Paramount Australia & New Zealand

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ViacomCBS are currently in the process of getting rid of all underperforming and non-core assets … the assumption is that the 10 Network is one of those assets to be discarded so they would hardly be looking at throwing more good money after bad by buying the affiliate …

Maria Kyriacou the head of ViacomCBS UK, Australia and Israel doesn’t sound like she is preparing to jettison Ten from the company - Ten has been integrated with the rest of the company. This is a great interview, and she talks extensively about Australia.

ViacomCBS U.K., Australia Boss on Streaming, Originals, Diversity Focus

A comment Kyriacou makes seems to indicate that Pluto TV will be fully launched in Australia:

The change you will see over the course of the next 12 months is that move towards prioritizing streaming, whether that is Pluto TV, Paramount+ in Australia, My5 here in the U.K. That change for us is having that streaming mentality. So, increasingly, as you see our commissioning teams in the U.K. and Australia looking at shows for Paramount+, or acquisitions for Pluto, there’s going to be a lot more alignment, a lot more working together.

Currently what’s available in Australia is a massively cutdown version of Pluto.