While streaming services focus on quantity over quality, Showtime wants to make it clear that it's focus is on crafting distinctive series like The Good Lord Bird -- it's more artistic, less corporate. “You look at the product on Showtime. It is more coastal. It is more R-rated. It is not as broad as we intend Paramount Plus to be,” said Bob Bakish, VIacomCBS’ president and CEO, speaking to investors at a recent conference organized by UBS. “And therefore, we think there is a role for it, broadly speaking, in the ecosystem. And by the way, we like Showtime’s lane even more relative to the competition — traditional competition, given what’s going on in the category.”
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