News Star Trek Prodigy Cancelled, Season 2 to be shopped around
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And a lot of cost saving measures. Spending money is not exactly their goal right now.
Like seriously, the closest we came was "The Cage" and maybe TAS.
They also have Doctor Who now, too. They have upped the budget of Doctor Who to £10 million per episode. This same upscaling of budget could have a positive impact on both Prodigy and the new Star Trek film which they can’t seem to make for some weird reason.
Just imagine what the Prodigy team would be able to render on a Disney budget! But alas, I would imagine that they have completed most of the animation by now. Would Disney (or whoever may buy it) be able to renew for a season 3 if the show streams well for them?
Yep, plus Disney is focusing on theatrical hits, especially in the light of Elemental's failure. Trek movies have historically been not great box office draws really, so I can't see Disney bothering with the Trek franchise at all.
Maybe you're not aware of how Disney burned a whole swath of fantasy fans with what they did to Willow recently.They also have Doctor Who now, too. They have upped the budget of Doctor Who to £10 million per episode. This same upscaling of budget could have a positive impact on both Prodigy and the new Star Trek film which they can’t seem to make for some weird reason.
Just imagine what the Prodigy team would be able to render on a Disney budget! But alas, I would imagine that they have completed most of the animation by now. Would Disney (or whoever may buy it) be able to renew for a season 3 if the show streams well for them?
Wow I didn't know Disney now owned Dr. Who.
Paramount+ is not going anywhere. Paramount is in streaming for the long haul and it owns and runs a 100% free (driven by commercials like 'regular TV', called Pluto TV; and it's even used Pluto TV to promote both Picard S3 when it was new (Pluto TV streamed the first episode of Picard S3 on its STAR TREK channel (where it usually alternates between streaming TOS and TNG); and Streamed Picard S2 (while S3 was new on P+) on its Paramount Picks channel; and then had Picard S2 available for free on demand on Pluto TV while new episodes of S3 were streaming on P+.
They repeated this Pluto TV marketing strategy for Strange New Worlds.
Last weekend Pluto TV streamed all 10 episodes of SNW S1 on their Star Trek channel, as well as their Paramount Picks channel, and now have SNW S1 available on demand for free on Pluto TV.
Star Trek isn't P+'s main subscriber draw (although the Star Trek franchise is still a major player for them), Yellowstone and its spinoffs are - and P+ recently just announced another such spinoff.
It looks like for Star Trek they plan to keep two live action series going with alternating filming schedules (as well as fitting their streaming Star Trek film productions into the mix) so the Production studio they built in Canada is used year round.
Two live action series, a live action streaming film, and one remaining animated series is still a lot of Trek content.
If they start cutting into that further in the near term, then yeah I may agree with you, but right now, they're just another streaming studio cutting costs a bit.
They don't fully and I think @Timofnine is massively distorting the partnership Disney has with BBC for distribution rights outside of UK for Dr. Who in return for a say in its production. That's like saying Netflix owns Star Trek because they distribute it in countries outside the US: https://deadline.com/2022/10/doctor-who-moves-to-disney-plus-outside-uk-and-ireland-1235154220/
They would likely not spend the money right now. They are cutting costs extremely heavily, across all departments.They also have Doctor Who now, too. They have upped the budget of Doctor Who to £10 million per episode. This same upscaling of budget could have a positive impact on both Prodigy and the new Star Trek film which they can’t seem to make for some weird reason.
Just imagine what the Prodigy team would be able to render on a Disney budget! But alas, I would imagine that they have completed most of the animation by now. Would Disney (or whoever may buy it) be able to renew for a season 3 if the show streams well for them?
Disney are distributing Doctor Who internationally on Disney+ and part funding, it is still a BBC production and will be shown on the BBC in the UK. Whoever pays the big bucks to fund a show is technically the owner, as the production company want their money and will bend over to get it, production and high salaries would not be possible without it. This is how the entertainment industry works. Disney would *not* put their name on to something that they would not agree with. Perhaps this is why Paramount/Nickelodeon got rid of Prodigy? Is it possible that some of the season 2 content was not suitable for their viewership? I am assuming that Nickelodeon will no longer be broadcasting Prodigy either?
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I mean, 20th century Fox famously financed 1977 Star Wars and they haven't been the owner of anything Star Wars in a long time, at least until Disney coincidentally bought out both Star Wars and 20th century Fox at around the same time.
Are you sure? The real Janeway only showed up in a few episodes and was already flipping out to the point that Jellico called her out on it. Most of this show featured holo-Janeway.Too bad. Prodigy showed what Janeway, one of my favorite Trek captains, could be like on a show that had competent showrunners.
For some reason we give Berman era Trek a pass for ignoring huge chunks of TOS's worldbuilding in favor of it's own because of a couple "very special" episodes used recreations of the original sets and preserved visual continuity. Shoot, they treated Spock of all characters as a bumbling moron that needed to be saved by Picard and Data. Imagine the screeching and poo-flinging today if Burnham and Saru had to rescue Picard from a predicament where his "naïvety" got him in trouble.
I do not know anything about the enemy franchise, ‘Star Wars’.
However, I would imagine that Fox would not have financed Star Wars if they had not expected it to make them big financial returns. When the residuals of an intellectual property eventually depreciate, it makes sense to sell it off cheap to another company with a bigger budget assuming that the company who originally produced the material and those involved made their money back (and some). The new investors can pump more money in to their new acquisition, hype it up with a media campaign and attempt to recruit new fans as well as having a loyal annd already established fan base. I am assuming that the size of the fan base is somehow costed in to a franchises value, using some really complicated math.
Well no, actually. Fox, specifically Al Lad Jr., had confidence that it would be a good support movie incase their big budget film of the year, "Damnation Alley," flopped. He felt that Lucas had a decent idea that could be marketable for a nice family summer movie and give them a little more money. It was not expected to explode as it did.
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