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By Akhil Arora | Updated: 12 March 2021 12:17 IST

Voot Select Is the New Home for Paramount+ and Showtime Originals

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Halo, and Dexter

Highlights

No talks yet on Paramount+ launch in India, Voot Select chief says
Halo TV series, Frasier reboot part of Paramount+ Voot Select deal
Showtime’s existing series will stay on Disney+ Hotstar for now

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Voot Select will be the home for most Paramount+ originals, and the exclusive home to all Showtime originals, the Viacom18-owned streaming service has announced. From Paramount+ that includes the Halo TV series, based on the eponymous video game franchise, the Frasier reboot (with Kelsey Grammer returning), and the second season of dark comedy-drama Why Women Kill. From Showtime, we'll see the limited series revival of Michael C. Hall-led Dexter, the Ray Donovan movie with Liev Schreiber, and the anthology series The First Lady about wives of US Presidents. Voot Select is currently priced at Rs. 499 a year, which will eventually go up to Rs. 99 per month or Rs. 999 a year.

The Paramount+ HBO Max streaming service on the same day. Unfortunately, Voot Select won't be getting those films in India.

Instead, Netflix in India. Roughly four to six months after a Paramount film is released in theatres, it first arrives on Prime Video. And then six months later, it leaves Prime Video and heads to Netflix.

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Could the new deal lead to an eventual Paramount+ launch in India? Those talks haven't even begun, according to Voot Select chief Ferzad Palia who told Variety: “As Paramount+ rolls out globally, we'll [need] to work a strategy there to see what decisions we make for the India market. Maybe in the next three to six months, we'll have more clarity on the Paramount+ entry into India, if it's a separate service or is it through Voot Select — those are discussions that are yet to happen.”

As for the Disney+ Hotstar for now. Voot Select will only have the chance to pick them up when those deals expire.

Voot Select also revealed that it has crossed a million paid subscribers in less than a year since launch, claiming that makes it the fastest growing subscription-based Indian streaming service. That growth hasn't come on the back of the international slate though, but thanks to the reality series Bigg Boss (available on Voot Select before TV) and originals such as Arshad Warsi-led crime thriller Asur, psychological thriller The Gone Game with Arjun Mathur and Shweta Tripathi, and the whodunit The Raikar Case.

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