The dim but amiable yellow cartoon hero ushers in another new streaming service with the full-length “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run” (Paramount+, streaming), which involves a search for SpongeBob’s beloved pet snail Gary who has gone missing.
It accompanies a similarly different looking computer generated series about SpongeBob and his pals when they were kids at camp, “Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years” (Paramount+, streaming).
I have to say of all the new offerings the service is making available today the most intriguing to me is a series documenting the reunion 30 years later, of the cast of MTV’s most influential reality series. “The Real World Homecoming: New York” (Paramount+, streaming) features most if not all the original cast.
Part of the package includes something called “60 Minutes Plus” (Paramount+, streaming), a newsmagazine which I’m guessing is at least 61 minutes long. Also, a second season starts for the clever “Tooning Out the News” (Paramount+, streaming) that would have been on CBS All Access.
In addition to subsuming what used to be CBS All Access, the new Paramount+ will have a library of 30,000 episodes and 2.500 movies from the holdings of Viacom from Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, BET, the Paramount network and MTV, while updating a lot of their titles with reboots of shows from “Fraiser” to “Rugrats” — but not immediately.
A big streaming service that started two months ago won’t be undone, presenting two new series today, the true crime “The Deadly Type with Candice DeLong” (Discovery+, streaming) and the documentary “The Walrus and the Whistleblower” (Discovery+, streaming).