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12-08-2025
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How CBS Studios & Paramount TV Studios Are Divvying Up Streaming Series Slate: From ‘Reacher' & ‘Cross' To ‘Murderbot' & ‘Clueless'
EXCLUSIVE: The new, post-Skydance merger Paramount has two major TV studio units: the existing CBS Studios, led by David Stapf and overseen by Paramount Chair of TV Media George Cheeks, and the newly formed Paramount TV Studios, headed by former Skydance TV President Matt Thunell and overseen by Dana Goldberg, Co-Chair of Paramount Pictures and Chair of Paramount Television. In an encouraging sign for their future interactions (and possible collaborations), on Day 1 of the two studios existing alongside each other when the Skydance acquisition closed August 7, they had already agreed on how to split the majority of overlapping existing series and projects in development. More from Deadline Revived Paramount TV Studios To Be Led By Matt Thunell; Will Absorb Taylor Sheridan Home MTVE, Showtime & Skydance TV; Keith Cox Staying On Skydance-Paramount Unveils Senior Leadership Team Across TV, Film & Streaming Alicia Silverstone Shares 'Clueless' Series Update: "Baby Stages" As Deadline reported last week, CBS Studios' primary focus will remain supplying the CBS broadcast network while still being able to do streaming series for Paramount+ and outside streamers when an opportunity presents itself, especially extensions of existing franchises like the NCIS: Tony & Ziva offshoot the studio has coming up on Paramount+. CBS Studios' shows for CBS include the NCIS and the Fire Country franchises as well as popular titles Matlock, Ghosts, Watson and daytime soap Beyond the Gates. Meanwhile, Paramount TV Studios, which combines the assets of Skydance Television and Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, will be focused predominantly on streaming series for Paramount+ but also for outside platforms. The delineation raised questions about the fate of streaming series — on-air and in development — that CBS Studios had inherited from PTVS' previous incarnation, which was shut down a year ago. Those included three shows that were originally co-productions between Skydance TV and PTVS and subsequently between Skydance TV and CBS Studios for the past year — Prime Video's flagship drama Reacher, renewed for Season 4; its upcoming spinoff ; as well as renewed for Season 2. Going forward, these series will be produced by the new PTVS as the single studio and be part of its slate that also includes Skydance TV's Foundation for Apple TV+, as well as Showtime/MTVE's Dexter: Resurrection, Emily in Paris and the Taylor Sheridan universe on Paramount+. Meanwhile, two streaming series originally developed by the former PTVS that CBS Studios took over after the former's demise — Apple TV+'s Murderbot, renewed for Season 2, and the upcoming Little House On the Prairie for Netflix — will remain at CBS Studios, as will CBS Studios' homegrown streaming projects including the Star Trek universe on Paramount+. There is also a general agreement on the development of the now-defunct PTVS, which had moved to CBS Studios. The majority of the slate, dominated by Paramount Pictures IP, will revert back to PTVS, which will develop series based on Paramount film titles moving forward, along with shows based on IP from the library of Miramax, 49% owned by Paramount. There are a handful of exceptions; projects in active development to which CBS Studios has attached talent including and Flashdance, will stay put. CBS Studios also is keeping the Clueless sequel series with Alicia Silverstone, which is in the works at Peacock. While Clueless is a Paramount movie title, CBS Studios had been working on cracking the IP for TV over the past seven years or so, going through multiple incarnations. Additionally, CBS Studios will continue with international co-productions, which includes titles such as the upcoming King & Conqueror for the BBC, and Colin From Accounts for Binge/Paramount+. While PTVS is designed to be a streaming player, it has the ability to produce occasional broadcast shows like the upcoming CBS drama series Y: Marshals and reality series , which will stay with the new label. The Yellowstone spinoff and the music competition series come from Sheridan and David Glasser's 101 Studios. The duo's streaming-dominated slates, which are shifting from MTVE Studios, where Sheridan's overall deal was set, to the new PTVS, include the Yellowstone universe and shows like Tulsa King, Landman and MobLand. With the basic parameters of CBS Studios and PTVS' current slates and programming focus established, conversations among Goldberg, Thunell, Cheeks and Stapf continue as the CBS Studios and PTVS teams are holding meetings across studios to work out the details. Best of Deadline The Best 7 New Movies On Netflix In August Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds A Full Timeline Of Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni's 'It Ends With Us' Feud In Court, Online & In The Media
Yahoo
09-08-2025
- Entertainment
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Paramount TV Studios Reborn Under Skydance, One Year After Shutting Down
A year ago, Paramount Television Studios was shuttered in a cost-cutting move as its parent company prepared to merge with Skydance. With that deal on the verge of closing, the new Paramount is reviving the Paramount TV Studios name — which will in turn absorb one of the company's two remaining studio operations as well as the formerly independent Skydance Television. More from The Hollywood Reporter David Ellison Sets His Team: These Are the People Who Will Run the New Paramount 'The Naked Gun': What the Critics Are Saying Samantha Bee Laments 'Late Show' Cancellation: "It's Awful" Skydance TV president Matt Thunell is set to lead Paramount TV Studios, reporting to Dana Goldberg, the newly named co-chair of Paramount Pictures (with Josh Greenstein) and chair of Paramount Television. Reps for Skydance and Paramount hadn't returned a request for comment as of publication time. The reconstituted Paramount TV Studios will house productions currently under Showtime/MTV Entertainment, the home of prolific creator Taylor Sheridan (the Yellowstone-verse, Landman et al), key Showtime series like the Dexter franchise and Yellowjackets, and Netflix's Emily in Paris, among others. It will also be home to Skydance productions including Prime Video's Reacher and Cross — which were co-productions with the former Paramount TV Studios. Paramount announced in August 2024 that PTVS, then led by Nicole Clemens, would shut down. Its productions — including the aforementioned Reacher and Cross and Apple TV+'s Murderbot — moved to CBS Studios. The shutdown was part of a wave of cost-cutting moves, which included hundreds of layoffs, in the year-plus leading up to the merger, which is set to formally close on Aug. 7. Former Paramount co-CEO Chris McCarthy previously headed Showtime/MTV Entertainment but will not remain with the merged company after the deal closes. Keith Cox, head of scripted at Showtime/MTV Entertainment, is expected to stay on; Cox has a long working relationship with Sheridan and David C. Glasser, the head of 101 Studios which co-produces Sheridan's shows and Showtime's The Agency. Thunell became president of Skydance TV in late 2022 after nearly eight years at Netflix, where he oversaw development and production of series in the U.S. and Canada. Former Paramount co-CEO George Cheeks will have CBS Studios in his portfolio as the merged company's chair of TV media, which also includes the CBS network and the company's cable channels. Deadline first reported the news. Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire Solve the daily Crossword
