It's an excellent question, because for all the promotion of Paramount + I
have seen on CBS, I'm hard pressed to remember any promotion for programs on
the Paramount network.
(and yes, the Paramount network is the successor to Spike TV, which was the
successor of The Nashville Network/TNN.)
This includes advertisements and the usual bookings on network/streamer related
talk shows. Sure, Colbert will have on the occasional guest from a Paramount +
property, but the only Yellowstone-affiliated bookings I can remember are when
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw were on to promote 1883 - the Yellowstone prequel
that is only on Paramount +.
As best as I can tell, Yellowstone is the Paramount Network's only original
scripted programming running at the moment. Most, if not all, of it's
creator's new projects appear targeted for Paramount +.
David
On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:48:47 PM PST, PGage <[email protected]>
wrote:
We just spent an hour in my house trying to get my wife access to Season 5 of
Yellowstone. She had watched earlier seasons on some combination of Peacock and
Paramount Plus, but could find Season 5 on neither. She was particularly upset
because two of her four sisters, with whom she discusses the show, and talks to
every day, have told her they already saw multiple episodes, and my wife was
feeling left out.
This is where I get activated. I tried to get into this show, and could not get
past the first few episodes, and I know I watched them on Peacock. I was
certain I had read, here and or elsewhere, that more recent seasons were
streaming on P+ As a function of some complicated sequence. But I confirmed it
was not on P+.
A little Googling revealed that Yellowstone currently can not be streamed, but
was available on Paramount Network, which, it turns out, is not really an
earlier version of Paramount Plus, but a later iteration of Spike TV (I’m sure
this has been discussed here, but I would have only skimmed it). So at first it
seemed that if we had not recorded Yellowstone episodes as they aired, there
was no way to watch (until, I suppose, they eventually show up on Peacock, then
P+?).
That led to a dark few minutes for my wife (and for me, for failing to solve
this problem). But then I downloaded the Paramount App to my IPad, and found
that if I signed on through my provider (YouTubeTV) I was able to access
previously aired S5 episodes. This led to premature celebrations though, as
when my wife tried to access the app on her phone, we kept getting a message
that our provider had not authorized access to the episodes. Again in the
chilly doghouse, I was motivated to keep at it, and eventually found a way to
sign on through the Google App.
My wife is now watching the first five (I think) episodes of S5, so she will be
able to talk to her sisters without shame tomorrow.
But this whole thing has left me wondering why a third tier network would not
be doing a better job of using one of the most popular shows on television to
grow itself by making it easy for people to find it and join. Seems like it
would be easy to allow us to click on something in P+ to go to Paramount. Or,
why is there even such a thing as Paramount, at least as a thing that lives
outside the Paramount Plus App as one of their many channels?
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