Says more about Parmpunt than the Duffer brothers. They’re desperate to get more people subscribing to paramount plus.
Aside from lots of legacy stuff, the only new stuff they have really offered is Star Trek and of that only really Strange New Worlds has done well and been an original for the service. Discovery faded and was on other services, and similar for other new star trek shows.
Paramounts TV biggest hit of recent years, Yellowstone, is on peacock. Meanwhile paramount plus’ big shows is largely old legacy stuff (Frasier, Cheers etc). CBS isn’t providing them with a compelling roster of shows to build a global streaming service. And I’m in the UK and the few CBS shows that have even vaguely done well globally aren’t even on paramount plus - Matlock for example was sold to rival Sky TV.
But they’ve signed a $1.5bn deal to bring South Park to paramount plus globally (which they had to bid for against other companies as they don’t have exclusive rights to sell the show which in part belongs to Matt Stone and Trey Parker even though they part own it).
It makes sense they’re also trying to get other new content onto the service. At the moment they’re an also ran in the streaming wars. Although tbh Netflix has already won the streaming wars and everyone else is just vying for second place.
Says more about Parmpunt than the Duffer brothers. They’re desperate to get more people subscribing to paramount plus.
Aside from lots of legacy stuff, the only new stuff they have really offered is Star Trek and of that only really Strange New Worlds has done well and been an original for the service. Discovery faded and was on other services, and similar for other new star trek shows.
Paramounts TV biggest hit of recent years, Yellowstone, is on peacock. Meanwhile paramount plus’ big shows is largely old legacy stuff (Frasier, Cheers etc). CBS isn’t providing them with a compelling roster of shows to build a global streaming service. And I’m in the UK and the few CBS shows that have even vaguely done well globally aren’t even on paramount plus - Matlock for example was sold to rival Sky TV.
But they’ve signed a $1.5bn deal to bring South Park to paramount plus globally (which they had to bid for against other companies as they don’t have exclusive rights to sell the show which in part belongs to Matt Stone and Trey Parker even though they part own it).
It makes sense they’re also trying to get other new content onto the service. At the moment they’re an also ran in the streaming wars. Although tbh Netflix has already won the streaming wars and everyone else is just vying for second place.