also an online videos streaming service launched in Hong Kong. It mainly provides the latest premium Korean shows, variety of TV shows, Asian shows, movies and web originals to watch online for free.
It’t not only limited to the Korean language but it contains shows in few more languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu etc. You just need to choose your preferred language and start watching shows in your regional language.
So, What’s Your Choice?
The above-listed websites are for different countries and TV channels. So, you can choose the one according to your region and favorite TV channel for watching TV shows.
If you’re looking to watch a specific TV show aired on Zee TV, you can choose Zee5 and similarly for other networks. Most of the above-listed sites also host TV shows in different languages so that you can enjoy TV shows in your regional language for free.
Apart from TV shows and movies, there’s one bonus you can grab out of these sites is their Web Originals. Most of these online entertainment sites release their own Web Originals (exactly like episode wise TV shows) that you can watch regularly on their website.
So, what’s your choice? Which of the above-listed website you’re going to use for watching TV shows online for absolutely free of cost? Do let me know via comments!
