Paramount+ Removes Big Time Rush, Doug and a Bunch More Shows — Find Out What Got Cut
Well this is a big time bummer: Big Time Rush is no longer available on Paramount+.
As first reported by our sister site Deadline, the streamer has removed a bunch of series made for children and tweens, including the former Nickelodeon sitcom about high school friends who become a wildly successful boy band.
Doug, one of the original Nicktoons, also is no longer streaming on Paramount+. The animated series was one of Nickelodeon’s first cartoons, alongside The Ren & Stimpy Show and Rugrats.
Other series no longer available on Paramount+ courtesy of the latest purge include: Blue’s Room, Kung-Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Fanboy & Chum Chum, The Penguins of Madagascar, Game Shakers, Breadwinners, AwesomenessTV, House of Anubis, Welcome to the Wayne, Wonder Pets, Let’s Just Play: Go Healthy Challenge and Zoofari.
Paramount+ also removed a large number of children’s TV shows in March. These included the CG-animated Rugrats reboot, Big Nate, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Blue’s Clues & You!, Ryan’s Mystery Playdate and That Girl Lay-Lay.
The live-action Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder was axed in February, ahead of Paramount’s merger with Showtime. Other series affected during that culling included The Real World: Homecoming, No Activity, Coyote, Interrogation and 2019’s The Twilight Zone.
Is there a way to sue all these media companies for removing/cancelling shows and movies for tax purposes, and not paying the people that worked on them streaming residuals?
Or sue them for getting us to subscribe to watch the shows we want that are only on their service only to cancel them for tax benefits. Someone should change that tax rule
How is this even legal? Taxpayers are giving billions to these companies so the people who made the shows stop being paid and consumers lose access to product. How is that something they can do with our money, instead of invest in education or Healthcare?
So glad the subscription prices keep going up, so they can keep removing shows.
It’s disappointing, but the reality is, these streamers will continue doing this and cancelling all their originals after a couple of seasons, because it isn’t about having a library, it’s about amount of sign ups they can get. If no one is signing up any longer for a specific show it will be removed and or cancelled if it is an original. It’s not a sustainable business model.
Soon, they’ll remove every show not written by Taylor Sheridan.
I hope Netflix US grabs ‘Big Time Rush’. I really liked the show back in the day. I wouldn’t mind rewatching. It always reminded me of ‘The Monkeys’.
This is a big reason why DVDs, digital purchases, & other digital means of viewing are going to become more and more popular. If a show can’t be streamed, but fans still want to watch it, they will find a way to do so. Why pay higher & higher subscription fees for less & less of the content you want to see? That’s a big part of why cable & satellite subscribers began jumping ship to streaming platforms like Paramount+, Netflix, Hulu, etc. But purging programming not available anywhere else while also raising the rates isn’t going to bring in viewers. It’s more likely to drive them away.
This is proof that the streaming model isn’t sustainable.
I’m so tired of old shows getting dropped from streaming. This year we lost Hill Street Blues (Amazon, Hulu), Crazy Ex Girlfriend (Netflix), Party of Five (CW), Jane the Virginia (Netflix), Picket Fences (Hulu, Amazon) and Friday Night Lights (Hulu, and leaving Netflix on Wednesday). None of these shows are currently available to stream on any service. Come on people, do better.
Well some of them Netflix once the last episode aired they had a 5 year time limit when they were removed as they had a contract with the cw to air the latest season until max forherly hbo/max launched where cw put them there