Great American Media has set an August premiere for JEP & JESS: BEYOND THE BAYOU, its newest original series starring former DUCK DYNASTY personalities Jep Robertson and Jessica Robertson.
The show streams first on Great American Pure Flix beginning Thursday, Aug. 13, then makes its broadcast premiere on Great American Family and GFAM+ Saturday, Aug. 15, at 9 p.m., the company announced July 13.
“Television is at its best when it gives audiences permission to exhale,” said Kaitlyn Haubrich, Chief Brand Officer of Great American Media. “JEP & JESS: BEYOND THE BAYOU is the kind of lean-back viewing experience people are craving today. It’s a place to unwind while being inspired by lives lived with purpose, faith, generosity, and love.”
Jep and Jessica built their public life around the Louisiana bayou, where A&E’s DUCK DYNASTY turned their family’s duck call business into a cultural phenomenon. JEP & JESS: BEYOND THE BAYOU picks up somewhere new, following the couple as they trade the bayou for the rolling hills of Texas.
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There, an hour from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Jep and Jessica have poured themselves into Comanche Moon Ranch, a retreat they are transforming into a working community built on craftsmanship and hospitality. Episodes follow them through ranch projects, new neighbors and the ordinary work of building something that lasts. Great American Media calls it a weekly destination where “purpose, faith, meaningful work, enduring relationships and authentic community take center stage.”
Haubrich added that the series measures a meaningful life “less by what we own than by who we share it with,” a line that doubles as something of a thesis for where Great American Media has planted its flag in a crowded streaming landscape.
Movieguide® readers already have a relationship with this network beyond its Christmas movies and Saturday night originals. For several years now, Great American Family has broadcast the Movieguide® Awards, the annual ceremony honoring the year’s most redemptive and family-affirming movies and television. The network aired the 31st Annual Movieguide® Awards in 2024, hosted by its own stars Danica McKellar and Trevor Donovan, and has carried the ceremony every year since, including this past March’s 33rd Annual Movieguide® Faith & Values Awards Gala, hosted by Cameron Mathison.
That standing partnership is not incidental. Great American Family has built its brand on the premise that faith and family are not a niche market, they are an underserved one, and years of Movieguide® research backs that up. Adding JEP & JESS: BEYOND THE BAYOU to a lineup that already includes original movies, scripted series, and an annual awards show tells you the network is not just renting faith-based content, it is building a home for it.
Great American Media launched in June 2021 under Bill Abbott, President & CEO, and now includes Great American Family, Great American Pure Flix, Great American Faith & Living and the GFam+ app. JEP & JESS: BEYOND THE BAYOU streams via Pure Flix and YouTube TV, or through the GFam+ app, starting Aug. 13, with the broadcast version following two days later on Great American Family and GFAM+.
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