Layoffs Loom as Paramount Consolidates Showtime and Paramount+

Paramount International chief Bob Bakish made it clear Wednesday that Showtime Networks’ days as a standalone unit inside the conglomerate are numbered.

Feedback throughout the firm’s third-quarter earnings name with Wall Road analysts indicated strongly that the operations of Showtime and Paramount Plus shall be extra absolutely blended within the coming months. The Showtime model is prone to endure as a programming label however employees cuts and additional consolidation of Paramount International’s high-end scripted growth and manufacturing exercise is coming. This comes as Showtime Networks’ longtime chief, David Nevins, is getting ready to exit Paramount International later this 12 months.

Bakish and Paramount International chief monetary officer Naveen Chopra talked about cost-cutting and a deal with “efficiencies” a number of occasions throughout the 65-minute name. They famous that the gathering storm on the macroeconomic entrance – stresses that had been proof in Paramount International’s Q3 promoting slowdown – has compelled them to speed up the transition plan.

“We’re all the time conscious of price administration as an organization,” Bakish stated. The corporate is transferring on the chance “to reorganize Showtime Networks, Showtime OTT and Paramount Tv Studios into different elements of the corporate.” Bakish added that this effort will result in the good thing about “important price reductions and advance our strategic agenda.”

Chopra added that the modifications round Showtime will permit the corporate “to additional align and apply a extra world mindset to our content material and platforms.”

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(Pictured: Showtime’s “Yellowjackets”)