News Star Trek Prodigy Cancelled, Season 2 to be shopped around
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Willow didn't even deserve to be Willow'ed.
Ugh, so tired of Kennedy bashing.
Nah. Don't care because those talking points are already stale.Brace yourself for the weeks ahead
For me, physical media became really important years ago when I read about Amazon removing online content that people paid for. Ever since then I have refused to pay for a digital movie because I know that at any moment it can be removed and that's money wasted.
I honestly don't get the reason for removing the entire show from the streaming service. Anyone that streams who is a Star Trek fan is on Paramount Plus. How many people have "discovered" Star Trek shows that never got to see them the first time around? I know they're going thru a consolidation with Showtime, but that shouldn't affect bandwith.
It's not too late for them to change their minds.
If they might allow their catalog to be licensed they may want their strongest performers on it.
From what I understand by removing it from the service they don’t have to pay the residuals. Once a new home if for that starts up again.
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Again, it's a cost saving measure. Demonstrate it will make money and it will survive.
For what it's worth, there is a petition to save the show.
https://www.change.org/p/save-star-...itial&share_bandit_exp=initial-36638378-en-US
https://www.change.org/p/save-star-...itial&share_bandit_exp=initial-36638378-en-US
Oh, what a shame. I really enjoyed Prodigy and came to love the characters and hope to see them complete their arcs. I hope the second season at least has a satisfying ending. Then, of course, I must hope there will be a way for me to view it. Can they sell physical copies?
My guess is Paramount is deleting it for the same reason that Warner Bros. Discovery took a LOT of stuff off of Max (formerly HBO Max); to offset debt.
There's partial tax write-offs that media companies can achieve by removing content. By taking it off the streaming service, the costs which have been amortized — or assigned a cost that gets recognized by an entity across multiple years — over the series' expected lifetime get a partial write down. If years on that timeline remain, a company can remove that asset from distribution and use its remaining cost balance to offset taxable income elsewhere.
Paramount also gets out of having to pay residuals to actors and writers. It's Ferengi economics.
Exactly. It's something special. Was really looking forward to season 2. I hope that they get picked up.
This is another example of this being the wrong timeline. I'm dumbfounded that they'd cancel, for my money, the best of the new Star Trek shows. The most original, aspirational, and Star Trek of them. The one playing the long game in bringing in a new generation of both fans and maybe even just well-adjusted human beings. What are they thinking, that fucking Academy is going to do it – going to bring in a new generation of fans to an aging franchise? Yeah, good luck with that. I really hope it works. But Christ do I feel like the execs are just disconnected from quality entertainment. Again, timeline. Like out there somewhere there's a For All Mankind-like alternate universe where PRO continued, Star Wars stuck the landing, 9/11 didn't happen, and we're all celebrating the first man on Mars.
Well, their job is making money, allocating resources, and making a profit for their shareholders. Unfortunately the numbers don't tell the whole story.
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