Where To Watch The Bold Type Online
Watch The Bold Type: Synopsis
Inspired by the life of former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine Joanna Coles, The Bold Type follows the lives of three millennial women, Jane, Sutton, and Kat and their careers at the fictional magazine, Scarlet. Finishing with its fifth and final season in 2021, the show finally arrives in the UK. Wherever you are, we explain where to watch The Bold Type online and stream all episodes for free.
Traversing their careers in New York City, Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens) is a budding writer looking to impress Scarlet's formidable editor-in-chief Jacqueline Carlyle (Melora Hardin), Kat Edison (Aisha Dee) is a social conscious Social Media Director, and Sutton Brady (Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus) is an aspiring fashion assistant, who starts out in a secret relationship with Richard Hunter (Sam Page), a board member for Scarlet.
With Scarlet on the frontline of every socio, political, and economic plight of the modern day woman, the trio's own lives often influence the very articles and causes that appear in the fictional magazine. From diversity and race to sex, relationships, and sexual identity, The Bold Type's storylines have also bravely handled the BRCA gene, alcoholism, sexual assault in the workplace, redundancy, and more.
With The Bold Type Season 5 now available to stream in the UK, we explain exactly where to watch The Bold Type online from start to finish wherever you are below.
Where to watch The Bold Type online in the UK
Airing between 2017 and 2021, The Bold Type has hopped from one streaming service to another in the UK. Last seen on Netflix, its fifth and final season has finally touched down exclusively in the UK, two years after its initial release in the States. A long wait, it's made up for it by landing on BBC iPlayer from August 16.
You can watch The Bold Type Season 5, alongside the arrival of Seasons 1-4, on BBC iPlayer, which is free to sign-up to. All you need is an email address, a UK postcode (e.g. W1A 1AA) and a valid TV licence.
Abroad? Use a VPN using the instructions below to access BBC iPlayer like you would at home.
How to watch The Bold Type from anywhere
If you're a UK citizen on vacation or working overseas, you can still watch The Bold Type just as you would at home.
While BBC iPlayer is for licence fee-paying Brits and blocks access from IP addresses outside of the UK, there's a handy piece of software called a VPN which can change your IP address to make it look like you're accessing streaming services from any country in the world.
For example, UK citizens in the States can subscribe to a VPN, join a UK based server and tune into all the programmes on BBC iPlayer from anywhere in the world, just like you would back home.
Step-by-step of using a VPN to unblock:
1. Choose a VPN and install it - our go-to recommendation is ExpressVPN
2. Connect to a server - for BBC iPlayer, for example, you'll want to connect to a server based in the UK
3. Go to the live stream you wish to access - for The Bold Type, head to BBC iPlayer
Watch The Bold Type in the US
The Bold Type originally arrived on Freeform, with all episodes from all five of its seasons now available to stream exclusively on Hulu.
Hulu subscriptions start from only $7.99 a month if you don't mind ads, or $14.99 a month to go commercial-free. But if you haven't used Hulu before, you can also give it a try for nothing with its 30-day free trial.
Or, if you're in the market for a full over-the-top streaming service, Hulu + Live TV plan starts from $68.99 a month and includes 85+ premium TV channels, all Hulu content on catch-up, as well as access to Disney+ and sports specialist ESPN+ if you pay just a $1 more.
A Brit abroad in the States? Port yourself home with a VPN to watch BBC iPlayer as if you were back home.
Watch The Bold Type in Australia
Down Under, you have two options for watching The Bold Type from start to finish. Both Binge and Stan have all five seasons of The Bold Type available to stream.
With Binge you can stream shows like And Just Like That at your leisure and pay as little as $10 a month for your subscription. That's only after Binge's very generous 14-day free trial period.
In Australia you can also watch the show through linear channel Foxtel Showcase, or through streaming service Foxtel Now. The latter comes with a 10-day free trial, after which memberships start from AU$25 a month.
Alternatively, Stan comes with a 30-day free trial for new subscribers, thereafter costing from $10 a month.
Where to watch The Bold Type in Canada
Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a streaming home for The Bold Type for any of its seasons. You'll therefore need to buy individual episodes or seasons through the likes of Amazon, Apple TV, or the Google Play Store.
Abroad? Use a VPN to port yourself back home, for instance to the UK to stream The Bold Type for free through BBC iPlayer.
The Bold Type Trailer
The Bold Type Cast
- Katie Stevens as Jane Sloan
- Aisha Dee as Kat Edison
- Meghann Fahy as Sutton Brady-Hunter
- Sam Page as Richard Hunter
- Matt Ward as Alex Crawford
- Melora Hardin as Jacqueline Carlyle
- Stephen Conrad Moore as Oliver Grayson
- Nikohl Boosheri as Adena El-Amin
