After months of build-up, Paramount+ will launch in Australia from Wednesday 11 August. The new platform will be a rebrand of the existing 10 All Access streaming service in Australia – 10 Play, also owned by ViacomCBS, will remain free.
Paramount+ has partnership deals with brands that include Showtime, BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Smithsonian Channel, Sony Pictures Television and, Paramount Pictures.
Paramount+ will be available for $8.99 a month with sport included, with a seven-day free trial and streamed in high definition.
“In today’s entertainment landscape, ViacomCBS stands apart as the only media company to fully embrace every segment of the streaming universe across free, premium and pay,” said Bob Bakish, President and chief executive officer, ViacomCBS, at the Streaming Event presentation earlier this year.
“The launch of Paramount+ supercharges our strategy with a broad pay service that will be home to everything consumers love, all in one place: live sports, breaking news and a mountain of entertainment, at scale. As we look ahead, ViacomCBS is ideally positioned to harness the full power of our assets and capabilities – from our world-class production studios and the value of our massive content library, to our global marketing platform and local relationships – to seize the global opportunity in streaming.”
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What to Watch
Spotlight shows include Aussie drama Five Bedrooms, feature film Infinite, and revival sitcom iCarly.
Finding a new home on Paramount+ are new and exclusive series including, Two Weeks To Live, Leonardo, Anne Boleyn, Coyote, The Bite, Everyone Is Doing Great, Monsterland, Flatbush Misdemeanours, Cinema Toast, Nancy Drew and Evil, In The Dark, as well as premiere kids’ content Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years and Rugrats. And with the highly anticipated new season of Dexter: New Blood coming to Paramount+ in spring, you can catch up on all the previous Dexter seasons on Paramount+.
Tooning Out The News, Rhys Darby: Big In Japan, Ziwe and new episodes of The Late Late Show With James Corden and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, will keep you chuckling, as well as every episode of South Park, and every episode of The Big Bang Theory.
Plus, there will be blockbuster and classic films including A Quiet Place, Harry Potter, Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, Anchorman, Batman, Lord of the Rings, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and The Hangover, to name a few.
If it’s football action you want, then Paramount+ is kicking all the goals. From October you can catch all the clashes from the A-League and W-League, plus live extensive coverage of all the Matildas, Socceroos and FFA Cup matches.
Joining over 20,000 hours of episodes and movies throughout the year, are a host of Australian originals including Spreadsheet, 6 Festivals and Last King Of The Cross.
Five Bedrooms season two is one of the Paramount+ Australian originals
Broad Distribution
At launch, Paramount+ will be available online, via the Paramount+ app for iOS and Android, and across a wide number of platforms, including smart TVs, connected-TV devices, online, mobile, gaming consoles, and leading OTT providers.
Slate of Upcoming Paramount+ Original Series:
Scripted Dramas
Criminal Minds
Flashdance
Halo
Land Man
Love Story
Mayor of Kingstown
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
The Italian Job
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Offer
The Parallax View
Y:1883
Kids and Family
Avatar Studios
Dora the Explorer (live action)
iCarly (new episodes)
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years
Rugrats
Star Trek: Prodigy
The Fairly OddParents (live action)
Reality
Big Brother Live Feeds
Dating Naked
Ink Master
Love Island on Paramount+
Queen of the Universe
Road Rules
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
The Challenge: All Stars
The Real World: Homecoming: New York
Comedy
Frasier
Grease: The Rise of the Pink Ladies
Guilty Party
Inside Amy Schumer
Reno 911! The Hunt For QAnon
The Game
The Harper House
Younger
Untitled Beavis & Butt-head Movie
Workaholics Movie
Music
Behind the Music
From Cradle to Stage
Unplugged
Yo! MTV Raps
CBS All Access Originals to Continue as Paramount+ Originals
No Activity
Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: Picard
Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News
The Good Fight
Why Women Kill