‘Evil’ Set to Jump From CBS to Paramount+ for Season 2
CBS drama Evil looks to be relocating to a new home on the network’s streaming service Paramount+.
The supernatural series created by Robert and Michelle King (The Good Fight) was renewed for a second season back in October 2019 but has been sitting in limbo ever since the Season 1 finale, which aired in January 2020. However, according to Entertainment Weekly, it appears the new season might finally see the light of day on Paramount+.
While CBS and Paramount+ have yet to comment on the matter, an official announcement is expected at the ViacomCBS Upfronts presentation on Wednesday, May 19. Evil would be the third CBS show to make the migration over to the streamer, along with SEAL Team and Clarice, which Deadline recently reported would be making the transition in their upcoming seasons.
Evil premiered in September 2019 and revolves around a forensic psychologist (Katja Herbers) who teams with a trainee Catholic priest (Mike Colter) and a technology contractor (Aasif Mandvi) to investigate mysterious and potentially supernatural incidents. The show also stars Michael Emerson, Kurt Fuller, Marti Matulis, Brooklyn Shuck, Skylar Gray, Maddy Crocco, Dalya Knapp, and Christine Lahti.
CBS released a lockdown-inspired trailer for Season 2 during Evil‘s panel at the New York Comic Con in October, which sees the cast creating their own sound effects and narrating potential footage from the show. Co-creator Robert King also teased what’s to come in the second season in terms of new characters and stories.
“This season has like an avenging angel character that is supposedly good, but talks in terms of evil — evil in terms of killing millions of people and so on,” King explained. “There is a character named Abby, who is a version of George (a demon in the series played by Matulis). We have, I would say, five or six new scary things this year.”
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This is such a bait and switch. A show begins on Network. It develops a slew of cord-cutting fans, many who cannot afford multiple streaming services, and m,any who live in areas where streaming is almost impossible. They thrive on OTA TV. They announce renewal, and fans eagerly wait. Then after a year of silence, they come out and say "ha ha...psyche! If you want to see this, now you need to pay, despite that carrot we dangled."
I understand CBS All Access and its successor never were able to attract the number of subscribers they wanted, and they need a show that will entice folks to join. But putting OTA content behind a paywall is disrespectful to all of the folks who cannot afford pay TV. If it started on Pay TV, even cable, then this might be fair. But it disenfranchises a HUGE part of the fandom, the ones who only became fans BECAUSE this was an OTA Network show vs something else behind a paywall.
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i guess we'll have to pay to watch anything good from free TV.....i guess it's all about greed...😡
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Not happy about this. Loved the show on CBS. Thanks for treating your viewers so poorly.
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I was so excited that the second season of Evil was finally coming out. Now I am totally disappointed. Corporate greed really sucks!
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Seriously?! AMC did the same thing with the 2nd season of A Discovery of Witches. It hurts the fans as we can't continue to buy new streaming channels just to continue to watch our shows. At least AMC+ is showing 2nd season of A Discovery of Witches on AMC starting in June. One can only hope that Paramount+ does the same and shows the transition shows after they've finished airing on either CBS or Paramount so we don't have to wait till they come out on DVD.
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I subscribe to cable for a number of channels I'm partial to, and do not want to spend more $$ to get streaming services. But it appears that several of the basic (over-the-air [OTA]) networks will be joining the channels I never visit because I am not interested in game and talent competition shows. OTA networks are quick to cancel moderately-successful scripted shows and, if they are hugely successful, they are moved to streaming services. If this is the new normal, I'll do without.
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