The nice streaming purge continues.
Forward of a deliberate merger with Showtime, Paramount+ has eliminated 9 unique sequence from its platform, together with The Actual World: Homecoming, comedies Responsible Get together (starring Kate Beckinsale), No Exercise (starring Patrick Brammall and Tim Meadows) and Gamers, and the live-action youngsters’s present The Pretty OddParents: Pretty Odder — none of which have been formally cancelled as of press time.
As well as, Paramount+ has scrubbed beforehand axed sequence Coyote (starring Michael Chiklis), The Harper Home, Interrogation (starring Peter Sarsgaard) and The Twilight Zone (2019).
TVLine has reached out to Paramount+ for remark.
The information comes as Paramount+ and Showtime are set to mix into one shared service later this yr, beneath the title Paramount+ With Showtime. The linear Showtime channel will probably be rebranded, additionally as Paramount+ With Showtime, and Showtime content material will probably be accessible to stream on Paramount+’s ad-free tier (with no add-on wanted).
Showtime has additionally been busy eradicating titles from its library forward of the merger. Collection now not accessible embody Jim Carrey’s Kidding, Kirsten Dunst’s On Changing into a God in Central Florida, Jeff Daniels’ American Rust (which is transferring to Amazon’s Freevee for Season 2) and lately cancelled duo American Gigolo and Let the Proper One In. Apparently, Season 1 of the business-world anthology Tremendous Pumped, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, has been eliminated as effectively, although the sequence was beforehand renewed for a second season that’s mentioned to middle on the rise of Fb beneath Mark Zuckerberg.