BET NOW - Watch Shows Reviews

by Lady Amour

I never write reviews but BETNOW upsets me every time I try to watch. I use BETNOW to watch Boomerang, Sistas and Twenties on my Apple TV. 90% of the time new episodes show put won’t play, sometimes for days and there’s an error message about date and time restrictions or just says it’s unavailable. I also have the bet + app and it’s the same problem there. I am trying to support these shows and BETNOW is keeping me from doing that! As a busy mom it’s so frustrating that when I finally have a minute to myself BETNOW teases me with a new episode and then it won’t play so I end up not watching at all. DO BETTER BET APP DEVELOPERS, it’s like your sabotaging yourself!

by MsRiff4U

BETNOW is horrible. It constantly stops in the middle of a program. This is the error message: sometimes, technical stuff can be difficult. Like now. Be Right Black. It can be a few seconds or several minutes to hours before a show comes back on. It acts up regularly on fire stick. ViacomCBS is entirely too big of a media company to have these constant technical difficulties. BETNOW is not even worthy of the one star that I was obligated to give, just so I can write a review. Robert M Bakish (Viacom CEO) and Robert Pittman (founder) need to pool their corporate salaries together and get some technical staff who can fix these constant glitches that happen with the BET app on a daily basis. This streaming service is beyond deplorable.

by AmorChanel

First, let’s start with how you need to put in your cable provider every time you sign into BETNOW . Second all seasons of things are available but once you start watching a episode and you wanna watch the next episode you’ll have to login with your cable provider again, and once you do that and start to try to watch the next episode it will say sorry this episode is not available or this video is not available and that is very frustrating as I see it there I have email support nothing has happened. WhatSupport had to say was delete BETNOW redownload it and sign in again and try again so I did that 4x & still I can’t even watch one episode.I have multiple devices that I will try to download BETNOW and mirror/cast onto my television or even watch from BETNOW but on every tablet laptop computer telephone ETC it does not work and I am extremely frustrated I will be deleting BETNOW expeditiously

by JusbriE

This is by far the worst app for streaming content I've ever used. The ads plays are just ridiculous , literally ever 4 minutes there's at least 3-7 rounds of ads before the content continues. I understand they're paying for the spots but come on please spread them across the shows on the network. What makes it worse is it being done on the only all black national network available ! Such a disappointment, app removed .

by Zigana23

BETNOW makes it difficult to see full episodes. It's more of an advertising for a lot of shows to just show the clips. When they do show a full episode, there are too many commercials that are too long. The commercial time is long and it just shows the same commercials for BET over and over. We get it, watch your shows. Because I travel a lot, I only have a chance to see some shows on BETNOW . Please make it more customer friendly.

by Amtrak Fan

There needs to be an update sent out for BETNOW as there is a problem when the commercials finish it never flips and or jumps back to the show it stays stuck and stalled on the end of the commercials and won’t flip back to the show (and this is on/for the show Sistas S2 Ep.: 2. Haven’t tried to see if the problem is the same on any other shows.) Also, there is a layout problem as well sometimes it seems as if the screen layout/setup gets a bit ahead of it self and when it gets near or closer to the time for commercials to come on the screen setup switches over and the same for when the commercials are getting ready to go off and the show is coming back on.

by MeehlaaJ

There has been times when a new episode notification pops up then when I go to BETNOW and try to watch the new episode, I notice pops up stating the episode is currently unavailable. It’s very disappointing due to the fact that I get excited to watch the latest episode of my favorite show and this not available. Sometime it takes days for the current episode to become available on BETNOW . I try my best to just watch new episodes live.

by Crazysexxy

I’ve been trying to watch the same show for an entire day but between two devices. I started the show using BETNOW on my tv and wanted to use BETNOW to finish the show on my phone while getting my nails done (same app login for both). That didn’t work. It started the entire show over and it won’t allow me to skip to where I left off. What’s the point? This is annoying. Please fix this.

by Micha Pierre

The BET APP is great to watch all episodes you’ve missed on the go. However in my case it works on my Samsung 8+ phone wonderful.
HOWEVER on my APPLE iPad Pro 11 I can’t watch ANYTHING why when I go into BETNOW setting to sign in with my t.v provider it doesn’t give me an option/ NO LISTING on any t.v provider the only sign credential you can sign-in with is optimum altice.
My provider is alticeONE by optimum. I attempted to sign in under optimum it tells me I have to sign with mentioned above t.v provider. But I’m not given an option AT ALL NOT LISTING OF ANYTHING.
I emailed the BET APP support my issues was NOT RESOLVED.
This NEEDS TO BE FIXED.

WHAT SHOULD I DO!!!!!

AND WHY CANT WE WATCH ALL EARLIER SEASONS FULL EPISODES example Mary Jane. I can’t watch any of the older seasons episodes ANYWHERE. Why not BETNOW it would DEFINITELY BE convenient , there only clips and extras WHY NOT THE FULL EPISODES what is the point of the clips and extras 😤😡😡😡

by Co Capree

I started watching In contempt on BETNOW recently on my firestick and what I thought was going to be a day of binge watching only lasted about 2 hours. BETNOW crashed out of nowhere and would not work again no matter how many times I forced closed or uninstalled and installed again. I thought it was just my firestick so I downloaded BETNOW on my phone for it to automatically crash. I’m so upset because I updated BETNOW for it to NOT WORK AT ALL!!! Definitely not re downloading it, I’ll just find another way to watch.

by Saniyya S.

BETNOW starts off good; you think everything is fine until you actually watch a show. For example I watched the New Edition Story and I've seen it before. So I'm watching it and then the next trying you know it skips to a section that is far ahead of the watching point that you are at or it will skip back to far behind. I just want to watch the show but I can't because it skips throughout the whole time. Don't waste your time downloading BETNOW, just go to the website and watch it.

by Dyamond8

I was looking forward to using BETNOW to watch Being Mary Jane and The Quad, but I was getting kicked off about every 10 minutes. I would have to reopen BETNOW with the same experience, I even tried rebooting my iPad hoping that would work.
A hour show took over 2 hours to watch completely...which was very frustrating. I love the fact that I can watch these shows at my convenience and would appreciate if these problems could fixed, so I can continue to watch the shows I love.

by CJS2515

I decided to download BETNOW a few days ago so I could watch Twenties(amazing show btw.) This has been one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had. I casted the show to my Apple TV and I cannot get through one episode without it glitching literally every minute. I tried pausing it to let the episode load and it still didn’t work! I have great service and this is the only app I have any issue streaming on. BET makes way too much money for BETNOW to be this terrible. Fix it please!

by Bmom67

I have had the application for awhile and it is pretty good. However, I think there is a need for an update. The number of ads need to be decreased during an episode. Especially since all of the breaks are the same and about BET. Recently, BETNOW just hangs after some ads and BETNOW needs to be closed and restarted. It hasn't always done this. More full episodes and fewer clips would be nice. Though buggy at times, it's still a decent app.

by GRID541

The site is nice and inviting but the show keeps loosing the sound which means I have to stop the video and wait for it to catch up. Imagine doing that through out the show. Very annoying and it takes away from the intensity of the show.
That BET commercial that's ran during the show is very bright and flashy and it would play 3 times in a row. Unless the company is trying to trigger epilepsy you should tone that down or atleast just run it once.

by Scmc1st

Just watched the first episode of Twenties and loved it, but I can’t unlock the other content because my cable provider who offers BET, isn’t in the list of providers to unlock content. DishNetwork has been my satellite provider for over 18 years and I find it ridiculous that such a well known service isn’t verified on your platform. Y’all need to work on that!

by Proud Africana

I love BETNOW so far BET is one of my favorite networks. I watch most of the shows because I'm able to easily relate with the people. The rich history culture and effortless acting in these shows is something that should be praised. I keep doing what you're BET you are one of the few outlet for young African American communities and young people in. Please add more educational movies and shows with real history. Such as telling the history and background and day-to-day life of great people such as Maya Angelo or Booker T. Washington And supermodel Iman to name few. It would be great not to only read about them but to see them and their stories being told. Overcoming obstacles it's very uplifting. But to see what it takes and although having all of those obstacles and adversity in your way yet pushing through to become someone great and what is necessary to achieve that greatness however the diff cool the road maybe it would be amazing to share in film possible. Thank you BET.

by ZiannaAmirahBrathwaite

I love the BET app but it doesn’t have my tv provider which I’m highly upset about because I love BET! I watch BET every single day! Sometimes when I’m out I like to pull out my phone an watch BET! My tv provider is Xyfinity! I think BET needs to add Xyfinity to the tv provider so people can watch what they want an when they want!

by Eshaw3333

BETNOW works great for me. I just got rid of my direct tv and BETNOW lets me stay up to date with shows. I watch mainly for being Mary Jane. I haven't had any problems with connections for long ads. Sometimes it says the adds will play for even longer but the show comes right back on! I see some reviews of people have trouble but maybe that is their internet speed or something on their end. Enjoy!!!

by SXM Gurl

It's such a pleasure to have a " Give Back". With a Cra Cra schedule as a strong advocate in my community sometime I miss the show and I'm sure like many of "US" we relate to Mary Jane in many ways that can help us critically look at ourselves laugh at ourselves and most importantly FREE ourselves!!! So watching Mary Jane episodes available via this BET app gives me that opportunity to sort of check out "the Woman in the mirror". Relax Relate Release!!!! And DANCE!!!!
Thanks !!

by XoBabieee

BETNOW has a bunch of ads that play myltiple times throughout each show and last atleast a minute. The ads are mostly the same which makes them even more annoying to watch and if u accidently go off the show and come back (like I did) you have to view a whole minute or more of ads again. I only downloaded it to watch the new edition stories and i wont hesitate to delete BETNOW as soon as I'm done. Also, it didnt even have my tv provider so i only have a day to finish all three parts

by Vernell Collins

I really don’t understand the need to have the BET promo SO LOUD during advertisements in BET shows such as The Quad. In the middle of a show when advertisements start, the BET promo with the BET graphics comes on the screen 10 TIMES LOUDER THAN THE VOLUME LEVEL OF THE SHOW AND OTHER ADS. This is absolutely unnecessary and ridiculous. Sorry for the ALLCAPS but I wanted to express how loud and annoying it is to have the sound BLASTED on the BET promo portion of commercial breaks. Please fix!! Hire a new sound guy or something but the levels are way too high.

by RLKID

BETNOW frequently crashes on the iPad. Recently i learned that certain shows are only available to be viewed on the this app app and not on a streaming device. I addressed the issue to the Bet support team and obvsly got no reply. Is viewers have the option to watch a show on a tV why wld they wanna watch on a tablet vs a big screen. Like c'mon BET. ABC and FX let viewers watch the same shows that air on cable TV on streaming. At least let cable tv subscribers have that option

by Livin4bre

As I was trying to watch the ever so great New Edition story, I would get kicked off so I would reopen BETNOW and try to watch again and then what happens???? It kicks me off again. This goes on four or five times then decides to play for about 20 minutes with no problems. Then guess what?? It happens again and again and again. The process was quite disappointing. Needless to say I will be removing BETNOW and will watch parts 2 and 3 via another source. Very disappointed!!!!!!

by LadyCapricorn09

Love BETNOW but it could use some work. It could use less and shorter commercials. The audio goes in and out through watching a show. It freezes sometimes and it takes a few before the picture starts showing crisp and clear. Other than that good app.

by Ladi Dy

I travel 48 weeks/year and stay in hotels 340 days a year. Most hotels cater to sports and news channel along with a few local channels. I rarely have access to BET, so the BET app allows me to watch one of my favs, "Being MaryJane". I get to catch up on missed episodes and also watch BET special event shows on my iPad Pro. Thank you BET!

by Dadirai

I love this show a lot! I am big on reality shows and games shows but Being Mary Jane is the only show I wait for on TV when it's the season. It does not disappoint especially seeing Mary Jane's life come together finally! I won't be disappointed if she turns Justin down she can do it by herself! I give the show *****