Short answer: there is no Showtime service for Norway, and no longer a separate Showtime service anywhere. Its own app closed on 30 April 2024, and Showtime’s series now stream inside Paramount+. Paramount+ is not offered here either: its “Paramount+ Regions” page lists 28 countries, Norway is not one of them, and neither Paramount+ app was in the Norwegian App Store when we looked on 9 October 2026.
What Norway does get is SkyShowtime. It took over from the Nordic Paramount+ service on 20 September 2022, names Showtime among the brands it draws on, and has carried Showtime-made series such as Dexter: Resurrection, Yellowjackets and The Agency. It is offered on its own and through Telia Play, Altibox and Allente. Its owners are now reviewing the business; we quote what they said, and only that, further down.
If it is the U.S. catalogue you are after, begin with one laptop and one episode: connect the USip residential U.S. IP, make sure the address reads as American, open paramountplus.com in a private window, sign in with your own Paramount+ account and play a Showtime episode for a minute. Paramount+ decides which connections it accepts and can refuse any of them, ours included, so the point of that first check is to learn its answer rather than assume it.
No Norwegian service offers Showtime under its own name. What reaches Norwegian screens comes through SkyShowtime, the joint service of Comcast and Paramount, and through the TV providers that carry it.
| Title or service | In Norway | Compared with Showtime in the U.S. |
|---|---|---|
| SkyShowtime | Launched here on 20 September 2022 and, in its own words, “now replaces Paramount+” in the Nordics. Its releases name Showtime among the brands it draws on. | A European selection, chosen title by title — not the U.S. catalogue |
| Dexter: Resurrection | SkyShowtime’s June 2025 line-up gave it a 12 September 2025 start, with no market left out. A second season has been announced, but we found no Norwegian date for it. | Listed among the titles on Paramount+’s own Showtime page |
| Yellowjackets | One of the “SHOWTIME® originals” SkyShowtime named at its Nordic launch in 2022. Season 4 is announced for every SkyShowtime market except Spain, Portugal and Poland. | In the U.S. it sits inside Paramount+ |
| The Agency | Shown on Telia Play’s SkyShowtime page when we read it on 9 October 2026 | A Showtime original on Paramount+, listed there as The Agency: Central Intelligence |
| Telia Play, Altibox and Allente | Each offers SkyShowtime inside its own TV service; Telia’s page says “Innholdet fra SkyShowtime ligger i Telia Play” | SkyShowtime’s European selection, opened through your provider’s app or box |
| Paramount+ | Not on the “Paramount+ Regions” list, and neither Paramount+ app in the Norwegian App Store (9 October 2026) | The home of the U.S. catalogue: its Premium plan promises “all of SHOWTIME®” |
| TV 2 Play, Viaplay, NRK and HBO Max | We looked for Showtime-made series on their Norwegian sites and could not confirm any | Nothing we could source |
Two cautions go with that table. First, a catalogue is a moving target: SkyShowtime picks its titles market by market and adds them on its own dates, so the only list that counts is the one in the app on the day you open it. Second, SkyShowtime is not Showtime under a new name. It mixes Showtime-made series with Paramount+ originals, Universal films, Sky Studios productions and its own commissions, and nothing on its pages promises the whole U.S. Showtime catalogue.
So search before you set anything up. If you already reach SkyShowtime through Telia, Altibox or Allente, look there first: a Showtime series you can open on a Norwegian subscription needs no U.S. connection at all. The U.S. route is for what is missing here.
SkyShowtime’s future is under review. On 14 September 2026 its board wrote that the shareholders were “commencing a review of strategic options for the business, which includes the possibility of a wind down”, and that “no decisions have been made” (The Desk, 14 September 2026; advanced-television, 15 September 2026). We report that and nothing more, and we make no forecast about the service in Norway.
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Showtime is still a U.S. premium brand, but the way to watch it has changed twice in two years. This is where it stands, taken from Paramount’s and Showtime’s own pages.
Showtime’s help pages said “The SHOWTIME streaming service is being discontinued”, kept standalone subscribers going “until they are discontinued on April 30, 2024”, and sent everyone on with one line: “SHOWTIME programming is now available through Paramount+”.
The Paramount+ plan called “Paramount+ with Showtime” was renamed Paramount+ Premium, as TheWrap reported that day. Only the U.S. cable and satellite channel still carries the longer name.
Paramount+’s U.S. site sums Premium up as “Watch hit originals, movies and all of SHOWTIME® ad free”, and adds: “Access SHOWTIME® originals and movies when you sign up for the Premium plan.”
Essential lists “Access SHOWTIME® Originals”, with a footnote that matters: “Series may not include all episodes”. Two Paramount+ accounts can therefore show two different Showtime shelves.
Paramount completed its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, and the combined company is called Skydance (Forbes). Paramount+’s footer now reads “Paramount+ © 2026 Skydance”. No date has been given for any combined streaming service.
The “Paramount+ Regions” page lists 28 countries: Australia, seven in Europe, three in North America and seventeen in Latin America. Norway is not one of them.
For a reader in Norway the upshot fits in three sentences. The full U.S. Showtime catalogue lives inside a U.S. Paramount+ account, and Premium is the plan that promises all of it. SkyShowtime is a different service with its own European selection. And a residential U.S. IP changes only the network side of a visit to paramountplus.com: it is not an account, not a plan and not permission.
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Norwegian clocks sit six hours ahead of New York’s and nine ahead of Los Angeles’s for most of the year. Europe and the U.S. change their clocks on different Sundays, so twice a year the gap is an hour shorter for a week or two.
| When it is this in the U.S. | Oslo, most weeks | Oslo, 25 Oct–1 Nov 2026 and 14–28 Mar 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight Pacific (3 a.m. Eastern) | 9 a.m. | 8 a.m. |
| Noon Eastern (9 a.m. Pacific) | 6 p.m. | 5 p.m. |
| 8 p.m. Eastern | 2 a.m. | 1 a.m. |
| 9 p.m. Eastern | 3 a.m. | 2 a.m. |
| 10 p.m. Eastern | 4 a.m. | 3 a.m. |
| 9 p.m. Pacific | 6 a.m. | 5 a.m. |
Norwegian clocks go back an hour while the U.S. waits a week. Until 1 November, New York is five hours behind Oslo and Los Angeles eight.
Daylight saving time ends in the U.S., and the usual gaps of six and nine hours return for the winter.
The U.S. puts its clocks forward two weeks ahead of Europe. Until 28 March, New York is again five hours behind Oslo.
Norwegian summer time begins, and the gaps go back to six hours for New York and nine for Los Angeles.
Anything that goes up on a U.S. service at midnight in Los Angeles is ready at 9 a.m. in Oslo — before work rather than after it. A 9 p.m. Eastern broadcast lands at 3 a.m.
Longyearbyen runs on mainland Norwegian time, so every figure in the table applies there as well.
Times worked out with the IANA time-zone database (version 2026c) for Europe/Oslo, America/New_York and America/Los_Angeles. An Oslo evening falls in the American working day: at 8 p.m. here, New York has reached 2 p.m. and Los Angeles 11 a.m.
Paramount+ sees the public address each request comes from. In Norway that address belongs to a Norwegian network, and Nkom’s statistics show how few networks serve most homes and phones.
| How you connect | Biggest providers (Nkom, end of 2025) | What Paramount+ sees |
|---|---|---|
| Home broadband | Altibox 33.6%, Telenor 26.6%, Telia 16.3% and GlobalConnect 6.4% of subscriptions; 77% of home subscriptions run on fibre | A Norwegian IPv4 address — and on most of these lines a Norwegian IPv6 address beside it |
| Mobile and 5G | Telenor 40.4%, Telia 32.8% and Lyse, the group behind Ice and Altibox, 17.1%, out of about 6.12 million subscriptions | A Norwegian address from the operator’s own pool, wherever in the country you are |
| Hotel, office, campus or borettslag Wi-Fi | Whoever runs that network | A Norwegian address, on a network that may restrict the connection types an app such as OpenVPN Connect relies on |
IPv6 is the part most first attempts miss. It is the newer internet address system, running beside the older IPv4, and Norway uses a lot of it. Nkom’s June 2026 report counted IPv6 switched on for 79% of fixed connections at the largest providers at the end of 2025, found that 97% of mobile subscriptions could get an IPv6 address, and put IPv6 use in Norway at 47.8% in March 2026, drawing on measurements from Google, Facebook, APNIC and Cloudflare.
Here is why that matters for Showtime. If the USip connection carries your IPv4 traffic but a site can still reach your device over IPv6, Paramount+ may see an Altibox or Telenor address next to the American one. That is why the first step of the check below asks you to read both lines of an address checker, not just the top one.
Every Norwegian address reads as Norway, whichever provider hands it out, and nothing on this page changes that for your own line. A residential U.S. IP gives the device you connect a U.S. household address for as long as the connection is on, and no longer.
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Plenty of tools will make an address checker say “United States”. The difference lies in the kind of address Paramount+ sees, and in how much a refusal can tell you afterwards.
| Option | The address Paramount+ sees | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Your own Telenor, Telia, Altibox or Ice line | Norwegian, often with a Norwegian IPv6 address as well | Norway is not one of Paramount+’s regions, so do not expect the U.S. service to open |
| Free VPN apps | Server addresses shared by many people at the same moment | Little to learn from: a refusal could be about anyone else on that address |
| Data-centre VPN | An address registered to a hosting company | The flag says U.S., but the address belongs to a server rack rather than a home |
| USip residential U.S. IP | One ordinary consumer address on a U.S. internet provider | A household address you keep for the whole visit; Paramount+ can still refuse it |
That is the whole job: the network layer, and nothing beyond it.
We promise no title and no outcome. We supply one U.S. address.
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Each step rules one thing in or out, so if something fails you know where. Make the first attempt in a laptop browser; the phone and the television can wait until it gives you an answer.
Start the USip connection on the laptop, set up with the Windows or Mac guide, and open an IP address checker. The IPv4 line must say United States. If there is an IPv6 line, it must not name Telenor, Telia, Altibox, Ice or any other Norwegian provider; if it does, deal with that first and read both lines again.
A private window starts without old cookies, so nothing Paramount+ concluded on an earlier visit carries over. Go to paramountplus.com and sign in with the Paramount+ account you already use. USip does not supply one.
Open the Showtime section, choose an episode and let it run for a full minute. While you are there, look at which plan the account shows: Premium carries “all of SHOWTIME®”, while Essential’s Showtime shelf comes with the note “Series may not include all episodes”.
If the episode plays, the network side is settled for now. If Paramount+ shows a message about your location, a VPN or a proxy, copy it word for word, reconnect once and try one more time. If the same message comes back, send that exact wording to USip support instead of trying ten more times.
A minute of playback is not a promise about next week. Paramount+ decides which connections it accepts and can change its view of any address, USip’s included, so treat a good result as today’s answer, not a permanent one.
USip lists its own checks on a separate page, USip’s published checks; we do not summarise them here. For Paramount+ beyond Showtime, see USip’s Paramount+ guide.
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Paramount+ judges every device by the same thing, the address it sees, but some devices hide more from you than others. USip recorded the four videos below in September 2021, when Showtime still had its own app and website. The connection steps in them still apply; the destination has changed, because Showtime now opens inside Paramount+, at paramountplus.com or in the Paramount+ app.
A Windows laptop involves no app store at all, which is why it goes first. Import your USip profile into OpenVPN Connect, connect, read both lines of an address checker and only then open paramountplus.com in a private window. In the 2021 video the last screens show Showtime’s old website; today the same route ends in the Showtime section of Paramount+.
Most Norwegian homes are on fibre, and most fibre lines here hand out IPv6 too, so give the IPv6 line a proper look before you press play.
Step by step: the Windows setup guide.
Two Mac settings deserve a look before you start. iCloud Private Relay changes the way Safari connects, so switch it off while you check. Then look at IPv6 in the network settings: on Norwegian fibre a Mac can hold a Norwegian IPv6 address while its IPv4 address says United States.
The 2021 video ends on Showtime’s former website; follow its connection steps and then go to paramountplus.com instead.
Step by step: the Mac setup guide.
The 2021 video switches the Play Store country to reach the old Showtime app. That app is gone, and the store step is out of date: Google Play Help says “To set up a new country or region, you must be in that location”, and that you “must wait at least 90 days” between changes. Leave your Google account as it is.
Instead, connect and open paramountplus.com in Chrome on the phone. On mobile data, read the IPv6 line as well: Nkom found 97% of Norwegian mobile subscriptions able to get IPv6 at the end of 2025.
Step by step: the Android setup guide.
A Norwegian Apple Account opens the Norwegian App Store, and neither Paramount+ app was listed there on 9 October 2026. The 2021 video shows the old Showtime app and a change of store country. Apple sets its own conditions for moving an account to another country or region, including what happens to subscriptions already on it; read Apple’s support page, listed in the sources, before deciding anything.
Try Safari first: if an episode plays at paramountplus.com, you have your answer without touching the store at all.
Step by step: the iOS setup guide.
Televisions, streaming sticks and games consoles cannot run OpenVPN Connect, so USip sets them up with Smart DNS: you register your home’s public IP address with USip, enter the DNS details in the device’s network settings or once on the router, and register the new address if your provider changes it. The Smart DNS guide has the steps.
The Paramount+ app also has to be offered in that television’s own app store, which we have not checked for Norway. Leave the television until a laptop has played a Showtime episode.
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One residential U.S. IP — an ordinary consumer address on a U.S. ISP, not a server range. USip and Paramount+ are separate services: the plans include the connection only — not a Paramount+ subscription, an app-store region or the rights to any title.
Separate services: these prices are for the USip residential U.S. IP service only. Showtime streams inside Paramount+, a separate service; a Paramount+ subscription and access to any particular series or film are not part of a USip plan.
Apps are offered store by store, and the store follows the country of your account, not the network you happen to be on. That is why the browser comes first from Norway.
The U.S. Paramount+ app is listed in the U.S. App Store only. It was not in the Norwegian store on 9 October 2026.
The international Paramount+ app is listed in the UK, Ireland and Australia. It was not in the Norwegian store either, on the same date.
We could not check Google Play country by country, so we make no claim either way about Norway.
Apple lists its own conditions for moving an Apple Account to another country or region. Read them on Apple’s page before you consider it.
Google Play Help: “To set up a new country or region, you must be in that location”, and you “must wait at least 90 days” before changing it again.
paramountplus.com in a laptop browser involves no store and no account country, so it answers the one question a U.S. address can affect.
Keep the two services apart in your head. SkyShowtime is a European service you use with a Norwegian account; Paramount+ in the U.S. is a separate service with a separate catalogue. Switch the U.S. connection off before you go back to Norwegian apps such as SkyShowtime, NRK TV or Telia Play, which are built for viewers in Norway.
This is a streaming guide, not legal advice. Below is what Norwegian public bodies say, each with its date, followed by the limits of what we can tell you.
We have not found a Norwegian law that bans VPN software as such. We are not lawyers, rules can change, and if the question matters for your job or your situation, ask someone qualified to answer it.
Far from discouraging VPNs, Norway’s National Security Authority (NSM) recommends one in its everyday security advice. Its page “13 råd for bedre sikkerhet på mobile enheter”, updated on 22 April 2024, says “Du bør benytte en VPN-løsning” — you should use a VPN solution — and warns against open Wi-Fi in hotels, cafés and airports.
What Norwegian providers do block is narrower. Nkom’s June 2026 internet report lists, among typical measures, the blocking of domain names in DNS after a court order and the Kripos child-abuse filter. Both are aimed at particular sites, not at the apps people use to connect.
VPNs also came up in the Storting this year: a committee report of 19 May 2026 on an age limit for adult websites (Innst. 321 S (2025–2026)) discussed them as part of its argument. It proposed no rule about using them.
Whether a streaming service lets a connection in is a different question from the law. Paramount+ decides which connections it accepts and can refuse any of them, a residential U.S. IP included; a refusal is its decision, not a legal ruling, and we do not present it as anything else.
Workplaces, schools and housing co-operatives can also set their own rules for the networks they run, so check those before you connect through them.
Answered from Paramount’s, Showtime’s and SkyShowtime’s own pages, Norwegian providers’ pages and Nkom’s figures. Where we could not find a source, the answer says so.
Not as a service of its own. Showtime’s standalone app closed on 30 April 2024, and its series now stream inside Paramount+, which does not list Norway among its regions (checked 9 October 2026). Some Showtime-made series reach Norway through SkyShowtime instead, among them Dexter: Resurrection, Yellowjackets and The Agency, either directly or through Telia Play, Altibox and Allente. SkyShowtime chooses its own titles, and its selection changes over time.
No. The “Paramount+ Regions” page lists 28 countries, and Norway is not among them (read 9 October 2026). Norway did have a Nordic Paramount+ service until 20 September 2022, when SkyShowtime launched and, in its own words, “now replaces Paramount+” in the Nordics. Neither the U.S. nor the international Paramount+ app was listed in the Norwegian App Store on 9 October 2026.
It closed. Showtime’s help pages announced that “The SHOWTIME streaming service is being discontinued”, kept standalone subscribers going “until they are discontinued on April 30, 2024”, and said “SHOWTIME programming is now available through Paramount+”. Older guides and videos, USip’s own from September 2021 among them, still show the separate app. Today the Showtime section is part of paramountplus.com and the Paramount+ app.
On the U.S. site, Paramount+ Premium is the one that promises “all of SHOWTIME®”, in the line “Watch hit originals, movies and all of SHOWTIME® ad free”. Paramount+ Essential lists “Access SHOWTIME® Originals” with the footnote “Series may not include all episodes”. Premium is the plan that until 23 June 2025 was called “Paramount+ with Showtime”; that name now belongs only to the U.S. cable and satellite channel.
On SkyShowtime, as far as its own announcements go. SkyShowtime’s line-up release of 17 June 2025 set the series for 12 September 2025 with no market left out, and Norway is one of its 22 markets. Later releases name a second season but give no Norwegian date. In the U.S. the series is listed on Paramount+’s Showtime page. Catalogues change, so check the SkyShowtime app, or Telia Play, Altibox or Allente if that is how you reach it.
No decision has been announced. On 14 September 2026 SkyShowtime’s board wrote that the shareholders were “commencing a review of strategic options for the business, which includes the possibility of a wind down”, and that “no decisions have been made” (The Desk, 14 September 2026; advanced-television, 15 September 2026). That is everything we can report, and we make no forecast about what it means for Norway.
No, and it does not claim to. SkyShowtime chooses titles for its European markets one at a time, places them beside Paramount+, Universal and Sky Studios programmes, and adds them on its own dates. In the U.S., Paramount+ Premium is the plan that promises “all of SHOWTIME®”. If the series you want is on SkyShowtime in Norway, that is the simpler way to watch it; if it is not, the U.S. service is where it lives.
No. USip and Paramount+ are separate services. USip supplies one residential U.S. IP address, an ordinary consumer address on a U.S. internet provider, together with the set-up to use it. The Paramount+ account, its plan and the rights to every Showtime series belong to Paramount+, which also decides which connections it accepts. You sign in with a Paramount+ account of your own.
Possibly, but make it the last thing you try. A television, streaming stick or console cannot run OpenVPN Connect, so USip uses Smart DNS: you register your home’s public IP address with USip, enter the DNS details in the device or once on the router, and register again if your provider changes that address. The Paramount+ app must also be offered in your TV’s own app store, which we have not checked for Norway.
We have not found a Norwegian law that bans VPN software as such, and Norway’s National Security Authority advises “Du bør benytte en VPN-løsning”, you should use a VPN solution, on mobile devices. What Norwegian providers block, by Nkom’s account, is narrower: domain names after a court order, and the Kripos child-abuse filter. We are not lawyers. Whether a streaming service accepts a connection is a separate question, and that one is Paramount+’s to answer.
Add six hours to New York time and nine to Los Angeles time. Something released at midnight Pacific is ready at 9 a.m. in Oslo, and a 9 p.m. Eastern broadcast airs at 3 a.m. Norwegian time. The gap is an hour shorter from 25 October to 1 November 2026 and from 14 to 28 March 2027, because Norway and the U.S. change their clocks on different Sundays.
Usually because of IPv6. Most Norwegian lines carry a second address of that newer kind, and Nkom counted IPv6 switched on for 79% of the big providers’ fixed connections at the end of 2025. If that line still names Telenor, Telia, Altibox or Ice, Paramount+ can see Norway through it. Old cookies are the other suspect, which is why the check uses a private window. Fix one thing at a time, then try once more.
Not from the Norwegian App Store: on 9 October 2026 neither the U.S. Paramount+ app nor the international one was listed there. Apple sets its own conditions for moving an Apple Account to another country or region, and Google Play Help says “To set up a new country or region, you must be in that location”. That is why we suggest paramountplus.com in a laptop browser first, with no store involved.
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The hub explains Showtime outside the U.S. in general. Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands also have SkyShowtime; Singapore, Israel, Qatar and Belgium do not, so their guides look in other places.
The main pages behind this guide, each read on 9 October 2026. Paramount+, SkyShowtime and the Norwegian providers can change their pages at any time.
Look in SkyShowtime first, directly or through Telia Play, Altibox or Allente. If the Showtime series you want is there, stop: you can watch it on the Norwegian service you already use.
If it is not, the first check takes about ten minutes: the USip connection on a laptop, both address lines read, a private window, your own Paramount+ account and one Showtime episode for one minute. If Paramount+ refuses, keep its exact words and send them to USip support.
USip supplies the residential U.S. IP connection only. Paramount+ accounts, plans and programme rights are Paramount+’s, and Paramount+ can refuse any connection.