Discovery will be on Paramount+ in Australia and other territories where it’s already launched. Where Paramount+ hasn’t yet launched, the series will be on Pluto TV.
Nothing to do with Netflix anymore, ViacomCBS has bought back the international streaming rights.
The latest trailer for Queen of the Universe has been released.
I think they could end up on free to air, given that before P+ the two most recent pandemic South Park specials were on 10 Shake.
Airing them once on Shake - where to be honest, not many people would notice, would hardly dent Subscribers for P+
Take your first point about the distribution of the program, but that doesn’t explain why they would’ve made the decision and announced that they would delay the latest season for outside the US if it wasn’t related to contractual issues - which I believe they’ve settled with their latest announcement.
What reason could they possibly have had to do that? You don’t launch an international streamer at great cost, announce that you’ve bought back the rights to an extremely popular show for territories outside the US only to then delay it by months. That just doesn’t make sense at all.
An easy way to bring Trekkie subscribers over to Paramount+. Take an existing fanbase and give them a reason to sign up, like how Amazon snapped up the Top Gear trio to make The Grand Tour. They only dealt with Netflix and Amazon because they didn’t have an international platform of their own.
But in any case, this deal feels extremely rushed. I wouldn’t be surprised if the resounding success of Lower Decks season 2 on a competing platform, and the launch of Prodigy lit a fire under the executives to quickly hash out a deal to take back control of Discovery.
A similar deal with Amazon for Lower Decks and Picard is probably being hashed out right now since Picard season 2 is on its way in only three months.
I think you’re missing the point here.
I get why P+ have taken Discovery back for their own platform, it’s a no brainer to have acquired that back from Netflix to drive subscriber growth for the fledging streamer.
What I’m saying however, is that there must have been some contractual reason why they (I’m guessing) were initially going to have to delay launching it on P+ in territories outside of the US, but that now seems to be resolved since they’re going ahead and launching from tomorrow.
I’m assuming that the backlash from fans worldwide prompted them to work out some arrangement where the show could be brought to them earlier.
There’s no way they would’ve put out the post the other day about how it’ll be delayed internationally, only to do a complete 360 in a matter of days if there wasn’t some contractual obligation they were fulfilling with Netflix which has now been resolved.
It’s pretty clear really, in any way it’s a win for fans.
Wonder if Trey and Matt will still be making South Park in their 60s. $900 million over the next 6 years !
They’d have to sign another deal for them to be doing into their 60s since both of them are only in their early 50s.
Quite a diverse range of new programming there from different sources. At a quick glance:
A Baby Reindeers First Christmas is a Channel 4 UK documentary, which aired at Christmas last year.
Paradise Lost is a Spectrum Original (US), co-produced by Paramount Television but was not renewed for a second season.
Housebroken is a Fox US show, distributed by 20th Television. It’s been renewed for a 2nd season.
Escape from Dannemora is a Showtimes limited series that previously aired on Stan.
Obviously The Good Fight airs on SBS first, so P+ had second airing rights down under. Wonder if they’ll try to get those back, it’s quite popular.
All crap.
Weird it’s not on Disney+.
Looks like they acquire from a variety of sources for international versions of P+
That’s very subjective.
Good Fight is amazing. 1883 should do well as a prequel to Yellowstone, I keep hearing about this show all the time so I’ll probably try watch that.
Queen of the Universe sounds good, will build on the already existing audience who enjoy Drag Race.
South Park and Rugrats will have their respective audiences, not my cup of tea but diversifies the content for other audiences.
The rest is a bit meh, but can’t fault them for working to increase their library and looking outside the ViacomCBS ecosystem for content.
Paramount decided to wait until P+ was launched in Europe, failing to realise the backlash they’d face. Guaranteed.
All Star Cast Voice Paramount+ Original Movie. Premiering Exclusively From Thursday, 16 December On Paramount+.
There are people who like monster movies. Others who like wrestling. And some who like both.
Premiering exclusively from Thursday, 16 December on Paramount+, comes Rumble , an entertaining and original animated family film that explores the world of monster wrestling and celebrates moving to your own groove and paving your own unique path to success.
Produced by Paramount Animation in association with WWE Studios, and with production companies, Reel FX and Walden Media, the film features an all-star voice cast, including Will Arnett, Geraldine Viswanathan, Terry Crews, Stephen A. Smith, Jimmy Tatro, Tony Danza, Susan Kelechi Watson, Tony Shalhoub, Bridget Everett, Greta Lee, Ben Schwartz, Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i, Becky Lynch, Michael Buffer and Charles Barkley.
In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, Rumble ’s teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.
Based on the graphic novel Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell, Rumble is directed by Hamish Grieve, screenplay by Hamish Grieve and Matt Lieberman and produced by Brad Booker and Mark Bakshi. Executive producers are Steve O’Brien, Chuck Peil, Frank Smith, Naia Cucukov, Jeff Fierson, Susan Levison and Richard Lowell.
Quick turnaround for season 3 of five bedrooms premiering one P+ on January 1.
Kinda seems like that since S2 premiered Aug 11 which they held that back for quite a while for the launch of P+, S3 was announced and commenced filming in August too and was slated for a summer release so looks like they’re going really early with Jan 1.
P+ International have lost their President of Streaming to rival Prime Video in a newly created role.
