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On 2/20/2024 at 9:59 PM, Macklemore said:

With my DirecTV satellite package, I get Paramount+ for free since the end of January with my Showtime subscription since they’ve rebranded the channel to Paramount+/Showtime.

Cool story bro.

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Chris Farley GIF by Leroy Patterson

 

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/paramount-television-studios-shut-down-cost-cuts-1236105340/

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Paramount Television Studios, a production facility originally aimed at getting Paramount Pictures back into the business of making TV series, will shut down, the latest bout of cost cutting by parent corporation Paramount Global as it seeks to eliminate $500 million amid a chaotic shift in the entertainment industry.

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“This has been a challenging and transformative time for the entire industry, and sadly, our studio is not immune,” said Nicole Clemens, president of the unit, which debuted in 2013, in a memo to staffers. “Over the past 11 years, she said, the studio “has weathered seemingly insurmountable obstacles through a combination of strength, determination, and unwavering commitment. We met these challenges with incredible resilience, creativity, and passion for what we do, and I could not be prouder of our team. We’ve also had the privilege to collaborate with some of the most brilliant creative talent in the industry to help tell incredible stories seen around the world, entertaining and shaping culture.”

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All current series and development projects made under the Paramount Television Studios umbrella will move to CBS Studios. 

Paramount Television marked the second time Paramount Pictures tried to move into the TV business — separate from the storied shingle that was built on the Desilu production studio founded by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. That studio, which backed such TV treasures as “I Love Lucy” and “Star Trek,” eventually became the center of Paramount Studios after an acquisition by Gulf + Western, and would be inherited by CBS after its split from the company formerly known as Viacom Inc. in 2005.

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Under its aegis, the company produced “The Offer,” an insider tale of the making of the landmark movie, for Paramount+; and series based on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character for Amazon Prime Video. Other series it produced include “The Spiderwick Chronicles for Roku and a revival of the Terry Gilliam movie “Time Bandits” that is now a series on Apple’s streaming service.

 

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If you’ve missed Texas 6 about 6 man ball in Strawn I suggest you binge it. An excellent sports doc that also gets into the challenges of Texas small towns and the kids growing up in them. In a few years they’ll have to play 3 man football.

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3 hours ago, MrBig said:

Is anyone watching Paramount+? I have a free trial and I watched some old episodes of the MTV Challenges and my wife likes watching the DCC Cheerleaders show but other than that I’m not seeing anything worth keeping after the free trial. 

yep i subscribe for champions league and serie a

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ABC/espn should pick up the champions league given that they were great at broadcasting soccer and have mostly irrelevant content now outside of a few good matches in La Liga, Bundesliga, English cup games, and  championship rows (ok these are usually bangers!)

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4 hours ago, MrBig said:

Is anyone watching Paramount+? I have a free trial and I watched some old episodes of the MTV Challenges and my wife likes watching the DCC Cheerleaders show but other than that I’m not seeing anything worth keeping after the free trial. 

Paw Patrol and Spongebob Squarepants for my kids.

Star Trek for me.

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14 hours ago, MrBig said:

Is anyone watching Paramount+? I have a free trial and I watched some old episodes of the MTV Challenges and my wife likes watching the DCC Cheerleaders show but other than that I’m not seeing anything worth keeping after the free trial. 

SEAL Team is a guilty pleasure for me.  Although the Paramount + platform is very shittily designed, yuge lag time.

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I got it for Tulsa King. Pretty sure we cancelled it. The Hulu/Disney/espn+ bundle works well enough for me. Watch Netflix less but can’t get myself to cancel. My in laws finally cancelled their DirectTV so I can’t use their login for sports anymore. Added Hulu Live TV for the Olympics and will probably keep it through football season.

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1 hour ago, RPM said:

Pluto is a free app from Paramount. It has all the Paramount content and more. 

We often leave it on the Addams Family channel when doing other things around the house. I'll leave it on MST3k but the wife hates it so it's not on that when she's here.

 

I would leave it on one of the Star Trek channels, but I haven't watched every episode yet so I don't want to see something I haven't seen yet out of order.

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3 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

I would leave it on one of the Star Trek channels, but I haven't watched every episode yet so I don't want to see something I haven't seen yet out of order.

Yeah, you have to be careful when they randomly show episodes

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It would be jarring to learn out-of-context that Kirk is Spock's son.

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I guess this is the right thread for this.

Paramount to Lay Off 2,000 Employees
The job cuts are the result of a merger with Skydance, the Hollywood studio founded by David Ellison.

Paramount on Wednesday began laying off more than 2,000 employees, a long-awaited consequence of its merger with the Hollywood studio Skydance.

The cuts, announced internally by David Ellison, Paramount’s chief executive, will initially include roughly 1,000 employees in the United States across many divisions, including CBS News, the Paramount film studio and cable networks like MTV, Nickelodeon and BET. The rest of the cuts, some of which will affect Paramount’s international employees, will come later.

Overall, Paramount is planning to cut roughly 10 percent of the combined company.

In a memo to employees Wednesday, Mr. Ellison said that the cuts were focused on eliminating redundant jobs or phasing out positions not in keeping with Paramount’s evolving priorities.

“These decisions are never made lightly, especially given their effect on our colleagues who have made meaningful contributions to the company,” Mr. Ellison said in the memo.

Paramount employees, who have been subjected to near-annual corporate reorganizations, have been bracing for layoffs for months. When Skydance announced its merger with Paramount last year, the company said it was looking for $2 billion in synergies, Wall Street argot for cost-cutting.

Mr. Ellison signaled earlier this year that major changes were coming. In September, he sent a memo telling employees they would be expected to return to the office five days a week in the coming months. Employees unwilling or unable to return to the office would be eligible for a severance package, he said.

Some of Paramount’s most senior employees have already announced their departures as the layoffs have drawn near. Pam Kaufman, the head of Paramount’s international business, told employees in September she was leaving after more than a quarter-century. Chris Aronson, the president of U.S. distribution for Paramount Pictures, said this month that he would be departing in December.

Successive waves of layoffs have become the new normal in Hollywood as executives merge companies and try to wring out billions in costs after those deals close. The specter of further cuts has been the talk of Hollywood in recent days as Mr. Ellison plans a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN, HBO and the Warner Bros. film studio.

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