> SkyShowtime, the European streaming joint venture of Comcast and Paramount Global, will continue its rollout with its biggest expansion to date via its launch in eight new markets across Central and Eastern Europe on Feb. 14. > > The streamer said on Tuesday that it would debut on that day in Albania, Czechia, Hungary, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. This will bring its reach to 20 of its 22 targeted markets.

Well, Paramount+ and Peacock are fighting individually, while there's a really good idea in this joint venture. Together they would have a great amount of shows and movies and an enviable streaming sports programming. The market is bad and we will see some consolidations this year and next.

I wonder if the problem is that their audience profiles are too similar and merging them in USA would only result in losing subs of those that pay for both services.

On paper that should have been the case. But so far there have been many problems in the markets they have launched in already putting a real stopper in any momentum.

They need to fix their app. Video playback is horribly choppy and the app is super slow.

I've had this since last year and it's a bit disappointing. Not a lot of content and new episodes arrive weeks after their American premieres.

EDIT: and subtitle support is weirdly sporadic. I understand that Danish subtitles aren't always available but half the Star Trek TNG episodes don't have English subtitles. I'm fairly sure those have existed for decades.