Showtime will officially shutter its standalone streaming carrier, the community launched Thursday.
The streamer, which first launched nine years ago, will be shut down at the extinguish of April, nearly a year after Showtime programming was constructed-in into the Paramount+ top class thought.
“Now that subscribers can win admission to their favourite Showtime programs on Paramount+ by subscribing to the Paramount+ with Showtime thought, the Showtime streaming carrier will shut down on April 30, 2024,” a witness despatched to subscribers confirmed. “Most up-to-date Showtime streaming subscribers will continue to possess win admission to to the Showtime streaming carrier till it’s shut down on April 30, 2024.”
Starting on May well per chance moreover 1, Showtime programming will greatest be accessible to circulate on Paramount+ with a Paramount+ with Showtime thought. The community’s slate at this time contains “A Gentleman in Moscow,” which stars Ewan McGregor, and “The Chi,” that can soon debut its sixth season, as wisely as “Fellow Travelers,” “The Curse,” “The Girl in the Wall,” “Billions” and “Yellowjackets.”
“This app will shut down on 4/30/2024,” the Showtime homepage reads. “Paramount+ is the fresh streaming house for Showtime. Compile the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME thought. Are trying 7 days free, then $11.ninety nine/month. Originate up at Paramountplus.com.”
The news comes over six months after Showtime Sports actions was launched to be shut down by the extinguish of 2024. Showtime Sports actions president Stephen Espinoza wisely-known at the time that Paramount World’s resolution to cut the division was no longer “a reflection of the work we’ve accomplished in fresh years, nor of our long and proud historical past.”
The Showtime streaming carrier first launched in July 2015, and kickstarted its integration into Paramount+ in June 2023, with the top class Paramount+ with Showtime costing $11.ninety nine monthly, up from the old rate of $9.ninety nine monthly. New episodes of contemporary Showtime sequence possess debuted on Paramount+ a couple days sooner than their linear Showtime debut.
The debut of the mixed offering launched appropriate months after HBO’s streaming carrier, HBO Max, rebranded to Max following the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
