September 24th premier!

[CorporalClegg]

There's already over four dozen different video streaming services running $5+ a month. Netflix, Hulu, CBS All Access, YouTube Red, WWE Network, HBO, Showtime, Starz, and Comic-Con HQ are just the ones I can name off the top of my head.

And most of them are either part of a package deal or have too small of a market share to matter, which only supports my point about trending towards consolidation.

I have HBO, Stars and Showtime (and a few other smaller ones) as throw-ins to other subscriptions.

ETA: I should add that my initial point was to demonstrate that CBSAA is the first time a major network has made a concerted effort to jump into the market with an "independent" (for lack of a better term) service. All other network-affiliated services have been supplementary up to this point--including CBSAA. So it's way too early to judge how successful it is or will be.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Epic!

Whoa! Where is that from?

 

[Michael]

Whoa! Where is that from?

The link in the post by @RAMA I quoted.

 

[RAMA]

I think those have been taken off Netflix because of CBS obsession with CBSAA.

If you catch my drift...



Hey, you're in the US! You aren't supposed to see that!

I can do it, I have the technology. lol

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[KirkusOveractus]

The link in the post by @RAMA I quoted.

Thank you! I ended up scrolling past it quickly the first time!

 

[Squiggy]

I get releasing the show weekly on streaming but my thing was the holiday split they are still doing. For it being on a streaming service and still have a hiatus feels odd to say the least.

They're trying to get people signing on JUST for Discovery to forget and stay subscribed for another month than they would otherwise.

 

[Michael]

I'm so glad they finally kicked off the marketing campaign for real. So exciting! And you can really tell that this is a new team at the helm, with new, fresh ideas. I doubt we would have seen anything like the above promo image from the old guard. Don't get me wrong, I love Berman-era Trek, but getting a new perspective and an entirely new approach to the franchise on the small screen is something I almost gave up on.

 

[SAndrews10]

Just annoying implementation. Streaming tv but with the broadcast mentality that we need to have a mid season finale, go on hiatus and then come back in the new year. That's not very millennial at all.

 

[CorporalClegg]

It's possible that might change in the future. But it benefits CBS to do it that way for both production scheduling/costs and viewership retention. But neither of those things may be true in the future, especially if they start adding more shows.

 

[Vger23]

CYNICAL VIEWPOINT:

Well, shit! There's a different take on things for a sci-fi fan message board!

 

[Vger23]

Some of you folks do realize that there is more than just DSC on CBSAA, don't you? I pay $6.00 a month, and watch a lot of classic TV shows I like, as well as some movies I like to see more than once. Some of these have been taken off Netflix in favor of their obsession with original programming, and I can still watch it on CBSAA.

To me, it's well worth the $6.00 a month, and DSC will be icing on the cake.

This is the part that I'm wondering about the "never had to pay for Trek before". Never went to see the movies in a theatre, at least?

Or bought a book? A comic? A ship model? Gone to a convention? No memorabilia? No shirts or bumper stickers or video games? Nothing? Really not a single red cent on anything Trek related?

That would...that would just make me sad...

BUT IT'S THE PRINCIPLE OF THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!!

 

[JD]

If DSC works like CBSAA's other exclusive show, The Good Fight, then it'll work like this: an episode comes out every week, every episode that has already been released is available immediately regardless of when you subscribe. So if you were to subscribe to CBSAA right now, the entire season 1 of Good Fight would be available to you. Unless CBS decides to upend their entire model and go against the industry standard (which would be dumb) I think people can safely expect this to be the case for DSC too. There's nothing in CBS's current model that suggests they'll be removing episodes to prevent late subscribers. That would just be making it harder for people to give you money.

I meant for the stuff that airs on TV, like the NCISs, Elementary, 2 Broke Girls, and Big Bang Theory.

And we've now gotten an explanation for the delays, which basically comes down to making sets, costumes, ect. is a lot more time consuming that they expected. I understand that this stuff is complicated and time consuming, but it still seems a little odd to me that it would take this much longer than expected.

 

[Four Lights]

Unfortunately, September 24th is a bad date. I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy, so I hate to be the one to prove a previous poster's prediction correct that someone would come in here and rain on a parade. But I'm just not sure about this timeslot. It's running from 8:30-9:30PM according to the official website. A funky slot by any reckoning, but it's also following a 90-minute premiere of 60 Minutes, itself a paradoxical statement. Heh. But seriously, though, CBS wants fresh faces on this franchise -- young folks who are hip on streaming and want to fork over cash for premium content. I cannot think of a less millennial-focused show than 60 Minutes.

I'm not in the States, but from what I know of '60 Minutes' isn't it the premier current affairs show over there? With Trek always representing the thinking person's sci-fi, I would have thought this therefore was a good spot to showcase Discovery in? It'll also be an older demographic of people who remember the shows from regular TV, and might already have some affection for the franchise. The CBS broadcast is probably aimed more at them.

The youth will get into it from word of mouth buzz, the twittersphere and streaming. If they get into it of course (here's hoping).

 

[SAndrews10]

60 minutes is the show your grandfather watches before going to bed at 8pm that's the WORST and OLDEST skewing show the network has.

 

[Spider]

Oh, for fuck's sake. They're still going to force a break on a show that only has 15 episodes in the season? Ugh.

My feelings exactly. That "free" episode on CBS had better be really fucking good, or else I just be waiting for it to show up on a streaming service somewhere and binge the whole season. Which is actually a better way to watch shows that have short seasons like this.

 

[Vger23]

I'm going to sign up for multiple subscriptions just to spite the cranky bastards who are spouting the foolishness about how it's a crime against humanity to charge $6 a month to watch a show from a franchise I love as much as anything besides my family and friends.

 

[SAndrews10]

I know I'm probably in the minority but I'd prefer just holding until January 2018 to just run it straight through. We've waited this long. And now if someone wants to wait to do it just like that they're looking at Spring 2018.

 

[Farscape One]

I know I'm probably in the minority but I'd prefer just holding until January 2018 to just run it straight through. We've waited this long. And now if someone wants to wait to do it just like that they're looking at Spring 2018.

I agree. It has taken this long to bring it to life, what would a few more months mean?

This is just CBS trying to get people to subscribe and forget about that month on the break to get more money.

From what I understand of All Access, if you still paid for say November, and unsubscribe on November 6 or 7, right after the break starts, you don't get a prorate. You paid for the whole month. I bet what they will do is bring it back January 28, or late in the month like that, to get people who did remember to unsubscribe during the break to pay for it so they can watch, but it will be the full price for just having those few days of January left.

I just don't see the need for a break in the season when it is an online thing anyway. Just start the whole thing in January.

 

[RAMA]

I know I'm probably in the minority but I'd prefer just holding until January 2018 to just run it straight through. We've waited this long. And now if someone wants to wait to do it just like that they're looking at Spring 2018.

Almost every show that runs weekly takes a break in between. This is nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[cultcross]

The reality is that if they didn't take a break, the premiere date would be later. If they're on, what, episode 7 or 8(?) at the moment, I doubt they would have the full season finished and good to go by September.