ViacomCBS teams up with Sky to bring Paramount+ to the UK and Europe

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(Pocket-lint) - There are several streaming services disposable successful the US that aren't disposable successful the UK and Europe owed to pre-existing licensing deals and different obstacles. But, starting successful 2022, you tin transverse Paramount+ disconnected that list.

ViacomCBS has inked a woody with Sky to motorboat Paramount+ successful the UK, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Switzerland sometime adjacent year. Although details connected pricing and immoderate imaginable contented differences weren't yet announced, the duo did uncover however you'll beryllium capable to entree Paramount+.

As portion of their deal, ViacomCBS' streaming work volition beryllium disposable connected Sky platforms (plus Sky volition proceed to transportation ViacomCBS pay-TV channels specified arsenic Comedy Central). A nonstop subscription to Paramount+ - arsenic good arsenic assorted bundles - is each portion of the plan, though details are bladed now. Sky Cinema subscribers volition get Paramount+ astatine nary other cost, apparently, but different Sky customers volition person to adhd it to their accounts.

Keep successful caput Paramount+ is already disposable successful the US, Australia, Hungary, Russia, and the Middle East. But coming to Europe is evidently a large marketplace expansion, 1 that mightiness marque Paramount+ much of a rival to Disney+, Netflix, oregon Prime Video. Might being the cardinal connection there.

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Paramount+ is simply a rebranding of CBS All Access, a unrecorded TV subscription work that CBS launched successful 2014. It offers properties from the combined ViacomCBS network, including Paramount, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, and Comedy Central. For much astir Paramount+, spot our guide:

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 6 August 2021.

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