The Paramount+ subscription streaming service arrives in France on Thursday, December 1, 2022. At what price? Integrated into which Canal+ offer? What catalog available? We take stock.
[Mis à jour le 1er décembre 2022 à 9h41] It took some time, but the Paramount+ service is now available in France. Launched in 2014 as CBS All Access then renamed Paramount+ in March 2021, the streaming by subscription from Paramount intends to develop in Europe in 2022. It is therefore in this sense that France saw the arrival of this new SVOD service on December 1, 2022. The platform must serve in particular as a base camp for the original series Halo, adaptation of the famous video games that have carried the Xbox brand since 2001. Also home of Paramount Pictures films including Mission Impossible, Transformers or Sonic but also many Showtime, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV or Nickelodeon series Paramount + wishes to attract a wide audience. How much does the subscription cost? Can you subscribe via Canal++? What content can we see there? We take stock.
Paramount has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Canal+ in France. The operator of the French encrypted channel will therefore make Paramount+ available to its new subscribers to the Canal+ Ciné Séries and Canal+ Friends & Family packs. With regard to existing subscribers, Canal+ provides “very advantageous conditions” to add the Paramount+ offer to their pre-existing subscription but does not specify the amount of this supplement.
If you do not wish to subscribe to Paramount+ via the Canal Ciné Séries subscription, it is quite possible to subscribe directly via the Paramount+ application as soon as it is launched in France. The service has announced its price in France. He’s from 7.99€ per month, i.e. a price placement between that of Prime Video (€6.99) and Netflix and Disney+ (€8.99 for offers without advertising). Note that the Paramount+ offer benefits from a 7-day free trial.
This is obviously the sinews of war for a subscription streaming platform, content is of paramount importance to allow Paramount+ to distinguish itself from the competition. Paramount+ prides itself on having several thousand programs to offer in its catalog. Among these, the films of the Paramount Pictures studios (Mission Impossible, Transformers, Sonic…), but also the Showtime series (let us mention Dexter, Homeland or more recently Yellowjackets) but also CBS (The Experts, The Mentalist) or even Comedy Central series and programs (including Trevor Noah’s Daily Show but also and above all the animated series South Park). Also note that Paramount+ includes a lot of MTV content, for teens, but also Nickelodeon, for the family, including the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. Paramount+ also plans to serve as the home of its own original series. It is in this context that the halo seriesadapted from the video games of the same name and launched on March 24, 2022 on Paramount+ in the United States.