Tom Ryan ViacomCBS
A huge component of Paramount+ in the US will be the sports events it will air over a thousand per year. From the NFL -which will be essential for the service’s growth-, to college soccer and basketball, among others.
“Additionally, we are doubling our efforts in soccer, which is growing rapidly in the US and it is also aired all year,” highlighted George Cheeks, president, and CEO of CBS Entertainment Group. Paramount + will be the exclusive home in English in the US of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europe League, and UEFA Europe Conference League. They will also have the National Female Soccer League.
“Built from an iconic portfolio of beloved consumption brands and iconic franchises such as Sponge Bob and Star Trek, Paramount + offers a convincing streaming offer differentiated for all the audiences. In combination with Pluto TV and Showtime, the service will strengthen our solid linked streaming ecosystem, offering a critical competitive advantage while we pursue our goal to reach consumers on all the platforms, at all the prices, with unparalleled creativity, content, and experiences,” said Tom Ryan, president, and CEO of ViacomCBS Streaming, who founded seven years ago the company’s AVOD service Pluto TV.
In movies, Paramount + will launch films such as A Quiet Place 2, Paw Patrol: The Movie and Mission Impossible 7, 30 to 45 days after their debut in movie theaters.
In original scripted dramas, there will be series like the return of Criminal Minds in a format of 10 episodes per case, Flashdance and Halo, based on the famous Xbox videogame; in children’s and youth’s programming there will be a new iCarly series with the same characters, ten years older, Avatar (produced by the new animation seal Avatar Studios), a live-action series of Dora the Explorer, the first spin-off of Sponge Bob, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, among others.
