A new streaming service will be arriving in the UK this summer and will bring more than 50 new international original shows.
Paramount+ is announced to be coming to UK audiences as part of a string of announcements by ViacomCBS, following an investor day meeting on Tuesday (February 16).
The company announced that ViacomCNS will be rebranded to Paramount.
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Listing new content and changes arriving this year, Paramount tweeted: “This summer, #ParamountPlus will come to the UK, bringing all of our shows and movies to British audiences!”
Paramount also announced that from 2024, all its feature films will be moved to the streaming services after their theatrical runs.
Some of the top blockbusters arriving include Top Gun: Maverick; The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, and the heavily delayed Mission: Impossible 7.
The company also announced that the third instalment of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place is scheduled for 2025, following the huge success of the sequel in 2021.
The film is likely to see Krasinski’s wife Emily Blunt reprise her role as a mother desperate to protect her family as blind creatures with extremely sensitive hearing run rampage.
The announcement means that Paramount+ will be the newest competitor in the UK streaming space which includes the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ - all of which have been slowly increasing prices.
Paramount+ is already available in the US and offers content such as Yellowstone spin-off 1883, starring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, and upcoming series The Offer, about the making of The Godfather, starring Miles Teller, Juno Temple, Matthew Goode and Giovanni Ribisi.
Among a raft of announcements of new series is the new Star Trek show Strange New Worlds, starring Anson Mount as Captain Pike; Rabbit Hole, a psychological thriller starring Kiefer Sutherland; and an update to Fatal Attraction starring Lizzy Caplan and Joshua Jackson.
The company also announced Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies, a musical prequel to the classic film, updated with new music and choreography.
It will also premiere a new Beavis and Butt-Head movie, followed by new episodes of the animated series, while South Park will premiere two events on Paramount+ each year for the next six years and all episodes will be exclusive to the service internationally this year and in the US in 2025.
