Everything You Should Know About Paramount+ with SHOWTIME

Is Paramount Plus with SHOWTIME good?

Paramount+ with SHOWTIME is a fantastic deal on streaming TV service for the whole family, with 31,000+ hours of content. That’s a smaller library than most streaming services offer, but it’s quality over quantity at a reasonable price.

With Paramount+, you get popular shows from CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon, plus every Star Trek series and tons of on-demand movies. You’ll also get live channels like CBS, CBS News, CBS Sports HQ, and ET Live.

SHOWTIME includes dozens of premium series, hundreds of popular movies, and the network’s live East Coast and West Coast feeds.

• Great value
• Quality over quantity
• Tons of premium movies and shows

• Smaller library
• No individual SHOWTIME subscription, except as cable add-on

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• Deals
• Plans and prices
• Competition
• Specs and features

Paramount+ with SHOWTIME deals

You can test Paramount+ with SHOWTIME with a free seven-day trial or try it for 30 days with the latest promo codes.

Paramount+ with SHOWTIME bundle plans and prices

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With the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME plan, you’ll save 35% over the regular prices of Paramount+ ($5.99 a month for the ad-supported Essential plan) and SHOWTIME ($10.99 a month). That’s a solid deal for so much content (we’ll get into specifics later).

Paramount+ with SHOWTIME vs. competition

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The main competition for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME is Max (formerly HBO Max), now that it’s combined with Discovery+. Ad-free Max is significantly more expensive, with its newly added library of Discovery+ content, and has much more content than even Paramount+ with SHOWTIME’s hefty library.

Paramount+ with SHOWTIME channels

Live TV is one advantage Paramount+ with SHOWTIME has over Max and Discovery+. The SHOWTIME plan includes your live local CBS station, plus East Coast and West Coast feeds of the traditional SHOWTIME channel. All SHOWTIME content is available on-demand, but these live channels help you catch live shows and movies the old-fashioned way.

Live channel lineup

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Paramount+ with SHOWTIME shows and movies

In the following table, you’ll see two measurements for catalog sizes: content hours and titles. We wish streaming services would decide on a standard way to measure libraries, but we won’t hold our breath. In the meantime, remember that every “title” might be worth one hour—or dozens of hours.

Paramount+ with SHOWTIME library size vs. competition

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*CableTV.com’s estimate.

So the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME catalog is probably one of the smallest among its competitors, but it’s a matter of quality vs. quantity. Paramount+ and SHOWTIME bring a lot of great content to the bundle—everything from popular CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon series to live sports, premium original series, and popular films.

Also, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME includes exclusive live sports—including events from the NFL, PGA Tour, NCAA, and UEFA Champions League.

Bottom line: You’ll have a lot to watch with the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME plan. Here’s a sampling of the included movies and shows.

Shows on Paramount+ (partial list)

• 1883
• Bar Rescue
• Beavis and Butt-head
• Big Brother
• Bubble Guppies
• Chappelle’s Show
• Cheers
• Criminal Minds
• CSI

• Daria
• Evil
• Frasier
• The Good Wife
• iCarly
• Joe Pickett
• Key & Peele
• Love Island
• Peppa Pig

• RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Spongebob Squarepants
• Star Trek series
• MTV’s The State
• Survivor
• Teachers
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Wings
• Young Sheldon

Shows on SHOWTIME (partial list)

• The Affair
• American Gigolo
• Back to Life
• Billions
• Californication
• Dexter (original and New Blood)
• The Good Lord Bird
• Happyish
• House of Lies

• I’m Dying Up Here
• I Love That For You
• Kidding
• The L Word (original and Generation Q)
• Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
• Queer as Folk
• Ray Donovan
• Shameless
• Super Pumped

• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• Twenties
• Twin Peaks: The Return
• United States of Tara
• VICE
• We Need to Talk About Cosby
• Who Is America?
• Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men
• Yellowjackets

Movies on Paramount+ (partial list)

• Anchorman
• Beavis and Butt-head Do the Universe
• Black Sunday
• Charlotte’s Web (2006)
• Clerks
• Faults
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Forrest Gump
• Good Burger
• Hey Arnold! The Movie
• Indiana Jones 1–4
• Interstellar
• Jackass Forever

• J.D.’s Revenge
• Legend of Leadbelly
• Love and Monsters
• Mission Impossible movies
• Office Space
• The Ring
• Scream VI
• South Park specials
• Spongebob movies
• Spy Kids 1–3
• Star Trek movies
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Movies on SHOWTIME (partial list)

• Don’t Look Now
• Golda
• Lamb
• New York Ninja
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Past Lives
• Pearl

• Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
• Seabiscuit
• Silence
• Thriller 40
• XY Chelsea
• You Hurt My Feelings
• You’re Watching Video Music Box

Paramount Plus/SHOWTIME bundle streams

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Paramount Plus/SHOWTIME bundle devices

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Is Paramount+ with SHOWTIME worth it?

If you’re looking for a bargain on quality on-demand streaming TV services, the Paramount+/SHOWTIME bundle has what you want—plus a bit of live TV, which most competing streaming services don’t have—for a very reasonable price.

Paramount+ with SHOWTIME FAQ

Methodology

Our TV experts have logged hundreds of hours researching and testing Paramount+, SHOWTIME, and their competitors. For this review, we compared the Paramount+/SHOWTIME bundle with competing on-demand streaming services and bundles, looking at plans, pricing, content, features, and more.

We then analyzed the data, converting it into accurate, helpful recommendations for our readers. For more on our process, see our How We Rank page.