Paramount+ in July is an interesting beast. It’s got It’s Pony Season 1 relisted from February no-show. It’s got South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 for people looking for a hot new original. Other than that, it continues the extremely weird habit we’ve noticed of primarily adding… Awesomeness TV library. Yeah, we don’t get it. At all. They have iconic brands like Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central… but every month they pour in random Awesomeness TV titles that are already streaming on Netflix and Hulu. On top of that, these Awesomeness TV titles are not leaving the other services, so they were non-exclusive.
Paramount+ Library Woes
Paramount+ struggles to justify its existence for us as it seems like a lot of their content is available elsewhere because of their odd strategy. We would prefer they were purchased by Netflix and continued to produce originals like this month’s staff pick Honor Society (we love Angourie Rice) for Netflix. If they folded the entire Showtime library into Paramount+ at no extra cost we’d be singing a different tune, but that’s only allowed internationally, we guess.
On June 30th, one of the most binged shows in streaming left Netflix and went to Hulu on July 1st. We’re talking about Criminal Minds seasons 1-12. Hulu already had seasons 13-15. Why would Paramount+ let a competitor stream their biggest show (alongside NCIS, which also has many seasons co-streaming between Netflix while Paramount+ houses the full set) in most year’s year-end Nielsen charts? It could be because Disney has international distribution rights or even part of a deal to co-stream the Indiana Jones series next year between Disney+ and Paramount+, but that’s wild speculation. We would have limited Hulu to Seasons 1-5 or nothing at all.
Speaking of Hulu, a ton of classic content left in June but is not coming to Paramount+ in July. Yikes. Why do they do this? Echoes of Disney nonsensically removing a bunch of content from Netflix March 1st that they still haven’t added to Disney+ (The BFG, Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell, Tini, etc). The following CBS-owned films, specials, and series left Hulu in June, but headed straight for the Paramount Vault: Snoopy Come Home, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, The Cat in the Hat (1971), The Lorax (1972) Dr. Seuss on the Loose, A Very Brady Christmas, and Sabrina Down Under. The Peanuts and Dr. Seuss titles would have been pretty logical additions for their children’s library. However, we’re definitely the most surprised to see them allow Sabrina’s film to lapse since they already stream the series. Paramount+ content team does some weird stuff…
And while it’s awesome to see It’s Pony re-listed from its February no-show, what about the many no-shows from the 2nd half of 2021 that have yet to surface: Cousins For Life, 100 Things To Do Before High School, Keep It Spotless, Jagger Eaton’s Mega Life, Webheads, and See Dad Run. What about the many shows from 2018-2020 that they still have not added such as The Substitute, Unleashed, Unfiltered, Star Falls, Drama Club, The Astronauts, The Barbarian And The Troll, Side Hustle, and Group Chat?
Series Library Brand Breakdown
[Awesomeness TV] – 5
[CBS] – 3 (Premieres, not full seasons)
[NICK] – 3
[MTV] – 1
[VH1] – 0
[Comedy Central] – 0
[BET] – 0
This variety needs help.
Arriving On Paramount+ July 2022
Since we’re a Disney+ focused site, Disney-distributed titles are bolded.
Arriving July 1
- 16-Love (2012)
- 52 Pick-Up (1986)
- A Feral World (2020)
- A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
- A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
- Adventure Boyz (2019)
- Aeon Flux (2005)
- All Roads to Pearla (2019)
- Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure (2013)
- Alpha and Omega 3: The Great Wolf Games (2014)
- Alpha and Omega 4: The Legend of the Saw Toothed Cave (2014)
- Alpha and Omega 5: Family Vacation (2015)
- Alpha and Omega: Dino Digs (2016)
- Alpha and Omega: Journey to Bear Kingdom (2017)
- Alpha and Omega: The Big Fureeze (2016)
- An Unfinished Life (2005)
- The Arbors (2020)
- As Long As We Both Shall Live (2016)
- Attack of the Unknown (2020)
- Awaken the Shadowman (2017)
- The Back-up Plan (2010)
- Bebe’s Kids (1992)
- Betrayed (1988)
- Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
- Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
- Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
- Bluejay (2016)
- Body of Evidence (1992)
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
- Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
- Cadillac Man (1990)
- Call of the Wolf (2017)
- Carrie (1976)
- Changeland (2019)
- Charlotte’s Web (1973)
- Charlotte’s Web 2 (2002)
- Chasing Molly (2019)
- Clue (1985)
- Clueless (1995)
- Coffy (1973)
- Come on In (2020)
- The Cookout (2004)
- Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
- Coyotaje (2018)
- Criminal Law (1988)
- Cruel Hearts (2018)
- Cruiser (2016)
- Dark Blue (2002)
- Dave Made a Maze (2017)
- DC Noir (2019)
- Dead Ringer
- Deep
- Drillbit Taylor (2008)
- The Duchess (2008)
- Easy Does It (2019)
- Eve’s Bayou (1997)
- Event Horizon (1997)
- Eye for An Eye (1996)
- Eye of the Needle (1981)
- Flesh and Bone (1993)
- Forev (2013)
- The Four Feathers (2002)
- French Postcards (1979)
- Frisky (2015)
- Futureworld (1976)
- Gandhi (1982)
- Ghost (1990)
- Gino’s Wife (2016)
- Gladiator
- The Honor Farm (2017)
- Hot Dog (2018)
- The Hunted (2003)
- In Action
- Infinitum: Subject Unknown (2021)
- Internal Affairs (1990)
- Into the Wild (2007)
- Iris Warriors (2022)
- The Italian Job
- Jamie Marks is Dead (2014)
- Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain (2011)
- King Kong (1976)
- Knight and Day (2010)
- The Last Samurai (2003)
- Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- Lincoln (2012) Dreamworks!Touchstone
- Little Man Tate (1991)
- Loves Spell (2020)
- Lust for Love (2014)
- The Machinist (2004)
- Major League (1989)
- Mandela
- The Mask of Zorro (1998)
- Midnight In Paris (2011)
- Mississippi Burning (1988)
- Moments in Spacetime (2020)
- The Mongolian Connection (2019)
- Mystic Pizza (1988)
- No Way to Live (2016)
- Orphan (2009)
- The Outsider
- Party With Me (2020)
- Pet Sematary
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
- Play the Game (2009)
- The Posthuman Project (2014)
- Pretty Ugly People (2008)
- Racing with the Moon (1984)
- The Republic of Two (2013)
- The Rest of Us (2019)
- Runner
- Say Your Prayers (2020)
- Seabiscuit (2003)
- Serpico (1973)
- Shanghai Noon (2000) Touchstone
- Shaolin Soccer (2001)
- Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
- Slash (2016)
- So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993)
- Soapdish (1991)
- Star Trek (2009)
- Stay (2005)
- Stuff (2015)
- Swiped (2018)
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
- Throw Momma From The Train (1987)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
- Tucked (2018)
- We Love You, Sally Carmichael (2017)
- We Take the Low Road (2019)
- When Icarus Fell (2018)
Streaming July 5
- Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016)
Streaming July 6
- Big Brother (Season 24 Premiere) [CBS]
- The Challenge: USA (Season 1 Premiere) [CBS]
Streaming July 10
- SkyMed (Season 1) — PARAMOUNT ORIGINAL
Streaming July 12
- The Only (2022) — PARAMOUNT ORIGINAL
Streaming July 13
- Freakish (Season 1) [Awesomeness TV] (Hulu Original – LMAO)
- South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 — PARAMOUNT ORIGINAL <— STAFF PICK
Streaming July 14
- Beavis and Butt-Head (Seasons 5 & 7) (MTV)
Streaming July 17
- Blood & Treasure (Season 2 Premiere) — PARAMOUNT ORIGINAL
Streaming July 19
- The Day The Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie (2022) — PARAMOUNT ORIGINAL
Streaming July 20
- 100 Days to Fall in Love (Season 1) — ALREADY STREAMING… uh… seriously? Disney+ used to do this all the time…
- Guidance (Seasons 1-3) [Awesomeness TV]
- It’s Pony (Season 1) [NICK] Relisted from February no-show!
- Love Daily (Season 1) [Awesomeness TV]
- Peppa Pig (Season 8) [NICK JR]
Streaming July 22
- Secret Celebrity Renovation (Season 2 Premiere) [CBS]
Streaming July 26
- Never Seen Again (Season 2) — PARAMOUNT ORIGINAL
Streaming July 27
- Betch (Seasons 1-4) [Awesomeness TV]
- The Loud House (Season 5) [NICK] (Not 1.5 year after it aired, is the window finally collapsing?)
- My Dead Ex (Season 1) [Awesomeness TV]
Streaming July 29
- Honor Society (2022) — PARAMOUNT ORIGINAL <— STAFF PICK
Streaming July 31
- The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Drew Ryan is a film, TV, and Disney geek. He has degrees in English, Student Personnel Administration, and Library & Information Science from Lawrence University, Concordia University-Wisconsin, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Interested in the minutia and licensing of streaming service content, he is always publishing lists, suggestions, and advocating for Disney’s missing library to be added to Disney+. Drew subscribes to Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, and Paramount+. You can find him waxing nostalgic over classic Disney Channel or geeking out over Marvel, CW shows, & Disney on Twitter.
