To Boldly Go Where All Have Gone Before: ViacomCBS Bets On Star Trek To Lanch Paramount+

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ViacomCBS is bringing two new ‘Star Trek’ series to its rebranded streaming service. It will need a lot more than Trekkies

The media giant is bringing two new ‘Star Trek’ series to its rebranded streaming service. It will need a lot more than Trekkies.

ViacomCBS Chair Shari Redstone is now betting she can “super size” the flagging brand by leveraging the decades oldalong with other fan-favorite franchises, as the cornerstone of a service recrafted and renamed Paramount+. Paramount+ brings together ViacomCBS’ strongest TV brands — Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, CBS, BET and Smithsonian — under one tent. It debuts March 4 with more than 30,000 television episodes, 2,500 movies, around-the-clock news and more than 1,000 live sporting events, a collection ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish referred to as a “mountain of content,” in reference to the Paramount’s iconic, star encircled logo.

 

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ParamountPlus won’t come close to netflix or disneyplus subscriber numbers as they are worldwide and paramount plus is only North America.

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PlutoTV is a disaster of a website The thing constantly crashes And it is riddles w/ loopholes that hackers can exploit to hack into viewers systems.... ViacomCBS is one of the most poorly ran television networks in the country the Beverly Hillbillies could have done better

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