{"id":76646,"date":"2025-08-12T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76646\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:30:08","slug":"how-cbs-studios-paramount-tv-studios-are-splitting-streaming-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76646\/","title":{"rendered":"How CBS Studios & Paramount TV Studios Are Splitting Streaming Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The new, post-Skydance merger Paramount has two major TV studio units: the existing CBS Studios<\/a>, led by David Stapf and overseen by Paramount Chair of TV Media George Cheeks, and the newly formed Paramount TV Studios<\/a>, headed by former Skydance TV President Matt Thunell and overseen by Dana Goldberg, Co-Chair of Paramount Pictures and Chair of Paramount Television.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 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<\/a> August 7, they had already agreed on how to split the majority of overlapping existing series and projects in development.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Deadline reported last week<\/a>, CBS Studios\u2019 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\u2019 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. <\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Paramount TV Studios<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe delineation raised questions about the fate of streaming series \u2014 on-air and in development \u2014 that CBS Studios had inherited from PTVS\u2019 previous incarnation, which was shut down a year ago<\/a>. 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 \u2014 Prime Video\u2019s flagship drama Reacher<\/a>, renewed for Season 4<\/a>; its upcoming spinoff Neagley; as well as Cross<\/a>, renewed for Season 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tGoing 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\u2019s Foundation for Apple TV+, as well as Showtime\/MTVE\u2019s Dexter: Resurrection, Emily in Paris and the Taylor Sheridan universe on Paramount+.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, two streaming series originally developed by the former PTVS that CBS Studios took over after the former\u2019s demise \u2014 Apple TV+\u2019s Murderbot<\/a>, renewed for Season 2<\/a>, and the upcoming Little House On the Prairie<\/a> for Netflix \u2014 will remain at CBS Studios, as will CBS Studios\u2019 homegrown streaming projects including the Star Trek universe on Paramount+.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are a handful of exceptions; projects in active development to which CBS Studios has attached talent including Galaxy Quest and Flashdance, will stay put.<\/p>\n

\n\tCBS Studios also is keeping the Clueless<\/a> sequel series with Alicia Silverstone, which is in the works at Peacock<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, 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+. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile 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 The Road, which will stay with the new label. The Yellowstone spinoff and the music competition series come from Sheridan and David Glasser\u2019s 101 Studios. The duo\u2019s streaming-dominated slates, which are shifting from MTVE Studios, where Sheridan\u2019s overall deal was set, to the new PTVS, include the Yellowstone universe and shows like Tulsa King, Landman and MobLand.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the basic parameters of CBS Studios and PTVS\u2019 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The new, post-Skydance merger Paramount has two major TV studio units: the existing CBS Studios, led by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[54306,19951,26046,88,12262,38523,44080,54307],"class_list":["post-76646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cbs-studios","tag-clueless","tag-cross","tag-entertainment","tag-little-house-on-the-prairie","tag-murderbot","tag-paramount-tv-studios","tag-reacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}