Since the announcement Friday that Paramount has entered a merger agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, a lot has been written about the deal bringing together two major streaming platforms, HBO Max and Paramount+; two major film studios, Warner Bros. and Paramount; and two major TV studios, Warner Bros. Television and CBS Studios. The acquisition putting Wbd’s HBO and Paramount’s Showtime under the same corporate roof has gotten little or no attention.
That is because Showtime over the past several years has become a dramatically scaled down version of its former self. Illustrating how differently the fortunes of the two pay TV networks have been trending, as Wbd restored the “HBO” in streamer’s HBO Max’s name last May, Paramount a month later dropped “Showtime” from the name of its streamer’s highest subscription tier, which…
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