US EditionMajor Paramount Shake-Up Shuts Down Streaming Service
Paramount+ will integrate BET+ content into its BET Hub starting June 2026, bringing over 1,000 hours of programming and continuing Tyler Perry's production under existing deals.
- On Friday, March 13, 2026, Paramount Skydance bought out Tyler Perry Studios' equity stake in BET+, announcing BET+ will shut down and migrate more than 1,000 hours of content to Paramount+ beginning in June.
- New Paramount leadership says the consolidation was in the works for months before Paramount reached an agreement to acquire WBD, reflecting prior internal planning, as Ellison recently framed the strategy.
- More than 1,000 hours of BET+ originals, including THE MS. PAT SHOW and ZATIMA, will join Paramount+, highlighting BET+’s 3.5 million subscribers versus Paramount+’s 80 million.
- Current BET+ app subscribers will be offered discounts to join Paramount+ when the app is sunsetted, while BET's linear channel, BET Studios, and BET Digital will continue operating.
- Amid industry consolidation, the deal echoes Paramount's 2023 Showtime consolidation precedent and aligns with its $110 billion agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, targeting $6 billion in cost savings as Paramount+ and HBO+ combine post-merger.
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Major Paramount Shake-Up Shuts Down Streaming Service
TV viewers will have one fewer subscription option this June, as Paramount+ is absorbing a sibling streamer.
BET+ To Fold Into Paramount+ As Tyler Perry's Stake Bought By Paramount Skydance
BET+ will soon be no more, and it will be folded into Paramount+. Have no worries about BET+’s content. The content will just move over to Paramount+, which will be the home of BET+’s renewed original series, such as Diarra From Detroit, The Ms. Pat Show, Tyler Perry’s Zatima, Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas and more. In June, as Deadline exclusively reported in their breaking story, Paramount+ will see “more than 1,000 hours of BET+ content – ori…
Paramount Skydance Buys Out Tyler Perry’s Stake in BET+; Streaming Service to Be Phased Out and Content Merged With Paramount+
BET is shutting down BET+ and will merge its content with Paramount+. In addition, Paramount is acquiring Tyler Perry's minority ownership stake in BET+.
BET+ To Be Folded Into Paramount+ As Paramount Buys Tyler Perry Stake
EXCLUSIVE: And then there was one. Paramount, which three years ago had three SVOD platforms available in the U.S., will soon have only one. Paramount+ will absorb BET+ at the beginning of June, when more than 1,000 hours of BET+ content – originals, movies, and specials – will migrate to the flagship streamer. The news […]
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