Paramount+ has removed more than a dozen TV shows from its streaming service — but which ones are now gone?
Most of the titles removed were from Nickelodeon, according to Deadline. The outlet confirmed that Big Time Rush, House of Anubis, Doug, Blue’s Room, Kung-Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Fanboy & Chum Chum, The Penguins of Madagascar, Game Shakers and Breadwinners are some of the network’s programming that was removed.
The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rugrats, AwesomenessTV, Welcome to the Wayne, Wonder Pets, Let’s Just Play: Go Healthy Challenge and Zoofari were also some of the series’ targeted for children and tweens that didn’t make the cut.
This is just the latest purge for Paramount+. The streaming platform previously cut a large number of children’s TV shows in March including the animated Rugrats reboot, Big Nate, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Blue’s Clues & You!, Ryan’s Mystery Playdate and That Girl Lay-Lay. One month prior, the live-action Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, The Real World: Replica Luxury Handbagcoming, No Activity, Coyote, Interrogation and The Twilight Zone disappeared were axed before Paramount’s merger with Showtime.
Streamers such as Hulu, Disney+ and Max have made headlines in the past for their decision to cancel shows and subsequently remove them from their services. Hulu surprised users when it announced its plan to wipe shows which were canceled after one season from its platform. The plan was originally announced in May 2023 as a corporate-wide strategy to cut streaming costs.
“As we grow the business in terms of the global footprint, we realized that we made a lot of content that is not necessarily driving sub growth,” Disney CEO Robert Iger said in a statement at the time. “We’re getting much more surgical about what it is we make.”
The decision came after the HBO Max merge which combined WarnerMedia (owner of HBO Max) and Discovery (owner of Discovery+) to create a new company called Warner Bros. Discovery. Max, which was previously called HBO Max, quietly removed several original movies from the streaming service, including Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse‘s Moonshot and the 2020 remake of The Witches starring Anne Hathaway.
Changes have also taken place over at The CW after it was acquired by Nexstar. In May 2022, chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz addressed speculation that the network, which launched in 2006 as a merger between the WB and UPN, would be sold amid major show cancellations.
“Look, none of these were easy decisions. We had long conversations with our studios and parent companies, and everyone recognized that this was a time of transition for The CW,” he told reporters. “So unfortunately, some difficult financial and strategic decisions needed to be made at every level.”
Three months later, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook confirmed the company’s purchase of The CW. Sook explained that Nexstar planned to appeal to an older audience compared to The CW’s previous target demographic.
“As many of you are aware, The CW is currently the lowest-rated broadcast network, which we believe largely reflects the fact that its programming is targeted for an 18-to-34 audience demographic, while the average age of the CW broadcast viewer is 58 years,” he said in a statement. “Over time, we’ll be taking a different approach to our CW programming strategy.”
All of The CW’s original programming — besides All American — has since come to an end. The CW now largely relies on Canadian imports and non-scripted content.
