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Express Tribune
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Paramount+ rebrands as Paramount+ Premium, droping 'Showtime' name
Paramount Global has officially rebranded its top-tier streaming package, removing 'Showtime' from its name. As of June 23, the service formerly known as Paramount+ With Showtime will now be called Paramount+ Premium, though pricing and programming remain unchanged. The package still costs $12.99 per month or $119.99 per year and continues to include all Showtime content. This move comes more than a year after Showtime was fully integrated into Paramount+ in 2023, which led to the shutdown of Showtime's standalone streaming app in early 2024. Despite the name change, Showtime programming like Dexter: Original Sin, The Chi, and Yellowjackets remains a core part of the offering. The rebrand also comes as part of a broader strategy to clarify the tiered service model: Paramount+ Premium (ad-free, with live CBS feeds) and Paramount+ Essential (ad-supported), which is priced at $7.99 per month or $59.99 per year. In a statement on its customer support page, Paramount explained, 'Since we recently introduced a sampling of Showtime programming to the Essential plan, the Premium plan name reflects the broad and diverse offerings across both plan tiers.' The company added that Showtime content is still prominently featured on the platform. The name change, however, only applies to the streaming service. The linear cable channel will continue to be called Paramount+ With Showtime, potentially creating some confusion for viewers. The rebrand follows a similar move by Warner Bros. Discovery, which recently announced plans to revert its Max streaming service back to HBO Max in an effort to emphasize its core identity. Paramount emphasized that existing users might still see the old plan name temporarily, depending on their device, but their benefits will remain the same.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Paramount+ With Showtime Streaming Service Gets Renamed ‘Paramount+ Premium'
Paramount Global has quietly erased Showtime from the name of its top-tier streaming package. On June 23, Paramount informed subscribers that the name of its ad-free plan is no longer Paramount+ With Showtime — instead, it's now called Paramount+ Premium. The pricing of the package remains the same: It still costs $12.99 per month or $119.99 per year. More from Variety Gary Levine to Retire From Showtime After 40 Years in Programming 'Dexter: Resurrection' Trailer: Dexter Morgan Is Back in Bloody Revival How to Watch the 2025 UEFA Champions League Final Live Online The two packages now offered by the company are Paramount+ Premium, which does not have ads except in the bundled live local CBS feeds; and Paramount+ Essential with ads ($7.99 per month). The company rebranded the ad-free package as Paramount+ With Showtime in the summer of 2023, and said it would phase out the stand-alone Showtime streamer (which shut down in April 2024). Now, after two years, the company is dropping the Showtime name. 'Since we recently introduced a sampling of Showtime programming to the Essential plan, the Premium plan name reflects the broad and diverse offerings across both plan tiers,' the company said in a notice on its customer-support site about the name change. 'Showtime programming remains an important part of Paramount+, and is still prominently represented on the service!' The name change comes as Warner Bros. Discovery has gone back in the other direction: It's going to reattach the HBO name to its flagship Max streamer, which will this summer become HBO Max again. Meanwhile, in what may potentially cause some confusion, the name of the Paramount+ With Showtime linear TV network on cable, satellite, or internet TV streaming services (like Hulu with Live TV) will not be changing, according to Paramount. Paramount said that depending on a customer's device, they 'may not see the plan name change immediately. But rest assured, if you sign up for the Premium plan while it's still Paramount+ With Showtime, your plan benefits will not be impacted!' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? 25 Hollywood Legends Who Deserve an Honorary Oscar
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ashley Sutton didn't know her ‘Yellowjackets' role would upend the show
This story contains spoilers for 'Yellowjackets,' especially Friday's Season 3 finale. - - - Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Hannah Finch, a new character on the third season of 'Yellowjackets,' traveled to the depths of the Canadian wilderness as a scientist with a bright future. She and her boyfriend, fellow scientist Edwin, hired a guide to help them navigate the rocky and isolated terrain so they could locate a species of frog that shrieked during a 'mating event,' a sound that had never been recorded before. While Hannah captured the audio, she was so moved that she cried. Then she came face to face with a bunch of teenage cannibals. Anyone who has watched 'Yellowjackets,' airing on Paramount+ With Showtime, knows it's a little more nuanced than that - the Yellowjackets are a high school girls soccer team from New Jersey whose plane crashed on the way to a tournament. By the time Hannah, Edwin and the guide stumbled upon the team in the middle of this season, the stranded teens had been clinging to survival for more than a year, sometimes forced to eat each other to a) avoid starvation, and b) perform a ritual sacrifice for 'the wilderness,' which some started to believe had supernatural powers. The Yellowjackets had not seen another human since before the crash. And the scientists had certainly never seen a bunch of teenagers screaming and dancing around a bonfire with the head of their soccer coach - whom they just consumed - on a platform next to them. The 'Yellowjackets' universe is vast and complex, so Ashley Sutton, the actress who plays Hannah, had a tall order when she arrived on set in Vancouver, joining a tight-knit cast on a series with tons of lore and very loyal viewers. Plus, Sutton was shocked to learn that not only would her character have a critical role in the Season 3 finale, which started streaming Friday, but that Hannah's actions had implications that would rattle the entire foundation of the show. 'I didn't know necessarily what Hannah's story was going to fully be. When I booked [the role], I kind of thought she was going be Pit Girl,' Sutton said in an interview, referring to the pilot, in which a dark-haired girl is seen running and falling into a spiked pit in the wilderness … and is eventually eaten. The identity of 'Pit Girl' has been endlessly debated online among the 'Yellowjackets' fan base. Sutton has watched the show since the first season, not long after she auditioned for a part that was cut from the story. Eventually, co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson wanted her to return and read for the part of Hannah. 'I was so anxious because I wanted this role so bad. I just connected with Hannah on such a deep heart level. She was so naive and delicate and sees the world just, I don't know, through this lens that's so beautiful,' Sutton said. Hannah's official 'Yellowjackets' debut in Season 3, Episode 7, was a lovely, bright visual break from the darkness of the show, which jumps timelines between the wilderness and the surviving teammates as dysfunctional adults 25 years after their rescue. Hannah beamed as she and Edwin (Nelson Franklin) and their guide, Kodi (Joel McHale), found the frogs and joked around in a tent during a rainstorm. They accidentally broke the satellite phone they brought in case of emergency but figured it was no big deal. Then they made the mistake of investigating the screams they heard nearby. As the teens and scientists gawked at one another, Lottie (Courtney Eaton), the teammate who believes in the magic of the woods more than anyone, killed Edwin with an ax because she felt the wilderness didn't want intruders. This led to chaos as the teens tied up Hannah and Kodi and tried to figure out what to do with the intruders who just witnessed a murder and their cannibalism. Most of team wanted Kodi to guide them home, but the leading faction got cold feet and insisted they stay in the woods. In the penultimate episode, former team leader Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) covertly gave Hannah a knife so the pair could try to escape, but current leader Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) caught Hannah and Kodi in the act. To save herself, Hannah blamed Kodi for stealing the knife, and turned around and stabbed him in the eye. Fast-forward to Friday's finale, and Hannah had successfully convinced Shauna that she wanted to be a part of the group. When the team decided to have another 'hunt' to appease the wilderness - where the person who draws the unlucky queen of hearts card is hunted and then, well, eaten - Hannah appeared to join in without hesitation. But the hunt was a ruse so Natalie could sneak away and take the scientists' satellite phone, which a few girls were trying to repair, up to a mountain to try to call for rescue. Hannah caught Natalie with the phone and desperately tried to convince her that she wanted to help with the plan. 'I came out there to study frogs. Instead, my boyfriend got ax-murdered, I stabbed our guide in the brain, I've eaten human flesh. I am just trying to survive, the same as you,' Hannah hissed as she and Natalie stared intensely at each other. 'All I want is to get out of here. You have to believe me.' Sutton said that when the last take of that scene ended, she and Thatcher started sobbing and hugged each other. 'We both realized how much both of these characters really want to fight for everybody else,' she said, adding that it was hard not to think about how much the Yellowjackets had been through in nearly three seasons of television, and how quickly Hannah had to adapt. 'She truly is feeling the weight of everything that's happening, and she can finally say it out loud to a person.' Going in, Sutton knew she needed to play the role in a way that captured the horror she was feeling and make it realistic that warring, traumatized teenage girls would grow to trust her. So she embraced the persona of a scientist, as Hannah collected data, analyzed group dynamics and observed everyone's micromovements. She strategically made personal disclosures, such as telling teen Melissa (Jenna Burgess) that she had a 10-year-old daughter back home. 'She's kind of fascinated, terrified at the same time … but if anyone is going to be able to survive this, it's going to be someone who studies survival,' Sutton said. This scientific thinking also helped set up the Season 3 finale's twist, when Hannah had to take on a horrifying task. As they prepare for the ritual, 'Pit Girl' is revealed to have been the snarky Mari (Alexa Barajas), finally connecting the thread from the pilot. Everyone dressed up in their winter garb and wore masks, and Shauna demanded that Natalie prepare the feast … but she didn't know that Hannah and Natalie had switched clothes after their confrontation in the woods. While Hannah-disguised-as-Natalie dismembered the body, Natalie went to use the satellite phone. As she screamed for help into the crackling static, a calm voice on the other end responded that they could hear her. In the internal backstory that Sutton created for herself, she decided that Hannah had worked with cadavers in class before, so at least she had a framework - she went further and thought that class was where Hannah met her boyfriend, the unfortunately axed Edwin, so his spirit was with her. Sutton was thrilled that her character was a crucial part of Natalie becoming the (apparent) tipping point for the team's eventual rescue, and said the phone call was a 'beautiful' moment. Unfortunately, as viewers know, Hannah did not make it out of the wilderness. The flash-forward timeline featured a photo of Hannah's obituary, and in a bonkers earlier reveal, fans learned that grown-up Melissa (Hilary Swank) wound up marrying Hannah's daughter. In bad news for the rest of the adult Yellowjackets (Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, etc.), Hannah was a diligent researcher who used her audio equipment to covertly record the violence of the wilderness, and the tape made its way back to civilization and is wreaking untold amounts of havoc. 'It is wild to see the impact Hannah's still having on them 25 years later,' Sutton said. She's awaiting news about the show's next moves (a fourth season seems inevitable, though there's been no official renewal announcement), but it's likely that Hannah's influence will continue. Several years in, the show continues to hook viewers. Sutton thinks the series will always strike a nerve because of the morally gray areas that cause people to think about their own lives and what they would do in a survival situation. 'It explores female rage in such a different way. It's not beautiful female rage, it's not perfect in any way,' Sutton said. 'It is just, like, true emotion and feeling, and I think it's really cool to see characters like that.' Related Content Ja Morant dares the NBA to punish him, knowing it won't pull the trigger Scientists are 'X-raying' the Amazon, unlocking a lost human history The Smithsonian could be the beginning of Trump's plan to edit history. Or the end.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Yellowjackets Finally Reveals the Antler Queen and Girl in the Pit in Season 3 Finale — Grade It!
So, were they who you thought they'd be? Yellowjackets' Season 3 finale, which began streaming Friday, finally brings the teens' story to the point where we first met them: the hunt in the woods that kicked off the series' premiere. (Take a walk down cannibalistic memory lane here.) More from TVLine From ER to The Pitt: Shawn Hatosy Talks 20-Year Relationship With John Wells and Hopes for Abbot in Season 2 Grey's Recap: A Villain From Simone's Past Shakes Up Her Present - Plus, Did the Truth Set Owen Free... of Teddy? The Pitt Season 2 Premise, Time Jump and Premiere Month Confirmed - Plus, Who Is (and Is Not) Returning From the way that sequence was shot, and given that most of the girls were wearing face coverings, we couldn't see who the victim was nor who was underneath the leader's antler crown. And those identities remained a mystery — and fodder for lots of fan discussion — throughout the Paramount+ With Showtime drama's first two seasons. But this week's episode reveals that the girl who died in the hunt was Mari, who'd drawn the Queen of Hearts card, marking her as the latest sacrifice. Van and Tai had tried to rig the draw so that newbie Hannah would be picked. But Shauna, sensing that something fishy was going on, changed her place in the circle so that Mari wound up with the death card. What might throw viewers at first is that, when the hunt begins, Mari wears pants, a jacket and shoes, and the girl in the series premiere was barefoot and wearing only a short nightgown. But as the chase goes on, Mari takes off many of her layers, including her footwear; she's left in just the nightie and Jackie's necklace, which Shauna had fastened around her neck moments before. She cuts her foot as she runs, accounting for the bloody footprints. And when she accidentally steps on the camouflage hiding the pit's opening, she falls in and is impaled on several sharp stakes. Is it important that, just before she plummets to her death, she runs into Lottie? Who even knows with this show anymore? After the kill, Shauna orders Natalie to butcher their former teammate, who is dragged, naked, through the snow back to camp. And that night they all eat, while Shauna — in her new Antler Queen getup — presides over the affair. Unbeknownst to Shauna, though, Natalie has slipped away with the newly refurbished radio. She climbs to the highest point she can find and is successful in turning it on. 'Can anyone hear me?!' she screams into the microphone. 'I can hear you,' a man's voice answers through the static. Are we on the precipice of actual salvation here?! Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) View List Meanwhile, the adult versions of the survivors have quite an episode, as well. Tai buries Van's body, but not before ripping into it, cutting out an organ (her liver?) and taking a big, bloody bite. Misty confronts Callie about killing Lottie, and the teen confesses. Turns out, when she came to Lottie's apartment building to get Mel's tape back, Lottie led her into the stairwell and started talking about how 'It' is in the teen the same way that its darkness is in Shauna. Callie then pushed Lottie, causing her to fall backwards down the stairs to her death. After Callie tells Jeff about her part in the death, he packs her up and they leave without telling Shauna where they were going. In a rage, Shauna journals about how the reason that the survivors have had such a hard time remembering exactly what they went through out there was that they didn't want to face the fact that 'we were having so much fun.' She laments that 'I was a warrior. I was a f–king queen' and 'I let all of it slip away from me. It's time to start taking it back.' At the end of the hour, we see Tai in a restaurant, talking to someone about how Shauna is responsible for Natalie and Van's deaths, and how Shauna will be the last woman standing unless they do something about it. She asks the other person if they want that outcome. And when the camera angle changes, we see that her companion is Misty. 'No, I definitively do not,' Misty replies. Outside, Walter watches them from his car. Now it's your turn. What did you think of the episode? Grade it, and the season as a whole, via the polls below, then hit the comments with your thoughts! Best of TVLine Mrs. Maisel Flash-Forward List: All of Season 5's Futuristic Easter Eggs Yellowjackets Recap: The Morning After Yellowjackets Recap: The First Supper
Washington Post
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Ashley Sutton didn't know her ‘Yellowjackets' role would upend the show
This story contains spoilers for 'Yellowjackets,' especially Friday's Season 3 finale. Hannah Finch, a new character on the third season of 'Yellowjackets,' traveled to the depths of the Canadian wilderness as a scientist with a bright future. She and her boyfriend, fellow scientist Edwin, hired a guide to help them navigate the rocky and isolated terrain so they could locate a species of frog that shrieked during a 'mating event,' a sound that had never been recorded before. While Hannah captured the audio, she was so moved that she cried. Then she came face to face with a bunch of teenage cannibals. Anyone who has watched 'Yellowjackets,' airing on Paramount+ With Showtime, knows it's a little more nuanced than that — the Yellowjackets are a high school girls soccer team from New Jersey whose plane crashed on the way to a tournament. By the time Hannah, Edwin and the guide stumbled upon the team in the middle of this season, the stranded teens had been clinging to survival for more than a year, sometimes forced to eat each other to a) avoid starvation, and b) perform a ritual sacrifice for 'the wilderness,' which some started to believe had supernatural powers. The Yellowjackets had not seen another human since before the crash. And the scientists had certainly never seen a bunch of teenagers screaming and dancing around a bonfire with the head of their soccer coach — whom they just consumed — on a platform next to them. The 'Yellowjackets' universe is vast and complex, so Ashley Sutton, the actress who plays Hannah, had a tall order when she arrived on set in Vancouver, joining a tight-knit cast on a series with tons of lore and very loyal viewers. Plus, Sutton was shocked to learn that not only would her character have a critical role in the Season 3 finale, which started streaming Friday, but that Hannah's actions had implications that would rattle the entire foundation of the show. 'I didn't know necessarily what Hannah's story was going to fully be. When I booked [the role], I kind of thought she was going be Pit Girl,' Sutton said in an interview, referring to the pilot, in which a dark-haired girl is seen running and falling into a spiked pit in the wilderness … and is eventually eaten. The identity of 'Pit Girl' has been endlessly debated online among the 'Yellowjackets' fan base. Sutton has watched the show since the first season, not long after she auditioned for a part that was cut from the story. Eventually, co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson wanted her to return and read for the part of Hannah. 'I was so anxious because I wanted this role so bad. I just connected with Hannah on such a deep heart level. She was so naive and delicate and sees the world just, I don't know, through this lens that's so beautiful,' Sutton said. Hannah's official 'Yellowjackets' debut in Season 3, Episode 7, was a lovely, bright visual break from the darkness of the show, which jumps timelines between the wilderness and the surviving teammates as dysfunctional adults 25 years after their rescue. Hannah beamed as she and Edwin (Nelson Franklin) and their guide, Kodi (Joel McHale), found the frogs and joked around in a tent during a rainstorm. They accidentally broke the satellite phone they brought in case of emergency but figured it was no big deal. Then they made the mistake of investigating the screams they heard nearby. As the teens and scientists gawked at one another, Lottie (Courtney Eaton), the teammate who believes in the magic of the woods more than anyone, killed Edwin with an ax because she felt the wilderness didn't want intruders. This led to chaos as the teens tied up Hannah and Kodi and tried to figure out what to do with the intruders who just witnessed a murder and their cannibalism. Most of team wanted Kodi to guide them home, but the leading faction got cold feet and insisted they stay in the woods. In the penultimate episode, former team leader Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) covertly gave Hannah a knife so the pair could try to escape, but current leader Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) caught Hannah and Kodi in the act. To save herself, Hannah blamed Kodi for stealing the knife, and turned around and stabbed him in the eye. Fast-forward to Friday's finale, and Hannah had successfully convinced Shauna that she wanted to be a part of the group. When the team decided to have another 'hunt' to appease the wilderness — where the person who draws the unlucky queen of hearts card is hunted and then, well, eaten — Hannah appeared to join in without hesitation. But the hunt was a ruse so Natalie could sneak away and take the scientists' satellite phone, which a few girls were trying to repair, up to a mountain to try to call for rescue. Hannah caught Natalie with the phone and desperately tried to convince her that she wanted to help with the plan. 'I came out there to study frogs. Instead, my boyfriend got ax-murdered, I stabbed our guide in the brain, I've eaten human flesh. I am just trying to survive, the same as you,' Hannah hissed as she and Natalie stared intensely at each other. 'All I want is to get out of here. You have to believe me.' Sutton said that when the last take of that scene ended, she and Thatcher started sobbing and hugged each other. 'We both realized how much both of these characters really want to fight for everybody else,' she said, adding that it was hard not to think about how much the Yellowjackets had been through in nearly three seasons of television, and how quickly Hannah had to adapt. 'She truly is feeling the weight of everything that's happening, and she can finally say it out loud to a person.' Going in, Sutton knew she needed to play the role in a way that captured the horror she was feeling and make it realistic that warring, traumatized teenage girls would grow to trust her. So she embraced the persona of a scientist, as Hannah collected data, analyzed group dynamics and observed everyone's micromovements. She strategically made personal disclosures, such as telling teen Melissa (Jenna Burgess) that she had a 10-year-old daughter back home. 'She's kind of fascinated, terrified at the same time … but if anyone is going to be able to survive this, it's going to be someone who studies survival,' Sutton said. This scientific thinking also helped set up the Season 3 finale's twist, when Hannah had to take on a horrifying task. As they prepare for the ritual, 'Pit Girl' is revealed to have been the snarky Mari (Alexa Barajas), finally connecting the thread from the pilot. Everyone dressed up in their winter garb and wore masks, and Shauna demanded that Natalie prepare the feast … but she didn't know that Hannah and Natalie had switched clothes after their confrontation in the woods. While Hannah-disguised-as-Natalie dismembered the body, Natalie went to use the satellite phone. As she screamed for help into the crackling static, a calm voice on the other end responded that they could hear her. In the internal backstory that Sutton created for herself, she decided that Hannah had worked with cadavers in class before, so at least she had a framework — she went further and thought that class was where Hannah met her boyfriend, the unfortunately axed Edwin, so his spirit was with her. Sutton was thrilled that her character was a crucial part of Natalie becoming the (apparent) tipping point for the team's eventual rescue, and said the phone call was a 'beautiful' moment. Unfortunately, as viewers know, Hannah did not make it out of the wilderness. The flash-forward timeline featured a photo of Hannah's obituary, and in a bonkers earlier reveal, fans learned that grown-up Melissa (Hilary Swank) wound up marrying Hannah's daughter. In bad news for the rest of the adult Yellowjackets (Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, etc.), Hannah was a diligent researcher who used her audio equipment to covertly record the violence of the wilderness, and the tape made its way back to civilization and is wreaking untold amounts of havoc. 'It is wild to see the impact Hannah's still having on them 25 years later,' Sutton said. She's awaiting news about the show's next moves (a fourth season seems inevitable, though there's been no official renewal announcement), but it's likely that Hannah's influence will continue. Several years in, the show continues to hook viewers. Sutton thinks the series will always strike a nerve because of the morally gray areas that cause people to think about their own lives and what they would do in a survival situation. 'It explores female rage in such a different way. It's not beautiful female rage, it's not perfect in any way,' Sutton said. 'It is just, like, true emotion and feeling, and I think it's really cool to see characters like that.'
