Paramount Kills More Online Content, Axing Archives From Comedy Central, MTV, TV Land and CMT

Viewers who want their fix of classic “Daily Show” or “South Park” clips will have to look elsewhere

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Paramount moved to pull down archived content from MTV News earlier this week, including decades of entertainment coverage. Now the reaper comes for the online homes of Comedy Central, MTV itself, TV Land, Logo TV, the Paramount Network and CMT, instead directing visitors to network-branded versions of Paramount+.

Instead of the traditional versions of these sites, the new pages include tailored collections of Paramount+ content meant to appeal to the fans of each of the company’s traditional outlets. The end of the Comedy Central site marks one of the biggest losses of online video content, including clips from beloved series such as “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” that don’t live elsewhere — not even on Paramount+.

Mike Roe

Mike Roe joined the staff as Weekend News Editor for TheWrap in 2023. Before that, he wrote “The 30 Rock Book” for publisher Abrams and won an L.A. Press Club award for his oral history of “30 Rock’s” “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.” Previously, Mike spent more than a decade as a journalist for NPR station LAist/KPCC,…

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    Michael Kaplan

    How much money could this actually save the suits at Paramount? I can certainly understand the need to streamline the current website, but couldn’t all this digital material be handed over to some nonprofit for future retrieval? 

    This isn’t exactly like the burning of the library at Alexandria, but it’s not nothing, either.

    There oughta be a law about this. And I mean that literally. 

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