Paramount Network is an American general entertainment cable and satellite channel owned by the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.
Paramount Network is the home of Heathers.
History[]
The channel initially featured programming catering towards the culture of the Southern United States, including country music, variety shows, outdoors programming, and motor racing coverage (such as NASCAR).
In August 2003, the channel relaunched as Spike TV, which targeted a young adult male audience. In June 2006, Spike rebranded with a more explicit focus on the action genre. In 2010, Spike began to shift its programming towards a wider demographic reach with an increased focus on reality series. This culminated with a final rebrand in 2015 to emphasize gender-balanced series such as Lip Sync Battle and a return to original scripted programming.
On January 18, 2018, Spike relaunched as Paramount Network and relocated its headquarters to the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Los Angeles, California, aiming to align it with its namesake film studio (which previously lent its name to a proposed re-branding of the now-defunct broadcast television network UPN). The network has been positioned by Viacom as a general "flagship" outlet for original scripted series, competing with other "premium" basic-tier subscription networks such as AMC and FX.
Heathers[]
On June 1, 2018 Paramount decided to cancel Heathers and pull the upcoming episodes from their schedule. They tried to shop the series elsewhere in the hopes of finding it a new home on a different network/service where it could have a longer future.
Unable to find a new home for the show, Paramount Network chose to air an edited version of the show for Halloween. This included changing a scene in episode five that originally featured teachers holding guns in a first-person video game played by JD. The show's finale, which included the famous scene from the movie where the high school is blown up, was also scrapped resulting in the final two episodes being combined to create a cliffhanger.
Heathers became available to stream on the Paramount Network app and website on October 22, 2018 while the series began airing two episodes a night on the Paramount Network starting October 25, 2018.
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The Heathers cast at the Paramount Network's launch party.
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