Let's see: What's most popular on Canadian broadcast television?
The Amazing Race (Canadian edition), Big Brother, News, Sports programming, and Jeopardy.
So-called "reality shows," game shows, and sports consistently rank higher with the masses than an imported streaming science fiction show with a long pedigree and niche appeal.
Same as it ever was in Newton Minow's "vast wasteland."
I haven't been a fan of Star Trek for fifty years because it has widespread mass appeal.
I'm a fan because it appeals to me - which is the only audience whose judgement and approval I take into consideration.
I grew up with most of the shows I enjoyed getting cancelled before their initial thirteen week commitment was up while shows that I despised on an artistic, dramatic, and creative level continued for years and years.
The metrics for success for a streaming program are different than for an OTA broadcast program - and presumably easier to meet, just as the metrics for success for a nationally syndicated program like TNG or DS9 were easier to meet than a network program 30-odd years ago.
Hell, the audience shares many of today's popular broadcast programs receive today would've gotten them cancelled forty years ago.
We don't have the real numbers, or the context, or the internal benchmarks Paramount+ is using to guide their decisions, and the Canadian market alone is not sufficient to make an accurate assessment of trends in all markets where SNW is available for viewing.
The Amazing Race (Canadian edition), Big Brother, News, Sports programming, and Jeopardy.
So-called "reality shows," game shows, and sports consistently rank higher with the masses than an imported streaming science fiction show with a long pedigree and niche appeal.
Same as it ever was in Newton Minow's "vast wasteland."
I haven't been a fan of Star Trek for fifty years because it has widespread mass appeal.
I'm a fan because it appeals to me - which is the only audience whose judgement and approval I take into consideration.
I grew up with most of the shows I enjoyed getting cancelled before their initial thirteen week commitment was up while shows that I despised on an artistic, dramatic, and creative level continued for years and years.
The metrics for success for a streaming program are different than for an OTA broadcast program - and presumably easier to meet, just as the metrics for success for a nationally syndicated program like TNG or DS9 were easier to meet than a network program 30-odd years ago.
Hell, the audience shares many of today's popular broadcast programs receive today would've gotten them cancelled forty years ago.
We don't have the real numbers, or the context, or the internal benchmarks Paramount+ is using to guide their decisions, and the Canadian market alone is not sufficient to make an accurate assessment of trends in all markets where SNW is available for viewing.
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