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As we reported earlier this month, the three studios supplying Paramount+ with scripted series — CBS Studios, Paramount TV Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios, where Taylor Sheridan is based — are expected to each take charge of their development for the streamer and oversee their Paramount+ shows in collaboration with Tom Ryan, President and CEO of Paramount Streaming, and Tanya Giles, the company’s Chief Programming Officer of Streaming, who is shepherding the rollout of content.
As to how greenlight decisions on Paramount+ scripted series will be made, we hear there is a plan for a committee comprised by half a dozen or so senior executives across the studios and other Paramount Global TV divisions that would be in charge of that. We hear plans are still being finalized for the new structure, which resembles the studio-focused, decentralized model employed by Disney+.