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Paramount+ Showtime is encompasses a collection of brands with minimal thematic overlap, which makes it a challenge to market but also amusement to subscribe to — there’s something for every member of your family!
Paramount+, prior to aligning so clearly with Showtime, was basically a channel for white upper-middle-class moderate Dads — Taylor Sheridan projects, procedurals, the Frasier reboot. But it also had the entire library of modern Star Trek shows and a several one-offs like The Good Fight and Why Women Kill, inherited from its former identity as CBS All Access. Then we possess the CBS library, a network that built its reputation on I Cherish Lucy, The Andy Griffith Show and M*A*S*H, who courted an older audience in the ’80s and early ’90s with core programs like Murder She Wrote and Everybody Loves Raymond, before building itself up as a life competition and procedural powerhouse in the 21st century with genre-defining programs prefer Big Brother and Survivor. Then there’s the bratty cousin MTV, who invented music television, provocative animation and game shows and new, youth-focused, narrative actual world TV, truly creating Gen X and elder millenn
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Considering the quality, quantity, and diversity of films distributed under Paramount Global and its labels, GLAAD has given Paramount Global a FAIR grade.
Given Paramount’s lack of inclusive films in 2021, it is exciting progress to glimpse LGBTQ inclusion in its 2022 slate. The addition of womxn loving womxn character Mindy to the Scream franchise opened the door for further inclusion in the sequels, and LGBTQ characters were a welcome sight in award season flick Babylon and simultaneous streaming and theatrical film On the Come Up.
As for Paramount+, certain films such as Blues Huge City Adventure and The In Between had brief inclusion and would have benefited from further fleshing out their LGBTQ characters. A huge standout in Paramount+ was the young adult production Three Months, which focused on a gay teen getting tested for HIV and was a GLAAD List script. Stories surrounding those living with HIV are incredibly underrepresented across all forms of media, and Three Months is an excellent example of the content GLAAD strives to make commonplace to erase the stigma around HIV.
Overall, GLAAD encourages Paramount to expand its voice in blockbuster film
How Paramount Global’s two openly gay CEOs are blazing a trail, and helping the next generation
So it’s perhaps even more striking that on Fortune’s first LGBTQ+ leaders list, ranking the world’s top CEOs who also happen to be LGBTQ+, two are pushing progress further as out-and-proud gay joint CEOs.
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George Cheeks, CEO of CBS, works alongside gay colleague Chris McCarthy, CEO of Showtime and MTV Entertainment, with Brian Robbins all co-CEOs of Paramount Global—all named in the position earlier this year.
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Paramount Global has, in recent years, been behind several hit LGBTQ+ TV and films including Fellow Travellers, Elton John biopic Rocketman and RuPaul’s Performative Race.
But the group’s gay media history runs much further back to when it was Viacom, including TV firsts like Pedro Zamora, one of the first gay men to speak about having AIDS’s on-screen same-sex commitment ceremony on MTV’s The Real World in 1994.
This gentle of media advocacy, both new and old, is a lifeline for Diverse young people all over the society who look to TV to discover themselves in towns and cit
The Famous Players Film Organization (founded in 1912) united with the Lasky Business and Paramount to build Paramount Pictures in 1916. The Viacom Network acquired Paramount in 1994, re-merged with CBS to grow ViacomCBS in 2019, and renamed itself Paramount Global in February 2022. In 2018, Paramount additionally became the first major studio to sign a multi-picture film deal with Netflix, although future Paramount films will stream on Paramount Global’s recently rebranded streamer Paramount+. The studio has released big budget franchises such as Indiana Jones, Transformers, and Mission: Impossible.
Paramount began releasing LGBTQ-themed or inclusive films in the mid-nineties and early aughts, with films like Home for the Holidays (1995); Clueless (1995); The Brady Bunch Movie (1995); Brain Candy (1996); Kiss Me Guido (1997); In and Out (1997), a box office hit that received substantial press for a kiss between Kevin Klein and Tom Selleck; The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999); Election (1999); The Next Best Thing (2000); and The Hours (2002). More recent inclusion was highlighted in Star Trek: Beyond (2016), which features Hikaru Sulu, a gay dude of color with his