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CBS All Access is no more and in its place has emerged Paramount+, the latest service to vault into the streaming fray as a paid subscription offering. But Paramount+ also arrives at a tough time for smaller services, which are competing whether they admit it or not against much larger giants like Disney+ and Netflix. So, where does Paramount+ fit in, and is it worth it?
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That likely depends on the individual viewer’s perception of value, which is in many ways the same question to be asked of all paid content services. But especially with regard to Paramount+, it’s entering a space that’s already jam-packed with services that meet just about every niche interest. It also decided to launch without a free ad-supported tier, which could have helped lure unsure subscribers and which NBCUniversal executives opted to include with rival service Peacock at launch. For existing CBS All Access customers perhaps cordcutting fans of CBS broadcast p
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Good news for Roku users (or, at least, Roku users desperate to get a taste of those delicious
Real Criminal Minds): The streaming hardware company has announced that, for once, you’re not going to have to wait around for months for licensing deals to get nailed down in order to have access to the vast bounty of content (?) available from brand-new-but-also-kind-of-brand-old streaming service Paramount Plus on the company’s boxes. Rather, the re-branded CBS All Access will be available on the first day of its availability, and also for many negative first days before that because, again, this is pretty much just the old CBS All Access with a bunch of new labels stuck everywhere.
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Mar 04, 2021
Paramount+: Everything To Know About The Newest Streaming Service
CBS All Access is now Paramount+, which hosts an extensive slate of original content including scripted series, franchise expansions and animated titles.
Not ready for another streaming service? Well, sorry.
“The mountain of entertainment” that would be Paramount+ first hit the masses during a Super Bowl LV commercial last month. You know, the one where Sir Patrick Stewart hosted an array of ViacomCBS talent ― including late-night hosts Stephen Colbert, James Corden and Trevor Noah, animated characters Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants and Beavis and Butt-Head, and “CBS This Morning’s” Gayle King ― atop the snowy Paramount Pictures mountain to celebrate their new streaming home.
CBS All Access is getting a major rebranding and becoming Paramount+. Here s how you can change from one service to the other and access all the new content.
The Real World Homecoming: New York Reunion Starts Polite: TV Review
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In 1992, MTV premiered a documentary series about seven young adults they’d cast to share a loft in New York City and who, as the intro promised, would “have their lives taped to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.” They wouldn’t compete in games for control of the apartment; they weren’t forbidden from leaving it; they weren’t shut in with their partners to work on their relationships; no one would get voted out at the end of each episode. None of the usual reality formats applied because there weren’t any; “The Real World” was the first exemplar of a new genre that would, over that decade, continue to grow until it eventually dominated the TV landscape for most of the ’00s (and continues to crowd out all other programming on MTV to this day). If we had no idea then what impact