SkyShowtime is worth more for its back catalog than for its new releases

We were few and the grandmother gave birth. If the streaming platform market seemed saturated and without room for more competitors, Now a new offer appears in Spain, that of SkyShowtime. Its launch took place today, February 28, and it is presented to the public with a catalog perhaps more modest and reduced than that of other large OTTs, but with some interesting titles that, together with their cheap price, make us consider that it could be It is time to cancel another one and try, at least for a while, with this new one.

Of course, do not expect striking news that everyone is going to talk about; on the contrary, What is interesting about SkyShowtime is not the fictions it uses as a letter of introduction, but the series and films in the catalog what he brings. There we will find hours and hours of quite satisfactory viewings.

But this SkyShowtime thing, what is it?

SkyShowtime was born from the alliance of two large North American media conglomerates, CBSViacom and Paramount Global, who have their own platforms in the US, Peacock and Paramount +. However, the common version that they have created for Europe and other territories is not exactly a mixture of the two, nor does it have all of their content, but it does have a lot of it. For example, one of the great absences is ‘Poker Face’, the successful Peacock series created by Rian Johnson and starring Natasha Lyonne.

Instead, many of SkyShowtime’s unpublished series come from Paramount+, highlighting the Taylor Sheridan universe comprising ‘Yellowstone’ and its spin-offs, ‘1883’ and ‘1923’, as well as ‘Tulsa King’, Sylvester Stallone’s record-breaking series. Also, recent Showtime series like ‘American Gigolo’ and ‘Let the Right One In’, both canceled after their first season, as was Peacock’s ‘Vampire Academy’. Other notable releases are ‘Halo’ and ‘The Offer’, the long-awaited adaptation of the video game and the intra-story of the filming of ‘The Godfather’, which had a somewhat lukewarm reception from North American critics.

So why is SkyShowtime worth it?

As we said at the beginning, if the subscription to SkyShowtime is justified, it is more for its catalog titles than for its news, which you do not expect to find many among the best series of 2022 (and probably not among those of 2023). However, for a small price we can see many series and movies that are not recently released, but of a more than remarkable quality, guaranteeing us a lot of hours of entertainment, reviewed or updated with pending accounts. Many of these titles, by the way, are series that have gone through Movistar Plus+ in recent years, since Telefónica television had a priority agreement over Showtime series, or through other payment channels or platforms.

Dispose of the brilliants ‘The Good Wife’ (appearing as ‘The Good Wife’, aaargghhh!) and ‘The Good Fight’ (it is not translated as “the good fight”), review ‘dexter’ either ‘Heroes’ (at least the first seasons of both, which were the best), pick up Downton Abbey and ‘Mr. Robot’ if you left them halfway or give a chance to ‘Ray Donovan’, Penny Dreadful either ‘Nurse Jackie’ (‘Nurse Jackie’) if you didn’t see them at the time they are some of the best options that SkyShowtime offers at its launch, as well as watching again ‘Battlestar Galactica’. ‘Escape at Danemora’one of the best miniseries of 2018 with Patricia Arquette and Benicio del Toro as protagonists, or the spies from ‘Berlin Station’ are other interesting proposals, as well as ‘Why women kill’, ‘Bates Motel’, ‘The Magicians’, ‘The Affair’ or ‘Madame Secretary’.

There is also no option to revisit big movie franchises: of ‘Fast & Furious’ we will find the first six films, ‘Mission Impossible’ will be complete and ‘Jurassic Park’ we will be able to see the first three installments and ‘Jurassic World’, while the children of the house will burn the trilogy of ‘Gru: My favorite villain’. Along with these, the ‘Star Trek’ franchise It will be one of the great assets of SkyShowtime as we will find all the films from its three stages (the original, the new generation and the JJ Abrams reboot) and various series (‘Star Trek: Prodigy’, ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ and ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’). Also, movies like ‘Gladiator’, ‘Transformers 5’, ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’, ‘Indiana Jones’, ‘The Mummy’ or ‘Top Gun: Air Idols’.

Guaranteed and procedural laughter in abundance

Perhaps the most incomprehensible thing about SkyShowtime’s promotional strategy is that they don’t advertise to much fanfare one of his catalog jewels: ‘The Office’. Although the platform does not have many comedy series to its credit, three titles offer hours and hours of laughs: the nine seasons of the aforementioned office comedy, ‘Parks & Recreations’ and ‘Superstore’. In the same way, whoever is fond of procedures of police officers, investigators or doctors has almost endless content guaranteed with titles like ‘Blue Bloods’, ‘Elementary’, ‘New Amsterdam’, ‘Law & Order: SVU’, ‘Magnum PI’, ‘Chicago Fire’ (‘Chicago in flames’), ‘Chicago Med ‘, ‘Chicago PD’ or ‘SEAL Team’.