SmashTV Network

SmashTV Network is an over-the-top subscription streaming video on demand service owned and operated by SmashTV Enterprises and Viacom. It launched in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan on August 9 2019. It was originally going to launch in Fall 2019, but was pushed to Summer to avoid competition with Disney+. It will be focused on original content (Films and TV shows) from SmashTV as well as content from other networks including MTV, VH1, CBS, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network.

History
The streaming service was announced at San Diego Comic Con 2018 during the SmashTV panel by Viacom CEO Robert M Bakish and SmashTV founders Phil Lord & Chris Miller.

Content
The streaming service hosts original film and television content from SmashTV Productions as well as original content from other studios.

SmashTV Network also has exclusive Pay TV deals with SmashTV Productions (along with film content from SmashTV Animation; No new films will air on the service at launch until 2020 starting with SmashTV Presents: TransBAYmers, as SmashTV's output deal with HBO expires at the end of 2019), Paramount Pictures (along with film content from its subsidiaries Paramount Vantage, Paramount Players, Insurge Pictures, MTV Films, and Nickelodeon Movies), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (along with content from subsidiary United Artists), Lions Gate Entertainment (along with content from subsidiaries Mandate Pictures and Pantelion Films), Amblin Partners, Annapurna Pictures, A24, and Universal Animation Films.

The service also licenses content from other film studios like Warner Bros. Pictures, Sony Pictures, and Universal Pictures. 20th Century Fox and Disney films are not included due to their association with HBO, Disney+, and Hulu.