Paramount Prime

Paramount Prime is an American video-on-demand subscription streaming service owned by ViacomCBS. The streaming service features content from Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, Star Trek, and CBS Entertainment Group. Paramount Prime will also serve as ViacomCBS' family-oriented service.

It primarily distributes films by Paramount Pictures and television series by Paramount Television Studios and CBS Media Ventures in particular. The service was released on September 27, 2022 in the United States and Canada, followed by Australia and New Zealand on November 8, 2022.

Similar to Disney+ and HBO Max, it also presents original film and series; while the original films are produced by Paramount.

Content
The service is centered around ViacomCBS' entertainment studios: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television Studios, Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Nickelodeon Productions, Nickelodeon Movies (only consisting of its fully computer-animated film library), and select content from CBS Entertainment; mainly consisting of the Star Trek franchise, along with a few suitable programs from its pre-split with the original Viacom; those include I Love Lucy, The Andy Griffith Show, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), Open House, and selected films from its film subsidiary CBS Films. The service will not carry any content from ViacomCBS' other companies Comedy Central, MTV, or VH1, due to their mature content; as its sister service Paramount+ will handle those networks. The service also omits any R-rated and TV-MA-rated content on Paramount and CBS' behalfs to focus on "family-oriented" content. Paramount+ will host as Paramount Prime's add-on service.

The service not only excludes mature content from itself, but also original content from Paramount+ (such as Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Lower Decks) and content from Netflix (such as Pinky Malinky and Glitch Techs) to distance itself as its own streaming service.

Content library
Paramount Prime will have content from Paramount, Nickelodeon, and CBS, as well as select television series from Paramount Television Studios and CBS Media Ventures. However, the entirety of Nickelodeon Movies' traditionally-animated and live-action films will be available on Paramount+; making their fully computer-animated films (excluding The Adventures of Tintin) exclusive to Paramount Prime. This was also the case for Nick Jr., with it remaining on Pluto TV. Star Trek: The Original Series, its follow-up animated series and six-film saga are featured exclusively on Paramount Prime; the service excludes its sequel series The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Picard, and prequels Enterprise and Discovery. Aside from the films featured on the service released by Paramount Pictures and CBS Films, there are a few selected titles released by DreamWorks Pictures (Mouse Hunt, Paulie, and Small Soldiers) and Dimension Films (the first three Spy Kids films and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl) due to Paramount owning the rights to the DreamWorks Pictures' pre-2010 library, and Dimension Films' pre-2005 library. Three Paramount films added which were both co-distributed by Columbia Pictures; those being D.A.R.Y.L., The Indian in the Cupboard and The Longest Yard.

Half of the Indiana Jones franchise is featured exclusively on the streaming service since Paramount retained the distribution rights to the first four films and television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. This also included two of Peanuts' films Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!), which were both distributed by Paramount as well. The service was also able to include the first four seasons of the 1991 animated series Doug, which were made before The Walt Disney Company had bought the rights in 1996; while the last three seasons are available on Disney+. Unfortunately, Paramount's 2006 to 2012 library of the 14 films it has distributed for DreamWorks Animation is not available due to the distribution rights having been transferred to Universal Pictures since 2018.

Original content
Its list of original content is mainly based on Paramount-based franchises, while most of Nickelodeon's franchises are spin-offs to its original series (Tails from Princess Mindy) and/or continuations based on the film division's fully computer-animated films (Rango: Tails of the West). Its first original series made for launch was Tails, an interquel series during the events of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Device support
Paramount Prime will be available on various technology devices such as Apple iOS, Apple TV, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows 10.

Service features
Content is able to stream up to 4K resolution with with either Dolby Vision, HDR, Dolby Audio, or Dolby Atmos for picture and sound support. The service also includes subtitles and closed captioning, along with dubbed languages French; Spanish; and Portuguese, and audio description.

Poll
Do you think Paramount Prime should exist as a streaming service? Definitely so. Absolutely not! Eh, I don't know. I'll stick with CBS All Access.