EXCLUSIVE: The brand new, post-Skydance merger Paramount has two main TV studio items: the present CBS Studios, led by David Stapf and overseen by Paramount Chair of TV Media George Cheeks, and the newly shaped Paramount TV Studios, headed by former Skydance TV President Matt Thunell and overseen by Dana Goldberg, Co-Chair of Paramount Footage and Chair of Paramount Tv.
In an encouraging signal for his or her future interactions (and potential collaborations), on Day 1 of the 2 studios current alongside one another when the Skydance acquisition closed August 7, that they had already agreed on the best way to break up nearly all of overlapping current sequence and tasks in growth.
As Deadline reported final week, CBS Studios’ major focus will stay supplying the CBS broadcast community whereas nonetheless with the ability to do streaming sequence for Paramount+ and out of doors streamers when a possibility presents itself, particularly extensions of current franchises just like the NCIS: Tony & Ziva offshoot the studio has arising on Paramount+. CBS Studios’ reveals for CBS embrace the NCIS and the Fireplace Nation franchises in addition to well-liked titles Matlock, Ghosts, Watson and daytime cleaning soap Past the Gates.
In the meantime, Paramount TV Studios, which mixes the belongings of Skydance Tv and Showtime/MTV Leisure Studios, shall be centered predominantly on streaming sequence for Paramount+ but in addition for outdoor platforms.
The delineation raised questions in regards to the destiny of streaming sequence — on-air and in growth — that CBS Studios had inherited from PTVS’ earlier incarnation, which was shut down a yr in the past. These included three reveals that had been initially co-productions between Skydance TV and PTVS and subsequently between Skydance TV and CBS Studios for the previous yr — Prime Video’s flagship drama Reacher, renewed for Season 4; its upcoming spinoff Neagley; in addition to Cross, renewed for Season 2.
Going ahead, these sequence shall be produced by the brand new PTVS as the only studio and be a part of its slate that additionally contains Skydance TV’s Basis for Apple TV+, in addition to Showtime/MTVE’s Dexter: Resurrection, Emily in Paris and the Taylor Sheridan universe on Paramount+.
In the meantime, two streaming sequence initially developed by the previous PTVS that CBS Studios took over after the previous’s demise — Apple TV+’s Murderbot, renewed for Season 2, and the upcoming Little Home On the Prairie for Netflix — will stay at CBS Studios, as will CBS Studios’ homegrown streaming tasks together with the Star Trek universe on Paramount+.
There may be additionally a basic settlement on the event of the now-defunct PTVS, which had moved to CBS Studios. The vast majority of the slate, dominated by Paramount Footage IP, will revert again to PTVS, which is able to develop sequence based mostly on Paramount movie titles shifting ahead, together with reveals based mostly on IP from the library of Miramax, 49% owned by Paramount.
There are a handful of exceptions; tasks in energetic growth to which CBS Studios has hooked up expertise together with Galaxy Quest and Flashdance, will keep put.
CBS Studios is also holding the Clueless sequel sequence with Alicia Silverstone, which is within the works at Peacock. Whereas Clueless is a Paramount film title, CBS Studios had been engaged on cracking the IP for TV over the previous seven years or so, going by a number of incarnations.
Moreover, CBS Studios will proceed with worldwide co-productions, which incorporates titles such because the upcoming King & Conqueror for the BBC, and Colin From Accounts for Binge/Paramount+.
Whereas PTVS is designed to be a streaming participant, it has the power to provide occasional broadcast reveals just like the upcoming CBS drama sequence Y: Marshals and actuality sequence The Street, which is able to stick with the brand new label. The Yellowstone spinoff and the music competitors sequence come from Sheridan and David Glasser’s 101 Studios. The duo’s streaming-dominated slates, that are shifting from MTVE Studios, the place Sheridan’s total deal was set, to the brand new PTVS, embrace the Yellowstone universe and reveals like Tulsa King, Landman and MobLand.
With the essential parameters of CBS Studios and PTVS’ present slates and programming focus established, conversations amongst Goldberg, Thunell, Cheeks and Stapf proceed because the CBS Studios and PTVS groups are holding conferences throughout studios to work out the main points.
