But Paramount Plus won’t have the one show most associated with the Paramount name: Yellowstone. The first three seasons of the cowboy drama are streaming exclusively on rival service Peacock. Down the line, Paramount Plus will have exclusive Yellowstone spinoffs, like the prequel Y:1883 expected later this year.
Paramount Plus will have a library of more than 30,000 episodes and 2,500 movies, plus 36 original series debuts this year. Among those originals will be a revival of Frasier, the 1990s sitcom; a CG-animation update of Nickelodeon’s Rugrats to tap millennial nostalgia; and a new studio dedicated to the Avatar: The Last Airbender concept, founded by the original cartoon’s creators to produce a range of programming, including a new animated movie.
For film fans, Paramount Plus will stream some big-screen movies from Paramount Pictures about a month and a half after they hit theaters. That’ll include streaming A Quiet Place Part II in November and Mission: Impossible 7 in January. Other movies from the studio will arrive on the streaming service after a longer window following their theatrical debuts.
And the $10 monthly subscription won’t be the only choice for long. In June, Paramount Plus will add a cheaper, $5-a-month “base” tier that is supported by advertising and that limits what you can watch.
If you’re already a CBS All Access subscriber, your membership transfers over to Paramount Plus, even if you’re currently paying for its $6-a-month tier. On Thursday, the CBS All Access app is set to automatically update into the Paramount Plus app. Whether you are currently on CBS All Access’ $10-a-month ad-free tier or on its $6-a-month tier with ads, you will be able to access and stream everything on Paramount Plus — the only difference is whether you continue to see ads or not.
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Paramount Plus will launch in the US, Latin America and Canada on Thursday.
It will widen to Europe starting with the Nordic countries on March 25 and then expand to Australia with a rebrand and expansion of 10 All Access later this year, with additional markets to follow.
How much does Paramount Plus cost?
Paramount Plus will cost $10 a month to stream ad-free on a premium tier, and it will add a limited $5-a-month “base” tier in June that is supported by advertising.
That cheaper tier marks a $1 discount from CBS All Access’ entry-level price, but this base tier will no longer have the livestream of CBS’ broadcast network. CBS All Access currently costs $6 a month or $60 annually for its tier with advertising, or $10 a month or $100 annually to go ad-free. CBS All Access is offering a deal right now to get a year of the service at half price, a subscription that will carry over to Paramount Plus after Thursday. The deal offers the ad-supported tier for $30 for a year or $50 for the ad-free version. The deal will no longer be available after Wednesday at 3:59 p.m. PT / 6:59 p.m. ET — ending essentially the day before the launch.
The Paramount Plus premium tier will include the breadth of everything on Paramount Plus, including livestreams of the CBS Network and local channels; though this is an ad-free tier, there will be advertising in the live channels.
The base tier includes ads during the shows and movies you watch on demand, and it won’t include your live, local CBS network. Some of the programming that’s typically broadcast on CBS’ network will be made available for base-tier subscribers — but not everything. So, for example, a base-tier subscriber will be able to watch live NFL games on Paramount Plus but won’t be able to see all of CBS’ live sports.
The pricing for Paramount Plus’ competitors runs the gamut.
Among the services that have ad-supported options, Peacock has a free, limited tier with ads, but you can pay to unlock its full catalog. Those paid, premium Peacock memberships are $5 a month with advertising, or you can upgrade to an ad-free version for $10 a month.
Netflix, which has no ads, offers its cheapest tier at $9 a month, while its most popular plan is $14. Disney Plus is $7 a month (going to $8 next month), and สล็อต and fiercest Challenge All Stars from the original Real World and Road Rules have been selected to return for a second chance at the ultimate competition. All have history, but when relationships are the key to survival, will these legends be able to form new bonds or will their past lead to their demise? With $500,0000 and their legacies on the line, which of these All Stars will prove they are still the best of the best?
The Real World: Homecoming: New York – almost 30 years later, the original “seven strangers” that paved the way for modern reality TV are moving back into the New York loft where it all began. Viewers will be reunited with the cast from the very first season of The Real World in a brand new multiepisode docuseries to find out, once again, what happens when they stop being polite… and start getting real. Series begins streaming on Thursday, March 4th.
Comedy
With a heavy reliance on Comedy Central’s catalog, Paramount Plus will have 6,000 episodes in the genre. New series set to arrive include:
Frasier – Frasier’s back, and he’s more exactly the same than ever. Kelsey Grammer reprises his role as Dr. Frasier Crane.
Grease: The Rise of the Pink Ladies – with both classic and new songs and a diverse cast, the series is a prequel to the musical film Grease and tells the story of how Frenchy’s older sister, Jane, founded the Pink Ladies. The series, from Paramount Television Studios, is executive produced by Annabel Oakes (Atypical, Transparent), Marty Bowen (Twilight) and Erik Feig (La La Land).
Guilty Party – a dark comedy starring Kate Beckinsale as a discredited journalist who finds herself in over her head when she latches onto the story of a young mother sentenced to life in jail for murdering her husband, a crime she claims she didn’t commit.
Inside Amy Schumer – the Peabody, Emmy and Writers Guild Award-winning franchise returns with five specials starring Amy Schumer, one of the entertainment industry’s leading forces as a standup comedian, actress, writer, producer and director.
Reno 911! The Hunt For QAnon – a supersized event based on the long-running Comedy Central series. Most recently, Reno 911! received two 2020 Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series and for Outstanding Actress in A Short Form Comedy or Drama Series (Kerri Kenney-Silver). In 2021, the show is nominated for a Critics Choice Award.
The Game – the popular BET sitcom returns with a mix of original cast and new players, and will offer a modern-day examination of Black culture through the prism of pro football.
The Harper House – an animated family comedy that follows an overconfident female head of a household as she struggles to regain a higher status for herself and for her family of oddballs after losing her job and moving from the rich side to the poor side of an Arkansas small town.
The Weekly Show with Trevor Noah (Working Title) – Trevor Noah will star in and produce an initial six-episode series looking at stories across the societal landscape and talk with the people behind the headlines: people you know; people you don’t know; and people you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Younger – Darren Star’s hit Younger follows Liza Miller (Sutton Foster), a talented editor navigating the highly competitive world of publishing, while juggling the complications of mixing business with pleasure and facing the lie she created about her age to land her dream job.
Also, Paramount Plus will introduce the following comedy films in its first year:
Untitled Beavis & Butt-head Movie – Emmy Award-winning Mike Judge reimagines MTV’s seminal, Gen X-defining Beavis and Butt-Head who return for another movie adventure to kick-off the new series.
Workaholics Movie – made-for-streaming movie based off the popular long-running Comedy Central series starring Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm and Kyle Newacheck.
Music
New originals and reboots in the genre will include:
Behind the Music – the groundbreaking and prolific music documentary series returns with several new episodes and the best of the vault remastered and updated for today’s audiences with artist interviews, a creative refresh and reimagined visual style.
From Cradle to Stage – this new six-part, unscripted television series from director Dave Grohl was inspired by his mother, Virginia Hanlon Grohl, and based on her book From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars. The series is a dynamic personal exploration of the special relationship between successful musicians and their moms. Each episode features a famous performer and their mom as well as Dave and Virginia.
Unplugged – MTV’s most iconic musical performance franchise will come to Paramount Plus several times a year as special intimate MTV Unplugged events featuring some of the world’s biggest artists.
Yo! MTV Raps – MTV is bringing back its most storied hip-hop series and music franchise for Paramount Plus. The return of Yo! MTV Raps will include hosted segments, live performances, cyphers and lifestyle content, and will serve as a comprehensive deep dive into the current state of hip-hop. After its debut 33 years ago on Aug. 6, 1988, Yo! MTV Raps became the premiere destination for all things hip-hop. The advent of the series was crucial to the rise of rap music worldwide, creating a global passion for the genre and greater hip-hop culture, which has since become the most dominant force in mainstream music and pop culture worldwide.
CBS All Access continuing titles
Paramount Plus will continue to carry the torch of many of CBS All Access existing original shows, including:
No Activity – a half-hour police comedy, starring Patrick Brammall and Tim Meadows, which was previously a live-action series, will be completely animated for season four.
Star Trek: Discovery – the series, starring Sonequa Martin-Green, follows the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, สล็อต you must first understand yourself.
Star Trek: Lower Decks – a half-hour animated comedy series, focuses on the support crew on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the USS Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.
Star Trek: Picard – features Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation. The series follows this iconic character into the next chapter of his life.
Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News – a daily news satire series featuring a cast of animated characters, led by anchor James Smartwood, lampooning real-world news stories and interviewing live-action guests.
The Good Fight – the drama starring Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart follows her next chapter at one of Chicago’s preeminent African-American law firms. The wide-ranging topicality of the series captures the current sociopolitical era as the firm confronts real life issues of today.
Why Women Kill – a dark comedy created by Marc Cherry, is an anthology series that examines how the roles of women have changed over the decades, but how their reaction to betrayal… has not.
Sports
Paramount Plus will integrate the company’s 24-hour streaming sports news service, CBS Sports HQ, and it will stream more than 1,000 live sporting events per year, including:
The NFL on CBS, plus its long-running original series Inside the NFL
The Masters
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship
PGA Tour
SEC on CBS
The PGA Championship
National Women’s Soccer League
UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League – exclusive English-language coverage of every UEFA club competition match.
Concacaf – offering more than 200 Concacaf matches, starting with the Concacaf Nations League Finals in June, which will feature the US Men’s National Team. Coverage will feature all 41 national teams from North and Central America and the Caribbean across different competitions, including the qualifiers for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, which will feature the defending champion US Women’s National Team.
Liga Profesional de Fútbol – Paramount Plus will stream more than 300 matches a year from Argentina’s top soccer division.
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A – Paramount Plus will stream more than 360 matches a year from Brazil’s premier soccer league.
News
Paramount Plus will incorporate livestreams of local CBS affiliates in more than 200 markets across the US and its 24-hour streaming news service, CBSN. Its library will include episodes
It will widen with new original news titles including:
60 Minutes+ – a new version of the renowned newsmagazine and No. 1 news program in America. Award-winning correspondents Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane, Wes Lowery and Laurie Segall bring Paramount Plus viewers a new perspective on the investigative reporting and exclusive newsmaker interviews that have made 60 Minutes must-watch television for generations.
48 Hours original: The Lie Detector – a Texas Ranger who for decades led the department’s investigations into its most twisted and high-profile murder cases takes viewers behind the scenes of those crimes and into the minds of the people who committed them. The Lie Detector is a true crime docuseries from the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producers of 48 Hours in a new and compelling original format exclusively for Paramount Plus.
Documentaries
In addition to traditional-style documentaries listed below, Paramount Plus will create what it’s calling Insta Docs — shorter deep dives into a subject released within days of breaking news that commands national attention.
76 Days – a look at life in the earliest days of the COVID-19 crisis in Wuhan, China, the Oscar-shortlisted 76 Days focuses on frontline hospital workers and their patients, bearing witness to the human resilience that persists in times of profound tragedy.
Black Gold – from Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa and Emmy Award-winning Time Studios, this is a true-life conspiracy thriller about a decades-long campaign to trade our planet for profit.
For Heaven’s Sake – blends comedy and crime documentary formats for a unique take on uncovering the truth. The series follows the search for Harold Heaven, who mysteriously disappeared from his remote cabin in Ontario in the winter of 1934.
The Real Criminal Minds – a true-crime docu series, featuring a former real FBI profiler. The series will examine real cases, and real criminal behavior, illustrated by clips fans will remember from the fictional series.
Watergate – from MTV Entertainment Studios, this series will illuminate a moment in our history that parallels so much of what’s happening now.
Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In – tells the story of the legendary manager of Manchester United, and one of the most memorable figures in European football.
Stories from the Beautiful Game – an original soccer documentary series produced by Pete Radovich, the award-winning coordinating producer of CBS Sports’ UEFA coverage. Paramount Plus will release several soccer documentaries every year, starting later in 2021.
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