{"id":11213,"date":"2025-06-24T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/11213\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:50:08","slug":"paramount-plus-with-showtime-renamed-paramount-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/11213\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Plus With Showtime Renamed ‘Paramount+ Premium’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tParamount Global has quietly erased Showtime<\/a> from the name of its top-tier streaming package.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn June 23, Paramount informed subscribers that the name of its ad-free plan is no longer Paramount+ With Showtime \u2014 instead, it\u2019s now called Paramount+ Premium. The pricing of the package remains the same: It still costs $12.99 per month or $119.99 per year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two packages now offered by the company are Paramount+ Premium, which does not have ads except in the bundled live local CBS feeds; and Paramount+ Essential with ads ($7.99 per month or $59.99 per year).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company rebranded the ad-free package as Paramount+ With Showtime in the summer of 2023<\/a>, and said it would eventually phase out the stand-alone Showtime streamer (which shut down in April 2024<\/a>). Now, after two years, the company is dropping the Showtime name from Paramount+.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSince we recently introduced a sampling of Showtime programming to the Essential plan, the Premium plan name reflects the broad and diverse offerings across both plan tiers,\u201d the company said in a notice on its customer-support site<\/a> about the name change. \u201cShowtime programming remains an important part of Paramount+, and is still prominently represented on the service!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount+ Premium offers the full lineup of Showtime original programming including \u201cDexter: Original Sin,\u201d \u201cYellowjackets\u201d and \u201cThe Chi.\u201d In addition, the service includes the live Showtime East and West linear feeds, as well as livestreams of CBS News 24\/7, CBS Sports HQ and Mixible news and pop culture.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe name change comes as rival Warner Bros. Discovery has gone back in the other direction: It\u2019s going to reattach the HBO name to its flagship Max streamer, which will this summer become HBO Max again<\/a>. WBD\u2019s decision to switch back to HBO Max<\/a> is to signal its \u201cfocus on what makes us unique \u2014 not everything for everyone in a household, but something distinct and great for adults and families,\u201d according to JB Perrette, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO of streaming and games.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, in what may potentially cause some confusion, the name of the Paramount+ With Showtime linear TV network on cable, satellite and internet TV streaming services<\/a> (like Hulu with Live TV) will not be changing, according to Paramount.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount said that depending on a customer\u2019s device, they \u201cmay not see the plan name change immediately. But rest assured, if you sign up for the Premium plan while it\u2019s still Paramount+ With Showtime, your plan benefits will not be impacted!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Global has quietly erased Showtime from the name of its top-tier streaming package. On June 23, Paramount…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,12132,12133,12134,12135,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-11213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-paramount-plus","10":"tag-paramount-plus-premium","11":"tag-paramount-plus-with-showtime","12":"tag-showtime","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114739375596808455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}