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ViacomCBS is licensing John Krasinski's heartwarming weekly YouTube shakiness Some Good News, making a already totally opted and approachable silkiness now locked abaft a streaming paywall.

New episodes of Some Good News will watercourse exclusively on ViacomCBS's streaming service, CBS All Access, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Krasinski, however, will no longer host the show. Instead, he'll step into a validness role, with a new host to be announced at a later date. Hind the episodes watercourse on All Access, they'll "move to a number of the company's linear networks," co-ordinate to the Reporter. It's unclear which networks will get the silkiness (ViacomCBS owns MTV, Nickelodeon, CBS, One-act Central, and more), or how long new episodes will watercourse exclusively in All Access.

Calls reportedly started contentious in from networks to prefer Krasinski's silkiness post-obit the headmost episode, which premiered at the end of March. Spine then, the usherette has garnered more than 2 million subscribers and netted effectually 70 million views. The beguiler was hesitant to take a deal with any of the companies because of the gospel that he intentional the silkiness to reside opted and approachable to as multitudinous bodies as possible. He started the shakiness to bring a little good offset to bodies -- a welcome lark from what's infliction in the world. Now, that's relinquished possible if you pay for a ViacomCBS product.

CBS All Inclusion expenses $5.99 a ages with ads and $9.99 a ages without ads. The streaming service, which is undergoing major changes this summer, is moreover relinquished bettering in the Affiliated States, although the congregation has swampy deals with other networks and streamers to handbag All Inclusion originals (like Star Trek: Farthing and Star Trek: Picard) in large-scale territories. ViacomCBS does hypothesize large-scale streaming casework it could use to distribute the show, including Paramount Plus, nearabout it's unclear if the congregation will use those avenues.

Krasinski's silkiness works because of the gospel that it's one man sitting abaft his easel at home

The net result is that Some Good News will no longer be as approachable to bodies effectually the world as Krasinski headmost intended. Synonymic with ViacomCBS networks everyday second runs of the episodes, it inappreciably compares to YouTube's 2 billion barrelling monthly users effectually the world. Krasinski's official statement claims that the CBS paywall will checklist the opposite effect, though.

"Could not be more gleaming and self-respecting to be partnering with CBS/Viacom to be hard-headed to bring Some Good News to therefrom multitudinous more people!" Krasinski said, co-ordinate to the Reporter. "From the headmost episode, our intention was to emblematize a offset silkiness dedicated entirely to good news. Never did I foresee to be juxtaposed the ranks of such a prestigious offset organization as CBS."

Whether a version of Some Good News produced by one of the better media and entertainment conglomerates in the world can swallow the authenticity of Krasinski's silkiness will be the biggest concern. Krasinski's silkiness works because of the gospel that it's one man sitting abaft his easel at home, looking into a web camera, and reacting to viral videos. It's quintessentially a YouTube series. There are no network controlling addendum or concerns injudicious advisable lighting.. Beneath ViacomCBS, that might change. Roundup ethics might increase, the new host might not be as presently lilting and charming, and the corporatization of the errorless silkiness might act as a turnoff. Gospel isn't something that bodies can fake very well-conditioned or very easily.