Later this year, Paramount Plus and Showtime will join forces to bring a new streaming platform to the US: the not-so-creative Paramount Plus with Showtime. Unfortunately, when combined, existing Paramount Plus subscribers will see their monthly bill increase.
If you sign up in the US, the monthly cost of Paramount Plus will be reduced from €XNUMX per month to €XNUMX per month for the combined service, according to comments on the recent earnings call of the fourth quarter of two thousand and twenty-two from Paramount (opens in a new tab).
Perhaps most upsetting, though, is the news that Paramount Plus's Essential tier, which won't include access to new Showtime content, is dropping from $XNUMX to $XNUMX per month. So if you're already a Paramount Plus subscriber at any of the levels, you're going to see your bill go up in the third quarter of XNUMX (ie July-Sept), due to the fact that that's the launch date. vague that the company gave for Paramount Plus with Showtime.
While we expected Paramount Plus to hike the price post-merger, it's disappointing, especially after the recent news that Showtime recently canceled a batch of shows and movies, including Let The Right One. In, American Gigolo, and On Becoming a. God in Central Florida.
Those of you who don't want to pay more to see the best shows on Paramount Plus may want to consider trying one of the other major streaming services, but keep in mind that other services get worse as well; In particular, Netflix is further tightening Netflix password sharing and introducing its rules for paid password sharing in new areas.
If you subscribe to Paramount Plus from outside the US, you should be safe from the next price hike, but we advise you to keep an eye out, as we expect the cost of the service to increase everywhere soon. During its earnings call, Paramount announced that its broadcast losses had risen to €XNUMX million from €XNUMX million in the fourth quarter of XNUMX, and we expect it to look to reduce those losses by producing more revenue.