News Star Trek Prodigy Cancelled, Season 2 to be shopped around

[Captain Fine]

I truly hope you're right, and this is all a big system oddity or whatever. But I'm fairly sure the shows haven't had an "available until" date associated with them (like you are saying for The Ark), on the service itself, until now.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.



Do they typically issue a press release for shows that are leaving the service? (Not being sarcastic, genuinely asking. I don't often pay attention to that kind of thing.)

I just checked Crave myself and yeah it really looks like Star Trek is leaving the service. I always kinda expected it to happen eventually once Paramount+ came to Canada, but now, with Prodigy S2 still to come, it makes it unfortunately ominous. The only reason I had Crave was to watch Star Trek.

 

[trekfan_1]

I just checked Crave myself and yeah it really looks like Star Trek is leaving the service. I always kinda expected it to happen eventually once Paramount+ came to Canada, but now, with Prodigy S2 still to come, it makes it unfortunately ominous. The only reason I had Crave was to watch Star Trek.

Thankfully, I already subscribe to Netflix Canada which still has the legacy series ( for now).

 

[Continuous Cosmos]

Well that's very unanticipated, unfortunate and unbelievable news for certain. Hoping the show can amazingly have a third or even fourth season on whatsoever new streaming platform. Whilst wishing, of course, the very best for Star Trek Prodigy too.

 

[wayoung]

I truly hope you're right, and this is all a big system oddity or whatever. But I'm fairly sure the shows haven't had an "available until" date associated with them (like you are saying for The Ark), on the service itself, until now.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.



Do they typically issue a press release for shows that are leaving the service? (Not being sarcastic, genuinely asking. I don't often pay attention to that kind of thing.)

Yes. Each month they put out press releases for major new releases and "leaving this month" films/tv. They just don't get reported outside places like Mobile Syrup and other online entertainment sites. They also post them on social media

In this case they didn't mention it at all.

 

[Tosk]

Hopefully this rush on the DVD and Blu-ray release means that we don't have any danger of the back half going unreleased on disc. I'm not happy about season two being up in the air, but I'd be really pissed off if the rest of season one didn't get a physical release.

 

[wayoung]

Hopefully this rush on the DVD and Blu-ray release means that we don't have any danger of the back half going unreleased on disc. I'm not happy about season two being up in the air, but I'd be really pissed off if the rest of season one didn't get a physical release.

They won't release it on disc if they are writing it off. They can't. Whether it comes out on physical media will depend on if they find someone willing to buy it, and then demand & contractual agreements.

 

[Tosk]

They won't release it on disc if they are writing it off. They can't. Whether it comes out on physical media will depend on if they find someone willing to buy it, and then demand & contractual agreements.

You're guessing, we don't know the ins-and-outs of the write-off. Unlike Batgirl, the show was released to the public so it's a different situation. And other shows that have been pulled remain in print on disc, so who knows.

 

[Alpharius]

This is heartbreaking. But, I guess it was about time the Paramount+ Era of Trek would have its first early cancelation/termination. When I heard Amazon and Paramount were having arguments about how they were changing Picard's over seas distributions is when I started to fear something like this would be on the horizon.

 

[wayoung]

You're guessing, we don't know the ins-and-outs of the write-off. Unlike Batgirl, the show was released to the public so it's a different situation. And other shows that have been pulled remain in print on disc, so who knows.

Past shows that have been pulled were rotated off and resold, not pulled and wrote off their taxes which is what Paramount has said they are doing if they can't sell it, just like HBO and Disney have done in the last year. If they write it off the existing physical media is all that can be made, they can't make more. You can't write it off and continue to sell it. That's tax fraud.

 

[Tosk]

wrote off their taxes which is what Paramount has said they are doing if they can't sell it

I don't see that in the statement from Paramount+. That there is even a write-off at all is speculation at this point.

Edit: To be clear, when I say it's speculation I don't mean that to say that I am blind to the likely reason the show was pulled. I just mean that we do not yet have actual proof of that. And I return to my main point regardless...if that is what is taking place, we still don't know what specifics are part of it.

 

[herofhyrule]

Exactly. The announcement specifically said that they're shopping it around. If they just wanted a tax write-off, they wouldn't be able to do that.

 

[wayoung]

I don't see that in the statement from Paramount+. That there is even a write-off at all is speculation at this point.

Edit: To be clear, when I say it's speculation I don't mean that to say that I am blind to the likely reason the show was pulled. I just mean that we do not yet have actual proof of that. And I return to my main point regardless...if that is what is taking place, we still don't know what specifics are part of it.

The Hollywood Reporter says otherwise. If the show's aren't bought, they're being used for the write off. They used it as the lede of their article. And the specifics are the same as any case: you can't realize revenue on something you've written off. If it's a loss, it's a loss. The whole point of writing something off is that you are saying it's unprofitable and you will not realize future revenue on it. You can't say "well, I'm still gonna recieved income from it, but I am still writing it off my taxes as a loss".

Exactly. The announcement specifically said that they're shopping it around. If they just wanted a tax write-off, they wouldn't be able to do that.

Hence the "if" in my post. If they aren't bought, they're being written off. Just like Disney said about it's $1.5 billion of programming that they then didn't sell and wrote off.

Deja vu all over again. I swear I have had this same conversation each time a corporation has done this. WBD, Disney, now Paramount.

 

[The Wormhole]

I truly hope you're right, and this is all a big system oddity or whatever. But I'm fairly sure the shows haven't had an "available until" date associated with them (like you are saying for The Ark), on the service itself, until now.

Oh, there've always been dates. I remember last year, taking note of the fact that all the Star Trek shows were listed as being pulled on September 7 which I remember scratching my head over thinking "why are they pulling all the Trek shows right before September 8? How does that make any sense?" In that case, we actually did go a few weeks without Trek content On Demand, with the exception of Lower Decks, but only the episodes that aired after September 7, but then they all came back again. It's just a weird way they work.

 

[wayoung]

Oh, there've always been dates. I remember last year, taking note of the fact that all the Star Trek shows were listed as being pulled on September 7 which I remember scratching my head over thinking "why are they pulling all the Trek shows right before September 8? How does that make any sense?" In that case, we actually did go a few weeks without Trek content On Demand, with the exception of Lower Decks, but only the episodes that aired after September 7, but then they all came back again. It's just a weird way they work.

Shows constantly have "leaving soon" dates and then they don't go. It's because it's the date the current contract to view them expires, and then the service renews them prior to the expiry so they stay up. The service uses them to drum up views, people thinking it's their last chance. Tubi does it constantly, adding those titles to "last chance" and then they renew and stay up.

 

[Omegaphallic]

I truly hope you're right, and this is all a big system oddity or whatever. But I'm fairly sure the shows haven't had an "available until" date associated with them (like you are saying for The Ark), on the service itself, until now.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.



Do they typically issue a press release for shows that are leaving the service? (Not being sarcastic, genuinely asking. I don't often pay attention to that kind of thing.)

Its a big deal if they were losing all the Star Treks, so I'd expect somekind of statement or acknowledgement given how upset alot of Trekkies will be with them.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Now they're just adding insult to injury...

 

[tomalak301]

Now they're just adding insult to injury...

I have been paying the yearly subscription. That's going to be monthly when it comes time to renew. I bet I won't need to pay for every month in the year (I already know November, December, January, and maybe February I won't need to pay for. I don't think they are going to Comic Con either so they would have announced things for the fall by now.

 

[Dukhat]

Now they're just adding insult to injury...

So does this not affect anyone with the ad plan?

Edit: I just checked my P+ ad plan that I have through Amazon Prime. It still looks the same (i.e. I don’t get Showtime shows.) Although they don’t have the Showtime add-on option anymore; if I want to watch Yellowjackets, for example, I’d have to pay for each episode.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

*shrug* I don't do paid streaming services. I wait for the DVD sets.

But wait a second: I thought this series also aired on Nickelodeon.

 

[Oddish]

Maybe Nickelodeon will grab it at some point. They helped create it.