What WOW Presents Plus Means for Future Episodes of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’
Start your engines, Drag Race fans, the new season of this competition is right around the corner. Does WOW Presents Plus have anything to do with RuPaulās Drag Race? Will this streaming platform change anything about RuPaulās Emmy-award winning series? Hereās what we know about the production company behind this LGBTQ+ television show.
World of Wonder produces the Emmy award-winning reality series, āRuPaulās Drag Raceā
Streaming services arenāt just for television networks anymore. Recently, the company World of Wonder launched its own subscription platform. WOW Presents Plus provides users with hours of pop culture and LGBTQ+ centered television shows and mini-seriesā. That also includes episodes of the Emmy-award winning reality competition show, RuPaulās Drag Race and its spin-offs.
āThe ethos of World of Wonder has always been about building a community. From our TV shows and documentaries to our gallery space in Hollywood to our bi-coastal yearly conventions, our mission is to service our audience with programming, experiences, and product,ā said founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato in a joint statement.
āOur streaming platform WOW Presents Plus is a natural extension of that mission statement, allowing us to produce and distribute content directly to our audience,ā they continued. āThe response for WOW Presents Plus over the past year has been incredible, and we are committed to continuing to expand the volume of content, as well as membership experience opportunities.ā
World of Wonder premiered their streaming platform, WOW Presents Plus, during 2019
With WOW Presents Plus, episodes of RuPaulās Drag Race UK were available ahead of their United States television premiere, on the network Logo. Currently, every episode of the spin-off, RuPaulās Drag Race UK, is available on WOW Presents Plus. Beloved content from the WOW Presents YouTube channel, including shows like āM.U.G.ā and āUNHhhh,ā also premieres periodically on the companyās streaming platform.
Similar to streaming services like Disney+ and Netflix, WOW Presents Plus has plenty of original content, including shows hosted by Drag Race alumni. Additionally, according to their website, seasons 6, 7, 8 of RuPaulās Drag Race: Untucked are also on this streaming platform. Will this streaming platform house new episodes of the Emmy-award winning television show?
Will WOW Presents Plus affect future seasons of āRuPaulās Drag Raceā and āRuPaulās Drag Race: All-Starsā?
As of January 2020, no episodes of RuPaulās Drag Race are available for streaming with a WOW Presents Plus subscription. This lack of Drag Race content in the United States is most likely due to existing agreements that prevent the reality series from debuting on this streaming platform.
The streaming platformās website states, āMost seasons of RuPaulās Drag Race are available everywhere except the United States, the United Kingdom [and] Ireland, and Canada. You can watch with exclusive clips that you can only find on WOW Presents Plus and select subtitles.ā
Thankfully, this streaming platform should not affect the premiere of RuPaulās Drag Race season 12 and RuPaulās Drag Race: All-Stars 5, which has already been renewed by VH1. Fans anxiously await their premiere, as both seasons, in addition to Celebrity Drag Race, have already been filmed.
To learn more about WOW Presents Plus and to subscribe, visit their website. More information regarding upcoming seasons of RuPaulās Drag Race will presumably be available within the coming weeks.