Paramount Prime

Paramount Prime is an American video-on-demand subscription streaming service owned by Paramount Global's streaming division. The streaming service features content from Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Miramax, Star Trek, and CBS Entertainment Group. Paramount Prime will also serve as Paramount Global's family-oriented service and present content similar to Disney+.

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 12, 2023 in the United States and Canada, followed by Australia and New Zealand on November 7, 2023. Paramount Prime is also bundled with Paramount+, BET+, and Showtime.

Content
The service is centered around Paramount Global's entertainment studios: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television Studios, 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, consisting of I Love Lucy; The Honeymooners; The Andy Griffith Show; Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), and selected films from its film subsidiary CBS Films (mainly Extraordinary Measures, The DUFF, and Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life). Akin to Disney+, Paramount Prime will not carry any content from Comedy Central, MTV, and VH1 due to their mature content and omits any R-rated and TV-MA-rated content on Paramount and CBS' behalves to focus on "family-oriented" content, as its sister service Paramount+ will handle those networks; Paramount Prime will also host as Paramount+'s add-on service, Paramount Prime will also be bundled with Paramount+, Showtime and BET+.

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 Pictures, Nickelodeon, and CBS, as well as select television series from Paramount Television Studios and CBS Media Ventures. Nickelodeon Movies' fully computer-animated films (excluding The Adventures of Tintin) as well as the television series and other follow-up media associated with said films will be exclusive to Paramount Prime, while PAW Patrol and its film series will be shared with between Paramount Prime and Paramount+. 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, as well as its prequels Enterprise and Discovery. Aside from the films featured on the service and released by Paramount Pictures and CBS Films, there are a few selected titles released by DreamWorks Pictures (Mouse Hunt, Paulie, Small Soldiers, Galaxy Quest, Evolution, The Tuxedo, and Dreamer), Dimension Films (the first three Spy Kids films, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, and The Brothers Grimm), and Miramax (She's All That, Serendipity, Chicago, Hero, Ella Enchanted, and Doubt) due to Paramount owning the rights to DreamWorks Pictures' pre-2010 library and Dimension Films' pre-2005 library and co-owning of Miramax. Three Paramount films which were co-distributed by Columbia Pictures, such as D.A.R.Y.L.; The Indian in the Cupboard; and The Longest Yard, were added.

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 the two 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. 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 content consists of spin-offs and/or continuations. Its first original series made for launch were Amy Rose, a spin-off series to the Sonic the Hedgehog film series; The Adventurous Tales of Sherlock Gnomes, a prequel to Sherlock Gnomes; Adventures in Wonderland, a follow-up series to Wonder Park; and Land of Liberty, a prequel to PAW Patrol: The Movie, while its first original films were Middle School: Save Rafe and Betty Boop's Return to Fame.

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.