Comcast Launches New Free Streaming App The Network on Its Entertainment Platforms in Partnership With Actor/Entrepreneur/Activist John Leguizamo

Comcast today announced the introduction and distribution of The Network, a new free, ad-supported streaming app that only releases exclusive originals, across its entertainment platforms, including Xfinity X1, Flex, Xumo Stream Box, and Xumo TV. As part of its commitment to providing high quality programming to diverse audiences and in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Xfinity will provide a special ad-free programming offer of one of The Network’s premium original series, The Green Veil, in partnership with actor/producer/activist/entrepreneur John Leguizamo.

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Seeking to declutter the streaming experience and endless scrolling audiences are often subjected to, The Network platform was recently launched by Aram Rappaport, founder of the creative ad agency The Boathouse, with Leguizamo on board as an equity partner in the enterprise. The Network will release a tightly selected number of premium originals, beginning with The Green Veil, a drama series executive produced and starring Leguizamo in his first leading role, Chivalry, a comedy series featuring Steve Coogan, and Kingdom of Dreams, a docuseries focused on the battle for supremacy in the world of high fashion.

The Green Veil is an eight-episode drama/thriller/sci-fi series which follows Leguizamo’s character, a government agent in the 1950s tasked with an unraveling secret mission that threatens to expose deeper secrets about the government’s attempt to separate Indigenous children from their families to prevent them from inheriting land. Leguizamo plays Gordon Rogers, an immigrant who came to the United States as a child and dedicated his life to achieving the American Dream. He experiences both an insidious obsession with that dream and the societal limitations it places upon certain groups.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and The Network’s Xfinity platform debut, The Green Veil will be offered to Xfinity customers ad-free for a seamless, uninterrupted viewing experience from September 16^th to October 15^th.

"This Hispanic Heritage Month, I am so incredibly proud to be partnering with Comcast to deliver free premium content from my new streaming platform The Network,” said Leguizamo. “It’s especially meaningful during this month, which highlights the achievements and subject matter across a range of issues within the community and beyond!"