Season 14 of family drama Heartland begins on the BYUtv app Friday, April 1, followed by the season premiere on BYUtv April 5. The show airs on CBC in Canada. 

The whole season will be available to stream on the BYUtv app. 

BYUtv is a family entertainment network available over cable and satellite, and online. Streaming is free. 

Streaming service Up Faith & Family began season 15 of Heartland March 17. Angela Cannon, VP and channel manager, Up Faith & Family, called the show a “fan favorite.” Season 15 aired on CBC late last year.

Murray Shostak created Heartland, which is the longest-running one-hour drama in Canadian TV history. It is based on the series of books by Lauren Brooke. 

In the show, sisters, played by Amber Marshall and Michelle Morgan, keep the family’s horse ranch in the Canadian Rockies up and running. The Heartland ranch treats troubled or neglected horses, and finds new homes for them. 

Shaun Johnston and Alisha Newton are also in the cast.

The executive producers are Michael Weinberg, Tom Cox, Jordy Randall and Heather Conkie, who is showrunner. ■

Dish Network said it has expanded its on-demand offerings by more than 7,000 titles after adding 11 new packages that customers can subscribe to on a monthly basis. The new packages, starting at $2.99 per month include original series and documentaries from UP Faith & Family, Dove Channel, CuriosityStream and others.

“Whether bingeing seasons of your favorite TV series on-demand or purchasing a digital copy of a new release movie, there are many avenues for customers to access the content they want, when they want it,” said Dish senior vice president of programming Andy LeCuyer in a statement. “Dish offers the ability to choose between watching on-demand content that’s included in a channel package, renting or buying titles outright, and now adding and subtracting entire catalogs on a monthly basis.”

The new packages beef up Dish’s total on-demand offerings to more than 70,000 titles that can be viewed at home on a Hopper family set-top box and on-the-go with the Dish Anywhere app. The Dish Anywhere app gives all customers the ability to watch the on-demand titles associated with their programming package from virtually any location. The app is available on internet-connected mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets and computers, as well as televisions via Amazon Fire TV and Android TV.

Customers can watch a free preview of new offerings Feb. 4-10. In addition to CuriosityStream and UP Faith & Family, customers can watch: Dove Channel; Docurama; Outside TV Features; Comedy Dynamics; Grokker; Here TV; Hopster; HiYAH!; and CineFest.

On-demand subscriptions are available for Dish customers with a qualifying programming package and an internet-connected Hopper DVR (all generations), Hopper Duo, Joey (all models) or Wally. 

UP Entertainment said it has launched a new direct-to-consumer app that’s initially available on several mobile and TV-connected platforms.

The new app is offered now on iOS and Android mobile devices, Apple TV, Android TV, and web browsers. Access on Xbox One consoles, Roku players and Roku TVs and Fire TV devices will be available “soon.”

The family-friendly service, which offers series such as Heartland and series from UPTV such as Bringing Up Bates, sells for $5.99 per month or discounted to $53.99 per year on an annual basis.

Up Faith & Family also offers an SVOD service via partners such as Comcast and via Amazon Channels for $4.99 per month.

“Since launching in 2015, we have experienced rapid growth on Amazon Channels US and UK, Comcast Xfinity and Google Fiber,” Charley Humbard, chief executive officer, UP Entertainment, said in a statement. “Ensuring consumers have access to our best-of-breed family programming where they want it and when they want it via our new app was a natural move.”