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Betch, also known as Betch: A Sketch Show, is an American sketch comedy web series created by Madeline Whitby and Monica Sherer. The series was produced by AwesomenessTV, originally for release on the go90 streaming service. Betch premiered on go90 on October 1, 2015.

Overview
"Betch is an all-girls sketch comedy show starring The Betches, and featuring celebrity hosts."

Cast

 * Lauren Luthringshausen (credited as Lauren Elizabeth, seasons 5–7)
 * Monica Sherer
 * Audrey Whitby
 * Madeline Whitby
 * Jessica Marie Garcia (seasons 3–7)

In addition, Gabbie Hanna was credited as "starring" in the first episode of Betch, Kiana Brown was credited as "starring" in one second season and one third season episode, and Jessica Marie Garcia was credited as starring in a later second season episode before she joined the cast full-time in the series' third season.

Season 5 (2017)
Season 5 was the last season of Betch to be released on the go90 streaming platform. Season 5 also saw the elimination of hosts for the show, with only an occasional guest star, like Liza Koshy and Keke Palmer, appearing.

Season 6 (2019)
Season 6 was not released on the go90, and instead was broadcast on TeenNick between July 22 and July 26, 2019.

Season 7 (2019)
Season 7 premiered exclusively on TeenNick, between July 29 and August 5, 2019. Also in season 7, each episode was approximately 22 minutes in length.

Release
Betch was first released on October 1, 2015, along with other AwesomenessTV web series, with the debut of the go90 streaming platform. Five seasons of Betch were released on go90 between 2015 and 2017. The seventh season was not released before go90 was shut down, and remained unreleased until it was broadcast on TeenNick from July 29 to August 6, 2019.

The series came to Hulu in December 2016. On Hulu and other streaming platforms, two webisodes are combined into longer approximately 20-minute episodes, with the first two seasons of the original web series being combined into a repackaged "season 1", while the third and fourth seasons are combined into a "season 2" package which debuted on Hulu in July 2017.

Reception
In a November 2015 report to shareholders, Jeffrey Katzenberg "noted that Verizon has singled out... Betch as gaining early traction with millennials and encouraging revisits to the go90 platform.