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Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 3:55 PM

Paramount Plus Error "Something Went Wrong" just recently

Since the beginning of Feb 2026, we have been getting the following error when watching reruns of NCIS: New Orleans on Paramount Plus:

The error appears after a long streaming delay, apparently up to 10 minutes into the episode, based on repeated experiments.

(Ignoring the annoying delay that occurs regularly at about 23 seconds into the episode.  Actually, that is the time when P+ recovers from the delay.)

The error above appears for "all" episodes, selected randomly.

I say "since the beginning of Feb 2026" because we had no problem watching some of the same episodes just before Feb.

We do not see the error when watching episodes of other series, for example NCIS: Sydney.

Because the problem seems to be series-specific, I am sure it has nothing to do with our cable box and the connection between it and Xfinity.

Instead, I suspect the problem has to do with the backend network and/or servers at Xfinity or, more likely, Paramount Plus.

Nevertheless, I have power-cycled the cable box.  And Xfinity tech support has done some preliminary troubleshooting, to no avail.

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2 months ago

Same issue! I am really about to cancel Comcast since it seems to be unable to stream Paramount plus!

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6 days ago

Failure to load after viewing two shows 

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3 days ago

Same here. And I don’t want to hear reboot etc. if all these people have had for years seriously I think we should get some free months

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3 days ago

Hey Xfinity, so this issue has been going on for months with too many users including myself. At what point do you think it’s a YOU problem NOT a users problem? Everything Iread from YOU and suggestions to fix is the ultimate insanity wheel, doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result!  Reading this string has finally convinved tolookfor another provider after over 20 years! Frankly sickening!

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Good evening, @user_xnlacn! I am sorry that you are experiencing concerns with the Paramount+ app. We do ask for troubleshooting steps to see if we can fix it. If not, the troubleshooting steps are recorded and put into a ticket for our advanced repair team. The tickets are looked at for any engineering concerns, or known issues affecting everyone. If it is a known issue, no further troubleshooting is needed as we are working on the problem for everyone already.

 

We appreciate the help you have provided on that front and don't want you to feel like you are going in circles. There is a known issue with the Paramount+ app intermittently buffering and or freezing. Exiting and relaunching the app, clearing the local data storage, or rebooting the device can help when that is happening to get it working again. We are still working on an overall fix so you don't need to take additional steps and can just watch the app without worry. 

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